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Collins Wants to Bring Open Architecture to Military Avionics

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, September 17th, 2019

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Collins Wants to Bring Open Architecture to Military Avionics

The Bell V-280 Valor. (Bell Flight)

Collins Aerospace [UTX] sees its development of what could become the aviation industry’s first FAA-certified multicore processor as providing a baseline for establishing an open architecture for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift and other Department of Defense (DoD) aircraft upgrade programs. The Assured Multicore processor is the company's baseline offering for FVL. "Assured Multicore is the first and only multicore processor in the final stages of FAA certification," Dave Schreck, the company's vice president and general manager for military…

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