Darth Vader's Secret Weapon: Implementing Mission Engineering with UAF

Presenter: Matthew Hause, Principal, SSI/INCOSE

When planning and conducting a mission engineering study, it is important to have a complete, correct, and coherent model of the mission architecture. The Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) has been found to be effective for this purpose. This paper will explore some of necessary modeling features and constructs that will enable this to occur. The proposed extensions for UAF to better support Mission Engineering include Missions, Mission Phases, Mission Thread, Mission Engineering Thread, Effects and Outcomes, variety of measures, additional attributes/stereotypes such as differentiation between enemy/friendly/neutral - Blue Force, Red Force, etc., provenance/confidence of enemy resources, etc. We created a prototype model using the Battle of Hoth from Star Wars as a proof of concept for these modeling extensions and used the process and mission engineering concepts defined in the Mission Engineering Guide (MEG). Concepts that will also be explored include compatibility with the Model-Based Acquisition (MBAcq) approach, recent initiatives from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Mission Capabilities, Enterprise Systems Engineering (ESE) process and methods, detailed resource engagement, use of different modeling languages (e.g., Systems Modeling Language (SysML), SysML v2 and UAF v2), and so forth. Finally, we will summarize the research and modeling done to date and explore these additional concepts as well as new ideas introduced in the MEG v2.