Aerospace & Defense Services Practice

Aerospace & defense device developers build large, complex systems on tight and demanding schedules. While you may spec out your piece of a project, it's often impossible to commit resources or build teams until a contract is awarded. Then the clock starts ticking: Your team needs to come up to speed quickly. Government standards and certifications have to be addressed. Your piece of the solution must interoperate with all the pieces that other teams are building. When the technology is mission-critical, your device has to perform with unerring reliability and predictability. Wind River Professional Services keeps A&D projects on target.

Benefits:

• High-quality, on time, on budget. Our services team has proven expertise in completing device software projects for the aerospace & defense industry. We know how to manage complex development and integration tasks, ensuring excellent quality and timely delivery.
• A reputation for success. Wind River, a global industry leader for more than two decades, has earned a reputation for delivering success, and this reputation is reinforced every time we work with our clients.
• Insider ecosystem knowledge. Our consultants excel at configuring Wind River Platform for Safety Critical to perform optimally with our hardware and software partner's products. We leverage this in-depth knowledge to deliver the best solution for your business, cutting development costs and speeding time-to-revenue.

Specialized Expertise
Wind River's global team of more than 140 device engineers has extensive knowledge of our VxWorks and Linux platforms. We understand the stringent specifications that A&D suppliers must meet, and we've built our diverse platforms to address those needs. If you or your customers have unique requirements, Wind River device engineers can create a customized solution to serve this need.

IP Portfolio
While becoming industry experts, we've assembled a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) that supports our services practice. Using this portfolio of customizations, accelerators, and enhancements can reduce the cost of your solution and decrease your time to completion. Wind River Professional Services will seamlessly integrate our IP into your solution and tailor it according to your needs.

Methodology
Wind River works within a precisely structured methodology that ensures your project will be completed within the estimated time and at or below the estimated cost, with the top-notch quality you expect. Project execution involves a set of management and development processes based on industry standards, as documented in the Project Management Institute's Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The PMBOK was compiled from the best practices of project managers across many markets and disciplines, and Wind River has applied these best practices to our industry-leading project management approach.

Aerospace & Defense Services
Leveraging the knowledge we've gained from successfully completing hundreds of projects in the industry, Wind River has defined our design, integration, and testing and verification services for the needs of A&D providers and clients. Service offerings include:

Program Support
Wind River can provide on-site support, program management, and frontline support for your client.

Wind River Platform Enablement
Installation and orientation, device drivers and BSPs, porting to custom platforms, integrating third-party technologies, certification support—whatever you need to get your project up and running, Wind River can provide it.

Multiple Processor and Multiple OS System Architecture
We can work with you to implement a point-to-point communication architecture that helps to prevent race conditions, timeouts, and other serious system failures.

Standards-Compliant BSPs and Drivers
Wind River can support certification and/or supply certification services for BSPs used with our Safety Critical ARINC 653 or DO178B-based platforms.

Software System and Middleware Integration
Wind River platforms can be extended to include customized functionality and third-party middleware technology.

Legacy Application and Infrastructure Migration
We can help you port to and validate legacy software systems with new platforms.

Custom Training
When you put together a team to tackle a new project, project-specific on-site training serves to build competence, confidence, and camaraderie fast. Wind River will create the course you need and deliver it in the comfort of your facility.

Device Software Development Methodology
Using our own tested and proven methodology, we can evaluate your development methodology and suggest changes to improve productivity and quality of output.

Contact Us
Wind River Professional Services enables our customers to get the most out of Wind River products and solutions, so many clients prefer to collaborate with us throughout the entire development life cycle. The Wind River Consumer Services Practice employs world-class staff, processes, and technology to deliver value, quality, and results. For more information or to have a sales representative contact you, please contact us at 1-800-545-WIND (9463) or inquiries@windriver.com.