Mission Need
Mission Need
As federal contractors and practitioners explore artificial intelligence in engineering, interest often gravitates toward the high-profile applications: AI that designs the next fighter jet, automatically generates system architectures or optimizes component configurations. Those all happen during the design and development phase of the systems engineering lifecycle, which engineers call the “left side of the V” (see Figure 1).
Defense and intelligence leaders say that the most valuable outcomes of mission integration are stronger collaboration across public and private ecosystems (95%), increased speed and agility in responding to threats (94%), and improved cost efficiency and resource optimization (93%).
WHAT IS MISSION INTEGRATION?
Now more than ever, federal agencies are navigating immense pressures to be efficient in their mission delivery. At the same time, they must meet evolving security requirements and modernization needs. In this equation, cloud technology is a prerequisite and foundation for agility, scalability and resilience across government missions.