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However, making these decisions becomes more complex when a multi-disciplinary team of stakeholders is involved in system-level or subsystem-level architecture and design decisions. Model-Based Engineering (MBE) approaches are enabling a digital thread of connected data and models. This work demonstrates a novel MBE approach that incorporates a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) method and a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method to determine the best architecture solution that aligns with stakeholder needs and objectives over multiple domains. This approach demonstrates the connection of a system descriptive model, modeled using the systems modeling language (SysML), to underlying physics-based engineering models for the purpose of better predicting the technical performance of systems during the architecture development phase. This approach is demonstrated for a common aerospace communications application, a software-defined radio. 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