Flight Analysis Simulation Tool (FAST)

For Raytheon Missiles Systems and U.S. Air Force. Flight Analysis Simulation Tool (FAST) is an application that provides analysis support for the data recorded by the High Speed Anti-radiation Missile’s (HARM) Captive Flight Data Recorder (CFDR) unit and for the telemetry data captured by the telemetry section of the missile and recorded in Time-Data Matrix (TDM) files.

What was the challenge?

InfoTech was approached by Raytheon Missile Systems and U.S. Air Force to develop a new flight simulator / analysis simulation tool for the High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) program. The new FAST application designed and developed by InfoTech replaces an older legacy version which is no longer usable on modern computing platforms. Raytheon Missile Systems needed to develop a new flight simulator because of the reasons below:

The old flight simulator that Raytheon had was developed in outdated technology and was installed on one laptop that was shared across Raytheon personnel as needed.

The old flight simulator would not run on modern operating systems and was no longer supported by the original developers.

The old flight simulator was slow in analyzing the data.

The old flight simulator could not be supplied to potential clients to support the product tuning and testing.