EADS Naval and Ground (EADS/NG) is a division of EADS (European Aeronautical Defense and Space Company) which was newly formed in 2000 from German Daimler Chrysler Aerospace (DASA), French Matra/Aerospatiale and Spanish CASA. Since the typical products of NG are naval and ground systems like radar, command & control and electronic warfare, the companie´s engineering process is an integrated system development process including hardware, software and logistics.

This process is based on the German V-Model 97 (VM97), a standard software process model, which is issued by the German Federal Office of Procurement. The VM97 was adapted and extended by several sub-models to cover all aspects of joint system, hardware, software and logistic support development.

The resulting generic process model of NG - the V-Model GBV (VM-GBV) - is the basis for the product development process and supports engineering activities across all business processes for the whole product life cycle (e. g. product planning process). This integrated system development process is applicable to all development projects by tailoring the generic model to the situation of the particular development project.

The presentation will provide technical details on the approach as well as additional information on implementation and benefits.

Wolfgang Kranz, EADS, NGO11, Landshuterstr. 26, 85716 Unterschleissheim, Germany
Phone +49-89-31792786, Fax +49-89-31792528, Email: wolfgang.kranz@sysde.eads.net

Born in 1948, Wolfgang Kranz received his engineering degree in electronics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He joined Siemens AG in 1974 for the research and development laboratories of the communication division working with spread spectrum systems. After several years in hardware engineering for defense applications he moved to electro-optics (laser radar) and then to encryption in sales and product management and worked there until 1994. Having felt the need for development processes he then headed the development process improvement department. He continues in this position after the transition of Siemens defense to DASA defense and civil systems in 1998 and to EADS in 2000.

- Manager System Engineering at Sandvik Tamrock Corp, a leading mining and construction mobile machinery manufacturer

- M.Sc. Degree in Automation from Helsinki University of Technology

- since 1992 responsibilities in both military and commercial organications in area of project management, systems integration, machine automation, and management of research and development activities

- special interest area autonomous vehicle systems

The Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) was established at ESTEC (the Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency) in 1999, with the objective of creating a mission design environment dedicated to the assessment of future space missions. Several scientific missions at pre-Phase A level have been assessed as well as missions from the Application programmes.

The experience has shown that the application of the concurrent engineering method, supported by appropriate informatic tools, has greatly improved the efficiency of the mission design activities reducing the duration of a typical pre-Phase A study down to a few weeks in average, while featuring a high standard in quality and level of design details.

In addition, the CDF infrastructure has been used to perform industrial work reviews, prepare specifications, co-ordinate international project work, educational purposes.

Following a general introduction on the ESA context and related SE aspects, this presentation will focus on the objectives, infrastructure, main components, results achieved and lesson-learned in the CDF after the first two years of applications.

Plans and ideas for advanced applications and forecast of the future evolution will finally be addressed.

Massimo Bandecchi is Head of the Concurrent Design Unit at the European Space Technology & Research Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk (The Netherlands).
Following the graduation in Electronics Engineering at the University of Pisa (Italy), he worked as Software Analyst and Project Leader in various software system development projects. In 1989 he joined the European Space Agency (ESA) where he has been involved as Systems Engineer in the design, development, test and operations of several space projects. In 1998 he was one of the co-founders and main lead of the ESA Concurrent Design Facility (CDF), presently used for the assessment and the design of future space missions, using CE technologies.
Massimo is an active member of INCOSE and author of several papers and publications.

This presentation focuses on the work that is being carried out with respect to the "traditional" SE processes and will present some of the lessons learned, current status and the planned way forward.

The ubiquity of network protocols like HTTP and new software technologies such as SOAP and Microsoft .NET permit the integration of diverse corporate systems in ways that have never been possible before. But that's not the whole story - we need to understand why and what as well as how we are to integrate. This workshop explores how systems engineering plays a key role in widespread systems integration.