CHAPTER 6

Systems Engineering in Military Projects

Timothy Cathcart, Kim Fowler, and David Tyler

1. Introduction

The purpose of this chapter is to present selected best practices in developing military projects. The chapter provides high-level guidance and then details, such as military specifications and standards, and actual developments in the case studies. You will see similar threads of continuity in military development as was done in spacecraft and medical instruments.

The chapter will focus on systems engineering. After a very brief historical introduction that will lay the background for the current “best practices,” it will summarize the state of defense systems acquisition, and then review portions of the discipline of systems engineering ...

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