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Mike Nash

Author: Mike Nash

Mike Nash is a solutions director at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). He has 20-plus years of experience providing digital and model-based solutions for federal and defense customers. Mike is a licensed professional engineer in systems engineering and currently is the lead architect for GDIT’s digital engineering accelerator, which allows customers to leverage fully cyber-hardened working solutions for their particular use cases.

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Automate cybersecurity analysis with MBSE workflows enabled by AWS

Digital engineering fundamentally relies on integrating data across model structures by using a digital thread – an underlying framework for integrating data from across traditionally siloed functions that create a consolidated view of the system’s data throughout its lifecycle. The cloud is integral to digital engineering by supporting collaboration across geographically dispersed organizations, automating workflows for data connectivity and trade space analysis in a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective manner. This post describes how Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has used digital engineering in combination with secure and scalable AWS services, to deliver secure IT systems to a large defense program.