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18 Jun 24. NATO targets AI, robots and space tech in $1.1bn fund. A consortium of NATO allies has confirmed the first tranche of companies awarded funding as part of the group’s one bn euro ($1.1bn) innovation fund.
The alliance unveiled the fund in the summer of 2022, months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, promising to invest in technologies that would enhance its defences. The fund is backed by 24 of NATO’s 32 member states, including Finland and Sweden, which joined the alliance earlier this year.
On Tuesday, the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) confirmed it had directly invested in four European tech companies, which it said would help address challenges in defence, security, and resilience.
The body has allocated funding to Fractile AI, a London-based computer chipmaker aiming to make large language models (LLMs) like those that power ChatGPT run faster, as well as Germany’s ARX Robotics, which designs unmanned robots with functions ranging from heavy-lifting to surveillance.
The other two startups were British manufacturer iCOMAT, which makes lighter materials for vehicles, and Space Forge, a Welsh company that harnesses the conditions of space – such as microgravity and vacuum conditions – to build semiconductors in-orbit.
“Enabling access to strategic technologies is key to securing a safe and prosperous future for the alliance’s one billion citizens,” said Andrea Traversone, the fund’s managing partner.
The fund has also partnered with venture capital firms Alpine Space Ventures, OTB Ventures, Join Capital and Vsquared Ventures to support further investment in deep tech on the continent. (Source: Reuters)
17 Jun 24. DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, and LDRA, the leading provider of automated code analysis and software testing tools and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, today announced an enhanced integration between the Deos safety-critical DO-178C certifiable RTOS and the LDRA tool suite. The integrated solution, qualified to Design Assurance Level A (DAL A), utilizes unique OS-level instrumentation hooks that enable the LDRA tool suite to deliver enhanced unit test and worst-case timing analysis capabilities out of the box.
Unlike conventional RTOS/unit test integrations, which utilize chip-level facilities such as special registers or timers, Deos provides process log events with high-resolution time stamps that link what’s going on at the process level with the kernel’s more uniform/consistent view of time. These OS-level hooks provide for WCET measurement at both the system and task level using the developer’s interference generation tool of choice.
“DDC-I has been at the forefront of DO-178C safety-critical multi-core technology development, standardization and verification, with an emphasis on the guidance of CAST-32A initially, and then more recently the January 2024 release of AC 20-193 Use of Multi-Core Processors,” said Greg Rose, vice president of marketing at DDC-I. “The integration of Deos with the LDRA tool suite gives avionics developers the unit test platform they need to identify and resolve complex multi-core timing issues, especially the worst-case execution scenarios critical to avionics.”
“Proving that an avionics system is properly partitioned to avoid interference from competing cores is critical, yet nearly impossible without the proper development and testing tools,” said Ian Hennell, Operations Director at LDRA. “Deos provides OS-level hooks that give the LDRA tool suite unique visibility into RTOS operation, enabling it to deliver uniform timing analysis with enhanced worst-case execution capabilities, essential for airworthiness certification.”
About the LDRA tool suite
The LDRA tool suite is LDRA’s flagship platform that delivers open and extensible solutions for building quality into software from requirements through to deployment. The tool suite provides a continuum of capabilities including requirements traceability, test management, coding standards compliance, code quality review, code coverage analysis, data-flow and control-flow analysis, unit/integration/target testing, and certification and regulatory support.The LDRA tool suite’s unit and integration testing capabilities provide an intuitive user interface that allows the same tests to be executed in the host or target environments. Where code re-use is in consideration, they allow those same tests to be re-run automatically in different target environments. Test generation (test harness, test vectors, code stubs) and result-capture support is available for a wide range of host and target platforms. Optimized instrumentation technology supports even highly constrained 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers, and through to high-performance 32- and 64-bit processors.
TBwcet is an optional module for the LDRA tool suite that automates the measurement of WCET on the target – the only way to provide evidence of adequate resourcing and mitigation for interference where multi-core processors (MCP) are deployed. Test results and reports generated using TBwcet can be uploaded to LDRAvault. LDRAvault is a web application that automatically aggregates certification artifacts across distributed users and complex projects, can easily adapt to comply with a growing and evolving certification and regulatory landscape, supports traditional as well as CI/CD workflows, automatically generates advanced visualizations to gain insights across large and targeted sets of certification data through a ‘single pane of glass’, and enables effective collaboration across the enterprise and supply chain, and with regulatory authorities.
About Deos
Deos is a safety-critical embedded RTOS that employs patented cache partitioning, memory pools, and safe scheduling to deliver higher CPU utilization than any other certifiable safety-critical COTS RTOS on multi-core processors. First certified to DO-178 DAL A in 1998, Deos provides certified conformant FACE OSS Safety Base and Safety Extended Profiles that feature hard real-time response, time and space partitioning, with support for Rate Monotonic, ARINC-653 and POSIX interfaces.
SafeMC technology extends Deos’ advanced capabilities to multiple cores, enabling developers of safety-critical systems to achieve best in class multi-core performance without compromising safety critical task response and guaranteed execution time. SafeMC employs a bound multiprocessing (BMP) extension of the symmetric multiprocessing architecture (SMP), safe scheduling, and cache partitioning to minimize cross-core contention and interference patterns that affect the performance, safety criticality and certifiability of multi-core systems. These features enable avionics systems developers to address issues that could impact the safety, performance and integrity of a software airborne system as specified by the FAA’s Advisory Circular (AC) AC 20-193.
Target Platforms
Deos and the LDRA tool suite are available for a variety of popular avionics multi-core processors, including the NXP i.MX8. Other popular targets include the Xilinx XC102 and ZCU102 evaluation kit), x86, TI, and soon Qualcomm.
About LDRA
For more than 45 years, LDRA has developed and driven the market for software that automates code analysis and software testing for safety-, mission-, security-, and business-critical markets. Working with clients to achieve early error identification and elimination and full compliance with industry standards, LDRA traces requirements through static and dynamic analysis to unit testing and verification for a wide variety of hardware and software platforms. Boasting a worldwide presence, LDRA has headquarters in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and India coupled with an extensive distributor network. For more information on the LDRA tool suite, please visit www.ldra.com.
About DDC-I, Inc.
DDC-I, Inc. is a global supplier of real-time operating systems, software development tools, custom software development services, and legacy software system modernization solutions, with a primary focus on mission- and safety-critical applications. DDC-I’s customer base is an impressive “who’s who” in the commercial, military, aerospace, and safety-critical industries. DDC-I offers safety-critical real-time operating systems, compilers, integrated development environments and run-time systems for C, C++, and Ada application development. For more information regarding DDC-I products, contact DDC-I at 4545 E. Shea Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85028; phone (602) 275-7172; fax (602) 252-6054; e-mail or visit http://www.ddci.com/pr2409.
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Oxley Group Ltd
Oxley offer a range of Military Marine NVG friendly LED lighting that includes navigation lights and controls, flight deck landing lights and interior compartment lighting. Our lighting products are used by Navies around the world including our own Royal Navy on UK Aircraft Carriers, Canadian Frigates, Swedish Submarines, Australian Surface vessels and Submarines, on board French Naval Carriers and in Naval Gun Turrets.
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The technology is extremely energy efficient and built robustly, with proven long life. The lighting is NVG friendly, dimmable and programmable to allow for operations with aircraft pilots using military night vision goggles. They offer superior design giving high reliability for the most demanding environments with high sealing and the ability to meet the most stringent EMC standards.
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Oxley are proud to say that we are working in partnership with SeaKing to enable a control panel to be offered with our LED Navigation Lighting. All of Oxley navigation lights have been specifically developed for vessels over 50 metres.
Contact Marcus Goad on 07850 917 263 for more information or to arrange samples.
Oxley specialises in the design and manufacture of advanced electronic and electro-optic components and systems for air, land and sea applications within the military sector. Established in 1942, Oxley has manufacturing facilities in the UK and USA and enjoys representation worldwide. The company’s products include night vision and LED lighting, data capture systems and electronic components. Oxley has pioneered the development of night vision compatible lighting. It offers a total package incorporating optical filters, equipment modification, cockpit and external lighting along with fleet wide upgrade services including engineering, installation, support, maintenance and training. The company’s long experience of manufacturing night vision lighting and LED indicators, coupled with advances in LED technology, has enabled it to develop LED solutions to replace incandescent and fluorescent lighting in existing applications as well as becoming the lighting option of choice in new applications such as portable military hospitals, UAV control stations and communication shelters.
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