The New DoD -Stevens-USC SERC and Collaboration Opportunities

1. The New DoD-Stevens-USC SERC and Collaboration Opportunities Barry Boehm, USC USC-CSSE Annual Research Review March 9, 2010

2. Outline • SERC Nature and Status • University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) • Initial Projects and Roadmapping Approach • Future Plans and Prospects • Collaboration Opportunities

3. What is a UARC? • University Affiliated Research Centers are “not-for-profit, private sector organizations affiliated with, or part of, universities or colleges that maintain essential research, development and engineering capabilities needed by sponsoring DoD components.” • They maintain long-term, strategic relationships with sponsoring DoD components in specific core areas and operate in the public interest, free from real or perceived conflicts of interest. • UARCs are financed through long-term, non-competitive contracts awarded by sponsoring DoD components for specific core work. Any federal entity can MIPR funding to the UARC for work within the defined core areas, subject to the agreement of the UARC’s sponsors.

4. Several other UARCs • Johns Hopkins University APL; 4,300 people; annual funding $680M • UC Santa Cruz with NASA Ames – information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, computer science, aerospace operations, astrobiology, and fundamental biology. Has a Systems Teaching Institute with San Jose State University and UCSC to teach through hands on experience on research projects. • Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory for the Navy with focus on undersea missions and related areas; strategic partner with NAVSEA and ONR; established 1945; has >1000 faculty and staff • University of Washington APL – acoustic and oceanographic studies ; established in 1943 • UC Santa Barbara Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology – Army Research Office; partnered with MIT and Cal Tech – focus on biologically-derived and biologically-inspired materials, sensors, and information processing … • University of Texas UARC started in 1945 focuses on sonar, acoustics, software system research, satellite geodesy, active sonar, …; now has 600 people on staff • USC Institute for Creative Technology – US Army; focus on virtual reality multimedia applications for training, C4ISR

5. Auburn University Air Force Institute of Technology Fraunhofer Center at UMD Georgia Institute of Technology Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) Naval Postgraduate School Pennsylvania State University SERC Organization Lead organizations Members • Southern Methodist University • Texas A&M University • Texas Tech University • University of Alabama in Huntsville • University of Maryland • University of Massachusetts • University of Virginia • Wayne State University As the DoD Systems Engineering Research-University Affiliated Research Center, SERC will be responsible for systems engineering research that supports the development, integration, testing and sustainability of complex defense systems, enterprises and services. Its members are located in 11 states, near many DoD facilities and all DAU campuses.

6. SERC Organization - II Dr. Dinesh Verma Executive Director Dr. Art Pyster Deputy Executive Director Doris Schultz Director of Operations Dr. Barry Boehm Director of Research Pool of more than 140 Senior Researchers and hundreds of research faculty and graduate students from across members Stevens’ School of Systems and Enterprises will host the SERC at Stevens’ Hoboken, NJ, campus. Stevens’ faculty engagement will be complemented by a critical mass of systems engineering faculty at USC. A fundamental tenet of SERC is its virtual nature – each of its 19 members will be a nexus of research activities. All research projects will be staffed by the best available researchers and graduate students from across the members.

7. Rough Financial Model • Minimum of $2M/year • Can add more funded tasks within contract • First year: two specified tasks • 1. SE Effectiveness Measurement: EM (USC lead; $500K) • 2. SE Methods, Processes, Tools Assessment : MPT (Stevens lead; $350K) • Both also including UMaryland-FC, UAlabama-Huntsville • Second-year tasks underway • Other Govt. sponsors can sole-source through UARC • $1.2M on the books • Another $1M/year sponsor in the works • Second-year near $4M/year; $8M expected for third year

8. Outline • SERC Nature and Status • Initial Projects and Roadmapping Approach • Future Plans and Prospects • Collaboration Opportunities

9. SEPRT Seeks Performance EvidenceThat can be independently validated

10. SECRT Seeks Competency EvidenceThat can be independently validated

11. EM Processes and Tools Help Enable MDAP Transformation Implements spirit of July 2009 Augustine BENS Report Adversarial Mistrust Collaborative Trust-and-Verify Evidence Reviews Competitive Prototyping Rounds Unvalidated Requirements Unvalidated RFP SOWs Evidence Reviews Feasible Rqts., Solutions, Plans Under-resourced Fixed Price Build-to-Spec contracts Evidence Reviews Realistic Contract, Feasible Staffing, Change Adaptation Evidence Reviews Under-resourced SE Timely, Affordable, Achievable Systems GAO Reports: $300 Billion/yr Cost growth, 22 months delay

12. Current RTs now underway

13. Roadmapping RTs • Establish a small lead team to craft a series of white papers more fully characterizing a major research area. • Gradually draw in additional team members to mature the white papers. • Hold an invitation-only workshop of 30-50 people from across the SERC collaborators, sponsors, potential funders and adopters, and key technologists to validate the white papers and craft a research roadmap that will spawn multiple coordinated Research Topics. • Publish results of roadmapping workshop as polished professionally edited SERC report. • Execute roadmap, revisiting it periodically. • First example of this approach at midpoint- SE Transformation – with NSA as sponsor. Security SE underway. Others in work: Improving and valuing system flexibility; SE implications of evolutionary acquisition; Accelerating SE learning via game technology; Systems Engineering 2020

14. Outline • SERC Nature and Status • Initial Projects and Roadmapping Approach • Future Plans and Prospects • Collaboration Opportunities

15. RTs expected to be awarded • FY10 will likely emphasize: • strong execution of work just beginning • new work from (a) Roadmapping RT spinoffs and (b) tasks paid for at least in part by non-core funding • Strong support from new DDR&E Zach Lemnios at recent SERC Research Review • Systems Engineering 2020 initiative being defined

16. Collaboration Opportunities • Security SE roadmapping and followons • Participation in workshops, pilot activities • Other roadmapping tasks and workshops • Improving and valuing system flexibility • Accelerating SE learning via game technology • Agile-SE transformation • Systems Engineering 2020 • Piloting, evolving emerging SERC methods, processes, and tools • SEPRT, SECRT tools, report, and users’ guide on ARR web site • Industry collaboration mechanisms being explored • E.g., pre-competitive Cooperative R&D Initiatives (CRADAs)