Because of the complexity of the military's mission and the size of Iraq, combat operations might be continuing in one part of the country even as reconstruction continues in another.
But he warned that the agency was ill-equipped to do this: "The complexity of our mission has evolved to the point where existing mission management capability is no longer fit for purpose".
Understanding the urgency, challenge, and complexity of its mission and the need for a flexible model to support it, the EIP built a network of collaborator sites, each contributing to shared governance, and established a strategic approach to guide projects.
We present the results of a case study at NASA's Johnson Space center to demonstrate: (1) the complexity of mission scenario selection involving subjective and objective judgments provided by multiple space exploration experts; and (2) a systematic and structured method for aggregating quantitative and qualitative data concerning a large number of competing and conflicting mission events.
They also translated the complexity of a Moon mission into an easily consumable way of being American: creative, curious, scientific, hardworking, and boldly reaching for the stars.
A measure of operation complexity in spaceflight is proposed using a weighted Euclidean norm based on four factors: complexity of operation step size (COSS), complexity of operation logic structure (COLS), complexity of operation instrument information (COII), and complexity of space mission information (CSMI).
The advantage of the uplink scenario is that most of the mission's complexity is ground-based and multiple protocols/experiments can be implemented without making changes to the CubeSat.
The complexity of lander missions is an order of magnitude greater than that of orbiter missions, particularly for those that carry mobility assets such as rovers, drills, and aerial vehicles.
