In this Q&A we discuss the benefits that occur for commercial aircraft from certifying COTS hardware to DO-254 DAL A, its similarities to certifying software to DO-178C, and how it might apply to unmanned aircraft.

Curtiss-Wright presented on COTS and DO-254 Safety Certifiability in the Defense and Aerospace Industry at NXP FTF 2016 Technology Forum in Austin, Texas.

John McHale with Military Embedded Systems' April 2016 roundtable with industry experts looks at Safety Critical avionics trends.

Increasingly, FAA and EASA regulations are requiring that airborne electronics used in military applications meet the DO-254 safety certification standard.

Curtiss-Wright Introduces Ultra-Flexible, DO-254 / DO-178 Safety Certifiable 3U VPX I/O Module VPX3-611

At the AUSA 2015 show, VITA announced their newest sponsor member, the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), who is developing the U.S. Army’s Modular Open RF Architecture (MORA).

The aerospace and defense embedded COTS market has started to see whole new classes of small and ultra-small line-replaceable unit (LRU) offerings.