Development, requirements, and implementation of systems has changed dramatically over the last few decades. CFD Research works continuously to stay ahead and embrace how systems engineering can be pushed to provide our government customers and stakeholders the answers and support they need to successfully complete their mission. Battlefields, with multiple systems, along with dynamic environments such as weather require a broader look at how current and future systems are optimized through their life cycles to provide the capabilities needed by our warfighters.
Interdependencies between mission platforms, critical requirements development, and emerging technologies such as hypersonics, cyber, directed energy, and others necessitate new ways of approaching system engineering challenges associated with developing, testing, and integrating these systems in relevant environments. CFD Research is on the forefront of characterizing these emerging technologies that will be crucial to classifying their influence in Multi-Domain Operations. We augment traditional system engineering approaches, such as the System Engineering V-Model, using multi-domain mapping and design structure matrixes to assist in the development of complex engineering projects.
We focus our efforts in systems engineering on innovative ways of approaching our customer’s needs such as using artificial intelligence and machine learning to adapt Model Based Systems Engineering principles and modeling for specific investigations. At CFD Research, we appreciate that new advancements in technologies will push the limits on what current system engineering modeling can achieve and are developing new ways of looking at system engineering and Systems of Systems challenges.
