Engineered Resilient Systems
Abstract
Engineered Resilient Systems will improve design agility and cost-effectiveness during analysis and development leading to improvements in testing, manufacturing, and fielding of mission-effective and adaptable systems. Its products are engineering design visualization and tool integration frameworks that will integrate physics-based models and engineering tools across acquisition disciplines to vastly improve the ability to perform tradespace and requirements analysis, iteratively optimize designs and improve architectures to reduce or eliminate sensitivity to adversary tactics and capability improvements, and adapt those designs over time. Its goal is to achieve a vitally-needed transformation in the contribution of Defense systems engineering to design resilience and effectiveness across the systems lifecycle. These engineering improvements are essential to 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 research and development 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 within an architecture aligned with acquisition and operational business processes. These integrated tools will operate within a framework that supports 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 utilization 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. This effort continues execution of the ERS efforts previously funded in PE 0602251D8Z, Applied Research for the Advancement of S&T Priorities and builds upon earlier initial work for the purpose of achieving the goals set forth in the ERS DoD Community of Interest Roadmap. It is also fully coordinated and aligned with the work in Army PE 0603734A, Military Engineering Advanced Technology (Project T08).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- P403_0603833D8Z_3_0400_PB_2017
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- Root: Engineering Science and Technology (S&T)
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