Pitfalls of Designing, Developing, and Maintaining Modular Avionics Systems in the Name of Sustainability EPR2024010
Sustainability is both an ethical responsibility and business concern for the
aerospace industry. Military and commercial avionics developers have pushed
toward a common standard for interfaces, computing platforms, and software in
hopes of having “reusability” and reducing weight with backplane computing
architectures which, in theory, would support commonality across aircraft
systems. The integrated modular avionics (IMA) and military Future Airborne
Capability Environment (FACE) standards are two such examples. They emerged to
support common computing architectures for reuse and sustainability concepts,
from the beginning of aircraft development to the sundown or mortality
phase.
Pitfalls of Designing, Developing, and Maintaining Modular Avionics Systems
in the Name of Sustainability looks at technological, organizational,
and cultural challenges making reuse and IMA platform models difficult to fully
realize their sustainability goals. Additionally, it considers the certification
aspects of reuse and examines lessons learned from a successful reusable and
sustainable platform.