Development and utilization status of NASA's advanced engineering environment - ISE

Aerospace design processes demand the best talent (regardless of geographic location), with access to the best design and analysis tools to reduce design cycle times and cost without sacrificing reliability or safety. The solution is a collaborative, distributed engineering environment for life-cycle analysis. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is developing such an advanced engineering environment, called the Intelligent Synthesis Environment (ISE). This paper reports the progress made in developing ISE, future development plans and ISE success stories to date.