ANSYS and US Army team up to develop cutting-edge Defense Technology

To increase access and scalability of complex government simulation code which is used to design and analyze defense-related technology, the US Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) has announced partnership with ANSYS’s Application Customization Toolkit (ACT).
 
This partnership project has been pursued under a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA). As per the alliance, ANSYS and ARDEC enabled integration of legacy government code, such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) in-house code, using the ANSYS Workbench platform and its Application Customization Toolkit (ACT).  The highly-configurable ACT extension brings increased ease-of-use, scalability, interoperability with ANSYS Workbench components and customization to traditionally challenging government simulation code used to design and analyze government technology.
 
This new user interface allows government entities to retain power of their legacy simulation technology while further streamlining simulation pre-processing in an easy-to-learn environment.
 
Shane Moeykens, Strategic Partnership Manager, ANSYS, stated, We are excited to partner with ARDEC to address difficult simulation problems facing this entire industry. ARDEC and ANSYS have taken on this task to not only make these tools more scalable, but to bring a truly unique customization capability to this sector so it can continue to efficiently develop cutting-edge defense technology.
 
The first version of this ANSYS and ARDEC user-environment extension will be distributed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.