NAVAIR, NAVSEA and SPAWAR, the three Navy Systems Commands, have initiated a [https://web.archive.org/web/20180702211811/https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=106184 Systems Engineering Transformation (SET)] that is designed to introduce model-based systems engineering into all aspects of their work. Given the extremely broad scope of this project the number and complexity of models that will be generated  through this process will be immense, and experiments are already under way to explore the use ontology as a means of enhancing consistency and discoverability of models and their contents. 

On September 19, 2018 the first meeting of the Navy SYSCOMs and DoD Ontology was held in Washington DC. In conjunction with this meeting Barry Smith delivered a tutorial on "Ontology for Systems Engineering", divided into two parts, as follows:

Part 1: '''Three ways ontologies fail – with lessons learned for the Navy Systems Engineering Transformation'''

:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYr5oB1O6ig Video]

:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/2hoet9ko03ylaz2o7nrhbl6fj15a4qm8 Slides]

Part Two: '''Ontology for Product Lifecycle Management, or: how to use ontologies to build and fly a plane'''

:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3NCa8sb2w Video]

:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/k1ak0x1kvqqvp9diqspt4x5t0cxxyjbt Slides]

[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ Barry Smith's website]