Framework for Mobile Services

With increasingly tighter budgets, reuse of software and hardware in DoD programs has become essential for delivering capabilities to warfighters. The current military aviation community procurement system does not promote the process of software and hardware reuse across different programs. In addition, the current aviation development community has not created sufficient standards to facilitate the reuse of software components across the military aviation fleet. To counter these trends, NAVAIR has developed FACE; designed to address the affordability initiatives of todays military aviation community. This is where DEXTER steps in, as a set of tools that enables software interoperability by allowing users to visually build a communications bridge between applications that normally have no means of exchanging data. Development of plugins that incorporate FACE interfaces and plugins for currently unsupported communications mechanisms within the FACE would allow a variety of legacy and untapped software components to be reused with little to no effort in updating them to the FACE standards. This capability not only enables users to ensure data is routed correctly but also gives the user a very powerful debug and risk reduction tool. DEXTER can remove the need to redesign, rewrite, and retest software when integrating components and systems.