AVIAGE SYSTEMS: Elevating the Future of Flights through Open Architecture Avionics

“Cisco’s 2015 Annual Security Report listed aviation among the top five high risk industry verticals, affecting OEMs with regards to the protection of their data as well as intellectual property,” states Jones.AVIAGE SYSTEMS is committed to cyber security.With a holistic approach, AVIAGE SYSTEMS addresses the security concerns from a three-fold perspective—organization, process, and technical. “We are cultivating a security centric company culture by implementing ISO/IEC 27001:2013 framework,” claims Jones.The security basics, such as DLP, patching, and implementing critical security controls are covered under the technical framework. AVIAGE SYSTEMS is also establishing a 24X7 security monitoring system to cover their operations in China, US, and France.

AVIAGE SYSTEMS’ partnership with COMAC on the C919 aircraft has allowed them to integrate more aircraft functionalities onto IMA. With IMA as a generic processing platform, the company is allowing air framers to host software that resides in separate systems. With certification of the avionics system, AVIAGE SYSTEMS also conducts safety analyses and testing to prove their standards to FAA, EASA or CAAC that their systems are safe, reliable, and meets aircraft requirements, through their integration labs.In an implementation highlight, AVIAGE SYSTEMS provided SIVB (System Integration & Verification Bench) to COMAC to conduct the tier 1 system integration onto their system. AVIAGE also helped COMAC in meeting the avionics level requirements at the systems level to help build up their integration capability.

With a strong management from both AVIC and GE, AVIAGE SYSTEMS relies heavily on the experience of the leaders to bring insight and expertise in order to build capability and efficiency into their business processes and culture. To leverage this to maximum potential, they have set up R&D centers in Shanghai, Phoenix, and Toulouse to innovate with industry leading civil avionics solutions. At present, AVIAGE SYSTEMS is on the process of expanding their global footprint to U.S.and France. In the development phase, the company is moving towards incorporating Big Data analytics or the industrial internet. “We are working with GE, AVIC, and COMAC to utilize this technology on the newest aircraft,” concludes Jones.