


Modeling and simulation (M&S) can be an important element in the acquisition of systems within government organizations. In most cases, the MITRE SE will be responsible for assisting the government sponsoring organization in the formal accreditation of the model. A MITRE SE is expected to be able to work directly with the developer of the system and the simulation model to provide technical insight into model verification and validation. MITRE SE Roles and Expectations: The MITRE systems engineer (SE) is expected to have a sound knowledge of the system being modeled and the software process for developing the model in order to provide effective technical guidance in the design and execution of plans to verify and/or validate a model, or to provide specialized technical expertise in the collection and analysis of varying types of data required to do so. Keywords: accreditation, analysis, data, historical, SME, statistics, subject matter expert, validation, verification Validation is the process of determining the degree to which a simulation model and its associated data are an accurate representation of the real world from the perspective of the intended uses of the model. Definitions: Verification is the process of determining that a model implementation and its associated data accurately represent the developer's conceptual description and specifications.
