CASE STUDY:
AmiShare Digital Engineering ASoT
Resilient and Secure: Ensuring ASoT is protected, secure & available

Air Force Research Labs, Maui HPC Center

Secure "real-time" data asset sharing for Digital Engineering collaboration across organizations

Kinnami AmiShare™, resilient data management platform, virtualizing the ASoT

Customer:
Challenge:

Solution:

Digital engineering, the transformation of engineering to leverage digital technologies, is speeding product design and while lowering overall costs for product development. Critical to this process is digitizing engineering artifacts and engineering related data, which can then be shared across collaborating engineering teams. Digital engineering relies on the concept of an Authoritative Source of Truth (ASoT). This enables information and model sharing, traceability, and accountability across platforms, across product lifecycle and across domains.

Kinnami’s resilient secure data mesh, AmiShare, secures digital engineering artifacts for the ASoT, making them available wherever and whenever needed. AmiShare provides governance through automated policies for efficient admin, backup, disaster recovery and integrity verification.

Situation

The Air Force has a mission need to accelerate the process for fielding new aircraft. To meet the need to digitally engineer next generation aircraft, it is not practical to inventory, secure and store the ASoT in a data center repository, the data volume is

simply too large. A solution is needed which can secure data for the ASoT and make it available wherever and whenever it is needed, while providing traceability and accountability.

AmiShare—Resilient & Secure Data

Digital engineering is an integrated digital approach that uses authoritative sources of system data and models as a continuum across disciplines to support lifecycle activities from concept through disposal.

With AmiShare, organizations inside and outside the DoD can protect and securely share their data and models.

Data policy is administered and orchestrated by a central server Policy Engine.

RESILIENT DATA CHALLENGE

The Air Force Research Labs Maui High Performance Computing Center is researching software technologies that will help the Air Force, its DoD and other external partners build a reliable and secure Digital Engineering infrastructure to streamline the process of rapid design, development, testing, and launch of new military systems like aircraft and weapons. This infrastructure needs to be easy to use, deploy, manage and cost-effective, while supporting Model-Based Systems Engineering, especially around the version history, integrity and authenticity of the dataset that makes up the ASoT.

SOLUTION: Virtualize the ASoT

Results

Kinnami AmiShare virtualizes the ASoT’s location, allowing authorized users access as if it were in one place.

AmiShare policy engine automates data management relative to user-set priorities, while accounting for parameters such as cost.

For example, frequently needed files are moved closer to users or can even be securely stored locally ensuring optimal productivity.

Lower end-user hardware and software costs
Increased productivity for users with faster access to authorized digital engineering assets
Improved current and future human and other resource utilization
Automation reduces provisioning errors while improving reliability and maintainability with simplified policy-based administration
Improved information asset security and irrefutable auditing across all storage systems, inside and outside the USAF

EDGE, DATACENTER AND CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

Kinnami AmiShare can be used for operations in any edge, datacenter or cloud environment—wherever data is generated, collected, processed or stored. In the public sector—disaster relief, humanitarian aid, or logistics supply missions—where conditions can be harsh and networks may be degraded or absent.