A hybrid systems engineering methodology has been developed and applied to design and simulate a wide area communications and management system upgrade strategy for SMC Corporation.

A feasibility study, current system description, and desired system description establish the justification for the development effort. From the operations concept, detailed operational and maintenance requirements are defined and presented to form a program management plan. An evaluation of technical alternatives based upon effectiveness factors is completed after functional analyses allocate system level requirements to the subsystem level. Design characteristics and constraints are then specified and a mathematical model is then presented that demonstrates compliance to requirements compliance and provides for design justification. Team organization, work breakdown, subsystem specifications, and test plans are then addressed. A partial training plan follows and finally recommendations for future work are presented along with conclusions.