PITTSBURGH, March 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The United
States Army, L3Harris Technologies and Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS)
are advancing the performance and affordability of next generation
aviation and missile system applications. The U.S. Army Combat
Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Aviation & Missile
Center (AvMC) evaluated commercially available solutions to
seamlessly support rapid integration of software aligned to the
FACE Technical Standard through a joint Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement (CRADA).
The FACE Technical Standard enables software on embedded
military computing systems to be more interoperable, portable and
secure. The CRADA utilized L3Harris and Ansys-developed software
aligned to FACE Technical Standard hosted on the Crew Mission
System (CMS) platform for the Cockpit Display Station (CDS). The
CRADA represents significant progress in showcasing how model-based
development tools like Ansys SCADE®, along with
L3Harris' FliteScene®, can support rapid standards-based
integration in support of the FACE Technical Standard and ARINC 661
standards.
"Adding new capabilities into our enduring platforms has been
costly in both time and money. With emerging threats and
limited resources, we simply have to provide more capabilities to
our warfighters faster with less funding," said Joe Carter, U.S. Army Program Executive Office
Aviation G10 Tactical Branch Chief and FACE Consortium Steering
Committee chair. "Contributions from our industry partners,
including Ansys and L3Harris, help exercise and mature the FACE
Technical Standard allowing rapid integration of capabilities for
our warfighters. This enables us to provide our warfighters a
wide variety of new and improved capabilities from any number of
technology suppliers."
The Ansys SCADE software toolset efficiently enables a complete
workflow ranging from FACE modeling through DO-178C (up to DAL-A)
certifiable code-level generation. Ansys tools support software
development aligned to the FACE Technical Standard at both the
model and generated code levels, providing users with an easy
workflow that passes the FACE Conformance Test Suite (CTS), a
necessary test process included in the FACE Technical Standard.
This effectively streamlines the development effort of embedded
control/display/HMI applications aligned to the FACE Technical
Standard and is compliant to the ARINC 661 standard.
"L3Harris is a leading supplier of current and emerging airborne
software applications," said Matt
Collins, general manager, Mission Avionics, L3Harris Space
and Airborne Systems. "Through the CRADA, L3Harris will further
speed innovations in background digital moving map technology for
CDS."
Ansys SCADE Solutions for ARINC 661 compliant systems fully
adhere to the ARINC 661 standard, including the ARINC 661 Server,
the User Applications (UA), standard binary and XML Definition
Files (DF), and the communication code between Ansys SCADE UA
models and any ARINC 661 Server. This ultimately saves time and
reduces effort and cost when developing cockpit display
systems.
"The U.S. Army depends on the efficiency of safety-critical
software development and integration efforts to advance emerging
aviation and missile system capabilities while keeping program
costs down," said Eric Bantegnie, vice president and general
manager at Ansys. "Ansys looks forward to providing next-generation
solutions that are aligned with the Army's model-based systems
engineering initiatives and open system architecture
standards."
About Ansys
If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane,
driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a
bridge or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a
product where Ansys software played a critical role in its
creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering
simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering
Simulation, we help the world's most innovative companies deliver
radically better products to their customers. By offering the best
and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help
them solve the most complex design challenges and create products
limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is
headquartered south of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Visit www.ansys.com for more
information.
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