Miniaturized, Fault Tolerant Decentralized Mission Processing Architecture for Next Generation Rotorcraft Avionics Environment

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. 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. We envision a Phase II effort that establishes a new generation of WWTGs Reliable Platform (RP) technology that utilizes advanced hardware/software components of interest to NAVAIR and provides compatibility with the FACE and MOSA standards.