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Sedaro Platform

Sedaro enables organizations to shift from sporadic studies to a continuous, reliable mission engineering backbone that synchronizes enterprise analysis, acquisition, training, and operations.

The Sedaro Platform, or just "Sedaro" for short, is a modeling and simulation PaaS for aerospace and defense that empowers customers to (1) build high-fidelity, multi-physics system-of-system simulations, (2) deploy them operationally, at scale, and (3) extract meaningful insights and decisions to drive value across a program's lifecycle - from proposal to operations.

Enterprise-wide digital engineering is hard enough from a cultural and interoperability perspective. In seeking to accelerate digital engineering and equip technology organizations with next-generation modeling and simulation capabilities, alternative approaches often seek to deliver opinionated software which further constrains innovation and drives flexibility down. While avoiding re-inventing the wheel is important, adoption of one-size-fits-all software rarely yields productivity gains, especially in larger organizations.

Sedaro solves this problem by shifting all reusable and generic technology into a decoupled platform which enables the delivery of purpose-built solutions that best reinforce and empower the objectives of the enterprise and its workforce. The Sedaro Platform drives the marginal cost of bespoke enterprise modeling, simulation and analysis software development to zero and delivers resulting capabilities securely and reliably with ease. Through the integration of Content, the general-purpose Platform yields focused capability sets without re-inventing security, data storage, scalable compute, collaboration, traceability, or distribution.

The Sedaro Platform is comprised of four layers, each with open, API-driven interoperability:

  • L0: Run Anywhere, Securely. Layer 0 is responsible for software delivery, security & governance. Sedaro deploys, monitors & secures software in minutes, across any environment: Azure, AWS, GCP, on-prem, air-gapped networks, and edge. The platform is implemented as fully containerized software, which is orchestrated and maintained via state-of-the-art infrastructure automation.
  • L1: Multi-Physics Content-as-Code. Sedaro integrates with any git repository to facilitate the delivery and version control of descriptive, analytical, and interface-modeling content. Role-based access controls keep customer/program Content logically separate from Sedaro content libraries. Implemented as language-agnostic ontologies, supporting variable fidelity, multi-physics models, the content is composable into high-fidelity simulations with ease. Content can easily evolve as program requirements change, and everything is effortlessly version controlled.
  • L2: Hyper-scale Workflow & Simulation Orchestration. Backed by the security guarantees of Level 0, Level 2 delivers a world-class, near-zero overhead, and hyper-scalable runtime for purpose-built program workflows, simulations, and integrations.
  • L3: Operationalized Dashboards, Analytics & Reporting. Sedaro’s built-in modeling, reporting, and analytics capabilities enable focused, intuitive insight delivery to program stakeholders in a browser-based user interface.

L0-L3 solve 90% of the foundational hurdles of digital engineering integration out of the box, and with them come the heritage, reliability, and assurance of modern commercial software. Program-specific applications account for the last 10%. An “App” delivered as part of a Sedaro Platform solution is a collection of Platform content supporting a given use-case. App user interfaces (UI) are built on top of Sedaro’s dashboarding and analytics framework and are composed of browser-native third-party formats and Sedaro-native dashboards. Applications leverage the full power of the Platform’s capabilities to deliver top-level functions with utility throughout the system lifecycle. These functions include:

  1. Collaborative modeling leverages a git-based configuration management framework. Models include time-domain mission scenarios and system “agents” such as space vehicles, ground stations, areas of regard (AORs), or vehicles in any terrestrial domain. System modeling supports variable fidelity and scope of subsystems/physics.
  2. Composable, predictive simulation supports significantly faster-than-real-time execution of exceptionally complex system-of-systems simulations by adaptively distributing the computational load of constituent Simulators across available cloud or on-premises compute at runtime.
  3. Workflows pair Content with Platform capabilities to deliver focused insights from simulations and third-party data sources. At the most basic level, a Workflow is a sequence of serial and/or parallel Steps that each run solution-specific code within a secure, containerized runtime. Workflows constitute the engines of any App.
  4. Digital Integrations synchronize (1) static modeling with external data sources or (2) in-the-loop integration of remote or locally-hosted simulation dependencies. Sedaro integrates with widely used government and industry tools, including Cameo, AFSIM, Excel, as well as a variety of data formats, including SysMLv1 & v2, CSV, XML, JSON, and many others. The list grows longer every week.
  5. Browser-based Dashboard UIs facilitate Workflow and simulation control, Artifact management, and visualization of system dynamics and simulation results. Rapid delivery of custom UI apps streamlines support for specific use cases, and application programming interface (API) automations drive recurring or externally triggered Workflows.
  6. Libraries, delivered as part of a Sedaro Platform solution such as the standard Sedaro Content Library, are collections of Platform Content supporting more than one use case. These libraries constitute a composable, scalable, and highly-adaptable data fabric for the related set of users and use-cases, break down silos, and unlock collective value across an enterprise.