Modeling-Simulation-Analysis-Looping: 21st Century Game Changer

What if you could present to your boss and customers the expected performance characteristics of a new system in its target mission environment during concept development and before the first requirement or line of software is written? This paper follows up our IS 2014 paper, Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in Complex System of Systems (SoS) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Environments, and presents a new technique for system modeling and simulation that enhances insight and decision making based on quantified performance data. We describe how graph computing technology, readily available open source toolboxes and different systems thinking can “change the game” for systems engineers in the 21st Century.