The evolution of digital twins in defence and national security

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By Ashish Kumar, Managing Director, Optivalue Tek

The upcoming major change in warfare technology could be a new airplane, missile or satellite. It can also be a digital twin. Digital twins are shifting from factory production to military technology, where they make digital copies of aircraft, naval platforms, military sites, communication systems and much more.

This concept is easy to grasp but has a huge positive impact: you first have to create a model in the computer to identify its behavior in a real-world environment later on. For military organizations, change of approach means changing the way they design, test, maintain and use equipment, which is very important, because uncertainty one of the major challenges they face.

From engineering model to defence capability
A digital twin cannot be viewed as just a 3D representation. It brings together engineering data, devices, operational information, IoT, cloud computing and AI in order to...

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