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GBSD Using Digital Twinning at Every Stage of The Program Lifecycle

April 8, 2022 | By Shaun Waterman
The Air Force-managed modernization of America’s ground-based nuclear missiles has emerged as a test-bed for the use of digital twins—virtual models of real weapons systems—at every stage of the program lifecycle, its chief told the Space Symposium April 7. “What the digital environment allowed us ...

Costello: No Going Back on USAF’s Digital Acquisition Journey

July 8, 2021 | By John A. Tirpak
The Air Force is still in the infancy of its push toward digital acquisition systems, but it won’t go back to traditional methods because the threat, the need for speed, and increasing costs demand a new way of doing business, acting Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, ...

Space Force Looks to Boost Cyber Defenses of Satellites with Acquisition Reorganization

May 10, 2021 | By Shaun Waterman
The stand-up of the Space Force, and now its early overhaul and the creation of a new Space Systems Command, are all about resilience: Ensuring that space capabilities, which the whole country relies on, could survive a concerted attack by a near-peer adversary. As part ...

Air Force Goes All in on Digital Twinning—for Bombs As Well As Planes

March 26, 2021 | By Shaun Waterman
Having successfully used “digital twinning” to design and prototype its latest jet trainer aircraft, the Air Force is moving to use the new technology to develop and test weapons, too—building an online Colosseum in which vendors’ systems can virtually fight each other. Col. Garry A. ...

Aerospace Corp Developing Space Simulator to Game Satellite Wars

Aug. 28, 2020 | By Shaun Waterman
Darth Vader, eat your heart out. A new space simulator being developed by federally funded computer engineers won’t have the planet-busting weapons the Death Star did, but it will enable users to game out the results of military confrontations in space. Operators of the new ...
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