Complex systems integration across the joint forceACROSS THE JOINT FORCE

Start with the mission objective, operational environment and decision to be supported. Build mission threads and mission engineering threads that connect activities to systems, personnel, organizations and technical interfaces.

Evaluate baseline and alternative architectures at component, platform, mission and force levels. Make interface dependencies, timing assumptions, resource constraints and uncertainty explicit. Use modular open systems approaches to support replacement, upgrade and integration.

Connect capabilities across land, maritime, air, space and cyberspace. Account for the joint functions that shape the mission: command and control, information, intelligence, fires, movement and maneuver, protection, and sustainment.

Verify model-based systems engineering (MBSE) requirements for consistency and traceability. Validate requirements against stakeholder and mission needs, then evaluate system behavior against those requirements using physics-based models and test evidence.

Integrate digital twins into DEM&S by linking physical assets, observed data, requirements and executable models. Apply physics-based model order reduction to support faster analysis with quantified approximation error. Identify and close gaps in model coverage, interfaces, data currency and predictive accuracy.

Use AI to assist model construction and reconciliation while engineers verify and validate the resulting models and evidence.

Compose executable models around explicit boundaries, events and interfaces. Adapt model granularity to the question, from a subsystem interaction to coordinated mission behavior.

Combine discrete-event and continuous representations through defined exchange contracts. Evaluate timing, assumptions and consistency at each integration boundary.

Develop exercises and wargames around mission analysis, commander’s intent and the decision or learning objective. Establish evaluation criteria before course-of-action analysis and wargaming. Examine action, reaction and counteraction, including dependencies and resource constraints.

Build scenarios, participant roles, injects, adjudication and assessment into an executable event package. Keep course-of-action comparison, commander decisions and after-action findings traceable. Use simulation to inform human judgment and identify questions for further testing.

Develop advanced AI harnesses that coordinate models, tools and engineering tasks through explicit permissions, bounded execution, human review and auditable records.

Design metadata workflows for legacy defense networks: turn approved inventories, configuration exports, interface definitions and technical records into versioned, source-linked knowledge packages.

Prepare those packages for disconnected analysis and for approved enterprise AI workflows, including GenAI.mil where authorized. Preserve source ownership, handling restrictions, provenance and review decisions throughout the process.

We model flows from low-speed through hypersonic regimes, using incompressible or compressible formulations as appropriate. Our CFD work covers subsonic, transonic, supersonic and high-Mach hypersonic flows, including sUAS/cUAS aerodynamics, shock interactions, aerodynamic heating and coupled systems. We select the governing equations, numerical methods and model fidelity for each flow regime and intended use.

Use physics-based model order reduction to accelerate repeated analysis of complex systems. Develop high-fidelity full-order models (FOMs), projection-based reduced-order models (ROMs) and hyper-reduced models, with Galerkin or least-squares Petrov–Galerkin (LSPG) projection where appropriate.

Verify numerical implementations and solutions. Validate predictive capability against experimental evidence for the intended use. Assess reduced-model error against full-order predictions and quantities of interest.

Develop analytical environments that align geography, scenario time, system state and source evidence. Explore orbital behavior, mission dependencies and alternative courses of action in a common scenario context.

Preserve the relationships among observations, assumptions, model revisions and analytical conclusions.

Advance affordable munition concepts through requirements analysis, system-level design studies and integration planning. Evaluate effectiveness, cost and development readiness in the context of the host weapon system and its intended mission.

Connect acquisition objectives, manufacturing readiness and evaluation evidence to support development decisions for new concepts and improvements to existing systems.