Tutorial Sessions

IEEE Space, Aerospace and Defence Conference, SPACE 2025

Next-Gen Systems in the Digital Age: Engineering for Agility and Scale

Abstract

The imperative to field increasingly complex systems faster continues to drive the A&D industry’s quest to achieve digital engineering and digital transformation’s vision of perpetual agility, but new forces have entered the fray: from government mandates on Digital Engineering (DE) and Digital Mission Engineering (DME) implementation and cybersecurity attestation, to developments in AI and autonomous technology. The character of war is changing, with battlefields becoming transparent and drones and AI driving a focus on persistent mass and the industrial capacity of nations to innovate faster, to competitors taking increasingly hostile and aggressive actions with new technology (hypersonic missiles, electronic warfare, intermediate-range ballistic missiles, etc.), further exacerbating the need to field more advanced weapon systems faster than ever. The reality is that DE and physics-based engineering simulation are the answer and commercial technology exists today that’s open, mission centric and can connect digital thread.

Bio-sketch for Speaker:

Brigadier General, Retired, Steve Bleymaier is the Chief Technology Officer for Aerospace & Defense at Ansys.
Before joining Ansys, Steve served 28 years in the U.S. Air Force and commanded at all levels, including a 9,500-person, $3 billion Air Logistics Complex. Thereafter, he consulted for several Aerospace & Defense companies and then joined Ansys 5 years ago; first as Vice President, Global Strategy & Government Programs in Federal Aerospace & Defense sales, and currently as Chief Technology Officer for Aerospace & Defense.