Wind River® customers who are responsible for defense, networking, industrial, and other infrastructure systems worldwide are demanding ever increasing functionality in addition to secure and safe operation with very high assurance of protection from inadvertent or intentional errors or threats. These systems also must often operate with reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements. To meet these challenging demands, a system architecture called Multiple Independent Levels of Security, or MILS, can be used to partition a single processor among multiple software components. MILS enables time and space resource allocation, information flow control, and fault isolation, all strictly enforced so that the MILS-based system will conform to security policies defined by security architects and system integrators.

Wind River has leveraged its experience with the industry-leading Wind River VxWorks® 653 Platform for safety-certified integrated modular avionics (IMA) systems to create the VxWorks MILS separation kernel, which meets the security functional and security assurance requirements in the "U.S. Government Protection Profile for Separation Kernels in Environments Requiring High Robustness" (SKPP), version 1.03. Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform provides the ideal high performance and scalable software foundation on which to build multilevel secure (MLS), cross-domain solution (CDS), and other security-critical systems.

Designed to meet the stringent security functional and security assurance requirements of Common Criteria EAL6+, VxWorks MILS Platform is ready for use in systems that may require high assurance system-level evaluation. Common Criteria—based security evaluation evidence and DO-178C DAL A safety certification evidence will be available for VxWorks MILS Platform to support system-level evaluation or certification and accreditation (C&A) processes.