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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Platform Safety Critical ARINC 653
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 April 2004
Safety-critical platform aims for new
heights
Wind River Systems is working with Smiths Aerospace to extend its Platform Safety Critical ARINC 653 to meet the National Security Agency's highest evaluation assurance certification level, EAL 7.
As part of its Safe and Secure Programme, Wind River Systems is working with Smiths Aerospace to extend Wind River Platform Safety Critical ARINC 653 to meet the National Security Agency's highest evaluation assurance certification level, EAL 7 Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 will further solidify Wind River's position as the leading provider of safe and secure systems for the military and aerospace industry
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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By working with Smiths Aerospace, Wind River Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 with security certification will be used in Boeing's C-130 Avionics Modernisation Programme.
Under the C-130 Avionics Modernisation Programme, Boeing will develop a modern, common cockpit avionics system for the approximately 500 C-130 transport aircraft in US Air Force service.
"Developing a secure run-time environment that meets safety and security certifications is a significant development effort that requires expertise in project management, device software, safety and security.
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Smiths and Wind River have enjoyed a long history of collaborating together on projects and programmes, and working toward EAL 7 security certification is the next step in this partnership", said Gerry Vossler, Director - Technology Development of Smiths Aerospace.
Wind River Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 will be based on a multiple independent level security (MILS) architecture, evaluated to the highest level in the common criteria process.
A MILS environment is capable of housing and transferring data at varying security levels - secret, classified and unclassified - in a manner conformant with national security policies.
A MILS environment also has secure partitioning, which gives customers the flexibility of adding applications at a later date, without having to go through the costly and time-consuming process of recertifying the entire system.
In addition to security, Wind River Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 is certifiable to DO-178B Level A for safety certification.
"Developing technology capable of reaching EAL 7 certification is a significant step forward in secure device software operating system technology", said Steve Harris, Regional Director, Wind River North West Region.
"To work with Smiths Aerospace and be used by Boeing on the C-130 AMP programme is an honour, and Wind River is proud to be developing safe and secure technologies that will help strengthen our country's security infrastructure".
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