SBIR-STTR Award

Enhancing Systems Engineering for Complex Systems with an Agnostic Integrated Capability Digital Engineering Toolbox
Award last edited on: 1/27/2023

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : AF
Total Award Amount
$4,405,166
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
AF171-114
Principal Investigator
Jin Liu

Company Information

RJ Lee Group Inc (AKA: Energy Technology Consultants)

350 Hochberg Road
Monroeville, PA 15146
   (724) 325-1776
   info@rjlg.com
   www.rjlg.com
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 18
County: Allegheny

Phase I

Contract Number: FA8650-17-P-1181
Start Date: 8/17/2017    Completed: 5/21/2018
Phase I year
2017
Phase I Amount
$149,941
The USAF has looked to create digital surrogate models to meet the requirements of Better Buying Power 3.0 and goals of owning the baseline. When people think of a Digital Thread/Twin, they immediately think weapon system, but the methodology

Phase II

Contract Number: FA8650-21-C-6303
Start Date: 8/11/2021    Completed: 2/11/2023
Phase II year
2021
Phase II Amount
$4,255,225
This innovative technology solution will enable the USAF to realize greater ROI on its S&T and engineering research dollars. It will bring commercially-proven technology in support of the warfighter to allow better/earlier decisions across the weapon system life cycle, substantially lowering USAF weapon system development and sustainment lifecycle costs. RJLG's Machine Learning powered Digital Engineering Toolbox will enable better decision-making under risk. It will do this by providing for the application of a Digital Thread architecture to locate and connect all collaborative sources of knowledge to enable the application of model-based tools to develop authoritative digital surrogate truth sources, quantify margins and uncertainties in technical performance measures. Currently, there is keen interest from AFRL/RY, 711 HPW/RH (this Phase II use case), AFRL/RX and AFRL/RC (pursuing innovative data curation and decisioning risk reduction for MS&A), making the initiative outcome one of true enterprise value, across all lab and SPO verticals. Building on existing TRL-8 level capabilities, RJLG will provide a complete Production-Ready integrated Digital Engineering Toolbox for providing several key building blocks of the digital enterprise/engineering (DEE) and Digital Thread / Digital Twin. Such decision-making efficiencies become "must have" as future weapon systems become more complex, multi-domain, and enterprise-oriented in design.