Concept of operations

About: Concept of operations is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 964 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6845 citations. The topic is also known as: CONOPS.

Sustained/Continuous Operations Subgroup of the Department of Defense Human Factors Engineering Technical Group. Program Summary and Abstracts from the Semiannual Meeting (8th).

Abstract: : This document is a synopsis of the proceedings of the 8th meeting of the Department of Defense Human Factors Engineering Sustained/Continuous Operations Technical Subgroup (DOD HFE SUSOPS/CONOPS Sub-TG). The meeting was held 1 November 1988 in conjunction with the 21st meeting of the DOD HFE TG in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting was conducted as a symposium in which six presenters reviewed their research, test, and evaluation methodologies and technologies as they applied to the topic of sustained and continuous operations in the military. A broad spectrum of topics was covered during the meeting that range from computer modeling and expert systems for guiding military SUSOPS to development of dietary countermeasures for sustained diving operations. Keywords: Sustained operations; Dietary countermeasures; Expert systems; Task performance; Military operations. (SDW)

Functional Architecting Techniques - Applications to Space Operations Design

Abstract: Historically, space systems have been developed using a physical architecture as the primary basis for design; structured functional architectures were the purview of network and software systems designers. Space operations design has thus frequently followed a hardware operations-centric thread. After Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) selected Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to build and operate a Space Based Network (SBN) for their next generation Mobile Satellite System, Boeing determined that functional architecting techniques could bring added benefits to the system and operations development program. Boeing’s MSV SBN is a large scale space system that when deployed will provide ubiquitous 4G mobile coverage to the entire North American continent and beyond. The SBN features two large Boeing 702 GeoMobile satellites as well as 4 ground based beamforming-equipped dual gateway stations located across the US and Canada. This system and operations design effort and the relatively short time frame allowed by the customer’s business plan has called for rapid implementation of the functional architecture development process. Functional decomposition was performed on the MSV system, allowing development of a functional architecture for a system that had no previous architectural precedence. Additionally, the MSV program elected to use both the IDEF0 modeling method and the integration of DOORS® (for requirements management) with SLATE FI (functional architecture definition) for formalization of the functional architecture. This enabled the ability to import system requirements into SLATE FI to achieve an integrated architecture. This integration allowed the functional architecting process to rapidly support both the system and systems operations design processes, adding to the robustness and quality of derived program requirements and operational concepts. Derived from explicit operational scenarios, systems operations functions were explicitly defined and linked to the system architecture, with clear mapping to system functions and requirements, as well as allocated to hardware and software elements. Operational products for the Space Based Network, such as procedures, tools and training, could thus be built up around the operations aspects of the functional architecture in a straightforward manner. Boeing’s MSV program has been a pathfinder for the application of functional architecting to space systems and operations design. The functional architecture developed for the MSV program has provided many benefits to the overall system engineering process. Boeing has also integrated the customer’s outer shell network architecture and CONOPS into the SBN architecture and operations model which has significantly reduced program risk. While the MSV SBN is a space-based communications system, the operations architecting techniques demonstrated are fully applicable to other space applications; these methods can benefit future system developments in both the commercial and civil space operations arenas.

Assessing Human-Automation Role Challenges for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Operations

Abstract: New aircraft types ranging from semi-autonomous to fully autonomous aircraft are envisioned for passenger and cargo transport operations. They present innumerable integration challenges, foremost among them pertaining to human automation roles and interactions. Both the FAA Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and NASA UAM CONOPS present incremental paths to fully integrated operations that assume initial operations are conducted using highly autonomous aircraft with a pilot on board using existing rules, regulations, systems, and infrastructure. In this paper we present an analysis framework to analyze the varying levels of automation as well as the human automation roles and interactions to achieve an adaptable, repeatable, and reusable process for approvals and oversight. Designing displays, systems and tools considering current and future needs will be not only beneficial but essential for integrated operations.

An Initial Analysis of Automating Conjunction Assessment and Collision Avoidance Planning in Space Traffic Management

Abstract: We introduce a framework that automates the process of assessing potential satellite conjunctions in space, and generating collision avoidance maneuvers to support mitigation efforts within a novel space traffic management (STM) architecture. A software implementation of the framework was developed in a MATLAB-STK integrated environment, however, the concept and framework is agnostic to the language or environment. The software pulls from existing catalogs of spaceborne objects and ingests user-defined parameters to produce conjunction data, which could potentially aid collision avoidance planning in the STM architecture. The utility of the software in maneuver planning and exploring a performance-based tradespace of actions is demonstrated using three example cases: one-to-one conjunction, one-versus-four conjunctions, and a near head-on collision. The framework also provides a test-bed for the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) to demonstrate machine-to-machine communication between entities in our proposed STM architecture. Results from this software implementation are expected to aid distributed decision-making among various stakeholders, and inform efficient, autonomous, structured but flexible concept of operations within STM.