Capability 03

Digital Engineering & MBSE

Requirements development, system architecture, model-based engineering, interface definition, and configuration support across the system lifecycle.

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CONNECTED ENGINEERING INFORMATION

Connect Requirements, Architecture, Interfaces, Verification, and Configuration Across the Lifecycle.

Black Dog Solutions helps programs establish a consistent digital engineering foundation that connects mission needs, stakeholder expectations, system requirements, architecture decisions, interfaces, verification methods, test evidence, and configuration information.

Our approach combines practical systems engineering with model-based systems engineering. Models are developed to support engineering decisions, communication, traceability, technical reviews, test planning, change analysis, and lifecycle support—not simply to create diagrams.

Core Digital Engineering and MBSE Services

Stakeholder needs and mission-context development
System and subsystem requirements development
Requirements decomposition, allocation, and traceability
Operational, functional, logical, and physical architecture
Model-based systems engineering implementation
System behavior, activity, state, and interaction modeling
Interface definition and interface-control documentation
Verification-method and test-requirement definition
Requirements-to-test and model-to-evidence traceability
Configuration management and engineering-change analysis
Legacy requirements and model migration
Model quality reviews and engineering-method support

THE DIGITAL ENGINEERING THREAD

Build an Authoritative Engineering Baseline That Supports Decisions and Verification.

BDS structures engineering information so each major decision, interface, requirement, verification activity, and configuration change can be understood in context and traced through the lifecycle.

MISSION CONTEXT

Define the Operational Need and Stakeholders.

Capture mission objectives, users, operational environments, external systems, constraints, scenarios, and measures of effectiveness.

REQUIREMENTS

Develop Clear, Verifiable, and Traceable Requirements.

Translate stakeholder needs into structured requirements with rationale, attributes, allocation, verification methods, and controlled traceability.

ARCHITECTURE

Describe How the System Must Operate and Be Built.

Develop operational, functional, logical, physical, behavioral, and interface views that support engineering decisions and technical reviews.

INTERFACES

Control the Boundaries Between System Elements.

Define data, electrical, mechanical, software, RF, human, and external interfaces with ownership, constraints, and verification criteria.

VERIFICATION

Connect Requirements to Methods and Objective Evidence.

Establish inspection, analysis, demonstration, and test methods; link them to procedures, results, anomalies, and acceptance evidence.

CONFIGURATION

Maintain a Controlled and Understandable Technical Baseline.

Relate requirements, models, interfaces, documents, test artifacts, and engineering changes to defined configurations and revisions.

ENGINEERING APPROACH

Develop Models and Data That Engineers Can Use.

The BDS process is tailored to the program’s maturity, tools, technical baseline, available data, review schedule, and expected lifecycle outcomes.

Assess

Evaluate program objectives, existing requirements, models, tools, documents, interfaces, and configuration practices.

Structure

Define the modeling scope, information architecture, viewpoints, conventions, traceability, and governance.

Develop

Build and refine requirements, architectures, behaviors, interfaces, verification relationships, and supporting data.

Review

Conduct model quality checks, consistency reviews, stakeholder walkthroughs, gap analysis, and engineering validation.

Control

Establish baselines, change workflows, ownership, training, configuration practices, and lifecycle maintenance procedures.

REPRESENTATIVE DELIVERABLES

Deliver Engineering Information That Supports Reviews, Integration, Test, and Sustainment.

Requirements Baselines

Structured stakeholder, system, subsystem, interface, and verification requirements with attributes, rationale, allocation, and bidirectional traceability.

System Models and Architectures

Operational, functional, logical, physical, behavioral, and interface models tailored to the program’s engineering and review needs.

Interface Definition Packages

Interface descriptions, ownership, exchanges, constraints, diagrams, data definitions, and verification requirements suitable for integration planning and control.

Verification and Traceability Products

Verification matrices, method allocations, test requirements, evidence relationships, coverage assessments, and requirements-to-result traceability.

Configuration and Change Products

Technical baselines, change-impact assessments, engineering change support, model release procedures, and configuration records.

Modeling Guides and Training

Program modeling plans, conventions, templates, review checklists, governance procedures, workshops, and role-specific training materials.

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