Title:
A Methodology for Capability-Based Technology Evaluation for Systems-of-Systems
A Methodology for Capability-Based Technology Evaluation for Systems-of-Systems
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mavris, Dimitri N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Biltgen, Patrick Thomas | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Bishop, Carlee | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Brown, David | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Loewy, Robert G. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Schrage, Daniel P. | |
| dc.contributor.department | Aerospace Engineering | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Engineering | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-05-25T17:24:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-05-25T17:24:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-03-26 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Post-Cold War military conflicts have highlighted the need for a flexible, agile joint force responsive to emerging crises around the globe. The 2005 Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) acquisition policy document mandates a shift away from stove-piped threat-based acquisition to a capability-based model focused on the multiple ways and means of achieving an effect. This shift requires a greater emphasis on scenarios, tactics, and operational concepts during the conceptual phase of design and structured processes for technology evaluation to support this transition are lacking. In this work, a methodology for quantitative technology evaluation for systems-of-systems is defined. Physics-based models of an aircraft system are exercised within a hierarchical, object-oriented constructive simulation to quantify technology potential in the context of a relevant scenario. A major technical challenge to this approach is the lack of resources to support real-time human-in-the-loop tactical decision making and technology analysis. An approach that uses intelligent agents to create a "Meta-General" capable of forecasting strategic and tactical decisions based on technology inputs is used. To demonstrate the synergy between new technologies and tactics, surrogate models are utilized to provide intelligence to individual agents within the framework and develop a set of tactics that appropriately exploit new technologies. To address the long run-times associated with constructive military simulations, neural network surrogate models are implemented around the forecasting environment to enable rapid trade studies. Probabilistic techniques are used to quantify uncertainty and richly populate the design space with technology-infused alternatives. Since a large amount of data is produced in the analysis of systems-of-systems, dynamic, interactive visualization techniques are used to enable "what-if" games on assumptions, systems, technologies, tactics, and evolving threats. The methodology developed in this dissertation is applied to a notional Long Range Strike air vehicle and system architecture in the context of quantitative technology evaluation for the United States Air Force. | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14520 | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Capability-based acquisition | en_US |
| dc.subject | Technology evaluation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Neural networks | en_US |
| dc.subject | Surrogate models | en_US |
| dc.subject | Long range strike | en_US |
| dc.subject | Systems-of-systems | en_US |
| dc.subject | Constructive simulation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Intelligent agents | en_US |
| dc.subject | JCIDS | en_US |
| dc.subject | FLAMES | en_US |
| dc.subject | Multivariate analysis | en_US |
| dc.subject | Agent-based modeling | en_US |
| dc.title | A Methodology for Capability-Based Technology Evaluation for Systems-of-Systems | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Dissertation | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.advisor | Mavris, Dimitri N. | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Aerospace Engineering | |
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