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Digital Engineering for Defense Acquisition

The defense enterprise is moving its engineering from documents to models — by strategy since 2018 and by instruction since DoDI 5000.97 (December 2023). This program teaches acquisition and technical professionals what that actually means and how to buy it well: systems engineering foundations, the policy mandate stated precisely, models and digital twins, the digital thread and authoritative data, open systems, and the contract craft that decides whether any of it exists. Professional development, not certification prep: nothing here is an 8140 qualification.

Intermediate18 hours self-pacedAligned to a 136-hour program of instruction
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39 lessons · 9 hands-on labs. The first module is free — no card.

What the course covers

Digital Engineering for Defense Acquisition

  1. 1

    Systems engineering: the discipline digital engineering transforms

    7 lessons

    Free
  2. 2

    The mandate: DoD digital engineering policy

    6 lessons

    Subscription
  3. 3

    Models, MBSE, and digital twins

    7 lessons

    Subscription
  4. 4

    The digital thread and authoritative data

    6 lessons

    Subscription
  5. 5

    Open systems, the ecosystem, and the contract

    6 lessons

    Subscription
  6. 6

    Digital engineering across the lifecycle

    7 lessons

    Subscription

MBSE and Digital Architecture for Acquisition Professionals

In development
  1. 1

    Requirements traceability in practice

    Coming
  2. 2

    Architecture development and system decomposition

    Coming
  3. 3

    Model governance

    Coming
  4. 4

    Digital technical reviews and engineering baselines

    Coming

Engineering Data, Digital Thread, and Technical Data Management

In development
  1. 1

    Authoritative data and metadata

    Coming
  2. 2

    Digital threads and configuration management

    Coming
  3. 3

    Repositories and interoperability standards

    Coming
  4. 4

    Data rights and lifecycle governance

    Coming

Managing Digital Engineering Across the Acquisition Lifecycle

In development
  1. 1

    DE requirements in strategies, solicitations, and SOWs

    Coming
  2. 2

    Evaluating contractor digital engineering capability

    Coming
  3. 3

    Engineering risk, DevSecOps, and agile integration

    Coming
  4. 4

    Overseeing baselines and measuring DE maturity

    Coming

Digital Engineering Leadership Capstone

In development
  1. 1

    The scenario and the strategy skeleton

    Coming
  2. 2

    Governance, interoperability, and risk

    Coming
  3. 3

    The executive decision brief

    Coming