Digital engineering and the U.S. Department of Defense's Digital Engineering Strategy (DES) provide a foundation for transforming systems engineering. The DES is focused on improving the engineering of systems throughout the life cycle, and many organizations are already engaged in these practices.
The next step is extending the DES to apply beyond systems – to missions, systems of systems (SoS), and portfolios. The Department of Defense is increasingly expanding their focus beyond systems to address the application of systems engineering approaches to missions. The Defense Acquisition Guidebook defines mission engineering as, “the deliberate planning, analyzing, organizing, and integrating of current and emerging operational and system capabilities to achieve desired operational mission effects.”
This presentation highlights the opportunities to support mission engineering through model-based digital engineering with AGI's Systems Tool Kit (STK) and Test and Evaluation Tool Kit (TETK). Build and evaluate detailed flight test plans, conduct pre-flight briefs, deliver real-time assessments, accelerate post-flight assessments, and identify and resolve anomalies at the earliest stages to reduce technical, cost, schedule, and performance risks well ahead of the game.
About the speaker
Ting-Shuo Che works as a lead network and distribution systems engineer in the Resilient Communications department, under MITRE’s Mission Center for National Security Engineering Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). In this role Mr. Che supports net-centric operations in contested environments using digital mission and system engineering.
Mr. Che joined MITRE in 2007. He has contributed to U.S. Department of Defense wired and wireless, networking, management, and security of indoor, territorial, airborne and satellite communications, waveform, terminal and platform, modelling, simulation, analysis, and system engineering throughout projects' and programs' life cycles. He has also supported the Department of Homeland Security on telecommunications cybersecurity, and the National Security Agency on common cryptographic initiatives.
In his spare time, Mr. Che has volunteered on various MITRE corporate innovations, initiatives, and pilots on such topics as knowledge management, security infrastructure, performance management from the black core edge, data driven architecture, aerial BTS, school safety decision framework, mobile mission CoA decision aid, onboarding cybersecurity group mentoring, division Tech Talks, and more. He has also published papers with the IEEE Systems Conference (SYSCON), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Military Communication (MILCOM), and more.
Before joining MITRE, Mr. Che worked in the commercial networking industry for a dozen years, where he was exposed to a wide range of engineering disciplines from software and firmware development to the field deployment of large-scale wired, wireless, FMC data, voice, and IMS network products. He has also represented U.S. companies (Lucent, Pacific Bell, TTC, etc.) at international standard body meetings such as the ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum, IETF, and more.
As a native of Taiwan, Mr. Che finished mandatory military service and received an honorable discharge as a ROC Navy communications officer. In this role he was responsible for office automation, computer networking infrastructure, radar/IFF installation, radio deployment, equipment repair and refabricating, and the first terrestrial mobile NetCentric C4ISR command center showcase — which received national recognition on mission assurance.
Mr. Che has a Master of System Engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Science in EE supercomputing from Purdue University, a Master of Science in EE optical computing from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Science in EE communications from National Taiwan Ocean University. He has also received numerous advanced industry and academic certificates including OPNET Modeler, AGI STK, (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP 408876), INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP #02555), EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH #ECC14982033258), OCEAN Business Administration Certification (#EBA2006-01), Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE Candidate #CSCO11177118), and more.