The Royal Air Force facility at Fylingdales, United Kingdom, needed to upgrade its 30-year-old legacy system, which was unable to keep up with growing user demand. Previous attempts to upgrade it ran over budget and were behind schedule. Using STK Engine, the new system was operational in six months at 90% less cost with 95% analysis cycle time reduction. The legacy process for collection, analysis and dissemination took 48 hours. The new process was reduced to two hours. The transition was easy: New operational users got up to speed in about 30 minutes.
Internal ROI analysis by one large government contracting company showed that using AGI software was $150,000 a year cheaper than maintaining code for in-house orbit determination software comprised of 60,000 lines of code. That contractor assigned one $80,000 employee per year to maintain the homegrown product at a total billing cost of $250,000 to the government customer, whereas AGI's software maintenance fee came to $100,000.
The division of one government agency estimates that new analysts' training time on software dropped from four months to four weeks when they went from homegrown software to AGI
CSR, a launch range technical services contractor, captured a $700 million operations and maintenance re-compete contract by replacing a 35-year-old legacy system with STK. The contractor estimated that internal development of math libraries, alone, would have taken two man-years, whereas with STK Engine, the company created a PC-based system in six months, shortening development time by 75%. If CSR had not purchased STK Engine, they would have foregone the 3-D display component because of expense and time requirements.
Source: 2008 Frost & Sullivan report products. The software added productivity of a third to a quarter of a staff year for every new analyst who came into the division.
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