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NAVAIR Moving Forward On Open Architecture Systems

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

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Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is forging ahead with the development of open architecture standards to produce common software interfaces for avionics across a range of Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. The effort is focused around the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) initiative, which is based in the command’s Air Combat Electronics unit, and is a consortium of representatives from government, industry and academia dedicated to promoting open standards and standard software interfaces in avionics. The goal is also to…

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