Presentations from the event are linked below. The recording is available at VFS Video Library.
The VFS Redstone Chapter is hosting an all-day kickoff Digital Enterprise Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. This initiative is in support of innovating aviation acquisition by the US Army by leveraging the digital engineering infrastructure for model-based systems engineering (MBSE).
Goals and Objectives:
- Leverage the digital enterprise tools of industry / government to achieve development efficiencies
- Lifecycle process
- Significant changes / modifications to current practices
- Education of the workforce
- Building the required digital infrastructure
- Manage IP / data / models for collaborative efforts
- Broadly communicate to community
The end goal is a collaborative environment for executing MBSE throughout the system lifecycle:
- Definition of the MBSE Concept of Operations (CONOPS) objectives and desired end state
- Information access management and data rights
- Collaborative development practices with MBSE
- MBSE CONOPS enablers for deriving best-value from digital artifacts
A Long-Term Objective for Model Based Acquisition
- Evolve our current system acquisition process from event- and document-based to model-based
- Moves the engineering discipline from its current state of stove-piped models and data sources toward a future Digital Engineering Ecosystem
- Improvement resides chiefly in two areas: 1) mission, enterprise architecture, and requirements modeling by the government; and 2) full system development by industry in a digital model
- Both gov’t and industry need: right info, right time, right format
Follow-on efforts may include a series of webinars on specific topics and/or working groups. This effort will build towards the VFS Complex Systems conference planned for September 2022 in Huntsville (details forthcoming).
| Agenda: Kick-Off Meeting | ||
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 0745 – 0800 | Introduction | Dr. Bill Lewis (T4) |
| 0800 – 0820 | DOD Vision | Dr. Bill Lewis (T4) |
| 0820 – 0840 | Digital Transformation | Nick Lappos (VLC) |
| 0840 – 0930 | Digital Engineering Tools | David Guzinsky (3DS) |
| 0930 – 0945 | Break | |
| 0945 – 1000 | H-60V Lessons Learned | Dave Arterburn (UAH) |
| 1000 – 1015 | ITEP | John Freudenthal (PEO) |
| 1015 – 1035 | MOSA | Matt Sipe (PEO) |
| 1035 – 1115 | PEO AVN DT Vision | Rodney Davis (PEO) |
| 1115 – 1145 | 525 and 505 | Peter Shultz (Bell) |
| 1145 – 1245 | Lunch | |
| 1245 – 1315 | LM Digital Integration | Mike Ambrose (LMCO) |
| 1315 – 1345 | Collins Aerospace | Guillaume Zini (Collins) |
| 1345 – 1445 | System Capability Panel | Cripps, Schultz, Arterburn, Ericcson |
| 1445 – 1500 | Break | |
| 1500 – 1600 | Workforce Development Panel | Guzinsky, Gregorian, Sipe |
| 1600 – 1700 | Sustainment Initiatives Panel | Jonas, Rios, Johnson, Long |
| 1700 – 1730 | Discussion/Working Groups | Dr. Bill Lewis (T4) |
Updated Mar. 9, 2022
The kickoff meeting for this initiative was hosted by:
Radiance Technologies, Inc.
310 Bob Heath Drive
Huntsville, AL 35806
