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News Release from: I-Logix Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 February 2002
Rhapsody order is sweet music to I-Logix
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company has made a multi-million-dollar purchase of I-Logix Rhapsody, the Unified Modelling Language (UML) based visual application development platform.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company has made a multi-million-dollar purchase of I-Logix Rhapsody, the Unified Modelling Language (UML) based visual application development platform The purchase includes unlimited licenses for the Aeronautics Division, customised training, and consulting services
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, special pricing and terms have been agreed to for all Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter F-35 (JSF) partners worldwide.
Lockheed Martin has committed to the use of Rhapsody and the UML in their development process and will continue to use it for the development of the second phase of the JSF program.
It is estimated that Lockheed Martin and their partners will use well over 1000 seats of Rhapsody on the JSF project, as well as on the development of other programmes within Lockheed.
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The ability to handle large-scale collaboration is key to the use of Rhapsody by the numerous engineers working on a multitude of projects.
Lockheed Martin originally selected Rhapsody for a significant portion of the software development of the Joint Strike Fighter proposal, for which it was awarded the contract in October 2001.
Lockheed Martin intends to use Rhapsody for the development of the current phase of the JSF, the system development and demonstration (SDD) phase.
In addition to a Rhapsody site license, Lockheed Martin has invested in customised training and consulting from I-Logix, allowing their engineers to ramp up more quickly, and shorten development cycles earlier in the project.
"The selection of Rhapsody for use on the JSF project is yet another milestone for I-Logix and Rhapsody, as it confirms our visual programming environment will play a vital role in the software development process for aerospace applications.
With its deployment in the pre-award phase, Rhapsody has passed the test - under fire - and now they want more", said Gene Robinson, President and CEO of I-Logix.
"I-Logix is proud to have been selected as a key vendor by Lockheed Martin.
We look forward to an extended partnership to aid them in meeting their development needs".
Rhapsody helps companies such as Lockheed Martin improve quality, shorten design cycles and experience positive results.
Rhapsody provides an iterative development process, enabling the developer to analyse, model, design, implement and verify the behaviour of the embedded systems software.
The ability to test the application up front eliminates much of the risk associated with manual development and coding, along with shortening the overall development time.
Rhapsody gives developers the ability to transition their UML analysis models through design, implementation, and test.
With Rhapsody, developers analyse system requirements using standard UML.
From this graphical review of the requirements, developers then describe the architecture, behaviour, and collaborative aspects of the real-time embedded systems under design.
At any point in time, Rhapsody automatically generates and tests their designs using code generation and design-level debugging strategies.
Furthermore, Rhapsody delivers production quality code to be deployed in the actual system that uses standard off-the-shelf commercial operating systems and processors.
Rhapsody dramatically reduces cycle time with this highly iterative development approach to software development.
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