Digital twinning at the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex develops high-fidelity digital representations of systems to link design, test, and evaluation. Partnering with internal and external collaborators, BCDC creates authoritative digital threads that enable rapid iteration, verifiable performance, and lifecycle traceability.
Objective
To accelerate system development and verification through physics-informed, continuously updated digital twins.
Capabilities
- Physics-Informed Digital Twins
Multi-physics models (structural, thermal, radio frequency (RF), autonomy) with calibration hooks for high-fidelity simulation. - Co-Simulation & Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)/Software-in-the-Loop (SIL)
Real-time interfaces for embedded software and control loops, including robot operating system (ROS) integration. - Test-Data Feed Integration
Automated ingestion of telemetry to update models, parameters, and uncertainty bounds. - Open Standards & Interop
Standards-based data exchange to reduce vendor lock and speed integration.
