Digital Twin Consortium whitepaper guides aerospace-defense on implementing digital twins across the product lifecycle.
The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) published the Aerospace-Defense: Digital Twin Research and Technology Gap Analysis whitepaper to examine the current barriers to digital twin adoption in the aerospace and defense sector. The paper offers recommendations for implementing digital twins across the product lifecycle, helping the aerospace and defense industry understand the requirements for adopting supporting technologies.
“Standards-based alignment of digital thread and digital twin capabilities is critical for enabling scalable, interoperable systems across the Department of Defense,” said Dan Isaacs, GM and CTO of the DTC.
“The digital twins in the DoD ecosystem are vital for weapon systems, logistics, maintenance, and readiness,” said one of the whitepaper’s authors, Brian Schmidt, co-chair of the DTC Aerospace & Defense Working Group and technical fellow and chief engineer at Northrop Grumman. “The new government directive DoD 5000.97 calls for using digital engineering methodologies, technologies, and practices across the life cycle of defense acquisition programs. It places stringent security controls on sensitive and classified data, vital for digital twins used in military applications.”
“All Department of Defense (DoD) branches are developing and deploying digital transformation strategies. These strategies include digital twins and rely on established standards to govern their development,” said one of the whitepaper’s authors, David Shaw, co-chair of the Aerospace & Defense Working Group and president and CEO at Intuitus Corporation. “We must examine the standards that currently support digital twins, identify gaps in the governance landscape, set expectations on future standard development, develop advocacy, and make recommendations for a path forward.”
The Aerospace-Defense: Digital Twin Research and Technology Gap Analysis Whitepaper offers guidance for digital twin adoption and digital transformation in the following areas:
- Standards
- Digital twin system of systems
- Calibration and rapid updating of digital twins
- Digital twin as a service
- Security/cyber security
- AI and intelligent digital twins
- Heterogeneous data integration, assess and association
The Aerospace-Defense: Digital Twin Research and Technology Gap Analysis Whitepaper, written by the DTC Aerospace & Defense Working Group, is available on the DTC website.
Edited by Puja Mitra, WTWH Media, for Control Engineering, from a Digital Twin Consortium news release.
