Integrating Unmanned Aircraft into the National Airspace System
An Application of Value-Focused Thinking and Enterprise Architecting
Objective
–Create a viable AF/FAA airspace
integration enterprise
Track 2: Certified Performance Standards into the NAS
Platform Access
By
Airspace Category
• Procedures
• Performance Standards
•Modeling and Simulation
•Equipage Requirements
•Testing
•Validation Data
Methods
–Value-Focused Thinking
–Enterprise Architecting
–Design for Changeability
Platform Access
To
Any Military Airfield
Predator at Grand Forks AFB
Raven at Ft. Huachuca
Maritime Demonstrator at NAS Pax River
Future State
Architecting
Enterprise
Value
Multi-Program
Level
NextGen CONOPS
Air Collision
Reliability
Value
Delivery
Stakeholder Analysis
LEV/Grossi
Surface Collision
Navigate
Communicate
Manage
Contingencies
Collision Avoidance
Ops & Procedures
Airworthiness
Focus of Thesis
Scope of Thesis
Value
Value Proposition
Attribute Assessment
Keeney
&
Ross
Form
Enterprise Architecting
Rhodes
&
Nightingale
System
Architecting
Resolving
Uncertainty
Katz
Fricke
Manage
Complexity
Reduce
Uncertainty
Drive Out
Ambiguity
Crawley
Cost
Context
Value Delivery
7610.4M
Aviate
“As-Is” Analysis
Form
Concept
Luke Cropsey, Engineering Systems Division & Sloan School of Management
Phone: 617-259-0689
Email: lcropsey@mit.edu
Function
Value Identification
14 CFR
Weather
Baseline: Certificate of Waiver/Authorization (COA) for On-going Operations
Framework for arriving at enterprise
value definition and context
Mission Decomposition
Control & Communication
Value
Proposition
Program Level
Capabilities Based Assessment
MIL-HDBK-516
Value
Identification
Benefit
Architectures
Missions
Vignettes
Use Cases
UAS AI Requirements Analysis
CONOPS
Track 1: Incremental Expansion into the NAS
National/Global
Level
Traditional Systems Engineering
approach has proven necessary but not
sufficient for the highly dynamic context
of the airspace integration challenge
OSD Airspace Integration Plan for UAS AI
“File and Fly”
Do No Harm
JCOE CONOPS
Set the Precedent
COCOM CONOPS
Conform Rather Than Create
Global Hawk at Beale AFB
Function
Anticipated Contribution
–An applied analysis of value-focused
thinking to a real-world challenge
using enterprise architecting principles
to generate alternative value
propositions for max effectiveness
Installation Specific
CONOPS
By Platform
Increasing Access to the NAS
Objective: Manned Aircraft Equivalent Level of Access—a.k.a. “File and Fly”
Concept
Methodology Overview:
Define enterprise, stakeholders, and value
definitions
Elicit value attribute definitions
Employ enterprise architecting principles to
create alternative value propositions
Assess architectures against resolution of
uncertainty within enterprise
Consider impact of design for changeability
within the enterprise architecting framework