Digital Engineering
Abstract
Project 645620 consolidates investments in resilient information technology infrastructure and platforms, data solutions, software toolsets across all classification levels for Digital Engineering use cases across the entire USSF into a USSF Digital Engineering Ecosystem program. Prior year's work on Space Digital Ecosystem and Integration (SpaceDEN), and Digital Engineering Interconnected Cloud-based Ecosystem (DEICE), SSC Developmental IT Infrastructure and other USSF digital ecosystem investments will merge into one IT Infrastructure and USSF Digital Engineering Ecosystem effort in FY 2025. The Space Digital Ecosystem & Integration (SpaceDEN) program develops capabilities that support SSC's Protect and Defend assets in an increasingly contested space environment. The digital infrastructure is vital in connecting capabilities from sensor-to-shooter to close multifaceted kill chains across all warfighting domains. SpaceDEN digitizes Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power (SDACP) and Protect and Defend portfolios, enabling acquisition decisions at the speed of relevance, synergizing partnerships with industry, and closing capability gaps across both portfolios. This program will develop a Multi-Level Security Architecture utilizing a hybrid cloud by incorporating data integration across Authoritative Sources of Truth (ASOT) and Single Sources of Truth (SSOT). Building unclassified to classified network systems, digital engineering environment (DEE), and IT equipment within a physical facility, it will provide employees a place to work SAP activities and support Multi-level Security (MLS) labs. These activities include: system and data engineering, data science, prototype mock-ups, demonstrations and testing, and modeling simulations and analysis through highly complex Space Command and Control (C2) systems. The SpaceDEN efforts will be merged and harmonized to support the buildout of the SAP portion of the USSF Digital Engineering Ecosystem. DEICE Tech Stack prototypes and develops the Digital Services Ecosystem (DSE) for Space Force Capability Development as a cloud-based, remotely accessible, multilevel security, interconnected infrastructure, providing the technical methodology used to store, access, analyze, and visualize evolving systems' data and models throughout systems' acquisition lifecycles. Digital Engineering (DE) includes the development and prototyping of critical technology and helps create models to represent all aspects of the system. DE supports all activities for the design, development, manufacture, and operation of the system throughout its lifecycle resulting in reduced sustainment costs. The data transport and cross domain layers will expand further, resulting in greater capability for synchronous C2. DEICE prototype lessons learned will be incorporated to build out the USSF Digital Engineering Ecosystem. The USSF Digital Engineering Ecosystem includes information technology (IT), system security engineering, software, data and network modernization. The IT efforts will demonstrate IT capabilities for use in accelerating and modernizing the USSF capability development lifecycle in support of the Space Force USSF Digital Services Ecosystem. Information Technology provides customers proper tools needed to accomplish their mission. These tools enhance customer collaboration, end-user experience, exploration and integration amongst our mission partners and industry. Digital Engineering Ecosystem IT Infrastructure helps assess technical risks associated with use, by understanding the System and Enterprise-level risks posed by threats based on deployment and gathered intelligence. The software sector aims to bring Software Agile best practices as mainstream into acquisition; it also enables Platform and Infrastructure at scale based on mission thread needs. The Digital Engineering Ecosystem IT infrastructure provides deliberate data exposure and "normalizes” the data to make it meaningful and useful for any business or mission use case that desires to exploit it. The network modernization improves and optimizes administrative/mission networks and end-user experiences across several enclaves. Funding will investigate, develop, and analyze USSF-unique research via studies/grants/partnerships to promote efficiency and speed leveraging industry, academia, international and other government agencies. The effort specifically focuses on taking advantage of commercial technologies available in industry for digital transformation. This funding is required to serve Chief of Space Operations priority efforts to innovate and experiment and to build an agile force that better ensures our long-term competitive advantage in space. These efforts promote competition between various research organizations (e.g., laboratories, FFRDCs, etc.) to advance critical research for contested space operations. Funding will also advance space capability modeling to support wargaming and analysis and continue development of the USSF Space Enterprise Architecture Modeling.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 645620_1203010SF_4_3620F_PB_2025
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