A systems engineering is an interdisciplinary engineering management process that evolves and verifies an integrated, life-cycle balanced set of system solutions that satisfy customer needs. This work describes analysis of. the defense R & D programs applied systems engineering approach. FA-18E/F and NSSN defense acquisition programs are adopted for the case study. Those two programs is performed by IPPD, which is one of the systems engineering management techniques. From the analysis results, implementation considerations of domestic defense R & D programs are presented.