System of Systems (SoS) Engineering is an emerging interdisciplinary approach focusing on the effort required to transform capabilities into SoS solutions and shape the requirements for systems. SoS Engineering ensures that:

• Individually developed, managed, and operated systems function as autonomous constituents of one or more SoS and provide appropriate functional capabilities to each of those SoS
• Political, financial, legal, technical, social, operational, and organizational factors, including the stakeholders’ perspectives and relationships, are considered in SoS development, management, and operations
• A SoS can accommodate changes to its conceptual, functional, physical, and temporal boundaries without negative impacts on its management and operations
• A SoS collective behavior, and its dynamic interactions with its environment to adapt and respond, enables the SoS to meet or exceed the required capability.