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What if you had a product that was continuously evolving? What could that do to your business?
You might want to ask Technosoft, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The firm began in the early 1990s with a software product called "Adaptive Modeling Language', or "AML,"
that they developed for the Air Force. It has since become the company's core technology.
AML is unique in that it does two things.
"One aspect is doing modeling--capturing model requirements for different disciplines, like multi-physics,
multi-analysis design environments, production analysis--under analysis--aero-structure, weights, etc.
The other aspect is computing. And, computing means for us--collaboration, distributed computing,
object computing, web-enabled capabilities.
The firm knew that the AML framework they'd created could be useful to others with similar research initiatives.
So, based upon its success with the Air Force and AML, Technosoft received a Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR,
contract from NASA's Langley Research Center, to further develop the software.
Working with NASA, Technosoft built a "Collaborative Hypersonic Air-breathing Vehicle Design Environment,"
also known as "CoHAVE," on their AML framework.
NASA aerospace partners like Boeing and Lockheed Martin were interested in what the enhanced software could do.
Improve the product and process design saving time and money.
The success of CoHAVE has led to a Phase 3 contract from Langley for the firm.
"So by the time we were into the middle of Phase 2, we already had people talking to NASA - this is technology we want to use."
Partnering with Langley on CoHAVE has helped Technosoft to further evolve their AML product.
"A lot of the technology within the SBIR has transitioned to general purpose technology within our environment."
And, they continue to build on CoHAVE.
By leveraging the work they've done so far, the company won a large contract from the Air Force
and has now subcontracted Langley as their partner on the work.
One of the best things about the ever-evolving software is that new users benefit from all
of the previous iterations, because each one has helped to add new capabilities.
Based on the AML framework, the firm has created design environments for other applications,
such as an Interactive Missile Design for the military.
And for industries, like automotive and trucking, structures for oil and gas.
Today, the original work with NASA has been widely deployed to the Agency's partners.
"Presently, there are more than 14 programs down at Lockheed that have
directly or indirectly used some of the results from our NASA SBIR."
When it comes to developing software, Technosoft likes the challenge of trying solve what seem to be impossible design problems.
Because of that, users of its software will benefits from future evolutions of Technosoft products.