CREATE-AV DaVinci: Computationally-Based Engineering for Conceptual Design

Historically, decisions made during early phases of systems design and acquisition determine the majority of the life-cycle costs for those systems. Physics-based, high fidelity models that can support rapid analysis (minutes to hours) and rapid design (hours to days) would improve the quality of early acquisition decisions. The DaVinci software product is being developed in direct response to these needs. DaVinci is designed around a unified lifecycle engineering model encompassing multi-fidelity analysis for a wide range of applications. At its core, DaVinci provides next generation modeling capability for functional analysis, alternative design evaluation, trade-space exploration, and acquisition planning. The DaVinci infrastructure and architecture will enable a collaborative environment for all aspects of early acquisition processes and provide a much more effective mechanism for transferring detailed models and product descriptions between phases of acquisition throughout the life of the program. DaVinci will couple a rich graphical user interface with pre-engineered system components and large scale computing to allow systems engineers and acquisition stakeholders the use of computationally based engineering to enable rapid system engineering development iterations for requirements traceability, physics-based systems representations, and the creation of high-fidelity models suitable for early preliminary design.

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