NAVAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GUIDE (NSEG) (OCT 2004)

NAVAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING GUIDE (NSEG) (OCT 2004)., The Naval Systems Engineering Guide is provided to help ensure the systems we develop for the fleet are affordable, operationally effective and suitable, and can be a timely solution to satisfy user needs at an acceptable level of risk. This Guide defines the systems engineering (SE) requirements and tasks; their implementation and products; and explains the tools and techniques used throughout a product life cycle. This Guide satisfies the DoD requirement for having a documented SE process, and emphasizes the relationship between the technical management process and the SE process. It documents a common Naval Systems Engineering Process that has been accepted by the Naval Virtual Systems Command. The purpose of this Guide is to characterize the contents of the SE discipline, to promote a consistent and common view of SE across the Navy, to clarify the boundary of SE with respect to other disciplines, and to provide a foundation for curriculum development and SE certification. This Guide consists of information and 33 required or normative processes. This Guide describes a rigorous process to assist the systems engineer in defining, performing, managing, and evaluating SE efforts in Naval acquisition and technology development programs. The intended audience is the new systems engineer, an engineer in another discipline that needs to perform some SE functions, or a more-experienced systems engineer who needs a convenient reference. The hyper-linking to the imbedded reference material makes it very convenient using the electronic version of this Guide. The intent is to provide enough information for the user to determine whether a given process activity is appropriate in supporting the objective(s) of the program or project they support, and how to go about implementing the process activity. The framework for this Guide is an industry standard, ANSI/EIA-632, Processes for Engineering a System. The standard was developed to replace the SE military standard, MIL-STD-499 as part of the 1994 DoD Acquisition Reform initiative prescribing the use of “performance-based” acquisition specifications and the substitution of the standards and practices used in the commercial marketplace for military specifications and standards. The Naval Systems Engineering Steering Group (SESG), comprised of members from NAVAIR, NAVSEA, MARCOR, and SPAWAR, provided the common and unique SE requirements and implementation approach for the various Naval development and acquisition programs. Periodic updates are planned to implement continuous process improvement, based upon feedback from programs / contractors, by the Naval SESG which maintains this Guide.