Figure 2: The SOSA aligned U-C8770 from Aitech is helping to build the open standards ecosystem
lenges that have plagued designers of military embedded systems for years: • Development time as well as time to market • Cost in development and maintenance • Integration and interoperability issues • System sustainability and scalability The SOSA Consortium truly facilitates technology reuse and enables the expansion of a credible MOSA ecosystem and many manufacturers are building products that address today’s industry open standards. (Figure 2) Software Integration Through the FACE Standard SOSA is utilizing The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium (FACE) standard to address some software requirements. FACE is an open software environment that promotes application interoperability and portability with enhanced requirements for exchanging data among FACE components and emphasis on defining common application programming interfaces (APIs). The FACE Technical Standard enables developers to create and deploy a wide catalog of applications for use across the entire spectrum of military aviation systems through a common operating environment. 18
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