Engineered Resilient Systems: Knowledge Capture and Transfer

Abstract : This research is motivated by the defense-related industry and government of the aging workforce. Within the project, the research team gathered expert knowledge and synthesized emerging engineering resilient systems (ERS)-related research, toward a goal of enabling novices to have expert-like decision capability through encoded knowledge and data-driven tradespace analysis framework and integrated tool suite. Additionally tradespace exploration was investigated as boundary objects enabling cross-domain communication and facilitating decision making for complex systems. The team investigated briefings and literature related to ERS and tradespace exploration. Multiple discussions were held with government leaders, university researchers, practitioners. After identifying key ERS artifacts, the team mapped these artifacts to the MPTs derived from the knowledge and information gathered. Having to use an alternative approach, the research team was able to generate some observations based on limited data availability to two Navy tradespace exploration activities. Based on the results of the information gathering and observed exploration case studies, the research team developed some initial requirements for designing a larger full scale case study. The research team enumerated some potential gaps and findings, along with suggested enablers for consideration in evolving the ERS framework and tool suite environment in support of its tradespace analysis goals.