BAE Systems deploys the most sophisticated modeling and simulation technologies available to design its programs. Engineers create components with 3-D modeling software, and then test and evaluate their designs in a virtual environment.
This significantly reduces problem-oriented design changes during product development, allowing engineers to anticipate and correct problems in record speed -- and build in improvements up front.
As individual components are integrated into an entire system, virtual testing is again used to generate real-world solutions for program improvements. The end result is faster development, reduced design time and increased design quality.