A case study of the generation, description, modeling and assessment of technology system of systems

Abstract

In pushing the social and military developments towards its new frontiers and boundaries are the technologies. As a collection of multiple technologies driven by capability/system requirements, the concept of the Technology System of Systems (TSoS) is proposed. This study further investigates the generation, description, modeling and assessment of TSoS. Specifically, the generation of TSoS is based on the hierarchy hypothesis of TSoS. The description of TSoS is based on concept of views with each to describe a part of TSoS. The readiness assessment of TSoS is to assess the comprehensive readiness of a technology group while the satisfaction assessment of TSoS is to obtain a comprehensive and quantitative result on how much a technology (group) can meet the TSoS requirement. A TSoS with 60 technologies is derived from the 2017 US physical year budget estimates and it is further studied to verify the efficiency of the proposed TSoS generation, description, modeling and assessment methodology.