Hybrid and Embedded Software Technologies for Production Large-Scale Systems

In 1995, an initiative was launched at Boeing (then McDonnell Douglas) to assess the potential for reuse of operational flight program( OFP) software across multiple fighter aircraft platforms, and to define and demonstrate a supporting system architecture based upon open commercial hardware, software, standards and practices. The following year, this became a key element of the Bold Stroke Open SystemAr chitecture avionics affordability initiative which applied these techniques to the broader tactical aircraft mission processing domain. The Bold Stroke architecture, application components, middleware framework, and development processes have been leveraged for an increasing number of aircraft avionics systems.