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Opportunity |
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DoD Communities of Interest |
Advanced Electronics |
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AFWERX Digital Prime - Digital Engineering Confidential Market Research |
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8 April 2021 |
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Government Organization |
AFWERX |
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Description Digital Engineering Background: AFWERX is seeking diverse industry partnerships and engagement to identify key technology sectors under Digital Engineering, that, if “primed” by government engagement, could advance US national security and economic interests. This campaign is part of the Digital Engineering Prime initiative. Details of Digital Engineering: Digital Engineering is an integrated digital approach that uses authoritative sources of system data and models as a continuum across disciplines to support lifecycle activities from concept through disposal. It emphasizes the continuity of how models are used, providing better-informed decision-making, enhanced communication and understanding of processes, and increased efficiency of engineering processes. Why Digital Engineering? Moving from imagining disruptive concepts to marketable capabilities is an increasingly complex and lengthy process, often requiring execution and oversight from thousands of human innovators, engineers, and stakeholders. The use of digital threads through product development processes could help users answer the following questions: How can I do this process better? Using the best analytical techniques instead of a rule of thumb; physics and math instead of habit. How do I get the data delivered to the need? Efficiently translate, transfer, and format data as decision-making needs are identified. This campaign seeks to identify market opportunities for digital engineering, where government and industry partnerships could accelerate progress. New opportunities are emerging to generate, curate, and unleash data, transform decision processes, and guarantee the success of current and future missions. Digitization of these processes will require a campaign of data-driven tools, interfaces, and standards for tracking requirements, risks, and decision-making through the lifecycle of development and manufacturing. Government Stakeholders Involved: Objective of the Market Research: We are seeking feedback from industry, investors, academia, and government to inform how the Digital Engineering initiative will be fashioned. The feedback received through this survey will be used to determine the direction we take in advancing this Prime to the next phase and help to drive priorities for advancing technology maturity, investment readiness, and market adoption of commercial capabilities toward digital engineering and derived business opportunities. What’s in It for Industry? Digital Engineering is a rapidly growing market, and recent successes demonstrate the value proposition for rapid product development with unparalleled rigor. This technology has a clear potential to transform the government and commercial markets, generating opportunities to establish a global industry presence. The DoD would like to partner with industry for mutually beneficial opportunities to drive economic growth and increase national security. Next Steps: The market research will be released on February 8th and open for submissions until 8:59 pm PST on April 8th. Upon completion of the market research, the Digital Engineering concept will be refined as appropriate, leading to a decision on whether to launch the formal campaign. If this topic is selected, this campaign will seek proposals from teams made up of industry, academia, and non-profits to develop Digital Engineering systems and capabilities that can be demonstrated within a 36-month timeframe. It is expected that proposed concepts will also involve partnerships with private investors and a cross-section of the federal government to enable rapid capability demonstration and or to streamline and expedite processes that otherwise might prevent demonstration within 36 months. AFWERX Digital Prime: Digital Prime seeks to transform how we conceptualize, engineer, and deliver capabilities, building a digital thread from a conceptual idea to a deliverable capability. This initiative will build the foundation for rapid and scalable innovation powered by data and human ingenuity, providing a distinct advantage in the global market. There are two areas of focus: Digital Engineering: Digital Wargaming: The Digital Prime market research campaigns seek to discover what key investments will build a partnership between the Air Force and industry to gain a strategic and technological advantage in the global market. We seek to identify what market sector is ripe for a “Prime” initiative to drive investments that the Department of Defense (DoD) can make to leverage and accelerate the commercial sector. Additionally, we aim to remove non-monetary hurdles, such as regulatory issues, that could accelerate progress in the commercial sector. |
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