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Back SEED Support to USMA for Exploration of Resilient Systems Using Robust Design Methods

Fiscal Year 2015
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Operations Research
Investigator(s) Sanchez, Susan M.
Sponsor Army Engineer Research & Development Center (Army)
Summary The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is sponsoring research aimed at improving the system acquisition process. The Operation Research Center (ORCEN) in the Systems Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy (USMA) is part of a multi-service, industry, and academia team that intends to build an acquisition architecture that facilitates the use of M&S and trade-space analysis early in the conceptual design of future systems. As part of this, a West Point Cadet Capstone Team will build simulations of potential systems in the modeling environment known as MANA (McIntosh, 2009). MANA stands for Map Aware Non-uniform Automata. The model will then be run many times using high-performance computing and efficient design of experiments to characterize the effects of many system variables on the system's ability to accomplish its mission in a breadth of conditions. The capstone team will explore robust design methods to identify resilient systems. NPS 's SEED Center for Data Farming will partner with the ORCEN at USMA in building the MANA model, designing experiments, and running the model on a computing cluster.
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