Aerospace modelling software

Demanding complex design challenges are commonly found in Aerospace and Defense applications.

Companies need to ensure that they remain competitive but also deliver quality products, on time, trouble-free and within budget to meet the complex challenges within the mission critical, safety, security and certification requirements that must be met, Aerospace and defense programs are rapidly adopting the OMG SysML™ and UML based Model-Driven Development (MDD) for systems and software engineering.

Furthermore, specifying complex Architecture Framework products, DoDAF, MoDAF and its variants are used, with all these approaches enabling engineers to graphically model their system or application to aide in communication, linking in requirements to ensure traceability, simulate the model to catch defects early and then automatically generate documentation, code and test vectors to automate their process.

Collaboration management software solutions are being used to manage the process and ensure effective communication between design teams and across company boundaries and time zones. Used too is life cycle management software.

Some of the types of Aerospace & Defense applications using aerospace modelling software solutions include:

Air Systems

Combat Aircraft

Intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance Aircraft

Civil Aerospace

Passenger Aircraft

Helicopters

Military/Civil

Air traffic & Transportation management

ATC, Airport management, aviation management

Navigation/guidance

FMC, tracking systems

Avionics

Displays HDD, HUD, Fuel balancing, Flight controls, autopilots, Lightening detection, power conditioning, collision avoidance, Common integrated avionics, diagnostics, cabin systems, data recording, mission planning

Maritime / Shipboard Electronic Systems

Missiles / weapon systems

Land, Air, Naval

Satellites/telemetry

Spacecraft

Launch vehicles, Ground Systems, Payloads

Land military Systems

Tanks

Radar, sonar, optical or other sensors

Homeland security

Command/control Battle management systems

Communication systems

Electronic Warfare/Information warfare systems

Network, net centric based systems

Reconnaissance/intelligence equipment

Simulation/training systems

Non-cockpit airborne electronics/computers

Vehicular electronics (Vetronics)

Nanotechnology

Unmanned vehicles