Rapid system modification in the face of changing battlefield requirements has become a critical priority for defense organizations. One difficulty in addressing this need is the effort in composing viable hardware/software configurations drawing on system information distributed across multiple data repositories.

Integrated modeling of defense and intelligence systems

Inter-model connections managed by Syndeia

Intercax has developed a Model-Based Engineering platform Syndeia to address this. A high-level architectural model for a configurable UAV is created in SysML (IBM Rational Rhapsody in this example), as shown in the first figure above. The individual elements are linked to subsystem models in PLM, CAD, ALM and simulation tools and further connected to requirements and project management information. The second figure is a visualization of the connection database for a specific UAV configuration, linking the SysML model elements to corresponding model elements in Teamcenter (PLM), GitHub (ALM), Simulink (simulation) and JIRA (project management). These connections allow on-going information comparison and transfer between tools to create a Total System Model that can be evaluated and ultimately assembled and tested in a shorter time. Properly-managed connections can not only share information; they can restrict what parts of the models are shared to protect confidential or proprietary data.