Guest Editorial: Military and Government Systems Applications

The papers in this special section focus on military and government systems applications. Organizations in this sectors seek to stay on the leading edge of warfare, communications development, smart infrastructure configuration, and efficient and effective service delivery through the design of complex systems. These complex systems are referred to as System of Systems (SoS) and are defined by the internal and external integration of individual systems and subsystems working together to create newcapabilities that could not otherwise be achieved by individual systems. Due to advances in technology and engineering and the proliferation of available information, the complexity of systems continues to increase. Engineering managers and systems engineers are faced with having to integrate multiple complex systems, in which different constituents and configurations, both legacy and new, are integrated to accomplish emergent national security and humanitarian missions, as well as delivery of citizen-centered services.