The current workstation designs used by SAFs, such as CCTT SAF and ModSAF, date back to a SIMNET legacy of the late 1980s. CCTT and other large simulation programs within Department of Defense are becoming the exception rather than the rule. The SAF Suite and Standalone configurations of CCTT SAF were created in part to provide a more cost-effective platform by combining application and workstation roles that normally would require no less than three host computers. The next logical step is to port SAF Suite and Standalone to the even more cost-effective Intel-based PC platform.

The porting of SAF Suite and Standalone to the PC requires a change in host computer platform, operating system (OS), compiler, and supporting software libraries. The current configuration is the IBM PowerPC/AIX OS UNIX workstation with the Powerada compiler from OC Systems, Inc. Powerada includes AdaMotif, a commercial Motif binding for Ada. The Intel-based PC configuration is a Pentium III/Linux OS PC workstation with the GNU Ada compiler, GNAT, and other public supporting software libraries.