Digital engineering transformation across the Department of Defense

Phil Zimmerman, Tracee Gilbert and Frank Salvatore

The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 2019, vol. 16, issue 4, 325-338

Abstract: A digital transformation has been implemented across a range of industries to drive affordability, agility, quality, and efficiency. Advancements in digital technologies are unleashing innovations that provide an opportunity to transform the engineering practice. Digital engineering is the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) initiative to transform the way it designs, develops, delivers, operates, and sustains complex systems in a formidable and changing threat environment. It is defined as “an integrated digital approach that uses authoritative sources of systems’ data and models as a continuum across disciplines to support lifecycle activities from concept through disposal.†This paper sets the strategic direction for the digital engineering vision, in which five strategic goals are presented to guide DoD’s transformation efforts. This paper also describes the digital engineering initiatives that are in progress across the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Air Force, Army, and Navy. While these efforts have begun to realize initial benefits, challenges and next steps are also presented in order to realize the vision.

Keywords: Digital engineering; model-based; authoritative source of truth; technological innovation; infrastructure and environments; culture and workforce (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1548512917747050

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