SAIC supported the development of the DOD's vision of the future of engineering
Digital technologies have revolutionized industry, connecting us like never before and fundamentally changing how we think and work together and manage activities. In its Digital Engineering Strategy, the Department of Defense acknowledges that it’s time to change how the world’s most complex systems are acquired, engineered, operated, sustained, and retired.
Unlike other domains, what's deployed can't be easily retrieved for problem-solving
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.
Trends in Technology Acquisition at USDA
On Government Matters' Agency in Motion program, Heath Starr, vice president of programs for SAIC, and Jason Kattman, branch chief for USDA's procurement operations division, discuss how SAIC has worked with USDA as a close partner to make the agency's technology acquisitions highly effective.
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.
SAIC and its employees work closely with nonprofit organizations
Continuing a long-standing tradition, SAIC reaffirmed its commitment to supporting military and veteran families with its expanded corporate citizenship program. In 2019, we increased monetary and employee volunteer support in collaboration with nonprofit organizations that focus on service members, veterans, and their families.
By optimizing data gathering, HPC system metrics can be analyzed better
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.
Saves precious resources to create unexpected efficiencies
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.
CyberWarrior ScholarshipTM program supports civilian transition and promotes cybersecurity
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.