An affordable IMA bridge for refreshing deployed avionics systems

• Legacy systems have the challenge of being developed with 3–4 generations of HW and SW technology without a clean slate opportunity • Transition to IMA capabilities can happen incrementally using an adjunct approach to establish a system gateway • Legacy systems should have a forward plan/staged proof of concept focus for transformational adjunct processing that enables software transformation while also supporting currently deployed systems • Emergence of embedded processing and IoT will accelerate capabilities of adjunct processing capabilities • Architecture analysis and prototyping is critical to finding the most affordable and supportable insertion of IMA like capability in deployed systems