Defense
Growing geopolitical instability, international conflicts, cyberattacks, and unconventional warfare are shaping new defense strategies and priorities. As the pace of innovation accelerates, it’s imperative to stay ahead of the curve to strategize conflict prevention, accelerate innovation on the battlefield, modernize defense programs, and increase production rates to stay safe in the modern world.
Altair is a defense solutions leader, combining deep engineering and production knowledge with a proven track record of delivering open solutions based on the convergence of data analytics, the industrial internet of things (IIoT), digital twin technology, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI).
Open, Interoperable Digital Engineering Environment
Take advantage of an open, interoperable engineering environment. Support engineering teams, sustainment digitalization, operations, and manufacturing while avoiding vendor lock-in. Manage the complete product life cycle with testing requirements, data flows and libraries, and tools to accelerate development using Altair’s digital thread technology. Streamline maintenance and prevent equipment failure using industry-leading simulation software.
AI Streamlines Manufacturing, Sustainment and Modernization
Information makes the difference in unpredictable circumstances. Deploy Altair's industry-leading data analytics and AI-powered technology to prioritize innovation, increase mission readiness, and plan for sustainment. Our simulation and advanced manufacturing tools streamline the manufacturing process and enable on-demand spare parts production on the battlefield, improving production quality while advanced digital twins enable predictive and prescriptive maintenance.
HPC Secures Technological and Intelligence Superiority
Battlefield readiness requires time-sensitive decisions based on the most up-to-date information for known and what-if conditions. Altair’s HPC solutions speed up compute time, synergize with simulation to evaluate numerous system variations, and unlock results quickly for leadership to leverage. Scalable HPC ensures clusters run efficiently and prioritize the most critical workloads. With workload and license management solutions, cloud bursting, and more, users can gain and maintain an optimal compute environment with the highest possible security standards.
Dominate the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Intelligence is a mission-critical asset on the battlefield. Maintaining situational awareness, communication, and operational and signal jamming effectiveness requires full control of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Altair delivers unique AI-powered defense solutions to design and optimize resilient voice and data communication systems, analyze and minimize electromagnetic signatures, and boost electronic warfare capabilities. Users can manage very large electrical domains to get unique insights into the battlefield; predict radar and communication ranges, interference, and detectability; and enable network-centric warfare. Secure, effective software is a requirement for government initiatives such as command-and-control and electromagnetic battle management systems.
See how Leonardo corrected helicopter radar transmission loss.
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Harness Data for Real-Time Intelligence
Data is a strategic asset for military readiness, operational effectiveness, and informed decision-making – but it’s limited by the interoperability of data generated and analyzed by various systems, platforms, and domains. Additionally, sharing data securely among industry partners, government agencies, and international allies is a complex challenge.
Altair empowers military leaders to make better data-driven decisions with a cybersafe platform for AI-powered data extraction, preparation, orchestration, analysis, and visualization. Our data analytics solutions combine sources and formats to deliver critical insight when users need it.
Learn how information optimization keeps Edwards Airforce Base mission-ready.
Upskill and Retain Your Workforce
Fast-paced changes to technology require constant learning and upskilling. Competition in specialty fields like cybersecurity, engineering, and AI means employee retention is key to success.
With Altair defense solutions, teams get the market’s leading AI-powered tools — plus training and certification through Altair® Learning™ to drive upskilling and professional growth. In the Altair Community, Altair experts help solve users’ unique challenges and foster collaborative problem-solving.
Unleash Potential in New Domains
Space provides a new frontier for innovation, safety, global connectivity, surveillance, and precision-guided capabilities. Military operations have shifted with the advent of drones, which offer a safer, more flexible, and more cost-effective alternative to manned vehicles.
Altair technology has always supported space and aerospace innovation. With platforms that combine AI with simulation and data analytics, supported by a robust HPC backbone, teams can unleash unlimited possibilities. From executing design and manufacturing to fostering foresight and innovation, Altair gives those charged with national protection a resilient, adaptive digital engineering environment that helps them make informed decisions in a constantly evolving landscape.
Discover how Schiebel optimized the Camcopter® S-100 design with Altair solutions.
Military Semiconductors and Electronics
Advanced electronic systems for field communications, systems targeting, threat detection, asset tracking, health monitoring, and theater operations require multiple high-fidelity antennas and interference-free integration within devices.
As electronic devices become increasingly complex, printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers face design and production challenges including higher density, smaller sizes, and more specialized teams. Altair delivers the solutions you need to design, verify, and manage chip design; test for and verify thermal issues; and visualize complex electronic systems. We help users accelerate time to market and reduce development and manufacturing costs with the industry’s fastest workload scheduler.
Read how Psicontrol was able to deliver on “first-time right” PCB design.
Key Use Cases
- Smarter software decisions using real data on portfolio usage and sharing to plan for the future.
- Improve cluster productivity, optimize utilization and efficiency, and simplify administration for clusters, clouds, and supercomputers.
- Increase cybersecurity through private physical and virtual appliances.
- Reduce sustainment and modernization costs and time through predictive maintenance (DAPM), text analytics, and digital twins of your assets and electrical systems’ schematics.
- Create digital twins combining simulation, historical data, and input from sensors. Monitor, analyze, and optimize performance in real-time.
- Fast technology insertion helps users leverage meshless simulation on fully featured CAD assembly and use AI and predictive models to check ideas in seconds or minutes versus hours and days.
- Radar and radio coverage resilience provides communication and planning analysis required to minimize radar coverage interference in airspace.
- Implement effective manufacturing process analytics.
- Spectrum management provides ITU-compliant calculation and coordination methods alongside sophisticated propagation models for coverage across the radio spectrum.
Featured Resources
Getting the Signal with Digital Twin - Leonardo Deploys Digital Twin to Capture In-Flight Behavior of Helicopter Radar
Leonardo needed to correct a helicopter radar transmission loss caused by in-flight vibration to the helicopter's radome. Leonardo deployed Altair's digital twin solution to solve the problem. Using a multiphysics approach, the team created a digital twin of the radar antenna's structural and electromagnetic systems. They then correlated deformation to the antenna's design, tracked changes based on vibration, and calculated the antenna's electromagnetic signature. With these findings, Leonardo could optimize its next antenna build version without using expensive prototypes. Altair's solution also closed loops and slashed turnaround times between Leonardo's structural and electronics engineering departments by enabling teams to evaluate the radome and antenna system models in a unified ecosystem. The resulting streamlined workflows produced valuable insights into the antenna radiation patterns, physics drivers, and best trade-offs early in the development cycle, saving Leonardo time and technical resources.
Latest Gartner® Market Guide for Multipersona Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
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Altair RapidMiner for the Federal Government
Altair RapidMiner, our data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) platform, enables government agencies and people of all skill levels to access, generate, and use data to make insightful, informed decisions. With decades of experience in data transformation, machine learning, and visualization, our solutions are designed so that people who work with data can easily and collaboratively generate and share insight within a governed environment. With the necessary accreditation to operate on government networks, Altair RapidMiner is deployed in many executive government agencies worldwide to succeed in security, logistics, and policy-based use cases.
Information Optimization Keeps Edwards Air Force Base Mission-Ready
The 412th Maintenance Group (MXG) provides maintenance, as well as Logistics Test and Evaluation (LT&E) support, for the U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, Foreign Military Sales, and contractor aircraft at the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC). The AFFTC is the Air Force Material Command center for excellence of research, development, testing and evaluation of aerospace systems for the United States and its allies. The mission of the Training Division is the planning, administration, development, instruction and evaluation of a training and readiness program for military members and civilian employees within the 412th MXG.
