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Knowledge, capabilities and practices associated with defining, developing, integrating and verifying an end-to-end new or existing system, with the objective of optimizing performance, safety and mission objectives. Includes knowledge required for safe and reliable system development/integration. Ability to perform feasibility assessments, provide functional analyses; develop and manage system performance and interface requirements to ensure the resulting system meets all technical objectives; perform systems analysis and trade studies, and oversee systems integration and verification. Includes knowledge of system engineering tools and procedures such as configuration management and integrated schematics for defining interconnection of system parts, documenting and managing system configurations and identifying all required interfaces, and mass properties for determining weight distributions. Assumes a breath of knowledge of many specialty areas, and a conceptual understanding of how the pieces fit together.

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