Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need

DoD avionics and mission systems are expensive, vendor-locked, slow in development, and difficult to update to meet evolving requirements. Avilution’s eXtensible Flight System (XFS) software provides a modular, open-system architecture for addressing these issues. XFS rapidly integrates existing unmodified avionics products with dissimilar physical busses and different data protocols to create synergistic solutions using lightweight common, reusable software elements. By adapting to new requirements through configuration file changes rather than software rewrites, XFS adapts gracefully to new DoD threats and mission changes, while precluding the rapid obsolescence that burdens many systems. For its Phase II work scope, Avilution will extend XFS’s capabilities via trial objectives in three areas designed to meet the identified needs of our AF Customer, AFLCMC/PEO-Mobility and Training Aircraft: 1) XFS avionics software lifecycle management tools to improve Air Force capabilities for releasing, changing, and controlling software versions across multiple fleets. 2) Extending Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) capabilities including more accurate sensor inputs and responsive mission-specific applications. 3) XFS data logging and analysis modules to further Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) efforts. Avilution licenses its XFS source code and any available test artifacts to our commercial and DoD customers, thereby increasing competition and lowering costs to all our customers.