Company:DiSTI

Short description: American software company

The DiSTI Corporation

Type	Privately owned company
Industry	Modeling and simulation, simulation and training
Founded	1994
Headquarters	Orlando, Florida
Key people	John Hayward (CEO) Joe Swinski (President) William K. Andrews (COO)
Products	GL Studio VE Studio, VE Mentor, DiSTI Schoolhouse
Website	www.disti.com

The DiSTI Corporation is a company that provides software tools for the development of GUI software and 3D virtual training for simulators and embedded systems.

Company

DiSTI concentrates its business on innovating software to produce high-fidelity 2D and 3D graphical user interfaces to aid in the creation of simulated training, prototyping, and deployment of embedded systems. Their software is often used in the development of Virtual Maintenance Training systems, desktop trainers, as well as embedded avionics, automotive, and medical devices.

Their cornerstone product is the GL Studio Toolkit, which has been implemented in the development of the embedded avionics for Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic's commercial spacecraft: the VSS Enterprise and VMS Eve.

History

DiSTI was formed by Joe Swinski, Darren Humphrey, and William (Bill) Andrews in 1994 in Orlando, Florida.

Swinski, Humphrey, and Andrews met while working together at the Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. At IST, Swinski, Humphrey, and Andrews were aiding in the development of simulation training classes for graduate students, but they saw an opportunity to give the simulation and training industry the same type of training.

It was under a SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) contract, completed June 24, 2000, that DiSTI developed the GL Studio toolkit. DiSTI now makes software that helps developers create virtual training environments to teach technical, complex activities such as maintenance on airplanes, engines and power plants. DiSTI's patented software also creates human-machine interfaces such as dashboards, gauges, and control screens.

Companies use diSTI technologies worldwide, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Raytheon, Thales Group, BAE Systems, Dassault Group, among many others.

In July 2020, DiSTI Corporation reported that John Hayward had been appointed as Chief Executive Officer by the Company's board of directors.

Products

In 2011, DiSTI changed their product offering. They introduced their latest interactive software application, Replic8, and reorganized their GL Studio offering to introduce a new toolkit that streamlines the creation of interfaces for enhanced embedded applications. This introduction became a part of DiSTI's repackaging move to match different global vertical market demands more closely.

• VE Studio: a virtual training development platform for creating 3D virtual training solutions. As a commercial off-the-shelf solution – VE Studio includes powerful productivity tools and processes needed to deliver any virtual training project.
• DiSTI Schoolhouse: an application streaming service optimized for graphically intensive 3D applications. DiSTI Schoolhouse streamlines deploying desktop, local virtual reality (VR), and Mobile VR applications through your existing Learning Management System (LMS), allowing for a blended curriculum.
• Replic8: a tool that merges the design and development phases of an Instructional Design process. It is an out-of-th-box 3D lesson framework that integrates into any extendible learning management system. It allows Instructional Designers, Subject Matter Experts, or 3D Graphic Artists to easily produce 3D interactive level 3 and 4 courseware without programming.
• GL Studio (Basic): a suite of tools that enable developers to build high-fidelity graphics and fully interactive controls into their software products. In 2019, GL Studio 6.3 was released.
• GL Studio DT (Desktop): a toolkit that offers essential features for developing high-fidelity desktop graphical applications to develop desktop-based interfaces.
• GL Studio ES (Embedded Systems): one tool that takes the developer from prototyping to testing, to embedded system deployment through a single code base
• GL Studio SC (Safety Critical): the tool for safety-critical systems and the recognized industry standard for the rapid prototyping of safety-critical Human Machine Interfaces (HMI).
• GL Studio Micro: GL Studio Micro is a C++ code generator and runtime library designed for Micro Controller Units (MCU) with no OpenGL support.
• GL Studio Mixed-Criticality: GL Studio Mixed-Criticality™ Workflow (US Patent No. 11,003,425) facilitates both Safe and Non-Safe User Interface content in the same design file with a unified development workflow process.
• DiSTI Map Toolkit: Allows for the development of real-time moving map display applications. It provides the capability to combine multiple geo-referenced map imagery formats and user-defined symbiology across multiple layers to produce a single real-time 2D map view
• Data Director Toolkit: For the Human Factors and Prototyping communities, this toolkit connects multiple data sources, such as math models or simulation data, to user interface objects with no programming
• Approach Plate Toolkit: This plug-in converts digital Instrument Approach Procedures (IAP) charts into correlated geo-referenced GL Studio objects suitable for a variety of aeronautical-based applications.
• Pre-Built Content: A variety of complete turnkey photo-realistic virtual cockpits. A partial list of pre-built cockpits includes A-10, E-6, CH-47, F-15, F-16, F-18, OH-58, TH-57, AH-64, HH/MH/SH/UH-60, Piper Malibu, T-39, T-45, HEMTT, HMMWV, LMTV, LCAC
  • RSO bundles: pre-built reusable software objects (RSOs) include the appearance and behavior of the object coupled with a well-defined interface.