Description: The Collaborative Tradespace Capability (CTC) prototype proposed by the SSI team is designed to address critical areas of interest to NASA, such as improving model interoperability, managing varying levels of fidelity/uncertainty, and rapidly and iteratively operating across a distributed collaborative environment to characterize and select optimum candidates. The goal of the Phase I project is to build a proof of concept prototype that can generate models of complex system behavior with improved confidence levels. The SSI team will accomplish this by using and integrating recent advancements in Digital Engineering, incorporating workflow automation, and extending the capabilities of the Whole System Trades Analysis Tool (WSTAT) by incorporating new methods of uncertainty reduction. The CTC prototype aims to be a 10x+ game changer in rapidly navigating architecture trades, requirements development and flow down, and design optimization. By leveraging new and advanced systems modeling tools and methods, the CTC will enable NASA to more efficiently explore multidimensional tradespaces and make informed decisions about complex systems. The CTC prototype will also enable distributed collaboration, allowing teams to work together more effectively and iteratively. Ultimately, the CTC prototype has the potential to significantly improve NASA's ability to design and develop complex systems, leading to more efficient and effective missions.

Benefits: The proposed Collaborative Multidimensional Trade Space Analysis Capability is a Digital Engineering (DE) capability enabling NASA to gain deeper insights into the value of system concepts and identify which technologies are essential to achieve system-level objectives. It uses authoritative models over a highly distributed collaborative DE Ecosystem, making it suitable for any NASA development, acquisition, or upgrade project where design options exist, iteration is necessary, uncertainty is high, and a large design space must be understood.

Selecting the best system architecture among competing candidates with confidence is one of an organization's most valuable capabilities. CTC will provide the ability to rapidly iterate, configure, assess and selects designs with higher confidence and market value. SSI is highly confident in bringing on current commercial clients from across sectors as partners for a Phase II effort and beyond.