Define clear, verifiable requirements and associated constraints

Assess requirement quality, feasibility, and completeness

Establish and maintain bidirectional requirements traceability throughout the lifecycle

Outcome: Reduced ambiguity, rework, and downstream risk

Develop and maintain functional, logical, and physical architectures

Perform trade studies and architecture evaluations

Establish and maintain traceability between requirements and architectural elements

Outcome: Architectures that are defensible, scalable, and aligned with stakeholder needs

Create clear, simplified, and implementation-ready design documentation

Apply disciplined design principles to ensure safety, security, simplicity, reliability, modularity, scalability, and availability

Perform form-fit-function analyses and document obsolete or replacement components

Outcome: Designs that are easier to implement, review, and maintain

Develop and maintain work instructions and implementation procedures

Identify and document required resources, including personnel, tools, facilities, and materials

Capture issues, redlines, compliance evidence, and inspection results

Outcome: Controlled, repeatable, and auditable implementation processes

Develop and maintain integration plans and procedures

Identify and prepare required integration resources and environments

Capture issues, redlines, and integration results

Outcome: Reduced integration risk and smoother system assembly

Develop and maintain verification and validation plans, procedures, and success criteria

Execute, document, and review verification and validation activities

Analyze results against defined acceptance criteria and compliance objectives

Outcome: Increased confidence that the system meets requirements and its intended use

Develop model-based requirements, behavior, structure, and relationships using SysML

Generate DoDAF views using UAF within Cameo Enterprise Architecture

Create functional, logical, and physical architectures within an integrated system model

Design and implement custom metamodels, profiles, stereotypes, customizations, and validation rules

Build navigation views, tables, matrices, relation maps, dashboards, and automated metrics

Outcome: Improved traceability, model integrity, and decision quality

Identify, document, and analyze assumptions, risks, issues, and opportunities

Select and apply appropriate risk analysis techniques and mitigation strategies

Outcome: Proactive risk reduction and better-informed decisions

Define, implement, and maintain documentation and design configuration management processes

Establish and enforce identifiers, change control, and version management

Outcome: Improved control, traceability, and compliance across design artifacts