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Today we're announcing Industry Øne, a program with the United States Air Force DTO: DAF Digital Transformation Office that connects live engineering data across the Defense Industrial Base without centralizing it. The problem: thousands of suppliers operate incompatible tools behind separate firewalls. Personnel can email information across IT boundaries but can't automate workflows securely, compliantly, and auditably while protecting IP. Industry Øne changes this. Fifteen organizations. No shared repository. No surrendered IP. Accenture Federal Services Blue Origin Boeing GE Aerospace Leidos Lockheed Martin MIT Lincoln Laboratory MITRE Northrop Grumman Picogrid Rolls-Royce RTX Stevens Institute of Technology Wichita State University Xometry Read the press release on how we're building the ARPANET for engineering: https://lnkd.in/ecSCUQq7 #IndustryØne #DigitalTransformation #DefenseIndustrialBase #DIB #DefenseInnovation #DigitalEngineering

Faster doesn't have to be the enemy of safer. From our team at DICE 2026.

🎯 Happening today at #DICE2026. Istari Digital is scheduled for three presentations. Hear how to securely connect your data to AI with guardrails, what #digitalengineering ecosystem is needed at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to execute #ProjectGenesis, and how reuse can replace repetitiveness in Model-Based Systems Engineering (#MBSE). Want to learn more after the talks? Stop by the Istari Digital table in the sponsor's hall. Thanks to Idaho National Laboratory for having us!

Istari Digital is excited to be one of the sponsors of Idaho National Laboratory's Digital Engineering Conference (DICE) 2026. Projects across no fail industries demand faster and lower-risk execution. At Istari Digital, we’re enabling digital engineering across teams, tools, and programs. This allows organizations to reduce risk, accelerate decisions, modernize development, and further the life cycle of complex systems. Excited to join industry and government leaders at #DICE2026 and thank you to the University of Utah for hosting. Come talk to the Istari team to learn more about a level digital playing field.

What if the constraint isn’t the system but how we think about it? In The Matrix, “there is no spoon” wasn’t about bending reality, it was about understanding it differently. Will Roper made a similar point about #governmentacquisition: many of the limits we accept - slow timelines, rigid certification, fragmented systems - haven't been fixed. Until now. Software moved past this years ago with continuous integration, delivery, and code as the source of truth. A software-focused approach to acquisition brings that same model to hardware…where requirements, testing, and certification run continuously as code. At Istari Digital, we’re building the infrastructure to make that possible. Dr. Roper sat down with Billy Hurley at Morning Brew to discuss what's coming next… ⬇️ Link below to read!

In case you missed it, MIT AeroAstro released its 2026 Strategic Plan, informed by broad input across industry, government, and startups. The signal is clear: AI-enabled digital engineering is now a top priority across aerospace - along with training a new generation of AI-native aerospace engineers who can apply these tools in real-world, safety-critical contexts. This reflects a broader shift: AI isn’t an add-on, it’s becoming core to how aerospace systems are designed and delivered - with certifiability and safety constraints front and center. We’re grateful to have contributed to this effort. It’s encouraging to see this direction independently validated. At Istari Digital, we’re building the infrastructure that enables certifiable, safety-critical AI across design and operations - and supporting the next generation of engineers putting it into practice. https://lnkd.in/eshifSa6

🚀 ICYMI: The United States Air Force DTO: DAF Digital Transformation Office recently awarded an $8.6M contract to Istari Digital to launch Industry Øne, an initiative designed to break down digital engineering barriers and accelerate transformation across the Defense Industrial Base. Today, government agencies and thousands of contractors operate across disconnected tools, siloed data, and firewalled environments. Collaboration often means copying data, losing control, and introducing risk. Industry Øne will change that. By separating control from connection, Industry Øne enables secure, real-time collaboration without centralizing or copying data. Organizations maintain full ownership and data sovereignty, while engineers can work across systems, programs, and security boundaries through controlled, auditable interfaces. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gNvKb8Rs 🔜 Stay tuned to hear what members of the #DIB are working with Istari Digital on #IndustryØne... #USAF #DigitalTransformation #DefenseIndustrialBase #DIB #DefenseInnovation #Interoperability #DTO #AFRL

Mission engineering has a data problem. Not in volume but in reach. Insights get generated and then trapped inside disconnected tools and teams. They never get operationalized across the programs that need them. The Mission Engineering Automation Testbed (MEAT) is infrastructure designed to change that. Proud to see Istari Digital helping build it alongside partners like Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division through the initiative announced by NSTXL (National Security Technology Accelerator). #DigitalEngineering #MissionEngineering #DefenseTech

Less than half of aerospace engineering time goes to actual design work. The rest is spent reconciling data, synchronizing tools, and coordinating across teams, overhead that can consume the majority of engineering capacity on complex programs. Software engineering solved distributed system development decades ago through version control, automated testing, and CI/CD. Those same principles can transform hardware development. In a recent live session with SysGit and nTop, we designed a high-fidelity Group 3 UAV — from SysML v2 requirements through validated geometry — using automated GitLab pipelines. • Requirements captured as executable, machine-readable models • Parametric geometry generated directly from those requirements • Every design change automatically validated in minutes No manual checking. No late-stage requirement surprises. Hundreds of design variants instead of a handful. The impact isn’t just faster design cycles, it’s earlier integration risk detection and a fundamentally stronger program risk profile. If your teams are evaluating digital thread modernization or SysML v2 adoption, the full recording is available below. 🎥 https://lnkd.in/eSEYiy8W #DigitalEngineering #MBSE #SysMLv2 #Aerospace #DefenseTech

Join Istari Digital co-founder Christopher Benson, nTop Founder & CEO Bradley Rothenberg, and SysGit Co-founder & CEO Steve Massey tomorrow at 11 AM ET to explore the cutting edge of code-first engineering for advanced aircraft systems. ✈️ Learn how leading teams are transforming the way aircraft are designed, built, and iterated. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eBbe5hQk