AI Driven Mission Assurance

AI Driven MBSE for Golden Dome Mission Assurance

Build missile defense systems faster, prove they hold up under threat, and stay aligned with Golden Dome and Missile Defense Agency direction. One integrated environment ties together modeling, artificial intelligence, digital twin, and digital engineering training.

VETS, LLC, PixelRain AI, and Enola have teamed to deliver a complete, turnkey Golden Dome MBSE solution.
▹ Exclusive Pricing Advantage

Through our Dassault Systemes partnership, VETS delivers significant discounts on software, environment hosting, training, and consulting that no other Golden Dome partner can match, backed by our commitment to fielding digital engineering at the speed of relevance.

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Applying AI Enhanced MBSE to Missile Defense Agency Mission Threads

See how AI powered modeling, simulation, and digital engineering workflows support Golden Dome mission assurance and speed up development across MDA programs. The session walks through real mission thread examples, not slideware.

▹ Why attend

Learn how AI augmented MBSE can cut integration time by as much as 50 percent, the scale of reduction model based development studies report, and see exactly where those savings come from, with a working mission thread you can follow end to end.

  • How to build and analyze mission threads for missile defense, from sensor detection through interceptor engagement
  • Resilience and digital twin modeling that maps to Golden Dome priorities
  • Where AI actually saves engineering time inside an MBSE workflow
  • Training and adoption practices that lower program risk and shorten ramp up
Agenda
  1. 0:00  Why Golden Dome makes digital engineering non optional now
  2. 0:10  Live mission thread, sensor to interceptor, inside the model
  3. 0:25  AI augmented MBSE and the digital twin decision loop
  4. 0:40  Adoption playbook, pricing advantage, and open Q and A
Next Session23 June 2026
Presented BySenior Systems Engineers & MBSE Practitioners
FormatLive + Q&A
CostNo charge
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The Mission Challenge

Threats move faster than document based engineering

Golden Dome puts artificial intelligence and machine learning front and center. The Missile Defense Agency is pushing just as hard on digital engineering, open systems architectures, model based systems engineering, and agile processes across acquisition, development, fielding, and sustainment.

Missile defense has never been this complex. Systems are more interconnected and more time critical than they were a decade ago, and document based engineering simply cannot keep pace with fast moving threats, interoperability demands, or the resilience bar that Golden Dome sets.

  • 01 System of systems modeling at speed
  • 02 Mission thread analysis from sensor to interceptor
  • 03 Digital twin and simulation for resilience testing
  • 04 AI driven insights that surface risk early
  • 05 Traceability across the full digital thread
  • 06 Training that accelerates adoption and reduces risk
MISSION THREAD // SENSOR ▸ INTERCEPT Sensor Detection RADAR / SPACE LAYER CUE Track & Discrimination FUSED TRACK FORMATION Command & Control ENGAGE DECISION Interceptor Engagement KILL ASSESSMENT
The Solution

One turnkey Golden Dome MBSE stack

Three companies, one integrated solution. VETS, LLC brings the model based systems engineering foundation, PixelRain AI brings the artificial intelligence, and Enola brings the training that makes adoption stick. You get a complete environment instead of a pile of tools to wire together yourself.

MBSE Foundation

The managed model based systems engineering environment and the AxonDE GenAI tool at the center of the stack.

AI Augmentation

Advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning layered across the modeling workflow.

Training & Enablement

Digital engineering adoption built so the investment shows up in delivery, not just license counts.

Axon Digital Forge

VETS, LLC // Managed MBSE Environment
SysML · Digital Thread · IL Aligned

MBSE Workspace

Build, manage, and analyze SysML models with full digital thread integration.

Mission Thread Builder

Model end to end missile defense scenarios, from sensor detection through interceptor engagement.

Collaboration Hub

Keep distributed engineering teams working securely and in sync.

Secure Data Layer

Built for defense grade compliance and flexible deployment.

AxonDE · GenAI Powered MBSE

The VETS GenAI powered MBSE tool. It automates routine modeling work and turns engineering questions into answers without leaving the environment.

FLAGSHIP TOOL
Digital Engineering

An unbroken digital thread, start to sustainment

Requirements, models, simulation, and field data stay connected in one authoritative source. When a threat or a requirement changes, the impact is traceable across the whole program instead of buried in a stack of documents. That is what keeps an MDA program defensible at every milestone.

REQS MODEL SIMULATE DIGITAL TWIN FIELD SUSTAIN SINGLE AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE OF TRUTH
PHYSICAL ASSET DIGITAL TWIN
Digital Twin & Simulation

Test resilience before anything flies

A digital twin mirrors the real system so you can run threat scenarios, stress the architecture, and validate resilience long before hardware exists. Engineers see how a design behaves under Golden Dome conditions, find the weak seams early, and fix them in the model where change is cheap.

Capability Matrix

What each part of Axon Digital Forge does for your program

Every component maps to a concrete outcome: time removed from the schedule, risk pulled forward where it is cheap to fix, or an environment that stands up in seconds instead of months. The benchmark column shows published industry averages, which VETS will replace with its own verified pilot results.

ComponentWhat it doesPrimary outcomeIndustry benchmark
MBSE WorkspaceSysML // Digital Thread

Build, manage, and analyze SysML models with full digital thread traceability from requirement to verification.

 Time saved. One authoritative model replaces scattered documents, cutting rework hunting for the current truth. ~55% lower production cost reported for defense and aerospace MBSE adoption vs paper based methods.3
Mission Thread BuilderSensor → Interceptor

Model end to end missile defense scenarios and trace each thread against requirements and interfaces.

 Risk reduction. Gaps and timing failures surface in the model, not in a test event. Defects caught at 1x, not the up to 100x they cost once found in production.2
Collaboration HubDistributed Teams

Keep distributed engineering teams working on one model securely and in sync, with change visible to everyone.

 Time saved. Review cycles shrink when everyone works from the same live source. ~50% faster development time reported for model based development.1
Secure Data LayerDefense Grade

Compliance ready storage and access control built for classified and controlled program data.

 Risk reduction. Meets the security and configuration control expectations DoD oversight requires. Built to CMMC 2.0 Level 2, which VETS holds, for controlled program data.
AxonDEGenAI Powered MBSE

Automates routine modeling work and answers engineering questions in natural language inside the environment.

 Deployment speed. A full digital engineering environment stands up in seconds, removing the IT cost and time burden. Environment ready in seconds, not the months a stood up IT environment can take.

Benchmark figures are industry averages from published research, not VETS measured results. 1 Model based development time reduction, case study literature. 2 NASA, NIST, and IBM relative cost to fix defects, up to 100x later. 3 Peer reviewed MBSE literature review, 2026, on defense and aerospace production cost. CMMC 2.0 Level 2 is a current VETS certification. VETS will publish its own verified pilot metrics as programs complete.

The Lifecycle

One requirement changes. Watch where it goes.

A single change to a requirement does not stay put. It moves through models, simulations, interfaces, and field data. The question is whether you find every downstream impact in hours, or discover it in a test event months later.

REQUIREMENTCHANGE MODELSauto propagate SIMULATIONSre run INTERFACES / ICDsimpact flagged FIELD & TESTdata DIGITAL TWIN FEEDBACK LOOP
Document based

The change gets lost

  1. Engineer edits a requirements document
  2. Downstream docs and spreadsheets updated by hand, if anyone remembers them
  3. Interface mismatches go unnoticed
  4. The gap is found in a test event, the most expensive place to find it
  5. Rework ripples across schedule and budget
Digital thread

The change is traced everywhere

  1. Engineer changes the requirement in the model
  2. Linked models, interfaces, and simulations flag the impact automatically
  3. The digital twin re runs affected scenarios
  4. Every downstream effect is visible in hours
  5. The fix lands while it is still cheap
Illustrative example

Decades of systems engineering research show the cost to fix an error climbing from one unit in requirements to as much as one hundred times that once it reaches production. At that multiple, a $10,000 fix in the requirements phase can grow past $1,000,000 if it is not found until production. A change a digital thread surfaces in an afternoon, but a document based program catches at a test event, is the difference between a minor model edit and a multi week rework with a schedule slip. These figures are illustrative; scale them to your own program when you present.

Worked Example

From a single requirement to a test result

A representative mission thread in Axon Digital Forge, traced end to end. The model views below are stylized representations, not production screenshots.

01 // Requirement

Define

REQ-114

Detect and classify a maneuvering reentry vehicle and commit an interceptor within the engagement window.

Requirement block
02 // Model

Build

SysML structure and behavior models capture sensors, command and control, and the interceptor as one system of systems.

SysML block view
03 // Simulate

Run

The digital twin runs the thread against threat profiles and reports timing margin and probability of engagement.

Simulation output
04 // Interfaces

Verify

Interface control documents are generated from the model, so a mismatch shows up as a flagged link, not a surprise.

ICD trace
05 // Test

Prove

PASS x4REVIEW x1

Test results link back to the originating requirement, closing the loop with full traceability.

Verification matrix • 4 of 5 verified, representative
The Data and the Mandate

Why digital engineering is the standard, not a preference

This is not a vendor opinion. The cost curve is well documented, and the Department of Defense has written digital engineering into policy.

up to 100x

The late change penalty

An error caught in requirements costs roughly one unit to fix. The same error found in production can cost up to one hundred times more, per NASA and NIST and IBM research. A digital thread catches it at one.

2023

Digital engineering is mandated

DoD Instruction 5000.97, issued December 21, 2023, requires new acquisition programs to use digital, model based engineering with the digital thread as the authoritative source of truth.

§ 4401

Open systems are required by law

Under 10 U.S.C. 4401, major defense acquisition programs must be designed with a Modular Open Systems Approach to the maximum extent practicable. MBSE is how you prove it.

Standards we build to

The full reference set our models conform to, from the modeling languages themselves through life cycle, architecture, interoperability, measurement, and DoD policy.

Modeling languages
OMG SysML v2.0OMG 2025KerML v1.0OMG SysML v1.7OMG UMLISO 19514:2017ISO/IEC 19505
Life cycle processes
ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2017ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748
Requirements
ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148:2018
Architecture & evaluation
ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2022ISO/IEC/IEEE 42020ISO/IEC/IEEE 42030
Architecture frameworks
OMG UAFwas UPDMDoDAFNAFMODAFTOGAFZachman
Data exchange & interoperability
ISO 10303 STEP AP233XMIReqIFOSLCSysML v2 API & Services
Measurement & maturity
ISO/IEC/IEEE 15939ISO/IEC 33000 series
Guidance & methodology
INCOSE SE HandbookINCOSE/OMG MBSEOOSEMMagicGrid
DoD policy & direction
DoDI 5000.97Digital EngDoDI 5000.88DoDI 5000.02MOSA • 10 U.S.C. 4401
Adoption Playbook
PHASE 01

Assess

Baseline your current tools, data, and the gaps against DoDI 5000.97. Pick one mission thread to prove value.

PHASE 02

Pilot

Stand up Axon Digital Forge and model that thread end to end. Capture the time and risk numbers as you go.

PHASE 03

Scale

Onboard distributed teams, connect the digital thread across the program, and roll in AI augmentation.

PHASE 04

Sustain

Train the workforce with Enola, keep the twin current with field data, and feed results back into the model.

Sources: DoD Instruction 5000.97, Digital Engineering • DoD MOSA, 10 U.S.C. 4401 • NASA, Error Cost Escalation Through the Project Life Cycle • NIST and IBM Systems Sciences Institute relative cost to fix defects.

Explore It Yourself

A look inside, before the demo

Click around a digital twin snapshot, then run a sensor to interceptor thread. These are teasers. The full environment and a live walkthrough come with the demo.

Digital twin relationship graph

Tap any node to light up how it connects to the rest of Axon Digital Forge.

MBSE THREAD AxonDE DATA TWIN
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Each node is a part of Axon Digital Forge. Tap one to see how it connects to the others.
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Mission thread simulator

Pick an approach and run a simple sensor to interceptor thread.

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The VETS Difference

What only VETS brings to Golden Dome

Only

Authorized Dassault Systemes Reseller

VETS is the only authorized Dassault Systemes reseller that is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business. That lets us offer significant discounts on software, environment hosting, training, and consulting that no other Golden Dome partner can match, all aimed at fielding digital engineering at the speed of relevance.

Only

Best in Class AI Integration for MBSE

We deliver the only best in class AI integration for MBSE, built into the environment from the start rather than bolted on after the fact.

Only

Patented Rapid Deployment

The only patented rapidly deployable orchestrated environment for hosting digital engineering environments. Stand one up in seconds and eliminate the expensive IT cost and time burden that normally comes with it.

Proof

The proof, in the numbers

These are published industry findings that make the case for digital engineering. They are not VETS specific results. As programs complete, VETS will add its own verified metrics and releasable client quotes here.

up to 100x

An error caught in requirements can cost up to one hundred times more once it reaches production. A digital thread catches it at 1x, in the model, where the fix is cheap.

Industry research • NASA, NIST, and IBM relative cost to fix defects

~55% lower

Defense and aerospace programs adopting MBSE have reported production costs roughly 55 percent lower than traditional paper based methods.

Industry research • Peer reviewed MBSE literature review, 2026

~50% faster

Model based development has been reported to cut development time by half or more, by finding and fixing issues in the model instead of in a test event.

Industry research • Model based development case studies

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Figures above are industry averages from published research; full sources are listed in the standards section. VETS will add its own verified case study and releasable client quotes here as programs complete.

Who Stands Behind It

Cleared, certified, and prime on missile defense work

Built and delivered by VETS, LLC, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business and a prime on the MDA SHIELD vehicle. CMMC 2.0 Level 2 and AS9100 / ISO 9001 certified, with an active Top Secret facility clearance and a certified Dassault Systemes partnership.

SDVOSB MDA SHIELD Prime CMMC 2.0 Level 2 AS9100 / ISO 9001 Top Secret FCL Dassault Systemes Partner
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