The CREATE Program Software Applications for the Design and Analysis of Air Vehicles, Naval Vessels, Radio Frequency Antennas, and Ground Vehicles

Abstract : To help spur innovation in the acquisition of major defense systems and reduce their cost, time and risks, the Department of Defense launched the Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) Program in 2006. The CREATE goal is to develop and deploy physics-based high performance computing software applications for the design and analysis of military aircraft, ships, and radio frequency antenna systems (and more recently ground vehicles) through the construction and analysis of virtual prototypes for those systems. Code development began in 2008, and now CREATE is already beginning to accomplish these goals.