Leading Aerospace and Defense Companies Trust Wind River

As Featured in Forbes
Accelerate Change Or Lose: Gaining The OODA Edge
We have the military to thank for some of the most important inventions that we use every day to increase productivity and innovation. One of those contributions can — and should — play a much bigger role than it does today, if we actually harness its potential.
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An Intelligent Systems Mantra For The Defense Of The US: Learn From SpaceX
The U.S. has the largest defense investment infrastructure in the world. It’s a highly complex, intelligent, and agile environment driven by a historical and global imperative to protect democracy.
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Characteristics Of An Intelligent Systems Future: 12 Waypoints To Navigate Your Future Success
By 2030, $7 trillion of the U.S. economy will be driven by the machine economy. We’ll become data-driven software enterprises in the process. How we get there, and how successful we are, is already part of the thinking of leaders in organizations dependent on these ideas for business success.
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“Increasingly, machines will learn from experiences, adapt to changing situations, and predict outcomes.”2

The Engine of
the Intelligent Edge
RTOS-based applications at the core of pervasive AI are being brought about “by a proliferation of AI-powered smart devices able to recognize and react to sights, sounds, and other patterns. Increasingly, machines will learn from experiences, adapt to changing situations, and predict outcomes."2
» Read the Article2 “AI Is Not Just Getting Better; It’s Becoming More Pervasive,” Harvard Business Review, February 19, 2019
How Wind River Helps
With technology proven by more than 330 customers over 750 safety programs in more than 120 civilian and military aircraft, Wind River® has over three decades of experience helping to build safe, secure, and reliable computing systems for demanding commercial aircraft, space exploration, and military operations.


Wind River Studio
For aerospace and defense development teams modernizing or transforming the development, deployment, and operation of their intelligent systems, Wind River Studio has been architected to easily scale to simultaneously run different projects with multiple operating systems and hardware architectures, all from a single pane of glass.
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VxWorks
Bullet proof, future-proof: VxWorks supports containers for app deployment (the first and only RTOS to do so), C++17, Boost, Rust, Python, and more. And it's still #1 (VDC). Lower your procurement and certification costs while meeting stringent industry standards such as DO-178C, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ARINC 653, POSIX®, and FACE™ using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) standards conformance and safety certification evidence.
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Wind River Linux
Wind River Linux delivers military grade Linux with a combination of system-level security reinforcements, such as access control mechanisms and intrusion detection and prevention tools, with long-term security update strategies for deployed devices. With validated, maintained, and supported source code, as well as a comprehensive suite of services including CVE monitoring, Wind River Linux is certified for ISO 9001 and for conformance to the FACE™ Technical Standard as an Operating System Segment (OSS) that supports the General Purpose Profile (GPP).
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Wind River Helix Virtualization Platform
Based on our industry-leading VxWorks 653, Helix Platform consolidates and separates multi-os and mixed-criticality apps on a single platform. Simplify, secure, and future-proof your aerospace and defense systems.
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Wind River Simics
Create digital twins of complex systems and run cyber tests (including pen testing) virtually. Enable agile practices throughout your product’s lifecycle with system simulation and automation technologies.
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Support for Industry Standards
Wind River makes it easier and more cost-effective for technology suppliers to meet the stringent requirements of the aerospace and defense industries, with support for industry standards such as ARINC 653, FACE™, RTCA DO-178B and DO-178C, IEC 61508, POSIX®, and more.
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For nearly three decades, Wind River has provided NASA with the most proven software platform to bring dozens of intelligent systems to space, resulting in some of the most significant space missions in history.

White Paper
Learn how Wind River is helping to develop the technology, solutions, and innovations that are required to make the next generation of UAM systems a reality.

Video
See a demonstration of a joint collaboration between Wind River, Ansys, CoreAVI, Curtiss-Wright, and RTI for a digital cockpit flight display with touchscreen.