Avionics breakthrough in information sharing

Modern avionics systems are capable of gathering massive amounts of data. Transforming that data into information that enhances situation awareness and improves the mission success rate is a major challenge of the 1990´s and beyond. To reduce software complexity and life cycle costs, while realizing the performance improvements possible with information sharing, innovative approaches to data management for real-time avionic systems are needed The breakthrough discussed in this article uses an indepth understanding of avionics to adapt well proven data management principles to the avionics arena and exploit new software paradigms, including object-oriented data management