The science of planning, creating, and sustaining effective and affordable infrastructure, supply chain management, and maintenance to support Civil and Government operations throughout the nation and the world is reaching unprecedented requirements to both optimize and carry the necessary bandwidth of information. In virtually every industry, the flow of information becomes the lynchpin and focal point of any true advances in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO). For this new era of MDO, new paradigms that surpass the existing approaches are needed for the exploitation of interactions among disparate disciplines to improve performance, lower cost, and shorten the product/system design cycle while simultaneously balancing potential changes in priorities. At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), a new software platform has emerged that has the promise to truly implement MDO with the power of the internet and the ability to orchestrate Contractor and Government resources that excel using their own familiar tools. It is called Vdot TM (coined after the first derivative of velocity, or acceleration) and is a commercial-offthe-shelf (COTS) software product offered by ESI Group. The process management methodology that Qualis Corporation has demonstrated and will soon further implement using Vdot TM has the potential to revolutionize MDO.
The Huntsville, Alabama region has an incredible suite of technical assets, facilities, and capabilities -the region's challenge is to adapt those assets to other agencies' needs, to integrate those assets to create new capabilities, to design the solutions for tomorrow's requirements, and to integrate the programs for Unmanned Aerial Systems, Robotics, Small Spacecraft, High Altitude, or Aviation assets into a Systems Solutions Initiative for the war fighter, operator, and researcher. The region's constituents have long recognized the unusual and unique synergy that can be offered to the rest of the nation. Anchoring the regions uniqueness is Redstone Arsenal. This recognition resulted in a pro-bono initiative, consisting of a consortium of 24 individuals (including the authors of this paper) who reflect industry, academia, and government interests, and who took on the challenge to formulate a unified plan that 1) integrates key regional assets; 2) identifies a set of actions that will enable organizations to provide system solutions for future requirements; and 3) enhances the awareness of each program -with the goal of capitalizing on prior investments and expertise. Efforts began in June of 2011.
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