Laura E. Hart is a Fellow at Lockheed Martin for Corporate Engineering, supporting Digital Transformation. Laura has over 30 years of industry experience covering a wide spectrum of responsibilities applying Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) across the development lifecycle of complex software and hardware systems. Laura’s current focus is leading the Model-based Acquisition (MBAcq) User Group for the standardization of Model-based acquisition across industry applying “Systems Thinking”, patterns and reference architecture descriptions earlier in the acquisition process. Laura is co-chair of OMG Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) specification team, Adjunct professor Drexel University and NDIA System Engineering Division Vice-Chair.