Accelerated Product Realization (APR)

Goals: To enable the U.S. nuclear deterrent posture, we must accelerate product development and delivery by creating an integrated solution to accelerate delivery, increase responsiveness, agility and resiliency.

Three Focus Areas for Revolutionary Change:

Organizational Culture: Demonstrate necessary behaviors.
Business Practices: Ensure agile and responsive product lifecycles.
Technical Capabilities: Outpace the adversary.

APR Initiatives:

  • Accelerate hardware & software delivery through digital engineering by aligning laboratory approaches​
  • Develop a labs-wide strategy and implementation plan to align technology gaps with resources
  • Nuclear Security Enterprise Digital Engineering Ecosystem ​
  • Sandia’s Digital Engineering Ecosystem​
  • Approaches to use Digital Engineering​
  • Develop a labs-wide community of practice to share best practices and approaches and to implement DE uniformly across the laboratory
Sandia traditionally follows a system development process that is a design, build, test workflow. Digital engineering approaches disrupt that workflow by adopting virtual design cycles to reduce build/test cycles speeding up product realization.
Sandia traditionally follows a system development process that is a design, build, test workflow. Digital engineering approaches disrupt that workflow by adopting virtual design cycles to reduce build/test cycles speeding up product realization.