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C&R Technologies Wins NASA SBIR Phase 1 for Thermal Data Exchange Using International Standards

Littleton, Colorado, January 1, 2007

C&R Technologies is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a SBIR Phase 1 contract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to expand C&R's Thermal Desktop®. The new features will facilitate the exchange thermal model data with other software, such as the European Space Agency's ESARAD thermal radiation analyzer.

"Spacecraft projects today consist of many different cooperating companies and institutions. Thermal Desktop is the NASA standard analyzer, but on international projects, each participant typically use different thermal design analysis software, making the vital exchange of data between team members difficult, costly, or impossible," according to C&R's Principal Investigator, Tim Panczak. Each tool has unique capabilities and specializations, such that a superset of all tools would represent a tremendous advance in and of itself. C&R plans to develop a 'best of both worlds' solution by adopting and extending an international open standard, STEP, for data exchange of thermal models, results, and test data. "Such a standard, if available in all major design tools without limiting the unique capabilities of each, allows customers, contractors, and subcontractors to work simultaneously on the same project while using different software. It also allows each organization to choose the best software for each mission, component, and even design task, resulting in the best overall total project efficiency."

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Formed in 1992, C&R Technologies provides products and services in the areas of heat transfer and fluid flow design and analysis. C&R Technologies are the authors of world-class thermal and fluid software including SINDA/FLUINT, Thermal Desktop®, RadCAD®, FloCAD® and SinapsPlus®. For more information on C&R Technologies, Inc., contact us at 303.971.0292.

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