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Open Concurrent Design In the CDF

5 March 2010 ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) has successfully demonstrated the capability to use Space System Concurrent Engineering to overcome the communication gaps between the “designer” (who produces design information) and the “user” (who utilizes the design information) enhancing the in-house capability to perform feasibility studies in a very effective and interdisciplinary manner. Many candidate missions have taken advantage of the new capabilities offered by the CDF, reducing the pre-Phase A (preliminary design) study duration from several months to a few weeks while increasing design quality. This has been in part due to the use of the CDF-IDM, the integrated design model. The Open Concurrent Design Server (OCDS) is the next generation of the CDF design model and was developed by DNV (Norway) as prime contractor with EPM (Norway), Daysha Consulting (Ireland) and Critical Software (Portugal) as subcontractors.

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New ESA's European Cooperating States Show Interest in CDF

1 February 2010 On the 22 January 2010, the Slovenian Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology and His Excellency Ambassador Leon Marc were part of the Slovenian delegation which visited the CDF during their visit to ESTEC to sign the European Cooperating State Agreement with ESA.

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