Rigorous digital engineering (RDE)

Today, systems are more complex than ever. Modern cyber-physical systems are composed of a vast web of interlocking puzzle pieces: mechanical parts, actuators, and sensors; government standards and industry best practices; interactions between software, firmware, hardware, cloud services, regulatory requirements, physical environments, and people. Understanding how all these components fit together is a formidable task. Mistakes in building a new aircraft or upgrading software without a comprehensive understanding have resulted in overspend, security risks, and project failures time and time again.

Digital engineering is a kind of virtual cartography for complex systems. By meticulously defining the function and relationships of each component, digital engineers create detailed models that serve as authoritative sources of truth. These reusable artifacts allow users to explore and analyze a system at varying levels of detail: experimenting with new designs, upgrades, or changes; optimizing for cybersecurity; and even using automated code engines to generate an end product in days versus months or years.

This kind of experimentation and testing in a digital environment is often dramatically faster and cheaper than building and testing prototypes in the real world, allowing for quick iteration and, ultimately, better quality and results. And because the mathematical rigor of formal methods is an integral part of our process, you can verify and validate that your systems and the software that runs them are correct and secure.