SBIR-STTR Award

Ujima Digital and the United States Air Force Academy are partnered to deliver a collaborative, SysML enabled model-based enterprise platform for operating and managing their numerous facility’s product lifecycles. A model-based enterprise will not only give NASA visibility into the operational consumption of their facilities, but it will also allow for teams to collaborate around engineering requirements such as preventative maintenance, resource planning, and sharing interoperable engineering requirements with internal teams and contractors. Our solution combines 3D digital twin technology, digital engineering, and model-based systems engineering to create “tangible” digital assets that can give real-world feedback on the performance health of a facility and facilitate automated decision support to those managing NASA’s aging infrastructure. We aim to provide facility managers, contractors, engineers, and all other stakeholders the ability to collaborate around the entire product lifecycle of a facility from a shareable, inspectable, digital, single source of truth. Potential NASA Applications (Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words): Providing a data driven model-based enterprise to NASA’s field facilities to manage the day to day operations and systems engineering requirements. Provide a Building Information Management solution to NASA’s administrative building to manage the relationships with the numerous vendors they have, as well as support their cost saving initiatives. Supporting NASA’s research and development centers and provide a model-based approach to managing their research center’s assets and their utility. Potential Non-NASA Applications (Limit 1500 characters, approximately 150 words): Enterprises are currently undergoing a digital transformation and are currently looking for innovative ways to modernize their technology infrastructure, and digital engineering is at the forefront of thought for telecommunications, advanced manufacturing, and product-based technology companies such as Apple, Google, and Samsung.