By Gareth Digby, Vitech Principal Systems Engineer In Tactical Communications for the Digitized Battlefield the authors discuss the disparate elements that have to be brought together in order to design a system solution:  the technology’s capabilities and constraints along with the organization’s structure and operations. Although this text focuses …

At first blush it is tempting to look at this book and ask, “How does this have any relevance for systems engineering?” After all, this little volume was first published in 1940 by an “ad man.” It’s 75 years old and predates the recognition of systems engineering as a separate …

When considering the adoption of model-based approaches and techniques, organizations frequently ask “what is the biggest challenge we will face?” It is a good question, one that deserves a good answer. While model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is clearly the future of systems engineering, adopting model-based approaches is not trivial. To …

By Ron Kratzke, Vitech Principal Systems Engineer Recently I have fielded several questions regarding the use of the State Transition Diagram in CORE and how States/Modes and the diagram relate to system behavior and simulation of the system behavior using CORESim. State transition diagrams describe the logical transition of a …