Series Editors

Paul R. Garvey Chief Scientist The Center for Acquisition & Systems Analysis The MITRE Corporation pgarvey@mitre.org Dr. Paul R. Garvey is Chief Scientist and a Director for the Center for Acquisition and Systems Analysis, a Division at The MITRE Corporation. He authored three books published by Taylor & Francis Group. They are Probability Methods for Cost Uncertainty Analysis: A Systems Engineering Perspective (2000), Analytical Methods for Risk Management: A Systems Engineering Perspective, (2008), and Advanced Risk Analysis in Engineering Enterprise Systems (2011). The latter work is co-authored with Prof. C. Ariel Pinto of Old Dominion University. Dr. Garvey completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in pure and applied mathematics at Boston College and Northeastern University, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. in engineering systems risk analysis in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Brian E. White Principal CAU←SES ("Complexity Are Us" ← Systems Engineering Strategies) bewhite71@gmail.com Brian E. White received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and S.M. and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. He served as an Air Force Intelligence Officer, and for 8 years was at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory. Dr. White spent 5 years as a principal engineering manager at Signatron, Inc. In his 28 years at The MITRE Corporation, he has held a variety of senior technical staff and project/resource management positions. He was Director of MITRE's Systems Engineering Process Office (SEPO) from 2003 to 2009. Dr. White retired from MITRE in July 2010, but is offering a consulting service in complex systems engineering.

Editorial Advisory Board

Dr. Tyson R. Browning is Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He teaches Operations Management (MBA Core) and Project Management (MBA elective) and conducts research on managing complex enterprises, projects, programs, and processes. He has served as a consultant for several organizations (including General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Seagate, Southern California Edison, and the U.S. Navy) and has former work experience with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Lean Aerospace Initiative, Honeywell Space Systems, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Abilene Christian University and two Master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. He has authored over 50 papers on aspects of managing complex engineering projects. He is a member of INFORMS, INCOSE, and POMS, and he serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Systems Engineering. His web site is www.tysonbrowning.com.

Dr. Dennis Buede is President of Innovative Decision, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in the use of decision and risk analysis techniques to the fields of systems engineering, intelligence analysis, and strategic planning. He has been a professor of systems engineering at George Mason University and Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Buede has published two books and been awarded best application paper for INCOSE Symposium, paper titled "The Concepts of Systems Engineering as Practiced by the Wright Brothers" in 2002; and best paper in the Systems Engineering Track of the 21st Digital Avionics Systems Conference for a coauthored paper titled "Considerations in the Design of an Air Traffic Management System". He is a Fellow of INCOSE. He has been active in INCOSE (chair of the Education and Research Technical Committee), INFORMS, and IEEE.

Danny is a Director at MITRE and has over 30 years experience in systems engineering in areas that include large scale transmission systems and the application of fiber optics communications systems.

Dr. Craig Hayenga is a Systems Engineering Principal/Engineering Program Manager with Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services. He has been an associate professor of Physics at New Mexico Tech. He has over 20 years of experience developing complicated hardware and software systems, working with research and development groups in many corporate environments from government contracts, international business, and transitions to manufacturing. Dr. Hayenga has been involved in complex systems and nonlinear science research since graduate school in the late 1970's. In 2008, he was a Lockheed Martin representative to the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School. He has also been involved with INCOSE's efforts regarding the systems science and complex systems foundations of Systems Engineering.

Dan Maxwell is a Senior Principal Analyst at Innovative Decisions, Inc. In that capacity he is leading research efforts into Social Network and Decision Analysis techniques, as well supporting several simulation and software research and development efforts for various Government agencies. Dan is well known in the DoD operations research community having completed a full career in the US Army where he served as a senior operations research analyst and the US Army representative to the Joint Warfighting System (JWARS) Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) as well as in other OSD analysis agencies. Dan has also served in the U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency where he provided analysis in support of many DoD studies. Since his retirement Dan has continued to contribute to the military OR community, serving as a principal author of the chapters addressing model based experimentation for the Command and Control, Research Program's Code of Best Practice for Experimentation and serving on the Board of Directors of the Military Operations Research Society. Dan holds a Ph.D. in information technology from George Mason University, an MBA from Long Island University, and a B.S. from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Mr. Miller has thirty-six years of experience in both the conceptualization and engineering application of communications technologies, products, and services. This experience has addressed both commercial and government sectors. These applications have fallen in the areas of resource allocation, R&D priorities, strategic planning, requirements definition, system modeling, system design, system acquisition, system development, system integration and system test. Mr. Miller has managed projects funded by Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Army and Navy development commands, and other government sponsors. He is a 42 year member of the IEEE and a 16 year member of the International Council on Systems Engineering and was elected secretary of the latter organization for three terms (1996-1997, 2003-2004 and 2005-2006). His degrees are Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, and Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Gregory S. Parnell is Professor of Systems Engineering at United States Military Academy at West Point and teaches decision and risk analysis, systems engineering, and operations research. His research focuses on decision analysis, risk analysis, resource allocation and systems engineering for defense, intelligence, homeland security, R&D, and environmental applications. He co-edited Decision Making for Systems Engineering and Management (Wiley, 2008), and has published over 100 papers and book chapters. He is a member of the Chief Technology Officer and Information Assurance Panels of the National Security Agency Advisory Board and is a former chair of a National Research Council study on bioterrorism risk analysis and a member of DOE's Environmental Management's National Prioritization Team. He is a senior principal with Innovative Decisions Inc. and a former principal with Toffler Associates. Dr. Parnell is a former President of the Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and the Military Operations Research Society (MORS). He has also served as editor of Military Operations Research. Dr. Parnell is a retired Air Force Colonel with experience in space operations, R&D management, and operations research. Dr. Parnell received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He has received several professional awards including the United States Army Dr. Wilbur B. Payne Memorial Award for Excellence in Analysis, MORS Clayton Thomas Laureate, two INFORMS Koopman Prizes, and the MORS Rist Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the MORS and a Fellow of INFORMS.

Ricardo Valerdi is a Research Associate at the Lean Advancement Initiative at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Visiting Associate at the Center for Systems and Software Engineering at University of Southern California (USC) where he developed COSYSMO (Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model). Dr. Valerdi is a member of INCOSE and served on its Board of Directors. He is the inaugural co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Enterprise Transformation, a joint publication of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and International Council on Systems Engineering. He earned his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of San Diego, MS and PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering from USC. His personal webpage is http://rvalerdi.mit.edu.