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New Standards For Avionics Open Architecture

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, March 15th, 2013

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A consortium representing industry, the U.S. military and academia released its latest edition this week of technical software standards designed to promote open interfaces in military avionics by establishing a more common environment across components and platforms and as a way save money over the long run. The Open Group, which manages the consortium, released the technical standard edition 2.0 under the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) initiative with improvements for governing the interoperability, while enhancing requirements for exchanging data…

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