Belcan is excited to sponsor the upcoming Global Product Data Interoperability Summit (GPDIS) on September 23-26 in Phoenix AZ.
The theme of GPDIS 2025 stresses the importance of supply chain readiness, closing the gaps on data interoperability, and driving adoption of trusted and authoritative sources of truth. This conference provides an exciting opportunity to benchmark successes and failures to gain the valuable insights needed to accelerate your MBE journey. For our Belcan MBE team, GPDIS allows us to reaffirm the top MBE implementation challenges and ensure we maintain comprehensive services to address those.
If you are attending, visit the Belcan booth and check out our presentations:
Bridging the Gap: Leveraging the NSE MBE Maturity Index to Comply with DoD 5000.97
Presenter: Rudy Lozano and Mike Werkheiser
Time: 11:30-12:10 – Wednesday, September 24
Digital engineering leverages integrated models and data to support the entire product lifecycle, from concept to disposal. The Department of Defense’s new Instruction 5000.97 builds on these practices, aiming to enhance the interoperability, traceability, visualization, and collaboration of engineering data throughout the lifecycle.
The NSE MBE Maturity Index is a key industry tool designed to assess and define model-based maturity levels and capabilities, helping organizations evaluate their current-state model-based enterprise (MBE) practices and implementing target-state capabilities across various lifecycle activities.
In this presentation, we will explore how to use the NSE MBE Maturity Index to align with the DoD’s new Instruction 5000.97 and improve your organization’s digital engineering capabilities.
Key takeaways:
- Overview of the DoD Instruction 5000.97 and the NSE MBE Maturity Index
- Understand digital engineering and its relationship to a model-based enterprise (MBE)
- Review the MBE maturity levels from drawing centric to model-based definition
- Understanding foundational MBE capabilities within each enterprise domain
- Understand how to comply with 5000.97 using NSE MBE Maturity Index



