Mission Processing Architecture for Rotorcraft Avionics

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.