Leveraging WW Technology Groups Reliable Platform Service architecture, this effort will demonstrate the ability to utilize an abstraction layer and maintain a true real-time processing environment using the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) standard. A mature highly dependable, real-time architecture approach will mapped to the FACE abstraction layers and interfaces. Roadblocks to full FACE conformance and potential mitigations will be identified. The resulting architecture can be utilized as a host architecture/framework for next generation Mission Processing and/or Jet Engine controls. Furthermore, the integration of these innovative low-cost faults tolerant services will be added into a FACE compliant processing model. These additions will provide a rigorous test case to benchmark and access the capability and flexibility of the layered FACE architecture. Successfully extending these services into the most demanding areas of fault-tolerant system design will provide enhanced FACE platform capabilities for distributed processing architectures requiring real-time performance and fault tolerance.
Benefit: The successful outcome of this project will establish whether a decentralized mission processing architecture/system capable of distributed processing amongst multiple fully capable mission computer nodes with a higher degree of fault tolerance/reliability and conformance with the Future Airborne Computing Environment (FACE) standard. Once established, these architectures can be fully utilized to provide mission critical computing and achieve levels of flight critical dependability. The results can be applied to the next generation of avionics for military and commercial systems.
Keywords: Integrated Modular Avionics, Integrated Modular Avionics, Face, mission computer, Mission Processing, Avionics, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Architecture, real-time
