DT FAQ: Why do we need Digital Twins?

Why do we need Digital Twins?

FAQ Variant(s): Why do we need Digital Engineering?

The increasing reliance of our information-age economies and governments on software-intensive Systems-of-Systems makes us progressively more vulnerable to their failures. Due to advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), these Systems-of-Systems are exponentially increasing in size and complexity, and traditional Model-Based Systems Engineering technlogies are insufficient to manage them. Compare and contrast recent Lockheed-Martin F-35 project problems and Boeing 737 MAX MCAS project problems. Consequently, we must seek more robust and scalable solutions to the System-of-System Sprawl (cf. System Ball-of-Mud) anti-pattern, which is a fractal problem.

Fractal problems require recursive solutions. Digital Engineering's recursive "Simulation-of-Simulations" approach to the System-of-Systems fractal problem represents a quantum improvement over traditional MBSE approaches.