Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
The Department of Defense Mission Engineering Guide (MEG) serves as a key document that provides practitioners and subject enthusiasts a strong overview and understanding of mission engineering. This guide includes a detailed explanation of the interdisciplinary mission engineering process, its key elements, and its associated terminology. The MEG is not a step-bystep handbook on how to implement mission engineering; rather, the MEG outlines a scalable and adaptable methodology that can be tailored to address a variety of questions based on scope, complexity, and time. Specifically, the MEG:
- Describes the mission engineering methodology and its main attributes
- Provides guiding principles for executing mission engineering and developing rigorous
analytical products - Advises best practices and considerations when conducting mission engineering
- Informs mission engineering practitioners at different levels of proficiency and from diverse
disciplinary backgrounds about the processes used to conduct mission engineering activities - Defines mission engineering terminology
Year published: 2023
URL: https://ac.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MEG_2_Oct2023.pdf