From: SUAS (Small Unmanned Aerial Systems)
Green Hills Software Launches Autonomous Vehicle Open Platform for UAV Control Segments, UAV Mission, Payload and Flight Control Systems
AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference 2011 – Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY® Security Services (ISS) business unit, today announced its new Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Open Platform,
representing a significant investment and commitment to the security
and management of Autonomous Vehicles and Universal Control Segments
(UCS) in the embedded and special-purpose computing market.
Targeting the autonomous systems community, the platform provides a
secure, highly reliable and safe software foundation for Autonomous
Vehicle and UCS developers to host their UAS (Unmanned Autonomous
Systems) applications. At the foundation is Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY-178B real-time operating system (RTOS),
a multi-level secure operating system that is the only operating system
in the world proven to simultaneously meet the software safety
requirements of RTCA/DO-178B Level A for safety and total reliability,
and the information assurance requirements of the U.S. Government’s
EAL6+ Separation Kernel Protection Profile (SKPP) for absolute security.
As the UCS working group continues to architect standards by which
unmanned platforms are certified for use in an operational environment,
Green Hills Software is investing its own resources to ensure its tools
and RTOS integrate into that framework.
According to Dan O’Dowd, chief executive officer and founder of Green
Hills Software, “Our ISS Autonomous Vehicle Open Platform is the first
end-to-end Open Platform in the embedded industry that includes an
EAL6+-certified RTOS and a FIPS-validated Embedded Cryptographic Toolkit.”
O’Dowd continues, “Our ISS AV Open Platform provides a reliable
foundation to all Autonomous Vehicle and UCS developers reducing cost
and time-to-market without compromising or sidestepping the demanding
high-assurance software requirements that are expected from an operating
system or cryptographic toolkit.”
The ISS AV Open Platform is provided by INTEGRITY Security Services
(ISS), a business unit of Green Hills Software. The ISS AV Open Platform
builds on our certified INTEGRITY-178B RTOS to provide a high
availability framework, and a TCP stack and file system for applications
in need of those services. In addition, the platform approach is
agnostic to the hardware, allowing platform providers to utilize the
hardware architecture best suited for their environment. The complexity
of the trade space is such that each platform may have unique
requirements from a hardware perspective. Some environments require low
power, tactically deployed devices that sit on the back of a soldier or a
Humvee, while others may be situated in an Air Operations Center that
offers little constraints in terms of Space, Weight and Power.
The INTEGRITY Security Services AV Open Platform includes the following components:
- INTEGRITY-178B Real-time Operating System(s)
- ISS UCS Open Platform
- ISS proprietary FIPS-validated Embedded Cryptographic Toolkit
- MULTI® Integrated Development Environment
- ISS µSSL, µSSH, µVPN (IPSec/IKEv2), and µLoad Secure Boot Toolkits – Optional
- TCP Networking Stack, web server, Layer 3 IP Routing, USB and Management Stacks – Optional
- ISS Anti-Tamper Platform – Optional
Note: Green Hills Software, Inc., has a main office in Santa Barbara and many offices around the country along with wholly owned affiliates.
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