Third Party Tools

Software Life Cycle ▶

AdaCore - GNAT Static Analysis Suite / GNATcheck
- Description:AdaCore's GNAT Static Analysis Suite, an optional add-on to the GNAT Pro Ada development environment, comprises a set of tools that can simplify the effort for projects developing FACE conformant software. Especially relevant is GNATcheck, a tailorable tool that checks Ada applications for adherence to project-specific coding standards. GNATcheck comes with a variety of predefined rules (including a set that reflects the Ada Safety and Security capability set restrictions in FACE Technical Standard Edition 3.1), and users can additionally define new rules to enforce other feature restrictions or style conventions.
- Technical Standard Edition: All Editions
- Segment: TSS, PCS, PSSS, OSS, IOSS
- Date Listed: July 2023
- Contact
AdaCore - GNAT Pro Ada Development Environment
- Description: AdaCore's GNAT Pro software development and verification toolsuite for the Ada programming language directly supports the FACE™ approach to avionics component reuse and portability while meeting requirements for reliability, safety, and security. GNAT Pro is available on a wide range of native and cross platforms, with support for RTOSes such as Wind River's VxWorks and Lynx Software Technologies' LynxOS-178. Specialized run-time libraries for GNAT Pro Ada can help avionics developers produce FACE conformant code that also meets the analyzability, predictability, and efficiency requirements typical of high-assurance real-time systems.
- Technical Standard Edition: All Editions
- Segment: TSS, PCS, PSSS, OSS, IOSS
- Date Listed: July 2023
- Contact
DDCI - Deos™
- Description: Deos, from DDC-I, is a time and space partitioned Real-Time Operating System which has been certified to DO-178 Design Assurance Level A (DAL A) since 1998 and has flown in tens of thousands of aircraft with millions of flight hours logged. Developed from day one using DAL A plans and procedures, Deos features hard real-time response, industry standard ARINC-653 and FACE 3.1 Safety Extended/Safety Base Profiles, and shared resource partitioning to deliver the highest CPU utilization and performance in the industry.
- Technical Standard Edition: 3.1
- Segment: OSS
- Date Listed: October 2021
- Contact
LDRA Technology, Inc. - LDRA Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE) Conformance Package (FCP)
- Description: The LDRA Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE) Conformance Package (FCP) is an optional module available for the LDRA tool suite. FCP provides automated software testing and conformance assurance for all five segments of the FACE reference architecture. The LDRA tool suite generates artifacts from testing, code reviews, and external sources and references them to the FACE Conformance Verification Matrix (CVM). The FCP includes coding rules designed to ensure compliance with many coding requirements specified in the FACE Technical Standard.The capabilities of the FCP improve quality while reducing the time, effort, and risk of developing FACE UoCs. Furthermore, for airworthiness, the LDRA Tool Suite enables DO-178B/C certification up to and including design assurance Level A.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1.1, 3.x
- Segment: TSS, PCS, PSSS, OSS, IOSS
- Date Listed: June 2022
- Contact
MathWorks - FACE Blockset
- Description: MathWorks is a leading developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists. Simulink provides a modular, block-based environment to model, simulate, implement, and verify multi-domain systems in areas like controls, communications, RF, AI, and autonomous systems. Simulink also supports safety critical workflows like DO-178 and DO-254. Simulink FACE Blockset Product Support Package (PSP) enables system and algorithm engineers to develop software for FACE based embedded systems; using Simulink, the FACE Blockset PSP provides apps and blocks to model and simulate FACE portable components. It provides a data dictionary to manage FACE data definitions and APIs to import and export IDL/XML data definitions. Out of Simulink, you can automatically generate C++ production code with FACE TSS and OSS APIs.
- Technical Standard Edition: 3.1
- Segment: PCS, PSSS, TSS
- Date Listed: NA
- Contact
Rapita Systems - Raptia Verification Suite (RVS)
- Description: RVS provides an efficient verification solution for safety-critical avionics software.
  With solutions for functional testing, structural coverage analysis and execution
  time measurement, RVS supports achieving key DO-178C verification objectives.
- Technical Standard Edition: 3.x
- Segment: PCS
- Date Listed: July 2023
- Contact
Real Time Innovations, Inc - RTI Connext Tools
- Description: RTI Connext Tools are critical for FACE component developers and system integrators, whether they are just starting out with Connext® TSS or have been building DDS applications for a while. Connext Tools ease the entire development lifecycle from design to production. Connext Tools helps FACE developers design, monitor, visualize, and analyze their system.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.x
- Segment: TSS, PCS, PSSS
- Date Listed: September 2022
- Contact
Skayl - CinC™
- Description: CinC™ is the next-generation configurable Transport Service Segment that addresses not only your current integration needs, but also future integration and system modification and updates. CinC enables integration of systems through generation of infrastructure software derived from the data model, integration models, and deployment models developed in PHENOM. CinC provides compilable integration code generation through a variety of included and customizable templates and integrator-optimized data manipulation functions.
- Technical Standard Edition: 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: TSS
- Date Listed: October 2022
- Contact
Skayl - PHENOM™
- Description: PHENOM™ is the ecosystem for development, review, validation, and tracing of data, integration, and deployments models. Leveraging Skayl’s FACE™ Conformant Domain Specific Data Model (DSDM) in model construction increases interoperability across other systems and domain via previously modeled interfaces. PHENOM provides an intuitive modeling environment to build complex semantic data models in a collaborative environment. The information synchronizes with Cameo, enables error-free modeling, and simplifies DSDM construction and use.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
- Segment: NA
- Date Listed: October 2022
- Contact
Tangram Flex, Inc - Tangram Pro
- Description: Tangram Pro™ gives engineering teams a simpler way to work together throughout the engineering lifecycle. It closes the gap between system design and implementation by connecting and unifying disparate tools so you can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality. This centralized toolbox brings together components, processes, and people to streamline handoffs between engineers and developers to get the most out of component-based engineering. Tangram Pro creates transforms between different messaging standards (such as FACE to Open Mission Systems (OMS)) and can generate the interface code to go along with it. This rapid adaptability between multiple systems without the need to hard code a solution - and paving the way for reuse of the same technology in new systems or standards.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.0, 2.1, 3.1
- Segment: NA
- Date Listed: October 2022
- Contact
TES-SAVI - AWESUM® Tool Suite
- Description: AWESUM® is an end-to-end tool suite supporting Digital Engineering with the approach of optimizing the Systems Development process to reduce effort, schedule and cost while increasing quality and supporting emerg-ing technologies and processes including modular open system approach (MOSA).
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: PCS, PSSS, TSS
- Date Listed: Q3 2022
- Contact
TES-SAVI - FAME™ Tool Suite
- Description: FAMETM (a FACE Architecture Modeling Environment) is a complete end-to-end and round-trip capability for composing FACE-candidate conformant-ready USM and DSDMs conforming to editions 2.1.x and 3.x of the FACE Technical Standard, including 2.1.x to 3.x model migration.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: PCS, PSSS, TSS
- Date Listed: Q3 2022
- Contact
Twin Oaks Computing - CoreDX DDS
- Description: Twin Oaks Computing, Inc. is a DDS company dedicated to developing and delivering quality software solutions. Our core product, CoreDX DDS, is a commercial implementation of the OMG DDS standard, meeting all DDS requirements laid out in the FACE Reference Architecture. CoreDX DDS tools from Twin Oaks Computing facilitate the development of DDS and FACE TSS enabled applications.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.x
- Segment: TSS, PCS, PSSS
- Date Listed: May 2023
- Contact

Data Modeling ▶

Skayl - CinC™
- Description: CinC™ is the next-generation configurable Transport Service Segment that addresses not only your current integration needs, but also future integration and system modification and updates. CinC enables integration of systems through generation of infrastructure software derived from the data model, integration models, and deployment models developed in PHENOM. CinC provides compilable integration code generation through a variety of included and customizable templates and integrator-optimized data manipulation functions.
- Technical Standard Edition: 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: TSS
- Date Listed: October 2022
- Contact
Skayl - PHENOM™
- Description: PHENOM™ is the ecosystem for development, review, validation, and tracing of data, integration, and deployments models. Leveraging Skayl’s FACE™ Conformant Domain Specific Data Model (DSDM) in model construction increases interoperability across other systems and domain via previously modeled interfaces. PHENOM provides an intuitive modeling environment to build complex semantic data models in a collaborative environment. The information synchronizes with Cameo, enables error-free modeling, and simplifies DSDM construction and use.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
- Segment: NA
- Date Listed: October 2022
- Contact
TES-SAVI - AWESUM® Tool Suite
- Description: AWESUM® is an end-to-end tool suite supporting Digital Engineering with the approach of optimizing the Systems Development process to reduce effort, schedule and cost while increasing quality and supporting emerging technologies and processes including modular open system approach (MOSA).
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: PCS, PSSS, TSS
- Date Listed: Q3 2022
- Contact
TES-SAVI - FAME™ Tool Suite
- Description: FAMETM (a FACE Architecture Modeling Environment) is a complete end-to-end and round-trip capability for composing FACE-candidate conformant-ready USM and DSDMs conforming to editions 2.1.x and 3.x of the FACE Technical Standard, including 2.1.x to 3.x model migration.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: PCS, PSSS, TSS
- Date Listed: Q3 2022
- Contact
Vanderbilt University - Data Modeling Tools: Model Tool Interchange (MTI) Plugins
- Description: Vanderbilt University has developed plug-in customizations to widely-used data modeling tools to support the authoring, editing, and viewing of FACE™ data model content and provide import/export capability to/from the canonical FACE Standard Data Model *.face interchange format. MagicDraw / Cameo (NoMagic) Model Tool Integration (MTI) for FACE 3.1 Data Modeling MagicDraw / Cameo (NoMagic) Model Tool Integration (MTI) for FACE 3.0 Data Modeling Sparx Enterprise Architect Model Tool Integration (MTI) for FACE 2.1 Data Modeling IBM Rhapsody Model Tool Integration (MTI) for FACE 2.1 Data Modeling
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: NA
- Date Listed: August 2022
- Contact

Conformance Support ▶

AdaCore - GNAT Static Analysis Suite / GNATcheck
- Description:AdaCore's GNAT Static Analysis Suite, an optional add-on to the GNAT Pro Ada development environment, comprises a set of tools that can simplify the effort for projects developing FACE conformant software. Especially relevant is GNATcheck, a tailorable tool that checks Ada applications for adherence to project-specific coding standards. GNATcheck comes with a variety of predefined rules (including a set that reflects the Ada Safety and Security capability set restrictions in FACE Technical Standard Edition 3.1), and users can additionally define new rules to enforce other feature restrictions or style conventions.
- Technical Standard Edition: All Editions
- Segment: TSS, PCS, PSSS, OSS, IOSS
- Date Listed: July 2023
- Contact
AdaCore - GNAT Pro Ada Development Environment
- Description: AdaCore's GNAT Pro software development and verification toolsuite for the Ada programming language directly supports the FACE™ approach to avionics component reuse and portability while meeting requirements for reliability, safety, and security. GNAT Pro is available on a wide range of native and cross platforms, with support for RTOSes such as Wind River's VxWorks and Lynx Software Technologies' LynxOS-178. Specialized run-time libraries for GNAT Pro Ada can help avionics developers produce FACE conformant code that also meets the analyzability, predictability, and efficiency requirements typical of high-assurance real-time systems.
- Technical Standard Edition: All Editions
- Segment: TSS, PCS, PSSS, OSS, IOSS
- Date Listed: July 2023
- Contact
LDRA Technology, Inc. - LDRA Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE) Conformance Package (FCP)
- Description: The LDRA Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE) Conformance Package (FCP) is an optional module available for the LDRA tool suite. FCP provides automated software testing and conformance assurance for all five segments of the FACE reference architecture. The LDRA tool suite generates artifacts from testing, code reviews, and external sources and references them to the FACE Conformance Verification Matrix (CVM). The FCP includes coding rules designed to ensure compliance with many coding requirements specified in the FACE Technical Standard.The capabilities of the FCP improve quality while reducing the time, effort, and risk of developing FACE UoCs. Furthermore, for airworthiness, the LDRA Tool Suite enables DO-178B/C certification up to and including design assurance Level A. Technical Standard Edition: 2.1.1, 3.x
- Segment: TSS, PCS, PSSS, OSS, IOSS
- Date Listed: June 2022
- Contact
Skayl - CinC™
- Description: CinC™ is the next-generation configurable Transport Service Segment that addresses not only your current integration needs, but also future integration and system modification and updates. CinC enables integration of systems through generation of infrastructure software derived from the data model, integration models, and deployment models developed in PHENOM. CinC provides compilable integration code generation through a variety of included and customizable templates and integrator-optimized data manipulation functions.
- Technical Standard Edition: 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: TSS
- Date Listed: October 2022
- Contact
Skayl - PHENOM™
- Description: PHENOM™ is the ecosystem for development, review, validation, and tracing of data, integration, and deployments models. Leveraging Skayl’s FACE™ Conformant Domain Specific Data Model (DSDM) in model construction increases interoperability across other systems and domain via previously modeled interfaces. PHENOM provides an intuitive modeling environment to build complex semantic data models in a collaborative environment. The information synchronizes with Cameo, enables error-free modeling, and simplifies DSDM construction and use.
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
- Segment: NA
- Date Listed: October 2022
- Contact
TES-SAVI - AWESUM® Tool Suite
- Description: AWESUM® is an end-to-end tool suite supporting Digital Engineering with the approach of optimizing the Systems Development process to reduce effort, schedule and cost while increasing quality and supporting emerg-ing technologies and processes including modular open system approach (MOSA).
- Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: PCS, PSSS, TSS
- Date Listed: Q3 2022
- Contact
TES-SAVI - FAME™ Tool Suite
- Description: FAMETM (a FACE Architecture Modeling Environment) is a complete end-to-end and round-trip capability for composing FACE-candidate conformant-ready USM and DSDMs conforming to editions 2.1.x and 3.x of the FACE
- Technical Standard, including 2.1.x to 3.x model migration. Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1
- Segment: PCS, PSSS, TSS
- Date Listed: Q3 2022
- Contact

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