1. Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering
Digital Engineering in Complex Systems: From Leadership Understanding Through Application
Ms. Kristen Baldwin
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering
INCOSE
January 28, 2016

2. Defense Research &Engineering Strategy
Mitigate current and anticipated threat capabilities
Enable new or extended capabilities affordably in existing military systems
Create technology surprise through science and engineering
The reasons behind our need to do business – differently in the future.
Where do we find the next technological edge?
We need to apply all of our technical, systems engineering, and research skills –
Think ‘architecturally’
Focus on Technical Excellence Deliver Technologically Superior Capabilities Grow and Sustain our S&T and Engineering Capability

3. Defense Systems Engineering Challenge
Critical attributes of DoD Systems Engineering:
Flexible designs that adapt with innovation, and are resilient to unknown missions and threats
Ability to quantify cost and affordability attributes of the design and lifecycle trade space
Systems of Systems, and Enterprise contexts driving requirements from multiple stakeholders
Responsive, and able to balance agility with rigorous analysis and data
Safeguarding critical information while designing for interoperability and global use
Applied across significantly diverse domains
Balancing these attributes is challenging to SE,
drives the state of the practice, and stresses critical organic workforce capacity
108,000 DoD Military and Civilian Engineers
engaged with industry, academia and allied partners

4. Interagency Working Group for Engineering of Complex Systems
Interagency Cooperation
Develop common understanding of problems
Collaborate, share expertise and resources
Position Paper at:
Participants:
National Science Foundation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Department of Defense
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Department of Homeland Security
Federal Aviation Administration
Veterans Administration
IAWG Study of
Model Based SE Benefits:
Informed decision making through increased transparency and greater insight
Enhanced communication
Understood flexibility/adaptability in the capability
Increased confidence that the capability will perform as expected
Increased efficiency

5. Digital Engineering: MBSE approach for DoD
Current State
Our workforce uses stove-piped data sources and models in isolation to support various activities throughout the life-cycle
Current practice relies on standalone (discipline-specific) models
Communication is through static disconnected documents and subject to interpretation
Future State
Digital Engineering moves the engineering discipline towards an integrated model-based approach
Through the use of digital environments, processes, methods, tools, and digital artifacts
To support planning, requirements, design, analysis, verification, validation, operation, and/or sustainment of a system
Digital Engineering ecosystem links our data sources and models across the lifecycle
Provides the authoritative source of truth
Current: Stove-piped models and data sources
Future: Digital Engineering Ecosystem

6. Leveraging Multiple Activities to Advance Digital Engineering Within DoD
Infusion in Policy & Guidance
DoD Initiatives
Other Partnerships
DoDI , Enclosure 3, Section 9: Modeling and Simulation
Digital Engineering Working Group
DoD Digital Engineering Working Group (DEWG)
USAF Own the Technical Baseline
Defense Acquisition Guidebook Chapter 4
DSM Taxonomy: Defining categories of data across acquisition
NDIA: Essential Elements of the System Model
DoD Digital Engineering Fundamentals
Additive Manufacturing
SERC:
Model Centric Collaborative Environment
Inter-Agency Working Group
Engineered Resilient Systems: Adapting to changing requirements
NASA: Sounding Rocket Program
HPCMP CREATE:
Physics Based Modeling
Defense Acquisition University
Advancing the state of practice for Digital Engineering within DoD

7. Engineered Resilient Systems: Transitioning Tools And Technologies
ERS LEVERAGES YEARS OF MAJOR DOD S&T INVESTMENTS
ADVANCED MODELING
OPEN & TRUSTED SYSTEMS
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION
SIMULATION
INTEGRATED CAPABILITY
OPEN ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TRADESPACE ANALYTICS
MODELS
LIFECYCLE INTELLIGENCE & MODELING
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Linked to Acquisition Processes
BIG DATA ANALYTICS & VISUALIZATION
DATA ACCESS & RETENTION
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
IP PROTECTION
SECURITY
TECHNOLOGIES PROVED TO IMPACT DECISION-MAKING WITHIN CURRENT ACQUISITION PROCESSES
Engineered Resilient Systems (ERS) is the first integration of modern computational engineering tools and technologies that directly impact
DoD Acquisition environments

8. Digital Engineering Strategy
Develop and maintain a culture and workforce that adopts, supports and applies Digital Engineering across the lifecycle 1
1. Culture/ Workforce
Formalize development and use of models for providing an enduring authoritative source of truth 2
2. Authoritative
Source of Truth
Models & Data Sources
3. Integrates
Foster the integration of models and data sources across functional disciplines to inform enterprise and program decision making 3
DIGITAL
ENGINEERING
ECOSYSTEM
Establish supporting infrastructure &
environments to perform engineering activities, collaborate, &communicate across stakeholders 4
4. Infrastructure &
Environments
5. Technological
Innovation
Leverage advanced tools, computing power, and advanced capabilities to improve system capabilities, automate workflow processes (as applicable) and generate digital artifacts and deliverables using models 5

9. A Holistic View of Digital Engineering Support to DoD Acquisition
Design & Mfg Data
Test Data
Supply Data
Operational Data
Engineering Knowledge
Management
Assembly of multi-domain, multi-physics, multi-level, constructive and virtual component and system analysis tools operating on engineering data to support acquisition and sustainment
End to End Single,
Authoritative,
Digital
Representation
of the
Over the Lifecycle
System
Digital Thread /
Digital Twin
Probabilistic analysis of margins, uncertainties, and risks
Analysis of cost, schedule, and performance, affordability, risk, and risk mitigation
CAPE/CADE aligned analysis of Total Ownership Costs
c/s/p trades
Cost Analysis,
Requirements,
defendable
Technical data Management
Engineering
Competence
Data Base
Maintenance Data
Standards
Requirements Data
Digital System
Model /
Digital Engineering Ecosystem
Acquisition Milestone decisions
Systems
Engineering technical
reviews

10. Summary
Changes are required to cultural, historical and business processes to realize a Digital Model-Based Engineering Vision
We seek to learn from what is already working in Government and Industry, and share these practices and experiences
We need to highlight crisp examples to facilitate broad change, emphasizing how programs have benefitted from Digital Engineering
Some challenging areas requiring further exploration
Have we properly divided tasks between humans and computers?
How do we implement practices without becoming overly dependent on the tools?
How do we adapt legal and procurement regulations to fully enable digital engineering?
How do systems engineering processes evolve as digital engineering technology is implemented? Configuration management, security, technical reviews, etc.
What is the full scope of opportunity from digital engineering? What are the impacts realized when bridging across design, prototyping, test and evaluation, manufacturing and sustainment activities?

11. Systems Engineering: Critical to Defense Acquisition
Defense Innovation Marketplace
DASD, Systems Engineering

12. Transition to Digital Engineering