PrismTech said that the Coflight Consortium headed by Thales and Selex-SI has selected its OMG Data Distribution Service implementation, OpenSplice DDS, to power its European Flight Data Processor (FDP).
The company said that the consortium is developing the FDP to enhance safety, performance and to extend the operational capabilities of current air traffic control (ATC) and air traffic management (ATM) systems.
PrismTech claims that the Coflight is the first FDP to enjoy an open architecture funded over standard and open source middleware technologies to guarantee the long-term extensibility, scalability and availability of supply. OpenSplice DDS is widely used implementation of the OMG Data Distribution Service for real-time systems.
According to PrismTech, OpenSplice DDS was selected based on criteria imposed by ATC and ATM requirements. It will be used throughout Coflight to distribute flight data plans within subsystems, among subsystems and across Coflight installations in France, Italy, and Switzerland.
Keith Steele, CEO of PrismTech, said: “Coflight is impressive in both its scale and mission criticality. It will significantly contribute to the safe and efficient movement of millions of people across increasingly congested European skies.
“Coflight’s choice to go with OpenSplice DDS shows once again the unique ability of our technology to address real-time data distribution in large-scale complex mission- and business-critical systems.”
