3.4.2 Capability engineering for strategic decision making

The Collaborative Capability Definition Engineering and Management Technology Demonstration (CapDEM TD) project is investigating Capability Engineering (CE) in order to support the Capability‐Based Planning (CBP) decision‐making process. This paper presents the evaluation effort being applied to the Capability Engineering approach, a methodology based on the systems engineering paradigm and articulated around three axes: People, Process and Materiel. Originating from the laboratories of Defence R&D Canada, the CapDEM effort is now evolving from theory into practice, based on an on‐going evaluation strategy concretely realized via three validation exercises that consist of realistic simulations of people applying the process and materiel to resolve capability gaps. This paper details the evaluation strategy and includes lessons learned from the first and second validation exercises. The tenets and expectations from the final exercises will form the final part of the paper, with the intent of providing insight into the advancement of capability engineering.

Section: The Capdem Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

11.4.3 Advancing the Canadian Capability Engineering Approach

Lalancette

Lizotte

Nécaille

et al. 2006

“…Thus, Australian Defence is increasingly focused on harnessing the opportunities afforded through enhancing the activity of managing capability evolution and integration above the level of individual projects (Cook and Unewisse 2017); an activity described as capability engineering in the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK, 2019) which is a class of System of Systems Engineering (SoSE). Internationally, capability engineering, or what we prefer to call Integrated Capability Realisation (ICR) to better reflect the breadth of the activity, is broadly recognised as having significant potential for defence enterprise improvement (Kemp and Daw, 2014;Lizotte et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Capability Engineering Lifecycle Framework Based on Insights from Australian Defence

Cook

Unewisse

2020

The Australian Department of Defence is actively pursuing initiatives to improve the integration and interoperability of the defence force and this paper reports on research findings produced in support of this effort. The paper opens with a description of the Australian Defence capability development context together with recent initiatives to provide greater military capability for the available budget. Within this context, the problem the researchers set out to address is how best to co‐ordinate the ongoing force Integration and Interoperability (I2) activities that evolve and deliver defence capabilities so that these capabilities can be integrated together at short notice and deployed. System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) approaches have been found to be effective for this class of problem and the paper provides a short review of the most promising candidates. The methodology needs analysis that follows concludes that a range of different SoS approaches will be needed to cover the different stages of the capability lifecycle and the paper then proceeds to describe an initial framework that provides a new way of looking at the defence Integrated Capability Realisation (ICR) SoSE challenge across two dimensions. The first dimension is the time horizon of the planned capability increment: from the present to around four years; four to eight years; eight to twelve years; and longer than twelve years. The second dimension covers the types of activities that are traditionally performed to evolve defence forces such as future force planning, program co‐ordination and planning, project capability definition, acquisition, and force generation. The paper describes how this framework provides a simple method to identify which SoSE approaches are the most applicable to given ICR subtasks and also proposes an overall approach to self‐organise overall Defence ICR efforts

6.3.1 Process Patterns for Agile Capability Engineering Methodology: The PACEM Project

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2011

Abstract. This paper presents the approach used to investigate the potential of process patterns to increase the level of agility of engineering processes applied to military capabilities or system of systems. This effort is a follow-up of the Canadian Capability Engineering Process (CEP) defined during the Collaborative, Capability, Definition, Engineering and Management (CapDEM) technology demonstration project. The challenges surrounding process assessment are investigated.