SST AIAA Award

Marilee Wheaton presented the SysML v2 Submission Team (SST) with the 2025 Systems Engineering of the Year Award "in recognition for the development of the SysML v2 Specification as the next generation Systems Modeling Language to enable the evolving practice of model-based systems engineering (MBSE)". The award was presented to the SST co-leads Sanford Friedenthal and Ed Seidewitz on behalf of the SST on February 1, 2026 at the INCOSE International Workshop in Torrance, California.

The SysML v2 Submission Team (SST) was initiated in December 2017 and developed the specifications culminating in the final submission of the KerML, SysML v2 and Systems Modeling API and Services specifications to the OMG. The specifications were formally approved by the OMG in June 2025. The SST members represented many different organizations, many of whom are members of INCOSE and the OMG.

AIAA 2025 Systems Engineering of the Year Award

Receipt of SST AIAA Award at INCOSE IW -2026-02-01

Group Photo taken 2024-09-12 in Chicago of some of the SST members

The list of SST contributors included the organizations listed as copyright holders on the specification and the individuals noted in the acknowledgement section of the SysML v2 specification as shown below.

OMG Systems Modeling Language™

(SysML®)

Version 2.0

Part 1: Language Specification

_______________________________________________________________________________

OMG Document Number: formal/2025-09-03

Date: September 2025

6.3 Acknowledgements

The primary authors of this specification document and the syntactic and semantic models defined in it are:

Sanford Friedenthal, SAF Consulting
Ed Seidewitz, Model Driven Solutions
Roger Burkhart, Thematix Partners
Eran Gery, IBM
Hisashi Miyashita, Mgnite
Hans Peter de Koning, DEKonsult

Other contributors include:

Oystein Haugen, Ostfold University College
Tomas Juknevicius, Dassault Systemes
Charles Krueger, BigLever Software

The specification was formally submitted for standardization by the following organizations:

88Solutions Corporation
Dassault Systemes
GfSE e.V.
IBM
INCOSE
Intercax LLC
Lockheed Martin Corporation
MITRE
Model Driven Solutions, Inc.
PTC
Simula Research Laboratory AS
Thematix Partners LLC

However, work on the specification was also supported by over 200 people in over 80 organizations that participated in the SysML v2 Submission Team (SST), by contributing use cases, providing critical review and comment, and validating the language design.

The following individuals had leadership roles in the SST:

Manas Bajaj, Intercax LLC (API and services development lead)
Yves Bernard, Airbus (v1 to v2 transformation co-lead)
Bjorn Cole, Lockheed Martin Corporation (metamodel development co-lead)
Sanford Friedenthal, SAF Consulting (SST co-lead, requirements V&V lead)
Charles Galey, Lockheed Martin Corporation (metamodel development co-lead)
Karen Ryan, Siemens (metamodel development co-lead)
Ed Seidewitz, Model Driven Solutions (SST co-lead, pilot implementation lead)
Tim Weilkiens, oose (v1 to v2 transformation co-lead)

The specification was prepared using CATIA Magic/No Magic modeling tools and the OpenMBEE system for model publication (http://www.openmbee.org), supported by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, with the invaluable support of the following individuals:

Tyler Anderson, Dassault Systemes
Christopher Delp, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jackson Galloway, Dassault Systemes
Ivan Gomes, Twingineer
Doris Lam, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robert Karban, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Christopher Klotz, Dassault Systemes
John Watson, Lightstreet Consulting

The following individuals made significant contributions to the SysML v2 pilot implementation developed by the SST in conjunction with the development of this specification:

Ivan Gomes, Twingineer
Hisashi Miyashita, Mgnite
Miyako Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Santiago Leon, Tom Sawyer
William Piers, Obeo
Tilo Schreiber, Siemens
Zoltan Ujhelyi, IncQuery Labs