An innovative commercial avionics architecture for military tanker/transport platforms

Author

Sturdy, James ; Redling, Thomas ; Cox, Paul

Author_Institution

Honeywell Inc., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

15

Issue

7

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

39

Abstract

Honeywell has implemented a versatile integrated avionics (VIA) architecture in several advanced commercial flight deck applications ensuring a military tie to future commercial upgrades related to global air traffic management functions. The VIA architecture can also be easily extended to meet unique military requirements of the advanced military flight decks for military tanker/transport upgrade programs. The subtle changes in the architecture are a result of unique equipment interfaces and unique military equipment such as communications radios, identification friend or foe, station keeping equipment and defensive systems which must be integrated within the architecture. The ability to integrate both commercial and military functions in the same high integrity computing platform truly offers the military the best of both worlds.

Keywords

aircraft communication; aircraft computers; aircraft displays; military avionics; open systems; system buses; advanced commercial flight deck applications; advanced military flight decks; avionics partitioning; backplane bus; cockpit displays; commercial avionics architecture; communications radios; core processing platform; defensive systems; equipment interfaces; fault tolerance; global air traffic management functions; high integrity computing platform; identification friend or foe; military requirements; military tanker/transport platforms; modular avionics; open architecture; service life; station keeping equipment; upgrade programs; versatile integrated avionics architecture; virtual LRU; Aerospace electronics; Air traffic control; Aircraft navigation; Business; Computer architecture; Costs; Displays; Hardware; Military aircraft; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.854022

Filename

854022