Type Privately held company | Founded 1994 | |
Key people Joe Swinski, President and CEO, William K. Andrews, Senior Vice President, Darren Humphrey, Chief Technology Officer Profiles | ||
Disti corporate overview 2016 user interface software virtual maintenance training solutions
The DiSTI Corporation is a company that provides software tools for the development of 2D and 3D graphical user interfaces integrated into software for simulated training and embedded systems. The company was founded in Orlando, Florida in 1994 by Joe Swinski, Darren Humphrey, and William (Bill) Andrews. The three founders continue to actively participate in the day-to-day business. In 2009, DiSTI made revenue of $6 million as a small business, allowing them to hire 30+ new employees.
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- Disti corporate overview 2016 user interface software virtual maintenance training solutions
- Disti corporate overview 2017 user interface software virtual maintenance training solutions
- Company
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Disti corporate overview 2017 user interface software virtual maintenance training solutions
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 for 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 solutions. What began as an opportunity to provide training classes to the industry, culminated into a full-fledged software and training solutions company.
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 help 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.
DiSTI technologies and solutions are used by companies worldwide, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Raytheon, Thales Group, BAE Systems, Dassault Group, among many others.
Products
In 2011, DiSTI changed their product offering. They introduced their latest interactive software application, Replic8 and re-organized 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 in order to more closely match different global vertical market demands.