How digital engineering models are driving DOD IT development

Advances in digital engineering — and the ability to create “living” virtual models of complex IT systems — are giving defense officials new and more effective ways to test potential solutions to modernize their IT infrastructure. They’re also helping defense agencies gain critical insights on how changes in IT systems might impact interactions with a broader circle of weapons, satellites, communications and other operating systems.

The result is beginning to translate into dramatic time and cost savings as officials develop joint command and control systems designed to share intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, according to a new special report released by FedScoop, underwritten by GDIT.