Operational Unit
Digital Twins & Synthetic Disaster Simulation Environments Unit
Computational Sciences & Applied AI Software Engineering
Unit Mandate
Mission & Operational Scope
Constructs high-fidelity digital twin models of critical ecosystems, infrastructure, and disaster scenarios, enabling the Foundation to simulate intervention outcomes, train field operators, and stress-test response plans before deployment.
Doctrine
NIST Digital Twin Framework · Caltech Computational Science Simulation Standards
Core Capabilities
Operational Capabilities
Digital twin architecture design for ecosystem and infrastructure modeling
Physics-based simulation of disaster scenarios (flood, wildfire, earthquake)
Synthetic training data generation for AI model development
Real-time data integration for live digital twin updating
Virtual reality environment development for operator training
Scenario comparison and intervention outcome prediction analytics
Division I
Computational Sciences & Applied AI Software Engineering