MISSION ENGINEERING
Where deep mission expertise meets systems engineering
In today’s complex and contested defense landscape, achieving mission success demands a systematic and results-driven approach. Originating from the Department of War (DOW), mission engineering integrates operational and system-level capabilities through advanced analytics, digital engineering and data-driven methodologies, ensuring effective decision-making at every stage of the mission life cycle.
Mission engineering not only requires technical expertise, but also a comprehensive understanding of how missions are executed and optimized, as well as the ability to digitally iterate in order to innovate new solutions and assess the performance of alternative mission configurations.
THE ARCFIELD APPROACH TO MISSION ENGINEERING
By leveraging decades of systems engineering experience, Arcfield delivers a continuous life cycle engineering process that connects mission objectives to system capabilities in order to achieve desired warfighting outcomes. Our approach embraces mission engineering as a dynamic and comprehensive methodology to transform how military operations are conceptualized and executed.
At its core, mission engineering breaks down complex missions into manageable components. By focusing on overall mission outcomes rather than isolated system functions, Arcfield enables more effective, adaptable and efficient solutions to address national defense priorities. This approach enables faster delivery of new systems and ensures the most effective alignment of capabilities to achieve mission outcomes.
By prioritizing mission outcomes over system design, our approach offers a powerful framework to design architectures that enhance warfighting capabilities and seamlessly integrate emerging technologies, ensuring a competitive edge against ever-present, evolving threats.
MISSION ENGINEERING BENEFITS
DEFINE MISSION NEEDS: Focus on the end goal by aligning new systems and capabilities with warfighter requirements
INTEGRATE CAPABILITIES: Link system capabilities to mission objectives, ensuring they achieve desired warfighting outcomes
SUPPORT DECISION-MAKING: Deliver data-driven insights that support key decisions by DOW leadership regarding resource allocation and modernization
STREAMLINE ACQUISITION: Provide a framework for setting system requirements, developing acquisition portfolios, and improving the overall responsiveness of acquisition processes
FACILITATE MODERNIZATION: Evaluate the efficacy of advanced technologies and incorporate them into the force, creating an asymmetric advantage against evolving threats
ENHANCE COLLABORATION: Align stakeholders and industry partners with a common framework and vocabulary for discussions on mission needs and technological solutions
PRIORITIZE OUTCOMES: Shift focus from individual platforms to mission engineering capabilities, increasing agility and reducing the burden on acquisition processes
DIGITAL-FIRST IS MISSION-CRITICAL
Mission engineering isn’t a new concept, but how we execute it is. Arcfield leverages model-based systems engineering, real-time simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) to enable the visualization, simulation and analysis of mission configurations and architectures.
ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL POWER
AI and machine learning improve analytics and create adaptive systems. We exploit existing engineering data to accelerate the development of mission models and the assessment of mission configurations.
SIMULATION-BASED ANALYSIS
Modeling mission-based scenarios to identify, define and deliver effective solutions based on measures of performance and effectiveness.
CONNECTED DIGITAL THREAD
Seamlessly integrating models, software applications and architectures across tools and authoritative data sources to enable a unified, data-rich mission development process.
Through our cohesive, digital-first approach, Arcfield transforms how organizations design, develop and deploy complex warfighting systems.
Using real-time and dynamic engineering, we’re making missions more adaptable, more effective and more capable of responding to the ever-changing global threat landscape.
THE FUTURE OF MISSION SUCCESS
Arcfield’s mission models provide a unique capability that systematically simulates mission-based scenarios to identify efficient and effective solutions for national defense. The ability to array, visualize and analyze key factors, such as system performance, threats, environments and operational concepts, provides a decisive edge in achieving mission success.
As the pace of technological advancement accelerates, Arcfield’s mission engineering solutions deliver measurable, data-driven results that ensure America’s warfighting capabilities stay ahead of the curve—no matter the challenge.
