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Specifying the System Requirements

Reducing Cost and Risk Through Systems Engineering

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System conceptualization provides an easily understood overview of the system requirements.

Structured methods make the system and software requirements definition process manageable and thorough.

Collaboration with your staff yields complete requirements for developing the system architecture.

Our goal is to help your staff define complete requirements from which to develop the system architecture.


 
Our requirements definition experience covers a broad range of control systems, communications, and RF sensors.
Requirements Effort Examples
Defined
Concept System
Requirements
  • Cooperative engagement system
     
  • Included information rate requirements for the cooperative engagement network
Defined
Communication
Requirements
  • Advanced covert communication networks
     
  • Multifrequency shared apertures for satellite communications
     
  • Multiplatform weapon guidance against ground targets
     
  • Cooperative synthetic aperture radar
Created
Hatley-Pirbhai
Methodology1 (HPM)
Requirements Models
  • Multiple-unit parallel solid-state power conversion system
     
  • 6 software project proposals
     
  • Secondary radar system
     
  • Cooperative engagement system
     
  • Radar system upgrade
     
  • Proposed electronic warfare systems
     
  • Electronic support receiver
Specified
Software
Requirements
  • Passive ranging with an electronic support receiver
     
  • Numerous radar tracking modes
     
  • Electronically-scanned antenna beam steering computer
Sped up
Requirements
Document Creation
  • Created database to produce system and architecture module requiremnts model documents from a CASE tool
Surveyed and
Recommended
Methods and Tools
  • Systems engineering tools survey for Hughes
     
  • Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tool information data base
     
  • Directory of commercial off-the-shelf tools
     
  • Set of recommended tools and computers for CASE infrastructure
     
  • CASE implementation plan for radar upgrade program
Trained
Systems Engineers
and
Software Developers
  • Five classes of HPM
     
  • HPM course instructional materials revisions
     
  • Two classes of the structured analysis part of HPM

1 HPM is a set of structured methods for specifying system, software and hardware requirements.

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