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Third Party Tools

All tools list on this page are intended to support the FACE® Approach and Ecosystem, including the development of FACE software or integration of FACE software into a system or subsystem. 

Software Life Cycle ▶

Software Life Cycle tools provide specific features to support FACE UoC development, code generation, maintenance, and integration. This includes tools for project management, requirements gathering, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), version control systems, automated testing, bug tracking, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

  • 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
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  • Ansys - SCADE Architect, SCADE Suite, SCADE Solutions for ARINC 661
    • Description: The Ansys SCADE Software toolset effieciently enables a complete workflow ranging from FACE modeling through DO-178C (up to DAL-A) certifiable code-level generation. Ansys tools support software development aligned to the FACE Technical Standard at both the model and generated code levels, providing users with an easy workflow that passes the FACE Conformance Test Suite (CTS), a necessary test process included in the FACE Technical Standard. The SCADE Solutions for ARINC 661 enables the creation, customization, and deployment of an ARINC 661 Server, User Application Definition Files, and the User Applications themselves. This includes a FACE Data Model for ARINC 661, allowing the development of applications that align to both ARINC 661 and the FACE Technical Standard.
    • Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1
    • Segment: PCS, PSSS
    • Date Listed: October 2023
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  • LDRA Technology, Inc. - LDRA Future Airborne Capability Environment® Conformance Package, FACE® Conformance Package (FCP)
    • Description: The LDRA Future Airborne Capability Environment® Conformance Package, 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
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  • MathWorks - Blockset for FACE Technical Standard
    • 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 Blockset Product Support Package (PSP) enables system and algorithm engineers to develop software for FACE based embedded systems; using Simulink, the Blockset PSP for FACE Technical Standard 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 / Updated: 2025
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  • Rapita Systems - Rapita Verification Suite (RVS) 
  • 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
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  • Skayl, LLC - PHENOM®
    • Description: PHENOM® is a model-centric integration ecosystem designed to support the full software lifecycle of FACE Units of Conformance (UoCs). It accelerates standards-based system integration through structured, semantically aware modeling and automated generation of transport service (CinC). By abstracting transport concerns from application logic, PHENOM enables efficient CI/CD workflows, reuse, and modularity while minimizing integration overhead. With integrated version control, model validation, and configuration management, it ensures consistency and traceability across evolving systems. More than a code-generation tool, PHENOM provides scalable, collaborative infrastructure for managing complex, MOSA-compliant systems over time.  
    • Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
    • Segment: NA
    • Date Listed: March 2026
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  • 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 Technical Standard 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

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Data Modeling ▶

FACE Data Modeling tools assist in the creation, visualization, analysis, merge, and management of FACE data models. Some tools may also be used to generate code from FACE data models.

  • Ansys - SCADE Architect
    • Description: SCADE Architect enables to perform FACE® Data Modeling for components that align to the FACE Technical Standard. Roundtrip import/export functionality is provided for any FACE data model file, including FACE Shared Data Models and Domain Specific Data Models. The exported FACE file from the SCADE package passes Data Model testing with FACE Conformance Test Suite for FACE 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1. Unit of Portability (UoP) models are then synchronized (incremental import) with SCADE Suite, a DO-178C qualified TQL-1 model-based development tool for developing safety and mission-critical embedded software. The tool suite includes a FACE UoP Transport Services Adaptor to wrap the SCADE Suite automatically generated code to use the Transport Services API.
    • Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0,3.1
    • Segment: NA
    • Date Listed: October 2023
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  • Skayl, LLC - PHENOM®
    • Description: PHENOM® is a powerful, model-centric tool that enables data modelers and integrators to create, visualize, and manage Data Models aligned to FACE requirements within a broader integration framework. It 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. PHENOM is a Data Modeling tool built by data modelers. 
    • Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
    • Segment: NA
    • Date Listed / Updated: March 2026
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  • 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: 2022
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  • 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: 2022
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  • 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
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Conformance Support ▶

Conformance Support tools help in achieving FACE conformance. Such tools include requirements checking against the Conformance Verification Matrix (CVM) and creating Conformance Test Suite (CTS) configuration files. 

  • LDRA Technology, Inc. - LDRA Future Airborne Capability Environment® Conformance Package, FACE® Conformance Package, (FCP)
    • Description: The LDRA Future Airborne Capability Environment® Conformance Package, 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
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  • Skayl, LLC - PHENOM®
    • Description: PHENOM® streamlines the development and certification of FACE Units of Conformance (UoCs) through a model-centric approach that embeds FACE Technical Standards rules and constrains directly into its environment. Users can easily check their Data Modeling work by using the built-in health checks detecting issues early on. When their work is complete, users can export a valid FACE file and run it against the Conformance Test Suite. 
    • Technical Standard Edition: 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
    • Segment: NA
    • Date Listed / Updated: March 2026
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DISCLAIMER: The products in this listing are not to be perceived as FACE Conformant and have not been vetted or approved by The Open Group FACE Consortium. Listings are the sole responsibility of the posting company and are provided as a resource "as is" to anyone using the directory. The Open Group does not in any way, explicitly or implicitly, warrant or endorse any of the claims, products, services or organizations listed. The Open Group does not accept any liability for the accuracy of the postings, or for actions taken by users of the directory based on the information provided by the participating vendors/service providers. Please, direct questions about the content of the listings to the vendor/service provider of that listing. Not all the tools listed on the site are free to download. 

TOOL SUBMISSION REQUEST: All tools must support the FACE Approach and Ecosystem. Training courses, consulting services, and Units of Conformance (UoCs) or Domain Specific Data Models (DSDMs) that can go through the FACE Conformance Program are not eligible to be listed. The tool must be a standalone product which can be acquired independent of a FACE UoC.

Approved tools should meet all FACE Consortium Trademark Usage requirements. The tool name cannot include "FACE". However, the application edition of the FACE Technical Standard can be appended at the end. For example, "Tool Name for FACE Technical Standard, Edition 3.2". 

To submit a request, the Submitter should send an email to ogface-admin@consortia.opengroup.org providing the following information:

  • Tool name
  • Requested category (i.e. Software Life Cycle, Conformance Support, Data Modeling). Tools may be included in multiple categories, but the description must be different and reflect the appropriate category.
  • Brief tool description and version
  • Link to the data sheet or the detailed description - this link we be displayed on the website for users to access further information about the tool, it should not redirect to the company main webpage
  • FACE Technical Standard Edition(s) support by the tool
  • FACE segment supported, if applicable
  • Date posted or last update
  • Company information and company name

The Open Group FACE Consortium will review all submissions in a timely manner. If issues are found or questions arise, The Open Group will reach out to the Submitter for more information. 

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