Duane Hybertson

Duane Hybertson is a researcher and member of the technical staff at the MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia. He has a broad background in software and systems engineering and systems science, including architecture, modeling, patterns, service orientation, security, foundations of systems, complex systems, enterprise engineering, and evidence-based systems engineering. He has applied these systems engineering principles and practices to a variety of projects with MITRE’s government sponsors.

Dr. Hybertson has also conducted research and published in the areas of foundations of architecture, security patterns, rapid system acquisition methods, and applying models of systems science and complex systems to systems engineering. He was an editor and co-author of the book Security Patterns: Integrating Security and Systems Engineering that was published by Wiley in 2006. He authored a book on future directions of systems engineering, entitled Model Oriented Systems Engineering Science: A Unifying Framework for Traditional and Complex Systems, published in 2009 by Auerbach Publications. In 2012 he was an author on the BKCASE project in development of the SE Body of Knowledge (SEBOK). He is a member of IEEE and was elected a fellow of INCOSE.

Duane has had a long-term interest in ontology, especially in connection with his research in systems engineering, systems science, and security. He has participated in efforts to develop ontologies in these areas, as well as ontology of the concept of system, and is an advocate for more explicit inclusion of ontology in systems engineering education and practice.