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First flight of the Boeing 787

Today, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its historic first flight from Everett, Washington. Thisis the culmination of years of development of a completely new aircraftwhich uses many...

15 years 7 months ago

Airbus A400M and Boeing 787 Dreamliner First Flight

Wow! What a week for our customers in Europe and USA!Last week saw the first flight of the Airbus A400M Military Transport and today the Boeing 787 Dreamliner took to the skies...

15 years 7 months ago

Bit Rot Amnesia

Spirit Rover has been having a number of problems recently, anomalous behaviors, losing contact with Earth, even forgetting commands. Amnesia has been one of the larger concerns...

15 years 8 months ago

Twenty

In 1989 I got my first "real" job, left an auto shop I'd beenworking at in Santa Cruz, and started working for a pre-tech-bubblecompany. Integrated made VME racks, boxes from the...

15 years 8 months ago

A&D Regional Conferences

I've recently finished updating presentations on The Essentials of Multicore Software and Challenges of Security Software Development for our forthcoming Aerospace & Defence...

15 years 9 months ago

Busting the Myths around VxWorks #6: Safety

Software safety is related to many factors but I think the impression that an operating system is unreliable conjures up the perception it is unsafe as well. I’ve spent time in...

15 years 9 months ago

Busting the Myths Around VxWorks #5: Security

In reality this isn’t a myth, it’s more of an awarenessproblem. Our solution for the need for high robustness systems is theVxWorksMILS product. VxWorks MILS is designed to provide...

15 years 9 months ago

There is Water Underground

Are dry ideas of Mars all wet? It's starting to look that way. As recently as even 2004, it was believed that possibly in the past, but certainly now, Mars was, or is, a bone-dry...

15 years 9 months ago

Ada & C mixed language development

Last week, I downloaded AdaCore's GNAT Pro 6.2.2 and the latest GNATbench 2.3.1 release (which was announced yesterday), as I wanted to port an Ada & C mixed-language application...

15 years 10 months ago

Tornado GR4 Goes Extreme

In case you missed the news, our partner McObject has just announced that BAE SYSTEMS has selected the eXtremeDB running on VxWorks for the Tornado Advanced Radar Display...

15 years 10 months ago