This session will show how the discipline of Systems Engineering in general and the tools of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) in particular can be applied to the UTM problem space as a means of better managing the complexity and risk inherent to development efforts within this space. An examination of the UTM problem space will start from the high level, and then show the application of use case analysis to both reveal more detail and identify critical edge cases and how this can then help in the definition of an end-to-end architecture for the UTM system and the associated set of requirements. Such a system model can then be leveraged by various development teams to extract the portions of the architecture and requirements relevant to their specific components while reducing the over-all technical risk when those components are eventually integrated into the defined UTM solution.
Pre-requisite knowledge for this presentation would include a general familiarity with the UTM problem and approaches; prior knowledge of or exposure to systems engineering and/ or Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) would be beneficial but not necessary. Any prior exposure to modeling approaches such as UML or SysML would also be beneficial but not required.