The ASAC Executive Assistant (EA) is a distributed application developed by RTI that allows NASA, the FAA, and other members of the commercial aviation community to analyze the impact of technological or procedural changes on the aviation industry. The ASAC EA allows various new and legacy mathematical models to be linked together seamlessly to perform complex analyses in an automated fashion. This allows users to make better and faster decisions by providing an integrated view of the impact of various changes across the entire aviation industry.

By using a CORBA-based architecture, the system allows the individual models that make up an analysis to be running on different platforms, almost anywhere on the Internet. Model wrappers allow models to be quickly integrated into the system without having to modify the original model code, thus providing maximum reuse of existing resources. The user interface for the system is a Java application that allows users to execute various analyses and view the results, as well as collaborating with other users. By using Java to develop the interface, RTI was able to support the various platforms that NASA uses (PC, Macintosh, and UNIX) with a single application, reducing the cost of development and providing a consistent application across all of the platforms.

RTI provided the software engineering and design for the ASAC for the Logistics Management Institute (LMI) and co-authored the Design study. You can view the study (PDF) at: PDF