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The ASAAC Consortium is a tri-nation consortium (UK, France
& Germany)
involving approximately 50 Engineers from:
BAE-Systems, Smiths Industries, DASA, ESG, Dassault
Thomson & Sextant
The purpose of the ASAAC Programme is to define and
validate a set of Open Architecture Standards/Concepts for Advanced
Avionics Architecture (A3) applicable to new aircraft and upgrade programmes from 2005.
ASAAC Drivers
These Standards/Concepts should ensure that the
following three ASAAC Drivers are met:
·
Life
Cycle Costs
·
Mission Performance
·
Operational
Performance
Life Cycle
Costs
Reduce acquisition and support costs below current
new aircraft levels. Note this covers the complete life cycle (10-20 years)
and not just the initial development.
Mission performance
Satisfy all airborne
platform requirements in terms of: Functionality, Capability, Accuracy,
Configurability, Interoperability, Full Range of Environmental Conditions
etc, etc.
ASAAC
Programme
ASAAC Phase I: (Sept-92 to Feb-94)
This part of the programme was a feasibility study
researching the possibilities of a Core Avionics Architecture Concept. It
defined the main objectives of: Inter-changeability, Re-usability, Portability,
Technology Transparency, …….. Fault Tolerance, Extendability, Maintainability etc.
It also identified the concepts of the:
·
Three
Layer Software Model
·
System Bueprints
ASAAC Phase II - Stage 1: (Nov-97 to May-99)
This was purely a paper based part of the programme
in which the ASAAC Standards and Concepts were defined and documented in a
series of reports.
ASAAC Phase II – Stage 2: (Dec-99 to Sept-03)
This is the part of the programme is where the
concepts and standards defined in Phase II – Stage 1 are validated
through a series of demonstrations using ASAAC standard software and
hardware.
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