DARPA’s Open Source Initiatives Require Product Data Management Reevaluation
December 9, 2011
In an effort to curtail out of control spending on defense projects DARPA is looking to the software industry for a how-to model for design. The article, DARPA’s factory of the future looks like open source development, on Ars Technica, explains the changes coming to the DARPA design teams and manufacturing facilities. By structuring the design process after successful ventures in engineering time and money will hopefully be saved. It is hoped that product cycle will be reduced from ten years to two following the new directives.
The article explains the changes as being based on engineering models:
“Correct by construction is an engineering approach used in software engineering and integrated circuit design that uses mathematical models to check the impact each component of a system has on the whole, ensuring that the design falls within certain constraints. DARPA is funding the development of engineering “meta-tools” that would allow engineers to contribute components to a design that would be checked against a set of models, checking for potential unintended integration issues.”
With the success of the engineering industries having previously used open-source and advanced computer imaging it will be no surprise to see DARPA succeed as well. That causes a new problem, however. What to do with all the new data coming from a variety of locations and sources. Product data management needs to be considered before it becomes an issue so that engineers involved in DARPA project can find, re-use and share data quickly and efficiently.
Catherine Lamsfuss, December 9, 2011
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