Engineered Resilient Systems
Abstract
Engineered Resilient Systems (ERS) improves design agility and cost-effectiveness during analysis and development leading to improvements in testing, manufacturing, fielding and sustainment of mission-effective and adaptable systems. Its products are engineering design visualization and tool integration frameworks which integrate physics-based models and engineering tools to vastly improve the ability to perform tradespace and requirements analysis, optimize designs and improve architectures. These improved architectures will enable systems to more rapidly adapt to changing technologies and threats. ERS uses advanced science and technology methods to provide the following core capabilities: Set-Based Design (SBD), Computational Engineering and Large-Scale Data Analytics. These engineering improvements will accelerate delivery of advanced capabilities to the warfighter and address a geopolitical environment marked by rapidly changing threats, tactics, missions and technologies, and fiscal constraints. The pace of change renders current point-design approaches unsustainable in both cost and time. ERS methods and tools help engineers integrate advanced technologies into systems affordably, at the speed of relevance. ERS research and development aims to transition practical applications to programs within the DoD, while continuing to evolve and develop future capabilities. ERS focuses on new concepts for implementing an integrated suite of modern computational engineering tools, models, simulations and related capabilities, and tradespace assessment and visualization tools with an architecture aligned with acquisition and operational business processes. These integrated tools will operate within a framework that supports transparency, inclusion and data-driven decision-making in an innovative environment that provides advanced knowledge management, including data retention and lessons-learned, and enables multi-community collaboration. ERS leverages multi-fidelity physics-based models developed by the S&T community to inform the acquisition decision process (e.g., increased/easier use of High-Performance Computing, web-based analysis with large data sets, and lifecycle cost sensitivity analysis). These new computational and model-based frameworks adapt advanced design and modeling approaches from Government, industry, and academia to enable our Nation to affordably deliver warfighting capability at the speed of relevance. ERS provides the capability to fully explore and identify key performance parameters and inform the requirements process. With ERS, DoD is reducing risk of future systems development by using high-fidelity modeling and advanced analyses of design options, as well as linking candidate platforms to traditional modeling and simulation toolkits and employing DoD’s high-performance computing assets. ERS leverages existing investments in surface and subsurface ships, aircraft, and ground vehicles, radio frequency, meshing and geometry models. Future domains, driven by Service requirements, may include future developments in Space, Hypersonics, Electronic Warfare and Directed Energy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 403_0603833D8Z_3_0400_PB_2020
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- Root: Engineering Science and Technology (S&T)
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