Acknowledgements and Release History
The BKCASE project, and the SEBoK in particular, is an immense undertaking. This task could not have been completed without the support and contributions of many individuals and organizations. We could not possibly have gotten this far without those listed below and we would like to sincerely thank our sponsor, authors, partners, and reviewers.
With gratitude,
Art Pyster Dave Olwell Editor-in-Chief Co-Editor-in-Chief
Sponsor
The Department of Defense recognizes the importance of BKCASE to its own workforce development and has offered 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 BKCASE. DASD/SE has graciously provided much of the funding for the BKCASE project through their Systems Engineering Research Center. Those funds primarily pay for the time spent by the BKCASE leadership, enables the many volunteer authors to conduct quarterly physical workshops, and provides for the technical and administrative infrastructure to conduct such a complex distributed project. DASD/SE does not determine 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.
Authors
As a primarily volunteer effort, BKCASE depends 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 0.5, and without each of them, it would have been impossible to get this far.
Adcock, Rick Anthony, Jim Aslaksen, Erik Beasley, Richard Bendz, Johan Best, Karl Boehm, Barry Booth, Stuart Brackett, John Calvano, Chuck Chia, Aaron Eng Seng Choe, Kyung-il Conrow, Edmund Croll, Paul Dagli, Cihan Dahmann, Judith Davidz, Heidi Dick, Jeremy Dickerson, Charles Dori, Dov Ekstrom, Joseph J. Fairley, Dick Faisandier, Alain Ferris, Tim Forsberg, Kevin Freeman, G. Richard Friedenthal, Sanford Gallagher, Brian Henshaw, Michael Hilburn, Tom Hutchison, Nicole Jackson, Peter Jackson, Scott Jamshidi, Mo Jones, Cheryl Kim, Chul Whan Kohtake, Naohiko Lawson, Harold "Bud" Lee, Yeaw lip “Alex” Madachy, Ray Martin, James McGettrick, Andrew Miller, William "Bill" Mitchell, Steve NiDiffer, Ken Olwell, Dave Pickard, Andy Pineda, Ricardo Prun, Daniel Pyster, Art Roedler, Garry Roussel, Jean-Claude Shirasaka, Seiko Shishko, Bob Sillitto, Hillary Snoderly, John Squires, Alice Stiffler, Bill Towhidnejad, Massood Travassos, Guilherme Horta Valerdi, Ricardo VanLeer, Mary Wang, Qing Wells, Brian Willshire, Mary Jane White, Brian Zemrowski, Ken
Partners
Partner organizations support BKCASE by providing personnel, opportunities to discuss the SEBoK in open forums such as conferences and workshops, and provide useful feedback on draft SEBoK materials. Special thanks to our partners.
- [www.incose.org The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)]
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Systems Council
- [www.acm.org The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)]
- The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering Division
For more information on potential partner involvement after publication of Part 5, please see SEBoK Evolution.
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 version 0.25 are listed in Table 2, below. Many thanks. Many additional reviewers are anticipated for the broad review sought for version 0.5.
Karl Best Project Management Institute Timothy Ferris University of Southern Australia Hillary Sillitto Thales Rick Adcock Cranfield University Brian Wells Raytheon James Martin Richard Beasley Rolls-Royce plc Timothy Ferris University of Southern Australia Hillary Sillitto Thales Dr. Stan Rifkin Air Force Office of Scientific Research Erik Aslaksen Sinclair Knight Merz Timothy W. Lohr Lockheed Martin MS2 Curt Zielinkski LMC EBS Tech Ops Donald Robertson Lockheed Martin MS2 Jack Ring Educe LLC Velda G. Musgrove Lockheed Martin MS2 Johnny Duckworth Space & Airborne Systems/Systems Development Center Marcel van de Ven Movares Nederland b.v. Daniel Mulvihill Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Krister Sutinen Siemens Industry Software AB Mike Gayle Boeing Sanford Friedenthal Lockheed Martin Hillary Sillitto Stephanie White, PhD Long Island University, C.W. Post Compus Hans van Vliet VU University, Amsterdam Kal Toth Portland State University Gerard Auvray Astrium Satellite CHIA Eng Seng Aaron National University of Singapore Harold Mooz HMA Ricardo L. Pineda Chair Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department, University of Texas at El Paso Dawn Sabados UAHuntsville Prof. Ian Sommerville School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews ODILE MORNAS Thales Jay Mandelbaum Institute for Defense Analyses Howard Eisner The George Washington University Mark Ardis Stevens Institute of Technology Richard E. (Dick) Fairley S2EA Robert Rathbone CASSIDIAN Air Systems (EADS) Bruce Elliott Arbutus Technical Consulting Daniel J Dechant Raytheon Dr Jon Holt Atego Harold 'Bud' Lawson Lawson Konsult AB Roland MAZZELLA Thales Alain Faisandier MAP systeme - AFIS Michael C. Dapp Lockheed Martin MS2 Anne Sigogne THALES Theodora Saunders IEEE AES, IEEE Sys Council, AHS Richard Beasley Rolls-Royce Dr. Karen J Richter Institute for Defense Analyses Alan Knott Parsons Brinckerhoff Mark Maier Rolan Mazzella@fr.thalesgroup.com THALES Andrew Farncombe John Boardman Associates Dan Dillery Edmond TONNELLIER Thales Dahai Liu Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Frédéric Autran EADS - Cassidian Systems Vincenzo Arrichiello SELEX Sistemi Integrati SpA Jeremy I. Stuart The Boeing Company Duncan Kemp Department for Transport Guilherme Horta Travassos COPPE/UFRJ Denis Bertrand DGMSSC/DMPP 5-2, Ottawa, Canada Marcel van de Ven Movares Nederland b.v. John Harauz Jonic Systems Engineering Bryan E. Herdlick Applied Physics Laboratory; Johns Hopkins University Yoshihiro Matsumoto ASTEM Research Institute Bart Terrery Lockheed Martin Dennis Moen Lockheed Martin Roger C. Pare Lockheed Martin MS2 Jim Smith Lockheed Martin Jennifer Milligan Lockheed Martin MS2 Annette Reilly Lockheed Martin Curt Zielinski Lockheed Martin Ada Hunter Lockheed Martin Thomas Tudron Lockheed Martin Nelson Roberts Lockheed Martin Paul Martellock LMT Vidyut Navelkar Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Jose Luis Fernandez Sanchez Madrid Technical University (UPM) Shirley Tseng Self Paola Di Maio Qing Wang ISCAS Tom Hilburn Embry-Riddle Aeronautical William R. Lyders ASSETT Inc. Bernadette Gasmi EADS AIRBUS Gilles Meuriot AREVA TA Gauthier Fanmuy AND Susan Murray Missouri S&T Susan Ferreira The University of Texas at Arlington Judith Dahmann MITRE Ivan Mactaggart AWE PLC Michael Wilkinson Niteworks/Atkins Lori Zipes NAVSEA NSWC Panama City Division (US Dept of Navy) Alan D Harding BAE Systems Jean-Luc Wippler LUCA Ingénierie Heidi Davidz UTC Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Yvonne Simms Boeing Scott Werner Honeywell Technology Services Incorporated (Colorado Springs) Michael Henshaw Loughborough University James Jamison IBM Adeel Khalid Southern Polytechnic State University William J. Brocker Brocker Engineering Duane Hybertson MITRE Paul Joannou IEEE Computer Society Jeff Lankford The Aerospace Corporation David Mason Lockheed Martin USA David D. Walden INCOSE & Sysnovation LLC Barry Boehm USC Arnold Neville Pears Uppsala University Chuck Walrad Laurie Nasta Booz Allen Hamilton IEEE Computer Society IEEE CS