A STANDARD THAT BRINGS SOFTWARE INTEROPERABILITY TO AVIONICS SYSTEMS
What is the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE)?
The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium is an aviation-focused professional group made up of U.S. industry suppliers, customers, and users. FACE aims to standardize approaches to bring open standards solutions to avionics systems. These avionics systems will result in lower implementation costs for the U.S. government and other adopters of the standard. Using the Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA), Open Architecture (OA), and Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), FACE supports a robust architecture for enabling software development.
By using standard interfaces, this open standard enables interoperability between systems and components, as well as interface reuse. The Future Airborne Capability Environment enables porting of application from multiple systems and vendors so that the warfighter can get the capabilities faster and at a reduced life cycle, up-front procurement, system integration, and upgrade/technology refresh cost and risk.
The FACE Consortium defines
- requirements for Software Development Toolkit (SDK) extensions and test suites,
- a Reference Implementation Guide,
- a verification process, and
- a repository for modular software applications/services.
FACE-Supporting Hardware
Curtiss-Wright offers a broad range of modules and systems designed in compliance with FACE profile specifications, which have been demonstrated as hosts of FACE-conformant software applications and operating systems to develop.
Further Reading
Mark Grovak, Avionics Business Development Manager wrote the article Milestone in Abstracting the Hardware: Realizing the Promise of FACE in Military Embedded Systems Magazine.
FACE™, logo design and The Open Group Certification Mark™ are trademarks of The Open Group in the United States and other countries.
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