Joint Avionics Reconfigurable Virtual Information System (JARVIS)

To address the Navy’s need for a miniaturized, fault-tolerant, decentralized mission processing system, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) has developed the new Joint Avionics Reconfigurable Virtual Information System (JARVIS). JARVIS incorporates POC-developed components and existing commercial/modified off-the-shelf components synthesized to form an innovative miniaturized system construct. JARVIS offers superior fault tolerance and decentralizes aircraft mission processing to exceed Navy requirements. In its operational state, JARVIS decentralizes mission data processing across several fully capable distributed processing nodes, with reduced size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), and increased interface speeds, compared to current monolithic systems. In Phase I, POC demonstrated the feasibility of a miniaturized, virtually and physically reconfigurable system that automatically maintains full situational awareness even if 80% of the processing nodes fail. In Phase II (in-process), POC is improving the design ruggedization for an aircraft environment and enhancing its input/output functions. In Phase II.5, POC will advance the JARVIS prototype from a technical readiness level (TRL) of -4 to -6. The JARVIS architecture offers potential benefits to military rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft, including the V-22 platform.