|
February 25, 10:23 EST
PLANO, Texas -- Officials at EDS recently sold the first round of collaborative software solutions to members of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, a group of global military aircraft manufacturers. Through its PLM Solutions business, EDS officials will provide the company's Teamcenter software and related services for JSF program members such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and BAE Systems.
Teamcenter will enable the JSF virtual global enterprise - the 10,000-person team of Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and an estimated 27 other partners and suppliers - to create a secure, immediately accessible web-based environment to collaboratively design, build, test, deploy, and support the JSF global fleet, EDS officials say.
"The JSF team is uniquely positioned to achieve unprecedented productivity improvements with the Teamcenter collaborative solution," says Tim Nichols, vice president and general manager of the JSF program at EDS PLM Solutions. "As this virtual global enterprise expands across all members of the JSF
Consortium, new performance standards in design, development, and manufacturing cycle time will be realized and product lifecycle costs will be positively impacted with the seamless use of the same, highly disciplined product data management system."
With Teamcenter, Lockheed Martin and its team will integrate all aspects of the JSF program, from design through fabrication and assembly, to in-service support by creating a secure and immediately accessible information database, complete with all design requirements, design results, and bill of materials, company officials say. This database will be available via local and wide area networks and the Internet, enabling tens of thousands of designers, engineers, and production specialists to collaborate continuously and seamlessly around the world, EDS officials say.
Awarded to the Lockheed Martin-led team on October 26, 2001, the JSF program represents the largest defense contract in United States history. The JSF program will develop and build 3,000 or more fighters for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, the U.K. Ministry of Defense, and numerous other countries throughout the world, EDS officials say.
For more information on Teamcenter and EDS contact the company on the World Wide Web at http://www.eds.com.
Military & Aerospace Electronics
|
Community 
| View all PennWell sites | View all PennWell events
Add RSS Feed