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EmbeddedPlus Employees Receive The Boeing Company Bronze Phantom Award
An innovative solution and highly functional team enable deployment across the Boeing enterprise.
Tempe, AZ, September 22, 2004 - Nine employees of EmbeddedPlus Engineering, experts at applying leading edge technologies that continue to help customers revolutionize product development, were honored recently by their Boeing customer.
EmbeddedPlus engineers were part of a highly functional Discrete Event Simulation Interactive Development Environment (DESIDE) Development Team that received the Bronze Phantom award to recognize ongoing efforts to improve DESIDE and assist in its deployment across the Boeing enterprise. This award is given out to only twelve teams each year in all of the Boeing Phantom Works (PW) organization.
“Although geographically dispersed across four locations, the DESIDE Development Team worked together as a cohesive unit to adhere to a very aggressive schedule and met or exceeded all planned capabilities for the initial version of DESIDE,” says Joanne Kuhns, DESIDE Project Manager in the Boeing Analytic Modeling & Simulation Thrust. “The DESIDE Development Team continues to exemplify the attributes of a highly functional team in their ongoing efforts to improve DESIDE and assist in its deployment across the Boeing enterprise.”
DESIDE is being developed and deployed under the PW Network Centric Operations (NCO) Thrust Modeling & Simulation Program. The 2003 DESIDE Development Team was awarded the Bronze Phantom for its outstanding work in developing new technology quickly that is now ready for use on programs. In nine months during 2003, the DESIDE Development Team built an initial capability in DESIDE that is about the size/complexity of commercial products similar in scope, but which would typically take a much larger development team about two years to build and test... Because of the team's willingness to tackle very difficult problems on an accelerated schedule, Boeing now has an executable Unified Modeling Language (UML) capability that is often requested and sometimes required by their Government customers. This year, DESIDE is being used as part of the System of Systems Engineering processes, and this work is leading the way in state-of-the-art system engineering processes which are vital for Boeing's role as a Large Systems Integrator.
“We are extremely pleased that our customers, particularly large Aerospace partners like Boeing, continue to acknowledge our contributions to the success of their projects,” says Paula Thetford, President of EmbeddedPlus Engineering. “This is the second award that EmbeddedPlus has received from the Boeing DESIDE team since we won a Boeing Small Business Supplier of the Quarter award in 2002 for designing software for the DESIDE program that often exceeded the basic contractual requirements with improved capabilities and shipped ahead of schedule.”