Cost Modeling Interoperability and Integration Framework

TeamVision proposes to enhance and tailor its existing collaborative decision analysis technology, Framework CT to meet the requirements of an Integrated Threat, Mission, Performance, Design, Manufacturing, Support and Life Cycle Cost Analysis for Department of Defense (DOD) weapon systems. The result of this effort will provide the DOD with a powerful platform to design, model, and analyze systems, and coordinate related objectives from a holistic perspective. FrameworkCT is a unique and innovative approach, and its current features include an adaptive object database; enterprise-class security; Excel, MS-Project, and other desktop application integration; collaborative decision support; and massively parallel processing using networked desktop computing. This FrameworkCT `desktop application integration' approach has a significant largely untapped application potential in all areas of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP), and Product Data Management (PDM), and Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV) while satisfying various additional objectives. To better align the current capabilities in Framework CT to the goals of DOD will require the integrating existing CAD/CAM/CAE and PDM systems used by DOD with FrameworkCT environment.