Incorporating Reliability into a Set-Based Design Tradespace Tool for Early Design Analysis

The Department of the Army’s announcement of the Army Futures Command (AFC) and the establishment of Cross Functional Teams (CFTs) exemplifies the importance of developing rapid and feasible system requirements and capability documents. Implementing model-based engineering (MBE) early in the design process and integrating physics-based design principles can provide large tradespaces for analysis of alternatives (AoA) to support this effort. The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) developed TradeBuilder, a web-based tradespace analytical tool as part of the Engineered Resilient Systems (ERS) suite of tools to enable more informed assessments. In support of PreMilestone A tradespace analysis, ERDC collaborated with the Army Materiel System Analysis Activity (AMSAA) to enhance the analytical tool capabilities in this area.