LDRA Joins The Open Group SOSA Consortium
September 17 2024 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
The leader in automated software verification,
traceability and standards compliance expands its long-time support
and leadership in modular open systems approach (MOSA)– aligned
standards organizations
LDRA today announced it has joined The Open Group Sensor Open
Systems Architecture (SOSA™) Consortium, a vendor- and
platform-agnostic forum for industry and government to
collaboratively develop open standards and best practices. As a
leading provider of automated software verification, source code
analysis and test tools, LDRA will leverage decades of experience
working on standards committees such as The Open Group Future
Airborne Capability Environment® (FACE®) Consortium, MISRA, DO-178
and ISO-26262 to help formalize an official SOSA conformance
process and encourage innovation in the aerospace and defense
industry.
The SOSA Consortium, which includes organizations such as the
Air Combat Command (USAF), NAVAIR, U.S. Army CCDC C5ISR, Joint
Tactical Networking Center, Collins Aerospace and Lockheed Martin,
launched in 2017 to develop the non-propriety SOSA Technical
Standard for sensor systems. Aligning with the U.S. Department of
Defense’s 2019 modular open systems approach (MOSA) directive, the
standard provides reconfigurable, evolvable and affordable
capabilities for Command, Control, Communications, Intelligencer,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. For specification
of the SOSA runtime environment, the SOSA Technical Standard relies
on the FACE Technical Standard, another established MOSA-aligned
standard that LDRA has supported since 2012 as a member of the FACE
Consortium and an approved FACE Verification Authority (VA) since
2020.
“Given our extensive, hands-on experience with the FACE
Technical Standard and other industry standards for the aerospace
and defense industry, LDRA is uniquely positioned to help the SOSA
Consortium accelerate SOSA adoption by creating a formal
conformance program,” said Ian Hennell, Operations Director, LDRA.
“Much like with the FACE Technical Standard, as military embedded
designers conform with the SOSA standard, they can create new C4ISR
systems and upgrade existing systems with innovative capabilities
much more efficiently than proprietary technologies would allow.
Having a formal conformance program in place facilitates the entire
process, enabling organizations to deliver new applications to
market faster and more cost effectively.”
The SOSA Approach incorporates specifications for software
components and hardware elements, as well as electrical and
mechanical interfaces composing the SOSA sensor element.
SOSA-aligned services and products specifically address the needs
of the aerospace and defense sectors, both of which are working on
programs that must follow the DoD’s MOSA directive. Such programs
include:
- Joint Tactical Terminal - Transceiver (JTT-X) (U.S. Navy)
- Ephemeral Paragon (E-Gon) (U.S. Air Force)
- Project Foxbox Blanket Purchase Agreement (U.S. Air Force)
The SOSA Consortium is developing and maturing its conformance
program, improving upon the current self-certification that
products are SOSA aligned, and providing further opportunities for
assurance of compliance with the SOSA technical standard. Once the
conformance program is formalized, LDRA expects to expand upon its
FACE VA services to provide support for SOSA conformance of sensor
software.
In addition to LDRA’s involvement with the FACE Technical
Standard, DO-178, MISRA, ISO-26262 and now SOSA, the company has a
15-year track record of leading FAA and EASA commercial aerospace
certifications.
“Not only do we know the aerospace and defense industry
extremely well, but we know how to establish compliance processes
as well as best practices to help military customers comply with
these processes so they can ultimately achieve their time-to-market
and interoperability objectives,” Hennell added. “We are firmly
committed to bringing this knowledge to supporting the adoption of
the SOSA Technical Standard as well.”
About LDRA
For more than 45 years, LDRA has developed and driven the market
for software that automates code analysis and software testing for
safety-, mission-, security- and business-critical markets. Working
with clients to achieve early error identification and elimination
and full compliance with industry standards, LDRA traces
requirements through static and dynamic analysis to unit testing
and verification for a wide variety of hardware and software
platforms. Boasting a worldwide presence, LDRA has headquarters in
the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and India coupled with
an extensive distributor network. For more information on the LDRA
tool suite, please visit www.ldra.com.
Readers may direct questions to: Mark James Email:
mark.james@ldra.com
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