The NASA funded SHIELD DRIVE Center (https://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/)  is a five-year multi-institution effort to define, quantify, and implement all relevant physical processes needed to develop and validate a “digital twin” of the heliosphere.  SHIELD is a multi-institution collaboration with researchers at BU, UAH, SWRI, Univ. of Michigan, JHU/APL, Univ. of Maryland, Univ. of Arizona, as well as international partners.  The SHIELD institutions regularly collaborate remotely and meet at an annual workshop in person. Early career team members have significant opportunities to network with collaborators from other institutions, collaborate with diverse research efforts, and observational missions (IBEX/IMAP, Voyager, New