Engineered for Seamless Integration
The FACE Consortium, led by The Open Group, is aviation-focused and made up of U.S. industry suppliers, customers, and users. FACE aims to standardize approaches to bring open standards software to avionics systems. These avionics systems will result in lower implementation costs for the U.S. government and other adopters of the standard. Using the Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA), Open Architecture (OA), and Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), FACE supports a robust architecture for enabling software development.
FACE Demo: Curtiss-Wright, Wind River & CoreAVI
Wind River, Ansys, CoreAVI, Curtiss-Wright, and RTI have collaborated to create a solution stack that enables a digital cockpit flight display with touchscreen capabilities for a FACE solution.
Read More About FACE in our MOSA White Paper
Introducing your essential guide to all things MOSA. Read the white paper to explore
- The MOSA directive and its significance for defense technology
- Reasons to adopt a MOSA-based architecture
- MOSA-supporting standards found in today's program requirements, including SOSA, CMOSS, VICTORY, GVA, FACE, and OMS/UCI.
Bringing Software Interoperability to Avionics Systems
The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium is an aviation-focused professional group made up of U.S. industry suppliers, customers, and users. FACE aims to standardize approaches to bring open standards solutions to avionics systems. These avionics systems will result in lower implementation costs for the U.S. government and other adopters of the standard. Using the Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA), Open Architecture (OA), and Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), FACE supports a robust architecture for enabling software development.
By using standard interfaces, this open standard enables interoperability between systems and components, as well as interface reuse. The Future Airborne Capability Environment enables porting of application from multiple systems and vendors so that the warfighter can get the capabilities faster and at a reduced life cycle, up-front procurement, system integration, and upgrade/technology refresh cost and risk.
The FACE Consortium defines
- requirements for Software Development Toolkit (SDK) extensions and test suites,
- a Reference Implementation Guide,
- a verification process, and
- a repository for modular software applications/services.
Curtiss-Wright offers a broad range of modules and systems designed in compliance with FACE profile specifications, which have been demonstrated as hosts of FACE-conformant software applications and operating systems to develop.