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to other aircraft and the time to field will be significantly reduced.
If the government controls the avionic interfaces that ADS-B out uses, the cost savings increase exponentially. Te FACE architecture, composed of segments and standardized interfaces, allows the com- ponents of FACE-conformant software to talk to one another. Eliminating duplication of development efforts saves the costs of developing functionality multiple times. If the effort is built to the FACE standard with proper architectures, the government can save on integration costs across multiple platforms. Because any vendor can develop a solution based on the open architecture guidelines, the FACE technical standard increases com- petition and avoids “vendor lock,” which is generally more expensive and slows a project down.
SHOWING FACE ALIGNMENT Since 2011, the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force have awarded more than $1 bil- lion through various proposals and other procurement solicitations aligned to the FACE technical
standard. Te FACE Consortium also hosts a number of Current approach
Cost avoidance with the FACE approach
Program 1
Program 2
… Program n New software development CUTTING DUPLICATION
Reusing software allows DOD to pay just once for software development, and is essential to support rapid, cost-efficient integration of new technologies. (Source: The Open Group)
Program 1
Program 2 Strategic software reuse
… Program n
activities to showcase FACE- conformant products and to demonstrate how dif- ferent software aligned to the FACE standard can be integrated together.
“The BITS event served as an opportunity for software suppliers to get their feet wet using the FACE approach for designing software.”
Among these are technical interchange meetings (TIMs), open to the public and hosted by the Air Force, Army or Navy. Te February 2016 Army TIM featured 31 exhibitors and 11 technical papers, and an Air Force TIM held in March had 29 exhibitors and 10 technical paper pre- sentations. Te Navy TIM is scheduled for Oct. 17 at the Holiday Inn Solomons Conference Center and Marina in Solo- mons, Maryland. It begins at 8 a.m. with a keynote address followed by presenta- tions and exhibits.
Another important activity hosted by the consortium, the Basic Avionics Lightweight Source Archetype (BALSA) Integration and Test Session (BITS), is a technical integration event open to FACE Consortium members only. At
the BITS event, software suppliers gain firsthand experience
integrating
their
software products—developed to align with the FACE technical standard—with BALSA software. When two or more software applications are integrated, it means that lines of code or interfaces are added to allow the software products to work together without any issues. At the December 2016 pilot BITS event, six FACE Consortium member
organiza-
tions demonstrated the ease of integration, shared lessons learned and level of effort needed to perform the integration. One company integrated three components with BALSA to trace a radio-controlled car with GPS and to perform a trip play- back that enabled the car to drive itself over its charted path. Another demon- stration involved two companies using BALSA to integrate four components and three external devices.
Feedback from the participants was very positive. All participants stated that the
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