The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium, an Open Group Managed Consortium

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The Inaugural FACE Exposition

will be held June 5, 2012 at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum in Lexington Park, MD.

This event will showcase examples of candidate FACE applications and tools from over 20 FACE Consortium members, and is open to all visitors who are interested in open standards and open architectures for aviation systems.

Attendance is free of charge.
Detailed logistical information

 

 

Leading the development of open standards for avionics systems

A managed consortium hosted by The Open Group, the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium is an aviation-focused professional group made up of U.S. industry suppliers, customers and users. The Consortium is creating a technologically appropriate open FACE reference architecture, standards and business model that will result in:

  • Standardized approaches for using open standards within avionics systems
  • Lower implementation costs of FACE systems
  • Standards that support a robust architecture and enable quality software development
  • The use of standard interfaces that will lead to reuse of capabilities
  • Defined interoperability within FACE systems and components
  • Portability of applications across multiple FACE systems and vendors
  • Procurement of FACE conformant products
  • More capabilities reaching the Warfighter faster
  • Innovation and competition within the avionics industry

The FACE Consortium provides a vendor-neutral forum for industry and the U.S. government to work together to develop and consolidate the open standards, best practices, guidance documents and business models necessary to achieve these results.

The FACE Advantage

  • Enables, enhances, and accelerates capabilities to the Warfighter
  • Provides open standards and standard software interfaces
  • Increases software portability
  • Promotes reusable software capabilities
  • Establishes a business model that is beneficial to both industry and government
  • Fosters innovation and competition
  • Developed by The Open Group FACE™ Consortium with broad industry and government membership

FACE Consortium Members Site

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Next FACE Consortium Meeting

June 6-7, 2012
in Lexington Park, MD


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The Inaugural FACE Exposition

will be held June 5, 2012 at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum in Lexington Park, MD.

This event will showcase examples of candidate FACE applications and tools from over 20 FACE Consortium members, and is open to all visitors who are interested in open standards and open architectures for aviation systems.

Attendance is free of charge.
Detailed logistical information

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