Innovating mission-critical systems while driving down costs requires both openness and flexibility.
For manned and unmanned avionics systems, it also requires a secure, safe, and adaptable foundation. But can a software platform deliver both without locking customers in to proprietary APIs?
LYNX MOSA.ic was designed for the modernization of avionic and mission critical software platforms, providing open flexibility on a robust foundation to meet the program needs of rich system functionality deployed in high threat safety critical environments. The intent is in the name: a Modular Open Systems Architecture Integration Center (MOSA.ic).
LYNX MOSA.ic is not an RTOS, nor is it a traditional hypervisor platform. It is a complete software and development kit founded on a tiny separation kernel, with unique tools for leveraging the hardware virtualization capabilities of modern multi-core processors. Designed to enable system developers to build systems compositionally—using open standards and relying heavily on the reuse of well-tested and certified components—LYNX MOSA.ic speeds development, provides finer-grained hardware control, and lowers lifetime costs.
Across a range of avionics’ platforms, the push to reduce power, cost and footprint of electronics makes the use of multicore processors for consolidating real-time and general purpose system functionality. This is causing major headaches for system architects, cybersecurity experts and software engineers for several reasons;
1. Guaranteeing real-time behavior, as outlined in this WHITE PAPER
2. Maintaining system reliability, isolating hardware resources to avoid malicious or unintentional conflicts between applications
3. System health monitoring for early detection and correction of errant system behavior. While many of Northrop’s systems are somewhat closed, we see a shift to more connected systems using public and private cloud technologies which bring benefits and challenges.
At Lynx, we have a thirty year track record of delivering software that addresses these challenges. We remain fiercely proud to SUPPORT THE US MILITARY and its partners. The new enhancements include:
1. While our primary focus remains the delivery of SOFTWARE FOR AVIONICS platforms, we are expanding into adjacent applications like drones and satellites, building up specific crypto applications for delivering information securely across public networks
2. System health monitoring - as our software resides right on top of the hardware, we are able to flag abnormal system behavior to analytics packages, ensuring errors are trapped and not propagated
3. For a list of our certifications and select notable deployed systems running on Lynx software, please see this PDF DOCUMENT.
We have a number of free, risk-free ways of evaluating our technology.
1. Receive a fully-featured version of LynxSecure that operates on QEMU models
2. Schedule a free, zero-obligation whiteboarding session with one of our technical design specialists
3. Request a product evaluation version
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Lynx has worked together with General Dynamics and its subsidiaries to deliver secure, safe, and reliable software system solutions for 20 years.
Some of this work, which has resulted in solutions built using our LynxOS & LynxOS-178 real-time operating systems (as well as various tools and support) includes:
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