The Future Airborne Capability Environment, or FACE, approach seeks to drive down defense system costs and accelerate delivery through software reuse, portability, and interoperability. Ada – a language purpose-built for high-integrity, real-time embedded systems – aligns naturally with these goals. With robust support for safety, security, and long-term maintainability, Ada is an appropriate language for software that aligns with the FACE Technical Standard. The recent approval of AdaCore’s verification methodology by the FACE Consortium further reinforces Ada’s role in this ecosystem, enabling developers to produce standards-compliant, portable components using Ada and the GNAT technology stack.

YORK, U.K. and NEW YORK, N.Y. Rapita Systems and AdaCore announce a joint demonstration of the integration of the Rapita System RapiCover Zero and RapiTime Zero tools with AdaCore’s GNAT Pro for Rust next week at the High Integrity Software Conference (HISC), to be held in Wales.

NEW YORK and PARIS. AdaCore, a provider of software tools for safety-critical, security-critical, and and high-reliability applications, is celebrating 30 years of operation. 

The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) approach is a government/industry initiative, managed by the FACE Consortium under the auspices of The Open Group. Its goal is to reduce software development/deployment costs through source code portability and reuse and thereby avoid vendor lock-in. A key element of the FACE approach is an official process and test suite for verifying that software conforms to the requirements specified in the FACE Technical Standard. However, this process currently does not easily accommodate Ada, a language with a long history of successful usage in safety-critical airborne systems, both military and commercial. There is a solution to this hurdle, however: a practical approach to FACE conformance verification for Ada code (both Ada 95 and Ada 2012), in particular for software that is not part of the underlying operating system.

Tom Varcie of Military Embedded Systems talks to Adacore experts Filip Gajowniczek and Ben Brosgol about AdaCore's aerospace technology at Aerospace Tech Week in Atlanta.

Bristol, UK, July 20, 2021 – AdaCore, a trusted provider of software development and verification tools, announces that Collins Aerospace has selected AdaCore’s QGen code generator for Simulink/Stateflow models, and the new TQL-1 Enterprise Qualification Package, to advance the development of their FAA-certifiable Perigon computer, which is designed to support the future flight control and vehicle management needs of commercial and military rotary/fixed wing platforms.

The FACE [Future Airborne Capability Environment] approach to reducing life cycle costs for the military is based on reusing software components across different platforms and airborne systems. The FACE Technical Standard addresses this issue through a reference architecture and data model, well-defined interfaces, and widely used underlying industry standards (IDL, Posix, ARINC-653).