8 Future Systems Emerging DriversInhibitors20102020 Role of humans in the entire system life cycle, rising expectations, disruptive technologies, rapid technology changes, integrity, robustness Affordability, sustainability, trust, health and social systems, global environment, anti- terrorism, transportation, national/international priorities, regulatory environment Systems of Systems, infrastructure (human and physical) Limited bandwidth, lack of collaboration, NIH syndrome, lack of interoperability standards, lack of SE theory and practice to handle complexity, silo disciplines Regulatory environment, government/user inflexibility; lack of systems thinking outside of engineering domain; failure of SE in prior systems efforts Lack of appropriate mature technology and processes, ingrained nature of legacy systems, inertia (e.g., cost of replacement, political legacy), business competition Regional scale SoS; some interconnected systems and communities of systems Experimenting with new SE approaches beyond the technical to include political, economic, legal, etc.
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