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toolsets” and “anticipate challenges and target solutions to these challenges prior to them being encountered by their customers.”
Textron, Ford, The MITRE Corporation and Siemens.
Svetislav “Steve” Petrusevic spent his digital engineering PPTE with Siemens and is applying his experience to his program, Project Manager (PM) XM30, which “is at the tip of the spear defining and changing the culture going away from a traditional methodology to a digital methodology.” Petrusevic said that “by participating in the PPTE program, the skillset and knowledge has been brought back to PM XM30.” Troughout his program, he learned how Siemens utilized system thinking, or integrat- ing different digital engineering tools and processes to create complex systems specific to healthcare. He also gained experience with a digital engineering tool called Star-CCM+, which provides the capability of computer-assisted design (CAD) handling and geometry preparation and enables computational fluid dynamic engineers to model the complexity and explore the possibilities of products operating under real-world conditions. “Tis allows the simulation to stay true to the design based on the CAD, allow- ing quicker simulation,” Petrusevic said.
To anyone interested in the PPTE digital engineering program, Petrusevic encourages them to “go for it! Place your name in the ‘hat’ and, if selected, participate in the PPTE digital engineering program. Tere is so much to learn in private industry, specifi- cally [with] digital engineering tools.”
CONCLUSION In fiscal year 2025 there are seven PPTE digital engineering participants at Te Aerospace Corporation, Amazon, Applied Intuition, Bell Textron, Invariant, MORSE Corp. and Siemens. For the future of the PPTE digital engineering program, Gorsich
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In fiscal year 2024, four participants in the PPTE digital engineering cohort were placed within Bell
commented “We hope more companies join the program and more associates take advantage of it. In the FY25 PPTE program, there is the addition of a Silicon Valley company called Applied Intuition. Tey develop and assess autonomous systems. Talk about an opportunity for the employees and the Army to learn how things are done in this exciting area, and a key area for the Army’s future.”
For more information about the PPTE program, go to
https://asc.army.mil/web/career-development/programs/ dod-ppte.
RACHEL BERRY is an acquisition training and education manager at the U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center, Office of the Director of Acquisition Career Management. She holds a Master of Professional Studies in industrial organizational psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a B.S. in hospitality management from James Madison University.
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