About TAC

TAC Technologies was founded in 1974 as a consulting company to the aerospace industry. While initially the company provided consulting for thermal design of spacecraft, emphasis shifted to the development and distribution of NEVADA, a software tool for thermal radiation analysis. NEVADA was the first commercially available ray tracing code for radiation analysis.

Today NEVADA is the outgrowth of more than 33 years of research and development in the field of computer simulation of the electromagnetic theory of radiation. Early versions of the code were run on large mainframe and Cray supercomputers. As other platforms became available, the code was ported to run on each. NEVADA was ported to the PC when IBM first introduced its new PC in 1981. While early versions of the code were limited to small models and long run times, the accuracy of the results were outstanding. Through years of continuous development and improvement, NEVADA has grown into a fast and powerful design and analysis tool.

NEVADA has been used by the aerospace industry for nearly three decades both domestically and internationally. Hundreds of satellites, interplanetary missions, and other types of spacecraft have been accurately designed and analyzed with NEVADA. It is this long and successful track record that makes NEVADA the most trusted radiation code available.

In 1988, TAC Technologies moved from Brea, CA to Incline Village, NV. We are a small group of engineers dedicated to proving the best thermal radiation analysis tools available.

To learn more about NEVADA radiation software, please see our products page. Do not hesitate to contact us if we can be of any help.