Project Announcement: Vehicle Load Mapping to Reduce Maintenance and Sustainment Costs – Phase II

The US Department of Defense is partnering with industry and academia on a multiphase CTMA initiative to develop a full vehicle process along with template Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) models to organize and encapsulate design load data to effectively capture and standardize requirements and system boundary conditions.

Specific goals will include the following:

• The process plan must include all relevant information for the determination of the vehicle design loads at various architectural levels of a vehicle.
• The design load information must include design requirements, materials and geometry used, function mapping, type of loadings, boundary conditions, and FEA which are necessary to determine and verify design loads.
• The process will be scalable in design hierarchy from system level to component level.

Phase II, efforts will take a holistic approach to vehicle load mapping by integrating requirements, analysis, design, and verification in a unified engineering methodology. This will be achieved by integrating the MBSE system with MagicDraw software, FEA and CAD systems, and computational engineering and data exchange engines.

If you feel your organization has the technical capabilities and would like to be considered for this project, please complete the form below and upload your organization’s technical capabilities statement.

Interested Submissions Due by 6/18/24.

We encourage participation of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs), including Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) and Women’s Business Enterprises (WBEs).