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,
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Art Pyster Dave Olwell Co-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.
| Rick Adcock, Cranfield University, UK | Scott Jackson, University of Southern California, USA | |
| James Anthony, Sevatech, Inc., USA | Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas San Antonio, USA | |
| Erik Aslaksen, Sinclair Knight Merz, Australia | Cheryl Jones, U.S. Army, USA | |
| Richard Beasley, Rolls Royce, UK | Chul Whan Kim, | |
| Johan Bendz, Bendz & Co., Sweden | Naohiko Kohtake, Keio University, Japan | |
| Barry Boehm, University of California, USA | Harold “Bud” Lawson, Lawson Konsult AB, Sweden | |
| Stuart Booth, Office of the Secretary of Defense, USA | Yeaw lip “Alex” Lee, Defence Science and Technology Agency, Singapore | |
| John Brackett, University of Boston, USA | Ray Madachy, Naval Postgraduate School, USA | |
| Chuck Calvano, Naval Postgraduate School, USA | James Martin, Aerospace Corporation, USA | |
| Aaron Eng Seng Chia, Naval university of Singapore, Singapore | Greg Mayhew, Boeing, USA | |
| Kyung-il Choe, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea | Steve Mitchell, Lockheed Martin, USA | |
| Edmund Conrow, Management and Technology Associates, USA | Ken NiDiffer, Software Engineering Institute, USA | |
| Paul Croll, CSC, USA | Dave Olwell, Naval Postgraduate School, USA | |
| Cihan Dagli, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA | Andrew Pickard, Rolls-Royce, USA | |
| Judith Dahmann, MITRE, USA | Ricardo Pineda, Texas Technical University, USA | |
| Heidi Davidz, UTC Pratt and Whitney, USA | Daniel Prun, Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), France | |
| Jeremy Dick, Integrated Systems Engineering Ltd., UK | Art Pyster, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA | |
| Charles Dickerson, Loughborough University, UK | Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin, USA | |
| Dov Dori, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | Jean-Claude Roussel, European Aeronautical Defence and Space Company (EADS), France | |
| Joseph J. Ekstrom, Brigham Young University, USA | Hillary Sillitto, Thales Group, UK | |
| Marcia Enos, Lockheed Martin, USA | John Snoderly, Defense Acquisition University, USA | |
| Dick Fairley, Colorado Technical University, USA | Alice Squires , Stevens Institute of Technology | |
| Alain Faisandier, Association Francaise d‘lingeniere Systeme, France | Bill Stiffler, Raytheon, USA | |
| Tim Ferris, University of South Australia, Autralia | Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA | |
| Kevin Forsberg, Center for Systems Management, USA | Guilherme Horta Travassos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil | |
| G. Richard Freeman, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA | Ricardo Valerdi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | |
| Sanford Friedenthal, Lockheed Martin, USA | Mary VanLeer, Perceptive Systems, Inc. | |
| Brian Gallagher, Northrop Grumman, USA | Qing Wang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
| Michael Henshaw, Loughborough University, UK | Brian Wells, Raytheon, USA | |
| Tom Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA | Mary Jane Willshire, | |
| Nicole Hutchison, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA | Brian White, CAU<SES, USA | |
| Peter Jackson, Cornell University, USA | Ken Zemrowski, TASC, USA |
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. 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 Tom Hilburn and Dick Fairley.
- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Systems Council. The official IEEE Systems Council representative is Ken Nidiffer.
- 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.
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 | |
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| 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 |
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