Wind River announced its commitment to The Open Group’s Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, and congratulates the members of the Consortium for releasing the FACE Technical Standard, a standard that defines a common operating environment that supports the portability and reuse of software components across Department of Defense aviation systems. Founded in June 2010 by The Open Group, the FACE Consortium builds upon the tenets of open architecture, integrated modular avionics, and modular open systems architecture by defining a standardized method of interface between software components and architectural segments. It is comprised of 39 members including DoD and industry member organizations, their representatives, and advisors.
- General Purpose: With full compliance to POSIX PSE54, Wind River Linux will fully comply with the FACE General Purpose Profile that enables support for a wide range of applications on a standard-based foundation.
- Safety: For applications with strict safety and/or ARINC 653 time and space partitioning requirements, VxWorks 653 will be the platform of choice to meet the FACE Safety Profile. VxWorks 653 will enable a wide range of commercial and military applications to be deployed on FACE platforms.
- Security: For systems with multi-level secure requirements and/or Common Criteria EAL6+ security requirements, VxWorks MILS will satisfy the upcoming FACE Security Profile that is under development by The Open Group Minimal Run-Time working group for creating an open, MILS API standard.
