You are probably hearing and reading a lot about digital engineering. At its core, it takes the acquisition, development, and sustainment of a product or system from the physical world to the virtual one. Doing this yields numerous benefits.
Digital engineering yields significant gains by reducing lead times, enabling informed decision-making, and ensuring more complete, consistent designs of engineered systems.
There is an impetus to adopt digital engineering by U.S. government agencies responsible for defense and national security, as part of the bigger digital transformation revolution. Many reports have indicated government respondents felt they were behind the private sector in use of digital technologies.
Executing the scientific mission of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), which involves modeling, understanding, and then predicting the Earth's systems, is incredibly complex. Relying on high performance computing, is managed by huge scripts that define input data, experiment parameters, diagnostics, compute resources, data transfers, short- and long-term storage, and more. Today's "snap together" cluster computing solutions aim to meet complex mission needs like NOAA's.
The words “Build Complete” flash on the screen as the prototype engineer carefully retrieves the finished part from the machine. Eric Smay’s advanced engineering team has just finished creating an internal combustion engine air intake that optimizes engine airflow and air intake sensor positioning during engine dynamometer testing. But sheet metal wasn’t utilized to fabricate this intake box.
U.S. military personnel are often on the edge of global conflict and our troops face unique circumstances and terrains. For many years, the Department of Defense has sought ways in which it can harness the power of commercial communications services and capabilities to advance battlefield capabilities to improve situational awareness and make better real-time decisions.
This concept has been coined the Internet of Battlefield Things, or IoBT, and we are now at a critical inflection point where chatter and wishful thinking are transforming into reality.
The Philosopher’s Stone is a legendary substance that was believed to have the ability to turn base metals into gold. While the stone really is just a legend, we are using materials science and high performance computing (HPC) resources to create novel materials more valuable than gold!
There is a digital transformation paradox happening in U.S. government. To lower the risk of technology deployments, federal agencies are embracing the fast-paced, fluid, dynamic nature of incremental solution development.
All organizations have a common objective: achieving their mission and business outcomes. With that hinging on a productive workforce, undisrupted IT services and on-demand support are of the utmost importance.
We are helping government agencies and commercial companies build service delivery programs focused on enriching the IT user experience using our U-Centric solutions approach.
Life in orbit depends on experts on the ground to ensure the safety of the mission, crew, and vehicle. Our engineers work alongside NASA personnel to help maintain the safety of crew members and systems onboard the International Space Station.
To mitigate risks to station and crew, we assist NASA Johnson Space Center's Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate in:
Every year, almost 80 percent of federal IT budgets are consumed by operations and maintenance (O&M) of legacy applications. Agencies pour resources and time into each app update—no matter how small—developing, testing, and trying not to break it when altering the tightly wound code.