Specialty Engineering and Design Considerations
Specialty Engineering
The impact of specialty engineering activities on total system cost, schedule, and performance will determine the extent of their application during the system design process. Execution of activities in specialty engineering will, to the largest extent practicable, use information from, and contribute to, the digital authoritative source of truth. (DoDI 5000.88). Specialty Engineering emphasizes improving delivery of advanced capability to warfighters by modernizing reliability and maintainability, manufacturing and quality, system safety, human systems integration, and value engineering practices.
Reliability and Maintainability
Manufacturing and Quality
System Safety
Human Systems Integration
Value Engineering
Design Considerations
The PM, Systems Engineer, and Lead Software Engineer should address and document design considerations, including all statutory and regulatory requirements in order to:
- Translate the end-user desired capabilities into a structured system of interrelated design specifications that support delivery of required operational capability.
- Enable trade-offs among the design considerations in support of achieving desired mission effectiveness within cost and schedule constraints.
- Incorporate design considerations into the set of system requirements, as some are mandated by laws, regulations, or treaties, while others are mandated by the domain or DoD Component or Agency; these mandates should be incorporated during the Requirements Analysis process to achieve balance across all system requirements.
The DoD has put additional emphasis on the four Specialty Engineering design considerations as well as Value Engineering identified in the tiles below resulting in development of additional policy (DoDI 5000.88) and additional guidance. Select the tiles below and please refer to Section 5 of the Systems Engineering Guidebook for more information.