Consortium Vision
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The FACE Consortium, an aviation focused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers and users, will create a technologically appropriate open FACE architecture, standards and business model that will result in:
- Standardized approaches & process models within avionics systems
- Lower implementation costs of FACE systems
- Standards that support a robust architecture and quality software
- 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
Consortium Mission
To realize the Vision by:
- Developing, evolving and publishing a realistic open FACE architecture, standards and business model that will be supported by FACE customers, vendors and integrators, and by a robust industry conformance program
- Providing the forum for industry and government to work together to develop and consolidate the open standards, best practices, any necessary guidance documents and models necessary to realize the Vision
- Ensuring that the appropriate technical resources and management commitment are in place for the successful completion of their work
- Operating in a fair, neutral and open manner
- Integrating existing and emerging standards and systems wherever possible.
Podcast: "FACE initiative takes aim at improved interoperability and standards among future military avionics platforms" [2]— Dana Gardner on ZDNet. Listen to it now [2]
View the Introduction to Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) [3]by Mike Williamson, PMA209 Deputy Program Manager for Mission Systems, Naval Air Systems Command, USA