April 23, 2009 – Huntsville, AL
Keynote
Defense Modernization and Sustainment Challenges—The Next Decade
This talk will include an army aviation perspective on current defense systems acquisition challenges. The discussion will address the evolving threat and the technology challenges being faced across a number of dimensions such as lethality, survivability, functionality, mobility, safety, and the changing budgetary landscape.
Layne Merritt, Assistant Program Executive Officer, Aviation for Engineering, U.S. Army
Layne Merritt is the Assistant Program Executive Officer for Engineering at the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office, Aviation. He is responsible for the development, procurement, and life cycle management of the army’s helicopters, unmanned aerial systems, and airplanes.
Mr. Merritt is responsible for overseeing the engineering and technical activities of the Program Executive Office, including new initiatives in science and technology, interoperability, and logistics automation. He previously served 21 years as an aviation officer in the army, 10 years as an operational pilot and aviation logistics officer, and 11 years as an experimental test pilot and acquisition professional.
Agenda
| 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. | Registration, Breakfast (Technology Pavilion) |
| 9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. |
Challenges Facing Aerospace and Defense Suppliers Presented by Rob Hoffman, Vice President and General Manager, Aerospace and Defense, Wind River
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| 9:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m. | Keynote Session, Defense Modernization and Sustainment Challenges—The Next Decade Presented by
Layne Merritt, Assistant Program Executive Officer, Aviation for Engineering, U.S. Army
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| 10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m. | Break (Technology Pavilion) |
| 10:45 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | Essentials of Multicore Software Presented by Marc Brown, Vice President, VxWorks Product Strategy, Wind River
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| 11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Intel Keynote, Standards-Based COTS Solutions for Aerospace and Defense, presented by Don Latour, Intel Channel Manager
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| 12:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Technology Pavilion) |
| 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. | Gold Sponsor Breakout Sessions |
| 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. | Cocktail Reception (Technology Pavilion) |
Breakout Sessions
| 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. |
Use of ARINC 653 and Integrated Modular Avionics to Reduce Space, Weight, and Power Consumption in Unmanned Vehicles to Facilitate Asynchronous, Incremental Certification, Wind River
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Standards-Based Building Blocks for Network-Centric Embedded and Communication Systems, Intel
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The Data Distribution Service (DDS) Standard: A Next-Generation Approach to Building Distributed Real-Time Systems, Real-Time Innovations
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| 2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. |
The Benefits of Virtualized Systems Development for Aerospace and Defense Applications, Virtutech
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High-Performance Computing Utilizing Multicore Processors Built on Power Architecture Technology, Freescale
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Securing Critical Program Assets with Anti-Tamper Technology, Arxan Defense
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| 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. |
Building Multiprocessor Embedded Applications, Curtiss-Wright
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High-Performance Processing with VxWorks from Wind River and AXIS, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
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Effective Model-Driven Development (MDD) for Complex A&D Systems, IBM
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Challenges Facing Aerospace and Defense Suppliers
Presented by Rob Hoffman, Vice President and General Manager, Aerospace and Defense, Wind River
With the new U.S. administration, global aerospace and defense suppliers will be challenged to maintain and expand existing programs. Addressing these financial challenges, along with building systems that have increasing functional demands will challenge all parties in our industry in the coming years. These advances must be made in the face of technology disrupters, affecting the performance and acceptance of new system designs.
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Essentials of Multicore Software
Presented by Wind River
The increasing core count of today's multicore processors creates the opportunity to introduce multiple operating systems into a device, which can spur innovation and maximize performance. Achieving the optimal solution for a particular device requires a choice of appropriate type of operating system, multicore software configuration (SMP/AMP/virtualization), and top-notch tools to configure, debug, and optimize such systems.
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Platinum Sponsor Keynote
Presented by Intel
Intel's field-proven embedded computing, communications, and networking solutions harness breakthrough innovations in processing performance, programmability, and bandwidth. By providing the building blocks for modular, standards-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions, Intel is ready to help the U.S. Department of Defense and system integrators meet cost and schedule requirements, mitigate program risk, and accelerate the process of force transformation.
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Use of ARINC 653 and Integrated Modular Avionics to Reduce Space, Weight, and Power Consumption in Unmanned Vehicles to Facilitate Asynchronous, Incremental Certification
Presented by Wind River
This session investigates how the ARINC 653 standard can be used to reduce SWaP and enable independence using guidelines from DO-178 and DO-297. It will explore the use of qualified XML-based configuration tools and the emerging ARINC 653 Supplement 3 XML schema and show the importance of configuration and build partitioning.
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Standards-Based Building Blocks for Network-Centric Embedded and Communication Systems
Presented by Intel
As a technology leader and provider of comprehensive products lines for embedded systems and communication networks, Intel is a trusted resource to help power your network-centric vision. You will learn how Intel multicore processors are well-suited for high-performance computing applications such as signal and image processing. Intel processors and chipsets, together with validated third-party hardware ingredients and software solutions, enable information assurance computing systems based on COTS solutions. You will also learn how Intel is delivering high-performance, energy-efficient solutions for mobile computing platforms.
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The Data Distribution Service (DDS) Standard: A Next-Generation Approach to Building Distributed Real-Time Systems
Presented by Real-Time Innovations
DDS has been adopted worldwide by major air force, army, marine, and navy programs as an open architecture standard for integrating real-time tactical systems with each other and with enterprise applications such as command and control systems. This breakout introduces the DDS standard and shows how it significantly reduces software life cycle costs with a net-centric approach to meeting the messaging and integration requirements of mission-critical embedded systems.
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The Benefits of Virtualized Systems Development for Aerospace and Defense Applications
Presented by Virtutech
This presentation will focus on how virtualized systems development (VSD) and Virtutech Simics, along with Wind River tools and platforms, can reduce product iterations by 50% while providing a software development platform up to 12 months before the physical target is available. VSD allows companies to mitigate risks, expedite testing, improve quality, and drive collaboration between not only the prime and its subcontractors but also between hardware, software, and system groups.
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Increasing Lethality and Survivability with Multilevel Secure Systems
Presented by Wind River
This session will show how traditional methods of building computing systems at the heart of defense weapons systems and other devices fall short. It will explain the emerging multiple independent levels of security (MILS) architecture in depth and show risks and provide recommendations. To increase lethality and survivability, defense system weapons builders must increase functionality and connectivity and reduce space, weight, and power, while maintaining high assurance of controlled security and safety, with controlled or even reduced costs. MILS is an emerging system architecture to create these necessary multilevel secure/cross-domain solutions.
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Building Multiprocessor Embedded Applications
Presented by Curtiss-Wright
This presentation introduces the wide range of tools Curtiss-Wright offers for increasing developer productivity, including targeted tools that provide insight into the configuration, real-time performance, and network traffic of the system under development. High-performance digital signal processing (DSP) systems require an ever increasing number of processing elements—whether they be processors, multiple cores within processors, or field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)—to complete the task at hand. Building complex embedded applications that span these multiple processing nodes requires special tools and presents challenges in terms of task/thread synchronization, real-time event handling, I/O bandwidth, interconnect bottleneck management, and overall management across the system.
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High-Performance Computing Utilizing Multicore Processors Built on Power Architecture Technology
Presented by Freescale
Aerospace and defense applications continue to increase demand on performance within a decreasing power envelope. This constraint requires innovative solutions from microprocessor vendors to meet these ever increasing demands. Freescale's QorIQ multicore platforms provide an innovative architecture to address the size, weight, and power requirements of the A&D market. This session will provide details on the QorIQ architecture and roadmap.
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Securing Critical Program Assets with Anti-Tamper Technology
Presented by Arxan Defense
This presentation will provide attendees with how-to knowledge for incorporating anti-tamper (AT) technology into their systems and successfully deal with the U.S. Department of Defense policy that requires the use of AT technology in new programs and technology. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the threats facing embedded systems and how to defend against them using current technology. Additionally, practical ways to overcome the typical challenges of implementing effective protection will be discussed, such as dealing with limited performance margins and binary size restrictions. The goal is to provide attendees with real-life practical knowledge for how they can leverage the various types of AT technology to secure their critical program assets.
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High-Performance Processing with VxWorks from Wind River and AXIS
Presented by GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software components provide the building blocks for multiprocessing systems in deployed sonar, radar, SIGINT, and communications applications to accelerate time-to-market. AXIS (Advanced Multiprocessor Integrated Software) is a performance-optimized software environment designed to accelerate the development of complex signal processing applications requiring multiprocessor (PowerPC and Intel) systems. AXIS provides a foundation with immediate and long-term value, supporting our current and future product developments with seamless integration between the single board computer, signal processing, and sensor I/O.
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Effective Model-Driven Development (MDD) for Complex A&D Systems
Presented by IBM
This presentation, which includes a practical demonstration, will show how you can cut your development effort by 30% by leveraging the Rhapsody MDD and Wind River Workbench development environment in a completely integrated solution chain. Studies show that software is the main bottleneck for many embedded and real-time systems projects. Unified Modeling Language (UML)-based model-driven development (MDD) solutions such as Rhapsody combined with Eclipse-based development environments such as Wind River Workbench solve this problem by accelerating embedded device development, implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation for aerospace and defense applications.
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