Joint Avionics Reconfigurable Virtual Information System

To address the Navys 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 (technology readiness level (TRL)-4). In Phase II, POC will evaluate significantly increasing the processing power of JARVIS, reduce its SWAP C farther, improve the design ruggedization, and enhance its input/output functions. The JARVIS architecture offers potential benefits to military rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Other government agencies, such as NASA, may benefit from JARVISs robustness and low power consumption. Commercial applications include advanced computing platforms for commercial airliners, general aviation aircraft, and civilian UAVs.