7.5 Concepts of Operations and Services
We have defined the concept of the system, but one aspect of conceptual development remains in Question 5b of Table 7.1: concept of operations, or “conops.” Operational behavior of a system was introduced in Chapter 6. There we learned that operation is broader than function. Function is a somewhat quasi-static view of what a system can do. Operation is the sequence of things leading to the delivery of the primary function, and it indicates what the system actually does.
The relationship between concept of operations and a detailed sequence of operations is the same as the relationship between system concept and system architecture. The concept of operations sketches out how the system will operate: who ...
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