Staff Page for James D. Smith, II

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Job title

Senior Member of the Technical Staff

Administrative home

Integration of Software-Intensive Systems Initiative

Key responsibilities

Research into programmatic and constructive interoperability across complex software-intensive "systems of systems" within the DoD, and transition of this research into practice through support to selected DoD acquisition programs.

Teams

(1) Integration of Software-Intensive Systems (ISIS), (2) "Towards Interoperable Acquisition" IR&D, (3) COTS-Based Systems (CBS), (4) Chairman, AIAA Network Centric Operations Program Committee, (5) AIAA Software Systems Technical Committee, (6) AIAA Systems Engineering Technical Committee, (7) Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium

Professional Background

Jim Smith is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute, where he works to improve the state of the practice for acquisition in the context of large, complex systems of systems. Jim has over 20 years of experience developing, acquiring, and fielding systems of systems. At the SEI, he has been an active contributor to the emerging systems of systems body of knowledge. He has authored numerous papers, reports, and conference presentations, and was a co-developer of the SEI's SoS Navigator^SM process and the Interoperable Acquisition tutorials.

In addition to a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Kansas University, Jim has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College, and was a member of the Acquisition Professional community, with DAWIA Level-III certification in both the Program Management and Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering career fields. Jim is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

^SM SoS Navigator is a registered Service Mark of Carnegie Mellon University

Publications (recent or significant)

Smith, J. Interoperable Acquisition. PEO EIS Information Assurance and System Engineering Conference. National Harbor, MD, USA, April 16-18, 2008.
Smith, J.; & Meyers, C. The Programmatics of Acquisition in Systems of Systems, 469-474. Proceedings of the 2^nd Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, April 7-10, 2008. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Bellomo, S.; & Smith, J. Attributes of Effective Configuration Management For Systems of Systems, 177-184. Proceedings of the 2^nd Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, April 7-10, 2008. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Meyers, B.; & Smith, J. Programmatic Interoperability (CMU/SEI-2008-TN-012). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2007.
Smith, J. Network Centric Acquisition Panel: Different Perspectives On Acquisition For Network Centric Warfare. Network Centric Warfare 2008. Washington, DC, USA, 22-25 January, 2008.
Smith, J. Delta Forum Keynote Address: Governance for Systems of Systems – Lessons for Global Development? 46^th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. Reno, NV, USA, 7-10 January, 2008.
Smith, J. Keynote Address: Systems of Systems and Service Oriented Architecture: Opportunities and Challenges. Sixth Earth Science Data Systems Working Group (ESDSWG 2007). Philadelphia, PA, USA, 23-25 October, 2007.

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Education

BS in Electrical Engineering, Kansas University, 1980
MS in Electrical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, 1986

Professional Memberships and Activities

Contact Information

Electronic mail address: jds@sei.cmu.edu

Phone: +1 703-908-8221

Fax: +1 703-908-9317

Room: Suite 200, Arlington, VA