Shared Reasoning Environment for System Design and Acquisition

iNovex offers a practical approach to transform traditional engineering processes to a digitized shared reasoning environment based on models of complex systems of systems. Our approach supports the Digital Thread's “Authoritative Truth� by applying semantic technologies to link disparate data sources and engineering artifacts across the acquisition life-cycle. Our solution provides cross-process, cross-function connectivity, linkages and traceability to access, integrate, and transform disparate data into actionable information for decision-makers. We use a free and open-source semantic data collaboration platform built on open industry standards as the foundation for developing an extensible analytical framework that seamlessly expedites the controlled interplay of authoritative technical data to inform decision-makers. Open APIs enable the community of stakeholders to incrementally and iteratively build out system capability over time, thus increasing competition, accelerating capability deployment and avoiding the long-term cost and schedule implications of proprietary vendor systems. The platform’s semantic graph knowledgebase (KB) applies a “Data Fabric� technique to enable original data sources to retain authority. Data is shared through a software tool-chain on a need-to-know basis, providing a real-time, secure environment for data interoperability, and enabling acquisition stakeholders to develop risk-informed capability requirements, and make effective cost, performance, schedule, design and quantity trade-offs.