TimeLike™, a Software Technology Designed to Support “Model-Based Everything”

TimeLike™ is a component-based software technology designed to support “model-based everything”: general purpose modeling and simulation, full-lifecycle model-based engineering, model-based decision support, and model-based decision-making for autonomous systems. TimeLike offers unmatched support for the design, development, operations and sustainment of large-scale heterogeneous systems and systems-of-systems, including software-intensive distributed cyber-physical systems, systems involving effects and interactions that cut across multiple scientific and engineering disciplines, and systems that involve human decision-makers in the loop, e.g. multi-domain operations and “digital acquisition”. TimeLike would be well-suited for use as part of the Integrated Digital Environment required to support the Air Force’s Digital Transformation. We propose to develop TimeLike to maximize its usefulness for this purpose. The proposed effort is directly relevant to at least one of the five key Strategic Capabilities identified in the most recent USAF S&T Strategy document, “Rapid, Effective Decision-Making”, and also has significant relevance, as an enabling technology, to at least two others: “Resilient Information Sharing” and “Complexity, Unpredictability, and Mass”.