Tools, Capabilities and Experience of Digital Twins at the Mitre Corporation

The technology of Digital Twin (DT) engineering is increasingly being leveraged in industry for a wide range of applications. More recently, many departments in the U.S. government are exploring the use of DT to support their respective mission mandates. The MITRE Corporation, as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), is actively developing DT tools and capabilities to meet the needs of its government customers. While more people are becoming familiar with the term “Digital Twin,” not everyone has a clear understanding of what it is, and how it is implemented in different applications. In this paper, we present some of these DT tools and capabilities, as well as some MITRE projects that have benefitted from the DT toolset. Additionally, we discuss several nascent areas where DT may bring greater value to MITRE customers.