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Mitigating Risk

The phone rings. A customer has an application destined for ahigh-risk environment, and somewhere in test they’ve found a newunanticipated condition. A " Tiger Team"is formed – a...

18 years 8 months ago

VxWorks 6.4 POSIX PSE52 Conformance Certification

In the post ‘ Great News for POSIX‘, Alex Wilson commented on the announcement that VxWorks has becomes the first operating system to achieve certified conformance to POSIX PSE52...

18 years 8 months ago

BARCO's MOSArt

Another great piece of news! I was really pleased to see the announcement on BARCO‘s use of our VxWorks 653 operating system in their MOSArt system. I remember many years ago when...

18 years 8 months ago

Linux fit for Defense

In an earlier blog, I commented on the potential use of Linux in Aerospace & Defense, but I didn’t provide any background information to support my assertion that people seem to...

18 years 8 months ago

Obsolescence and Standardisation

I was reading through one of my (many) news feeds the other day when I came across an excellent article in Flight which reminded me of issues around obsolescence. The contract as...

18 years 8 months ago

Compliance vs Conformance?

What is the difference between compliance and conformanceand what does that mean to you and me? Or more importantly what does this meanto your project? Well, compliance is an...

18 years 8 months ago

Contact lost with Mars Global Surveyor

Contact lost with Mars spacecraft Nasa’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has been out of contact with Earth for more than a week.Engineers have been trying to re-establish...

18 years 8 months ago

DSDP: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Following up on today’s announcement of milestonesin three of the DSDP projects—eRCP 1.0, MTJ 0.7, and TM 1.0—I thoughtI’d take a moment to reflect on DSDP…how it started, where it...

18 years 8 months ago

Precipice...

[Editorial by Mike] 5 years hard work120 minutes great excitement (launch)7 months boredom (cruise)6 minutes of sheer terror (EDL)Ninety One Thousand+ days of exploration It all...

18 years 8 months ago

Is safety-critical ready for multi-core?

You may feel that you’re experiencing déjà vu reading this blog, but the title ‘ Is safety-critical ready for multi-core?’ is different to an earlier blog, which was ‘ Is multi...

18 years 8 months ago