System Tool Integration and Support

• Provide a concurrent system engineering environment supporting disparate disciplines
• Enable cost/performance tradeoffs early in design process
• Perform impact analysis throughout design process
• Support top-down integrated, cost analysis throughout design process

• More cost effective designs early in design process
  • 20% reduction in unit production cost in SAR Benchmark -1/2 examples
  • 33% reduction in support costs in Benchmark-1/2 example
• Enables integrated product team for improved product quality
• Reduced cycle time
• 10X improvement in time to generate cost estimates
  

• Integrated RDD-100, PRICE cost estimating tools and RAM-ILS into a concurrent systems engineering environment for signal processors
  • Interface specification available for similar tool integration
• Encapsulated systems engineering process and tools into enterprise framework (workflow and PDM)
• Develop and demonstrate use of executable specs

• System Tool Integrations complete; Beta Software now available; commercial product -1Q97
• Consulting support from Lockheed Martin /ATL available to extend tool use beyond RASSP environment

. RELATED EFFORTS

• Beta site activity at multiple locations (Honeywell and Sandia)
• Proposed on AM3 to extend RASSP system tools to support concurrent engineering for large system designs
• Joint marketing and sales agreements among system tool vendors are delivering RASSP concepts to the user community
• RASSP system tool integrations are being proliferated within Lockheed Martin by supporting internal EPI working group
• Coordination with CEENSS Program on ESPEC generation