Systems Engineering Enhancements - Ascent Logic Corporation

• Supports multi-disciplinary design data in one location
  • Specifications easily generated
  • Facilitates integrated product team interaction
• Supports requirements driven design - all data is related through physical architecture and functionality to requirements
  • Optimizes design across all disciplines
  • Facilitates quick impact analysis
• Provides total design capture for Reuse

BENEFITS

• Improved design quality, design completeness
• More cost effective designs
• 2-4X improvement in test and integration
• 6-10X decrease in pre- and post-production changes

• Integrated RDD-100 with
  • Lockheed Martin's PRICE cost estimating tools
  • Management Sciences' RAM-ILS toolset
  • JRS' architecture selection tools (NetSyn)
  • Commercial product available 1Q97
• Integrate RDD-100 into RASSP Enterprise System

• Concurrent engineering schema extension
• Consistency checks
• Export reports
• Automatic specification generation

. RELATED EFFORTS

• Beta site activity at multiple locations (Honeywell and Sandia)
• RASSP interest at many current Ascent Logic customers (commercial and defense)
• Commercialization
  • Cross marketing and sales agreements with Lockheed Martin PRICE Systems and Management Sciences
  • System engineering tool suppliers are making combined sales calls to improve their approach for selling their products