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Systems Engineering Team
This is the function that turns a described need into a defined system: requirements, interfaces, budgets, and the evidence that each one is met. Most delivery problems trace back to a requirement that was never written down.
Overview
- Requirements are written as testable statements, not adjectives — both sides know from the start what acceptance will look at.
- Interface control covers mechanical, power, data and command boundaries, and changes to any of them go through review.
- Weight, power and time budgets are reconciled together; satisfying two out of three is a problem waiting for the field.
- Verification planning starts with the requirement, so the acceptance method exists before the build does.
The function
This is where a described need becomes a defined system. In practice that means writing requirements that can be tested, drawing interface boundaries that everyone agrees to, and reconciling the budgets — weight, power and time — that decide whether a configuration is real or only plausible on paper.
Most problems that surface late in a project can be traced to a requirement that was never written down, or was written as an adjective rather than a testable statement. This function exists largely to prevent that.
Interfaces and change control
Interface control covers mechanical, power, data and command boundaries. Wide-spanning consequences usually arrive through small interface changes: a sensor swapped for one with slightly different timing, a connector moved, a supply rail loaded past its original assumption. Each of these individually looks minor, and each is capable of invalidating a week of integration work.
So changes to an agreed interface go through review, and the outcome is recorded. This is not bureaucracy for its own sake — it is what makes it possible to answer, months later, why a particular serial range behaves differently.
Verification planned before the build
Verification planning starts with the requirement, which means the acceptance method exists before the hardware does. This is also why the acceptance criteria can be agreed with the client up front, as described in how a project runs.
Where a requirement cannot be tested, it is rewritten until it can be. A requirement that nobody can verify is not a requirement; it is an expectation waiting to be disappointed.
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