Authors: Patrick Cassidy and Charles Vaporean, The Boeing Company
Abstract:
Aerospace vehicle design is by its nature a complex process. Within the context of a larger System-of-Systems (SOS) definition, it is a powerful driver of overall Life-Cycle Cost for a given asset, as well as the associated support infrastructure. As a precursor effort to developing such architecture, this effort concentrates on the interdependency between the operational analysis system process and the aerospace vehicle design system process.
Conventionally, emphasis has been placed on meeting performance objectives given by the customer, or specifically, the Key Performance Parameters (KPPs), which comprise the bulk of a customer-supplied Initial Capabilities Document (ICD).
This effort describes a methodology for determining KPPs relevant to a parametric aerospace system design space. The methodology is captured in a software architecture, based on the integration of customer-supplied and Boeing-developed operations analysis and aerospace vehicle performance/synthesis codes.