Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform delivers the security foundation aerospace and defense (A&D) companies need to meet the real-time operating system (RTOS) requirements for high robustness (EAL6+) multilevel secure (MLS) systems.
Companies responsible for defense, networking, industrial, and other infrastructure systems worldwide are demanding ever increasing functionality and secure and safe operation with very high assurance of protection from intentional or inadvertent threats or errors. At the same time, these systems must often operate with requirements for reduced space, weight, and power, known as SWaP. To meet these competing demands, a new system architecture has emerged called multiple independent levels of security, or MILS.
A MILS operating system "partitions" a single processor among multiple software components, with resource allocation (space and time), information flow, and fault isolation strictly enforced to conform to rules defined by developers and system integrators. Wind River has leveraged its experience with partitioned environments, from the development of our industry-leading Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform for safety-certified Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) systems, to create VxWorks MILS as the basis of security-certified partitioned systems.
The VxWorks MILS operating system is provided as part of the Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform, which includes our award-winning Eclipse-based Wind River Workbench development suite. The development platform also includes development and debugging tools that enable examination of tasks inside the virtual execution environments controlled by the VxWorks MILS separation kernel (SK).
