Point-to-point connections between information systems or third-party data managers glue together the majority of today's systems engineering ecosystems. The focus is on data movement and traceability rather than organizing data in ways to better derive meaning and knowledge from it.
More than 500 years ago, as Leonardo da Vinci experimented with his flying machines, he inked drawings and mocked up physical models before getting down to create his marvels of design. His methods set the baseline for modern engineering. Jumping forward in time, the advent of computer-aided drafting (CAD) systems in the 20th century automated the drawing process for engineers, and CAD evolved into computer-aided design by adding 3-D modeling and manufacturing planning to software capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.