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It's All About the Evidence

An important distinction that gets drilled into people new to safety critical systems and certification of said systems is the difference between "certified" and "certification...

14 years 10 months ago

Do You Design Flight Software?

Normally I don't like this blog to sound like a marketing microphone, BUT… once in a while something comes along that's Worth It. I'll keep it short and sweet. Next month, Larry...

14 years 10 months ago

Sand Trap

Spirit Rover is heading to her sixth anniversary on Mars, but it looks like she'll have to sit the dance out. Spirit has been trapped, basically high-centered on a hard spot...

14 years 10 months ago

Case study: Ultra Datel Safety-Critical Avionics Upgrade Using COTS

I recently had the privilege of working with one of our partners, LDRA , and one of our customers, Ultra Datel , on writing a case study of their experiences of a mid-life upgrade...

14 years 11 months ago

In the Shadows of Giants

When I was a child, the Apollos were flying, and the whole world was all about Mankind taking those first steps on Lunar soil. I remember my parents had this record, I think it...

14 years 11 months ago

First flight of the Boeing 787

Today, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its historic first flight from Everett, Washington. This is the culmination of years of development of a completely new aircraft which uses...

14 years 11 months ago

Airbus A400M and Boeing 787 Dreamliner First Flight

Wow! What a week for our customers in Europe and USA! Last week saw the first flight of the Airbus A400M Military Transport and today the Boeing 787 Dreamliner took to the skies...

14 years 11 months ago

Bit Rot Amnesia

Spirit Rover has been having a number of problems recently, anomalous behaviors, losing contact with Earth, even forgetting commands . Amnesia has been one of the larger concerns...

Twenty

In 1989 I got my first "real" job, left an auto shop I'd been working at in Santa Cruz, and started working for a pre-tech-bubble company. Integrated made VME racks, boxes from the...

A&D Regional Conferences

I've recently finished updating presentations on The Essentials of Multicore Software and Challenges of Security Software Development for our forthcoming Aerospace & Defence...