Aerospace & Defense Practice
The aerospace and defense industry today faces enormous embedded safety and security challenges. Wind River® provides services to help A&D systems integrators plan, develop, and manage safe, secure, reliable, and compliant mission-critical platforms. From unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground stations to software defined radios, we help you deliver innovative solutions while staying on schedule and on budget.
Our customized services encompass Wind River pre-integrated proprietary platforms, open source intellectual property, industry consortia standards, and government regulations. Our offerings cover the entire embedded development life cycle:
Planning and Architectural Services
Our real-time embedded A&D experts provide thought leadership in architecture assessment and program planning to help your teams work through the following:
- Critical requirements and the trade-offs that drive architecture decisions
- Safety, compliance, and security requirements
- Strategies for developing compliant and certified systems
Development, Integration, and Certification Services
We don’t just help you plan—we deliver. Known for our project management expertise and global development approach, we deliver on our development promises on time and on budget, offering the following services:
- High-level design
- Platform extensions
- Kernel and OS optimization
- Certified board support package (BSP) and system software development
- Middleware development and integration
- Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) conformance testing
- Certification packages
- Compliance services
- Cybersecurity consulting
Long-Term Platform Management Services
Keeping new and legacy embedded platforms both up to date and cost effective requires the right technical skills and software management methods. We offer long-term platform management services to fit your needs:
- On Wind River products, third-party interfaces, and all deliverables
- Onsite, offsite, online, or in mixed modes
- Globally, and in your local language
- Based on Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
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Embedded Security
Cybersecurity threats are numerous today and include virus backdoors, external exploitations, insider manipulations, unauthorized access, penetration, routing and IP spoofing, communications disruption, and hardware damage or theft. Aerospace and defense systems require a special level of security. Our A&D cybersecurity services offer a unique blend of deep real-time embedded OS expertise and strong relationships with silicon providers and third-party independent software vendors (ISVs), all working together to provide guidance on solving end-to-end device-to-cloud system security challenges.
Safety Services
The rise of integrated modular avionics (IMA), as well as the proliferation of UAVs in commercial airspace, has increased the need for systems to be developed to more rigid standards such as DO-178, IEC 61508, and Common Criteria. Wind River Professional Services Aerospace & Defense Practice provides safety services designed to help you achieve safety compliance. We offer expert guidance on methods to develop the most technically advanced multi-core and virtualized safety certifiable systems.
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