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This is a Determination and Findings (D&F) document for a sole source acquisition justifying a single-source procurement of Pointwise Licenses from Cadence Design Systems, Inc. The contracting activity is AFTC/PZIOAB (OL-EGLIN), under the authority of RFO 12.102(a) for commercial products and services, with approval authority delegated to the Contracting Officer per DAF Approval Authorities Matrix PM 26-C-11.
The justification establishes that Pointwise is essential to the Government's requirement for integration and standardization of 96 existing systems at AFSEO (Air Force Seek Eagle Office). AFSEO's Computational Aeromechanics division has deeply integrated Pointwise into its automated workflow pipelines on DoD High Performance Computing systems, utilizing Pointwise's proprietary Glyph scripting language (based on Tcl) to generate viscous, high-resolution boundary layer meshes. Pointwise grids interface directly with specialized DoD CFD solvers including Kestrel/CREATE-AV and Beggar used for 6-DOF store separation modeling. The finding concludes that transitioning to an alternative mesher would sever data compatibility, require extensive retraining of CFD engineers, necessitate rebuilding automated pipelines, delay weapons integration analysis, degrade warfighter readiness, and introduce unacceptable validation and flight safety risks. The determination was signed by Kristina B. Brannon, USAF Contracting Officer, on August 21, 2026.
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The brand name is essential to the Government's requirement and is required to integrate and maintain standardization of the 96 SK's existing systems.
Pointwise utilizes a proprietary automation and scripting language called Glyph (based on Tcl). AFSEO relies extensively on Glyph scripts to automate the highly repetitive process of generating viscous, high-resolution boundary layer meshes for thousands of aircraft and weapon.
AFSEO’s Computational Aeromechanics division has deeply integrated Pointwise into its automated workflow pipelines running on DoD High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Pointwise grids interface directly with specialized DoD CFD solvers (like Kestrel/CREATE-AV and Beggar) used for 6- DOF store separation modeling. Transitioning to a non-brand mesher would sever the data compatibility between grid generation and the flow solvers.
The AFSEO mission requires rapid turnaround for flight clearances in support of combatant commanders.
Retraining CFD engineers on a new, non-Pointwise meshing topology and rebuilding the automated pipelines would result in an estimated of training, a delay in weapons integration analysis, directly degrading warfighter readiness and delaying fielding of new capabilities and estimated to cost the Government around
Maintaining Pointwise is critical to flight safety. CFD predictions generated via Pointwise meshes are a primary component in establishing safe separation characteristics before conducting live-fire or drop tests. Altering the software baseline introduces unacceptable risk into the validation process.
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