Digital Engineering & Verification – Adjusting to Class C/D Programs

5:30pm Sign-In, Supper, Networking

6:00pm LA Chapter Presentations

6:16pm Speaker Presentation

7:15pm Discussion - Questionsrn

7:30pm Adjourn

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Digital Transformation has been the buzz word used in industry for decades. Words like Synergy, MBSE, Digital Tools, and now artificial intelligence are looked on as the future of Systems Engineering and they rightfully are. The problem is often that the utopia of the future is at odds with the realities of today. Engineering teams are entrenched using the methods of yesterday, to meet today's deadline, while ignoring tomorrow's deadlines. Fundamentally, this issue is compounded by narrow fields of work, where a particularly good individual in one area of the Engineering life cycle lacks knowledge in a different area of a life cycle. This lack of downstream experience results in a cascade of choices leaving the verification team holding the bag at the end of the program. This presentation will focus on how the left side of the 'Vee' can incorporate the needs of the right side of the 'Vee' and why that need is becoming increasingly more important to today's Class C and D Space programs.

• Digital Transformations of Verification and Validation

1. Requirements
2. Process from Requirement to Test
3. How is it all connected?
4. Low Rate Production
5. High Rate Production
6. The Old way of doing things
7. Who needs to know?
8. How do those people know what they need?

• Space System Class C/D

1. What is a Class C/D Program
2. How it differs from the past
3. Firm Fixed vs Cost Plus Contract
4. Risk

• Innovation
• Speed
• Triple Constraint
• Process and Tailoring
• Quality and reliability
• Quantity