Abstract The purpose of cyber oriented digital engineering (CODE) is to provide a repeatable systems‐engineering process for systems to resist Stuxnet‐class advanced persistent threat (APT) cyberattacks. CODE integrates cyber thinking with systems thinking. CODE accomplishes this by extending the US Department of Defense (DoD) digital engineering (DE) framework with functional mission analysis for cyber (FMA‐C), hybrid cloud architecture, zero trust (ZT) principles, threat analysis, and hardware cyber hardening (HCH). The lack of success of red team attacks conducted in our laboratory against an exemplar system demonstrates how following the CODE systems engineering process actually does “bake cybersecurity into the system”, making the resulting systems architecture and implementations more resilient. In a recent Pilot Project, CODE enhanced the systems requirements document of the top left side of the systems engineering Vee. CODE Pilot requirements embodied ZT principles, including machine to machine (M2M) credential exchanges and internal self‐checking. We anticipate working with International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the object management group (OMG,) and others towards standardizing CODE's cyber‐systems engineering processes for broader use of the global systems engineering community.