SE&A Library

Under the authorities of the USD(R&E) charter (DoD Directive 5137.02), Systems Engineering and Architecture (SE&A) is responsible for developing policy and guidance and disseminating best practices to encourage the use of systems engineering, other engineering disciplines, and standards and specifications for the engineering of defense systems.

• DoD Instruction 5000.88 , Engineering of Defense Systems
  
• DoD Instruction 5000.89 , Test and Evaluation
  
• DoDI 5000.97, Digital Engineering
• DoD Directive 5000.01, The Defense Acquisition System
• DoD Instruction 5000.02, Operation of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework

Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) Outline, Version 4.1

Best Practices for Using Systems Engineering Standards (ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, IEEE 15288.1, and IEEE 15288.2) on Contracts for Department of Defense Acquisition Programs

DoD Cybersecurity Test and Evaluation Guidebook Addendum: Cybersecurity T&E of DoD Systems Hosted on Commercial Cloud Service Offerings

• Digital Engineering Body of Knowledge
• Digital Engineering Strategy
• DoD Instruction 5000.61, DoD Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A)
• MIL-STD 3022, Documentation of Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) for Models and Simulations
• DoD Digital Engineering Fundamentals
• DE Ecosystem General Requirements
• DoD VV&A Recommended Practices Guide
• See also DEM&S

• DoD Instruction 5000.95, Human Systems Integration in Defense Acquisition
• HSI Guidebook
• Technical Report: A Human Systems Integration Perspective for DoD Knowledge Management Practice
• See also Human Systems Integration

• Manufacturing and Quality Body of Knowledge
• Early Manufacturing and Quality Engineering Guide
• DoD Producibility and Manufacturability Engineering Guide
• See also Manufacturing and Quality

• Mission Engineering Guide
• See also Mission Engineering

• OUSD(R&E) MOSA Assessment Criteria
• OUSD(R&E) Review of MOSA Tools and Practices
• MOSA Reference Frameworks in Defense Acquisition Programs
• See also Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) Community of Practice (CoP)
• DoD Open Systems Architecture Contract Guidebook for Program Managers, v 1.1
• See also Systems Engineering page

• R&M Engineering Contract Language for the Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) Pathway
• R&M Engineering Contract Language for the Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) Pathway
• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Cost (RAM-C) Rationale Report Outline Guidance:
• RAMC-Outline-2017.docx
• PDF RAMC-Outline-2017.pdf
• Training Brief RAMC-Train-Brief-2018.pdf
• Reliability and Maintainability Body of Knowledge
• See also Reliability and Maintainability Engineering

• DoD Risk, Issue, and Opportunity Management Guide for Defense Acquisition Programs (RIO - Dec. 2023)
• Defense Technical Risk Assessment Methodology
• DoD ITRA Framework for Risk Categorization with USD Memorandum
• DoD ITRA Execution Guidance
• ITRA Plan Example
• ITRA Final Report Executive Summary
• ITRA Final Report Detailed

• Application Programming Interface Technical Guidance, MVCR-1
• DoD Software Engineering for Continuous Delivery of Warfighting Capability
• DoD Software Science and Technology Strategy
• DoD Software S&T Strategy Implementation Plan
• See also Software Engineering

• DoD Instruction 4120.24, Defense Standardization Program (DSP)
• DoD Manual 4120.24, Defense Standardization Program (DSP) Procedures
• See also Defense Standardization Program

Industry Standards

• ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 Systems and Software Engineering System Life Cycle Processes
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 21839, System of systems (SoS) consideration in life cycle stages of a system
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 21840, Guidelines for the utilization of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 in the context of System of Systems (SoS)
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 21841, Taxonomy of systems of systems
• IEEE 24748-1, Systems and software engineering - Life cycle management - Part1: Guidelines for life cycle management
• IEEE 24748-2, Systems and software engineering - Life cycle management - Part 2: Requirements for managers of information for user of systems, software and services
• IEEE 24748-3, Systems and software engineering - Life cycle management - Part 3: Guide to the application of ISO/IEC 12207 (Software life cycle processes)
• IEEE 24748-4, Systems and software engineering - Life cycle management - Part 4: Systems engineering planning
• IEEE 24748-5, Systems and software engineering - Life cycle management - Part 5: Software Development Planning
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-7 Systems and Software Engineering System – Life Cycle Management Part 7: Application of Systems Engineering on Defense Programs
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-8 Systems and Software Engineering System – Life Cycle Management Part 8: Technical Reviews and Audits on Defense Programs
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207, Systems and software engineering - Software life cycle processes

• Unmanned System Safety Engineering Precepts Guide for DoD Acquisition
• DoD Instruction 5000.69, DoD Joint Services Weapon and Laser System Safety Review Processes
• See also System Safety Engineering