ACE Studio is a powerful suite of software applications offering remote, network-based sound and communications model development, management and debug, communications planning, exercise monitoring and management, and equipment status and configuration. ACE Studio provides remote access to all networked simulation models and equipment from a central location and runs as an application on approved customer workstations.

ACE Studio features:

• Targeted use of visual and text-based GUI elements to speed model development, test and debug
• Remote access to any ASTi model or equipment over LAN/WAN
• Remote model development support for any number of networked ACE Target machines
• Real-time model development, management and debug
• Remote model debug and management over local and wide area networks supporting one-to-many connection targets including diskless targets
• Extensive communications and sound modeling component libraries
• Centralized exercise and communications planning and monitoring
• Equipment status and configuration
• Legacy equipment upgrade support
• Security enhancements per DISA STIGs

ACE software will have the following changes in the model and component areas:

• Model Builder-style type conversion between components, and Model Builder-style Host controls with test mode, ramp values, and other 3D sound functions
• Improved efficiency for inter-component connections i.e., more IC channels, play sounds, etc.
• New highway components for audio distribution within the model (this is mainly useful for Environmental Cue)
• User defined channel names for IC and HW channels e.g., "Pilot Headset", "Left Front Speaker", etc.
• Service inspections for model-wide subsystems i.e., ACUs, hardware, intercoms, etc.
• DACS management a la RMS2's functionality
• Hand-Held Terminal (HHT) & state machine support
• System-wide sound libraries for reuse between models
• Model conversion support from Model Builder and Model Builder Visual (MBV)