Abstract for: An Inter-disciplinary approach to the planning, sustainment and resilience of sociotechnical systems

This paper reports a first step towards developing an open-ended way of expanding and growing an integrated approach to describing and analyzing socio-technical systems. The nature of this research is interdisciplinary as it spans the fields of enterprise architecture, systems engineering, sociology, communications and culture studies. The work is aimed at supporting all stakeholders who need a wider context for understanding the structure and behavior of socio-technical Systems including planners, designers, constructors and implementers, oversight managers, analysts, and potentially, users. This initial work explores an ontological approach to integrating the modeling technique results from System Dynamics and an expanded Enterprise Architecture with concepts from socio-cultural factors to get this wider view of socio-technical systems to both lower risks posed