Acknowledgements and Release History

The Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) has been an immense undertaking involving the collective efforts of so many, including 70 authors, hundreds of reviewers, and the wiki support team. A special thanks goes to our primary sponsor, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, who has provided unwavering support over the past three years.

With gratitude,

BKCASE

The SEBoK was developed by the Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering Project (BKCASE) (http://www.bkcase.org), which is concurrently producing the Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE). Nearly everyone involved in BKCASE has contributed to both products. Hence, the acknowledgements generally do not distinguish between contributions to SEBoK and GRCSE.

Sponsor

The Department of Defense recognizes the importance of SEBoK to its own workforce development and has provided substantial financial support and partnership to the project. The office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering (DASD/SE) is the primary Department of Defense sponsor for the BKCASE Project. DASD/SE has graciously provided much of the funding for SEBoK development through their Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) (see http://www.sercuarc.org). Those funds have primarily paid for the time spent by the SEBoK leadership, enabled the many volunteer authors to conduct quarterly physical workshops, and provided for the technical and administrative infrastructure to conduct such a complex distributed project. DASD/SE has not determined the content of the SEBoK, but instead allows the author team and the community to determine what the SEBoK should contain. Without this support, this project would not be possible. Special thanks go to Stephen Welby, Kristen Baldwin, Nicholas Torelli, Don Gelosh, and Scott Lucero.

The remaining two thirds of the project cost were donations in-kind by our partners to support the labor and travel of the authors. We gratefully acknowledge their contributions.

This material is based upon work supported, in whole or in part, by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) under Contract H98230-08-D-0171. SERC is a federally funded University Affiliated Research Center managed by Stevens Institute of Technology. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Department of Defense.

Part Team Leads

The SEBoK is divided into seven primary Parts (see SEBoK Table of Contents). For each of the Parts, someone graciously volunteered to lead a team of authors in writing the articles and coordinating article integration. This was an enormous amount of work. We would like to thank each of these individuals for their time, dedication, and leadership. In addition, a member of the core team supported each of the part team leads.

• Part 1 - Barry Boehm with support from Art Pyster
• Part 2 - Richard Adcock with support from Nicole Hutchison
• Part 3 - Garry Roedler with support from Jim Anthony
• Part 4 - Harold (Bud) Lawson with support from David Olwell
• Part 5 - Art Pyster with support from Alice Squires and Devanandham Henry
• Part 6 - David Olwell with support from Art Pyster
• Part 7 - Heidi Davidz with support from Alice Squires and Devanandham Henry

Authors

As a primarily volunteer effort, BKCASE has depended on dozens of authors from around the world to provide their own time and expenses. Each of the individuals listed below has worked many hours to develop and improve SEBoK and GRCSE. Without each of them, it would have been impossible to succeed. Many of them have been supported by their organizations during this effort, including support for travel and labor, and we also gratefully acknowledge the organizational contribution.

Table 1. BKCASE Authors. (SEBoK Original)

Author	Author
Richard Adcock, Cranfield University and International Council on Systems Engineering in the UK	Duane Hyberston, The MITRE Corporation in the US
James F. Anthony, Jr., Sevatec, Inc. in the US	Scott Jackson, University of Southern California in the US
Erik Aslaksen, Sinclair Knight Merz in Australia,	Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas San Antonio in the US
Richard Beasley, Rolls Royce in the UK	Cheryl Jones, United States Army
Barry Boehm, University of Southern California in the US	Chul Whan Kim, Advisor of KCOSE in Korea
Stuart Booth, Office of the Secretary of Defense in the US	Naohiko Kohtake, KEIO University in Japan
John Brackett, Boston University in the US	Harold (Bud) Lawson, Lawson Konsult AB in Sweden
Chuck Calvano, Naval Postgraduate School in the US	Yeaw lip “Alex” Lee, Defence Science and Technology Agency in Singapore
Aaron Eng Seng Chia, National University of Singapore in Singapore	Ray Madachy, Naval Postgraduate School in the US
Kyung-il Choe, HUFS in Korea	James Martin, The Aerospace Corporation in the US
Edmund Conrow, Management and Technology Associates in the US	Gregory Mayhew, Boeing in the US
Paul Croll, CSC in the US	Steven Mitchell, Lockheed Martin in the US
Cihan Dagli, Missouri University of Science and Technology in the US	Ken Nidiffer, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Systems Council both in the US
Judith Dahmann, MITRE in the US	David H. Olwell, Naval Postgraduate School in the US
Heidi Davidz, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in the US	Bo Oppenheim, Loyola Marymount University in the US
Leopoldo Decardenas, Raytheon in the US	Andy Pickard, Rolls-Royce in the US
Johann (Hans) Demmel, Raytheon in the US	Ricardo Pineda, University Texas at El Paso in the US
Jeremy Dick, Integrate Systems Engineering ltd. in the US	Daniel Prun, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC) -French Civil Aviation University in France
Charles Dickerson, Loughborough University in the UK	Art Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US
David Dorgan, Raytheon in the US	Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin in the US
Dov Dori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US	Jean-Claude Roussel, European Aeronautical Defence and Space Company in France
Joseph J. Ekstrom, Brigham Young University in the US	Janet Singer, University of California Santa Cruz in the US
Stephanie Enck, Naval Postgraduate School in the US	Seiko Shirasaka, KEIO University in Japan
Marcia Enos, Lockheed Martin in the US	Hillary Sillitto, Thales Group and the International Council on Systems Engineering in the UK
Dick Fairley, Observer and Author from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) in the US	John Snoderly, Defense Acquisition University in the US
Alain Faisandier, Association Francaise d 'Ingenlerie Systeme in France	Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US
Tim Ferris, University of South Australia and the International Council on Systems Engineering in Australia	Bill Stiffler, Raytheon in the US
Kevin Forsberg, OGR Systems in the US	Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the US
G. Richard Freeman, Air Force Institute of Technology in the US	Guilherme Horta Travassos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil
Sanford Friedenthal, SAF Consulting in the US	Ricardo Valerdi, University of Arizona in the US
Brian Gallagher, CACI in the US	Mary VanLeer, Perceptive Systems, Inc. in the US
Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US	Qing Wang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China
Michael Henshaw, Loughborough University in the UK	Brian Wells, Raytheon in the US
Thomas Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society both in the US	Brian White, CAU<SES in the US
Nicole A.C. Hutchison, Stevens Institute of Technology in the US	Ken Zemrowski, TASC, Inc. in the US

Partners

Partner organizations have supported SEBoK by providing personnel, opportunities to discuss the SEBoK in open forums such as conferences and workshops, and providing valued feedback on draft SEBoK materials. Some organizations have also chosen to have an official representative(s) participate in BKCASE, as shown below. A special thanks to our partners.

• The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Official INCOSE representatives: Bill Miller and Kevin Forsberg.
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. Official IEEE CS representatives are Dick Fairley, Tom Hilburn and Ken Nidiffer.
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Systems Council. The official IEEE Systems Council representative is Ken Nidiffer.
• The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). The official IIE representative is Johann "Hans" Demmel.
• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The official ACM Representative is Andrew McGettrick.
• The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering Division. The official NDIA Systems Engineering Division representative is Garry Roedler.
• The Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC). The official SERC representative is Art Pyster.

For more information on potential partner involvement after publication of version 1.0, please see SEBoK Evolution.

Wiki Team

The transition from a traditional document to a wiki-based platform was a long one. We are tremendously grateful to the folks who have helped us install, manage, and update the wiki:

• Nicole Hutchison (team lead), Stevens Institute of Technology
• Stephanie Enck (co-lead), Naval Postgraduate School
• Hans-Peter de Koning, European Space Agency
• Paola Di Maio, University of Strathclyde
• Ray Jorgensen, Rockwell Collins
• Sanford Friedenthal, SAF Consulting
• Steven Mitchell, Lockheed Martin

Support for the wiki is provided by Peder Halseide of WikiExpert.

Participants

The following individuals have provided support to the BKCASE team over the course of the project.

• Johann Amsenga
• John Baras
• Johan Bendz
• Stuart Booth
• Dan Cernoch
• Richard Frost
• Edward Ghafari
• Mike Gourley
• Richard Gryzbowski
• Peter Jackson
• Kenneth Kepchar
• Mike Kreuger
• JoAnn Lane
• Richard Rosenthal
• Sven-Olaf Schulze
• Robert (Bob) Shishko
• Mary Jane Willshire

Reviewers

Reviewers are critical to the success and growth of the SEBoK. By providing feedback that represents the diversity of views and opinions on systems engineering, reviewers help the author team identify and describe ground truths for SE as well as areas of contention. The reviewers who provided feedback for earlier versions (0.25, 0.50, and 0.75) are listed in Table 2, below. In addition, there are a number of other reviewers who provided their comments directly on the wiki with only a userid (and not a full name) and reviewers who were part of a group that provided a collective review, whose names are not listed in Table 2 below. Many thanks to all reviewers!

The author team would like to particularly acknowledge the efforts of several INCOSE working groups (WGs); the following groups provided extensive feedback on SEBoK 0.5 and input for SEBoK 0.75:

• Systems Science WG
• Architecture WG
• Requirements WG
• Decision Analysis WG
• In Service WG
• Lean Systems Engineering WG
• System of Systems WG
• Process Improvement WG

The adjudication of all SEBoK review comments can be found at SEBoK Review and Adjudication.

Table 2. Reviewers of earlier SEBoK versions. (SEBoK Original)

Reviewer	Reviewer
Aase Jakobsson	Johnny Duckworth, Space & Airborne Systems/Systems Development Center
Ada Hunter, Lockheed Martin	Jose Luis Fernandez Sanchez, Madrid Technical University (UPM)
Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University	Julie DeMeester, Raytheon
Alan D Harding, BAE Systems	Julie P. Gann, Northrop Grumman Information Systems
Alan Knott, Parsons Brinckerhoff	Kal Toth, Portland State University
Ali Bahraman, Raytheon	Karen Charron, Raytheon
Andrew Farncombe, John Boardman Associates	Karl Best, Project Management Institute
Andrew McGettrick, The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	Ken Ellis, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Anne Sigogne, THALES	Kenneth Morris
Annette Reilly, Lockheed Martin	Krister Sutinen, Siemens Industry Software AB
Arnold Neville Pears, Uppsala University	Lajuane Brooks, Aurora Sciences
Bart Terrery, Lockheed Martin	Larri Rosser, Raytheon IIS
Berger, Northrop Grumman Corporation	Laurie Nasta, Booz Allen Hamilton
Bernadette Gasmi, EADS Airbus	Lori Zipes, NAVSEA NSWC Panama City Division (US Dept of Navy)
Beth Wilson, Raytheon	Lou Oddo, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Bob Epps and a consolidated review, Lockheed Martin	Louisa Guise, Raytheon
Bobinis, Lockheed Martin	M.T.F.M. van de Ven, INCOSE ISSWG
Bruce Elliott, Arbutus Technical Consulting	Marcel van de Ven, Movares Nederland b.v.
Bruce Munro, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems	Mark Ardis, Stevens Institute of Technology
Bryan E. Herdlick, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University	Mark Maier, The Aerospace Corporation
Chia Eng Seng Aaron, National University of Singapore	Martin Nazareth
Curt Zielinski, Lockheed Martin	Matthew Petty
Dahai Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Michael Bisconti, Lockheed Martin
Dan Dillery	Michael C. Dapp, Lockheed Martin MS2
Daniel J Dechant, Raytheon	Michael Coughenour, Lockheed Martin
Daniel Mulvihill, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne	Michael O'Neill, Georgia Tech Research Institute
David D. Walden, INCOSE & Sysnovation LLC	Michael Ryan, INCOSE Requirements Working Group
David Kraus, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems	Michael Wilkinson, Niteworks/Atkins
David Mason, Lockheed Martin USA	Michaelson, Lockheed Martin
David Quastel	Michele Hanna, Lockheed Martin
David Yarbrough, Northrop Grumman Corporation	Mike Gayle, Boeing
Dawn Sabados, University of Alabama Huntsville	Mike O’Neill, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Denis Bertrand & others, Department of National Defence	Mike Prendergast
Dennis Moen, Lockheed Martin	Mike Stemig, Raytheon
Donald Larson	Mike Yokel, Lockheed Martin
Donald Robertson, Lockheed Martin MS2	Nelson Roberts, Lockheed Martin
Jon Holt, Atego	Odile Mornas, Thales Université
Karen J Richter, Institute for Defense Analyses	Paola Di Maio, University of Strathclyde
Stan Rifkin, Stevens Institute of Technology	Patra Stroemer, Lockheed Martin
Duncan Kemp, Department for Transport	Paul Joannou, IEEE Computer Society
Edmond Tonnellier, Thales	Paul Martellock, LMT
Emile Anderson, Raytheon IDS	Peter Brook, Dashwood Consulting Ltd
Francis M. Joyner, Raytheon	Pieter Botman, Independent
Frédéric Autran, EADS - Cassidian Systems	Ian Sommerville, University of St. Andrews
Gauthier Fanmuy, AND	Richard Rifelli, Northrop Grumman Corporation
George Rebovich, MITRE	Rob Schaaf, IEEE
Gerald H. Fisher	Robert Cantrell, Raytheon IDS
Gerard Auvray, Astrium Satellite	Robert Mottl, NGAS
Gilles Meuriot, AREVA TA	Robert Rathbone, CASSIDIAN Air Systems (EADS)
Gorman Findley, Raytheon	Roddey Smith, NGC/NGAS/AMS/CWIN
Greg Brown, Lockheed Martin	Roger C. Pare, Lockheed Martin MS2
Hagar, Lockheed Martin	Rolan Mazzella, THALES
Hans van Vliet, VU University, Amsterdam	Ronald Fradenburg, Ingalls Shipbuilding
Harold Baker	Roxann Marumoto, Raytheon
Harold Mooz, HMA	Scott Werner, Honeywell Technology Services Incorporated (Colorado Springs)
Howard Eisner, George Washington University	Shirley Tseng
Hubert Ernest Cody, Raytheon	Spurge Norman, MITRE
IEEE Computer Society (collective review)	Stephanie White, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
Ivan Mactaggart, AWE PLC	Stephen Townsend, PMI
Jack Ring, Educe LLC	Susan Ferreira,University of Texas at Arlington
Jaluane Brooks, Aurora Sciences	Susan Murray, Missouri S&T
James J. Peter, Johns Hopkins University	Theodora Saunders, IEEE AES, IEEE Sys Council, AHS
James Jamison, IBM	Thomas Tudron, Lockheed Martin
James Lentz, Northrop Grumman Corporation	Timothy W. Lohr, Lockheed Martin MS2
James van Gaasbeek, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems	Velda G. Musgrove, Lockheed Martin MS2
Jay Mandelbaum, Institute for Defense Analyses	Vidyut Navelkar, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Jean-luc Garnier	Vincenzo Arrichiello, SELEX Sistemi Integrati SpA
Jean-Luc Wippler, LUCA Ingénierie	Wayne Collier, Siemens PLM Software
Jeff Lankford, The Aerospace Corporation	Wayne O’Brien, Raytheon
Jennifer Milligan, Lockheed Martin MS2	Weaver, Lockheed Martin
Jeremy I. Stuart, The Boeing Company	William Ely
JG Demmel, Raytheon	William Golaz, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Jim Smith, Lockheed Martin	William J. Brocker, Brocker Engineering
Joan E. Nolan, Northrop Grumman Corporation	William Moore, Northrop Grumman Corporation
JoAnn Lane	William R. Lyders, ASSETT Inc.
John Clark, Northrop Grumman Corporation and INCOSE	Yoshihiro Matsumoto, ASTEM Research Institute
John Harauz, Jonic Systems Engineering	Yvonne Simms, Boeing
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