Systems engineering is a discipline focused on managing and coordinating many domains, specialties, and lines of business, it also enables the successful realization, use, and retirement of engineered systems, using systems principles and concepts, and scientific, technological, and management methods. Systems engineering collaboration occurs when individuals unite in an effort too large or complex for any of them to perform independently. A digital collaborative environment facilitates the sharing, revision, storage, and publication of ideas, documents, and products through digital means. Until recently, efforts to assemble teams to solve the problems of large, complex systems focused primarily on technical infrastructure: think of digital trans-formation efforts, integrated modeling environments and efforts to connect tools and systems to model-based systems engineering (MBSE), digital engineering (DE) and model-centric acquisition. Today, however, new technologies offer opportunities to bring systems engineering collaboration into a new era, one in which is cloud-based, interdisciplinary, secure, and efficient to empower collaboration to design, deliver and sustain the next generation of advanced technical systems and capabilities. This paper introduces a framework for understanding the modern collaborative environment as well as its current technical limitations.