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Part A
You have been promoted to the role of Systems Engineer by your company and are directed to work on a major new system development effort that involves new technology*. Obviously, this represents a major technical (if not programmatic) risk area for your employer. What activities would you recommend early in the system development effort to mitigate such technical and/or programmatic risks**? For each mitigation activity, explain whether the activity will lower the likelihood of the risk, or the consequences of the risk, or both. [70]
Part B
While the techniques you discussed in Part A focused on mitigating system risks, other Systems Engineering (SE) concepts and techniques can be employed to enhance system safety. One of those concepts is the architecture of the system.
The SE Management team overseeing this project has also asked you to explain how the concept of system architecture can be used to enhance the overall safety of systems like the one you considered in Part A*. [30]
