Material Identification and Procurement System (MIDAPS)

With the increasing complexity and size of advanced system designs come increasing requirements for an integrated set of methods and tools to measure, evaluate and predict behavior and performance. An environment is needed that will allow the engineer torapidly iterate through multiple design paths and options, while evaluating the capability and completeness at multiple levels of abstraction. An integrated distributed environment is needed for engineers that support their processes and tools. Thisenvironment must support design, visualization and analysis at varying levels of detail. These capabilities can only be realized through the incorporation of a framework consisting of an integrated set of tools sharing a central design data repositorythat has