ASAAC Phase II programme progress on the definition of standards for the core processing architecture of future military aircraft

Abstract

The Allied Standard Avionics Architecture Council (ASAAC) Phase II programme is sponsored by the Ministry of Defence of the UK, Germany and France through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which provides for a two stage programme over five years to establish a complete set of standards for military core avionics for the end of this century. The standards will cover systems, software, networks, packaging and common functional modules, and will be validated by the construction of a set of demonstrators. The contract was let on 18th November 1997, and project teams were formed in the UK, France and Germany to perform the work. The current contract concerns Stage 1, i.e. the first 15 months of the ASAAC Phase II programme. Stage 1 is required to build on the results of the earlier ASAAC Phase I programme by firstly assessing and refining the architecture concepts and secondly by producing detailed specifications for Stage 2 demonstrations and outline standards for the architecture. The main objectives of this paper are, one year after the beginning of the ASAAC Phase II programme, to present as: • ASAAC Phase II programme objectives; • ASAAC Phase II contractual and industrial organisation; • Architecture concepts definition results of the Stage 1 work; • Demonstrations planned for Stage 2.