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Boeing selects Wind River carrier grade
Linux
Boeing selects Wind River carrier grade Linux for the P-8A multi-mission maritime aircraft mission system
Wind River has announced that Boeing has selected Wind River Platform for Networking Equipment, Linux Edition, the industry's leading Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) run-time, which includes Wind River Workbench, the company's Eclipse-based development suite, for the P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) mission system This expansion of Wind River Linux into the aerospace and defence (AandD) industry demonstrates the company's continued position as the leading DSO provider to AandD
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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It possesses an advanced mission system for maximum interoperability in battle space.
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The US Navy plans to purchase 108 P-8As to replace its fleet of P-3 aircraft and expects initial operational capability in 2013.
As part of an extensive evaluation process, Boeing considered several commercial Linux solutions for its advanced mission system before ultimately selecting Wind River's open-source solution based on a commercial-grade quality Carrier Grade Linux distribution.
Key was complete visibility into the Linux build.
To that end, Wind River's Linux platform starts with the pristine, unmodified 2.6 kernel downloadable from kernel.org.
It ships with complete source code, just as it's delivered in the open-source world.
Wind River's build methodology enables customers to customise and add differentiating value to their Linux build without ever losing sight of the clear path back to this pristine source.
Boeing can, therefore, confidently build unique, competitive products while also maintaining their citizenship in the open-source community.
The deal also includes Wind River Workbench, the company's device software development suite, on which Boeing has standardised for the US Army's Future Combat System program.
Wind River Workbench addresses the challenges individual developers and project teams face by increasing productivity, enabling collaboration between hardware and software developers, and meeting diverse development needs across an entreprise.
Workbench offers an open, unifying, Eclipse-based framework that provides seamless integration of third-party tools developed to meet specific needs and also supports multiple target operating systems, including VxWorks 6, VxWorks 653, VxWorks MILS, VxWorks 5.5, Linux, and third party / proprietary operating systems such as Express Logic's ThreadX.
Wind River also offers a variety of independent tools to assist device software developers from hardware bring-up to application development, enabling increased productivity and on-time, high-quality project delivery.
"Wind River is emerging as the go-to vendor for commercial Linux in the intensely-competitive and standards-driven AandD industry," said Chip Downing, senior aerospace and defence marketing manager at Wind River.
"The P-8A programme will now have a commercial-grade quality Carrier Grade Linux distribution, delivered and supported by the largest DSO provider - Wind River".
"Our solution will also provide the programme with the industry-leading open, extensible Wind River Workbench development suite, integrated and validated run-time technologies, as well as the most proven and reliable partner in this application space".
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