In a July 10, 2023 press release, the standards organization Object Management Group (OMG®) announced approval of the NIST-aided Systems Modeling Language version 2 (SysMLv2) for public comment. It is an upgrade to the previous version, widely used to design and test complex systems. OMG’s approval of OMG has garnered industry and media attention.
NIST’s Conrad Bock and Raphael Barbau contributed significantly to SysMLv2’s development. It uses a more precise and complete modeling technique developed by NIST, based on its Process Specification Language. SysML2 also supports spatial requirements without initially committing to specific shapes, and then later defines and refines them. This capability is based on a NIST-developed, four-dimensional framework that integrates models of time and the three spatial dimensions.
The press release included testimonials from over a dozen SysML tool vendors, and was also published by Globe News Wire, Inside HPC, and Yahoo! Finance.