Smith, CJOosthuizen, RudolphHarris, HVenter, JPCombrink, CRoodt, JHS2012-09-032012-09-032012-06Smith, CJ, Oosthuizen, R, Harris, H, Venter, JP, Combrink, C and Roodt, JHS. 2012. System of systems engineering - the link between operational needs and system requirements. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol. 23(2), pp 47-601022-277Xhttp://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/329/274http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6075This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor credits.Recently, defence capability development practices have moved towards approaches that include capability based planning and traditional systems engineering methodologies. Internationally, defence force capability development efforts struggle to bring together intended capability planning and actual systems on the ground. Smith and Oosthuizen showed that the Capability Life Cycle and System Life Cycle can be unified through the use of System of Systems Engineering methodologies that include Joint Concept Development and Experimentation, Joint Architecture Management, Joint Knowledge Management and Joint Operational Force Employment. The challenge is to ensure that the actual systems fielded accurately reflect the intended capability; requirements traceability between the intended capability and the fielded systems must be preserved in the capability decomposition process. This paper proposes a capability decomposition approach that addresses this challenge.enCapability developmentCapability based planningCapability life cycleSystem life cycleJoint concept development and experimentationSystem of systems engineeringJoint operational force employmentJoint knowledge managementJoint architecture managementArticleSmith, C., Oosthuizen, R., Harris, H., Venter, J., Combrink, C., & Roodt, J. (2012). System of systems engineering - the link between operational needs and system requirements. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6075Smith, CJ, Rudolph Oosthuizen, H Harris, JP Venter, C Combrink, and JHS Roodt "System of systems engineering - the link between operational needs and system requirements." (2012) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6075Smith C, Oosthuizen R, Harris H, Venter J, Combrink C, Roodt J. System of systems engineering - the link between operational needs and system requirements. 2012; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6075.TY - Article AU - Smith, CJ AU - Oosthuizen, Rudolph AU - Harris, H AU - Venter, JP AU - Combrink, C AU - Roodt, JHS AB - Recently, defence capability development practices have moved towards approaches that include capability based planning and traditional systems engineering methodologies. Internationally, defence force capability development efforts struggle to bring together intended capability planning and actual systems on the ground. Smith and Oosthuizen showed that the Capability Life Cycle and System Life Cycle can be unified through the use of System of Systems Engineering methodologies that include Joint Concept Development and Experimentation, Joint Architecture Management, Joint Knowledge Management and Joint Operational Force Employment. The challenge is to ensure that the actual systems fielded accurately reflect the intended capability; requirements traceability between the intended capability and the fielded systems must be preserved in the capability decomposition process. This paper proposes a capability decomposition approach that addresses this challenge. DA - 2012-06 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Capability development KW - Capability based planning KW - Capability life cycle KW - System life cycle KW - Joint concept development and experimentation KW - System of systems engineering KW - Joint operational force employment KW - Joint knowledge management KW - Joint architecture management LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2012 SM - 1022-277X T1 - System of systems engineering - the link between operational needs and system requirements TI - System of systems engineering - the link between operational needs and system requirements UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/6075 ER -