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Meeting DAL A Challenges with Dissimilar Redundant Architecture

Meeting DAL A Challenges with Dissimilar Redundant Architecture

This white paper examines how building a system with a dissimilar redundant architecture can help overcome the challenges of meeting DO-254/178 DAL A requirements.

05/22/2024
Certifying Multi-Core Processing Following AMC 20-193/AC 20-193 Objectives

Certifying Multi-Core Processing Following AMC 20-193/AC 20-193 Objectives

This white paper examines the key challenges multi-core processors present in safety-certifiable systems, and the traditional and newer, more effective techniques for alleviating them to ensure MCP-based systems will safely perform their intended functions.

04/01/2024
Unmanned Surface Vehicle Requires Encrypted Storage for the Autonomy System

Unmanned Surface Vehicle Requires Encrypted Storage for the Autonomy System

Tasked with building a new Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), a shipbuilder faced challenging requirements.

03/25/2022
Green Hills Software INTEGRITY-178 tuMP

COTS Hardware Supporting Green Hills INTEGRITY-178 tuMP Brochure

01/16/2022
Optimizing Cybersecurity on Today's Connected Military and Commercial Aircraft

Optimizing Cybersecurity on Today's Connected Military and Commercial Aircraft

System developers must safeguard tactical information exchange and the integrity of command and control links between ground stations and airborne platforms.

10/29/2020
Optimal Multicore Processing for Safety-Critical Applications

Optimal Multicore Processing for Safety-Critical Applications

This white paper explores the performance and SWaP benefits of multicore processors and their challenges in safety-critical applications, and how to overcome them.

08/28/2020
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle NAS Protects Terabytes of Top Secret Mission Data

Unmanned Underwater Vehicle NAS Protects Terabytes of Top Secret Mission Data

In search of a small form factor network attached storage (NAS) solution for a new UUV, an engineer at a defense contractor reached out to Curtiss-Wright. The UUV required a high storage capacity solution to store critical mission data on long-range missions.

06/11/2020
Small Form Factor Mission Systems: Driving Forward the Development of Next Generation UUVs

Driving Forward the Development of Next Generation UUVs

A system integrator required small form factor (SFF) mission processors, network switches, and network-attached storage (NAS) with government-approved encryption for UUV operations. Read about the solution we developed here.

02/28/2018
COTS vs. Custom Graphics for Military Avionics

COTS vs. Custom Graphics for Military Avionics

This white paper looks at the evolution of COTS graphics module design and how it can reduce the cost, complexity, and risk of bespoke custom designs for Military Avionics.

04/03/2017
A COTS Approach to DAR Encryption Onboard an UUV

A COTS Approach to Data-at-Rest Encryption Onboard an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV)

Curtiss-Wright develops network-attached storage (NAS) devices for an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV).

01/19/2017
Overcoming DAL-D Development Pitfalls with Modular Avionics COTS

Overcoming DAL-D Development Pitfalls with Modular Avionics COTS

This case study describes a crash-protected recorder designed by Curtiss-Wright to interface to a Data Management Unit (DMU) for a mid-range commercial airliner that had schedule challenges and changing requirements.

05/27/2015

Infographic: Overcoming the DO-254 DAL A Challenge

This infographic reviews the Design Assurance Levels (DALs) and their mandates on the probability of failure for a system.