In partnership with SERC/AIRC and NDIA-ETI, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, broader DoD, and defense industry have launched a formalized Industry Association Consortium (IAC). These stakeholders have shared roles in the development and sustainment of major defense systems. The engineering and program management artifacts that define these roles have been individually transitioning to digital forms for 30+ years, while the business practices and contract boundaries have remained mostly unchanged.

The value of digital transformation over the system life cycle is gained from seamless and efficient connectivity of data and models, full lifecycle management and access to these data and models (authoritative sources of truth), and an overarching imperative to radically accelerate our fielding, sustainment, and modernization of warfighter capabilities.