Boeing standardizes FCS device development on Wind River Workbench

May 1, 2006
Experts at Boeing, as the lead systems integrator for the U.S. Army’s Future Combat System (FCS), understood well the benefits-increased productivity, reduced errors, and lowered costs-of standardizing device development for large projects.

Experts at Boeing, as the lead systems integrator for the U.S. Army’s Future Combat System (FCS), understood well the benefits-increased productivity, reduced errors, and lowered costs-of standardizing device development for large projects. The company ended its search for a common environment upon which all FCS devices are to be built with its selection of Wind River Workbench from Wind River Systems in Alameda, Calif.

More than 2000 developers across the United States are contributing systems to the FCS program, designed to enhance the Army’s agility and capabilities. Considered the core of the Army’s future force, the FCS program encompasses not only the information and communication network, but also manned and unmanned combat systems and wired soldiers able to communicate with sensors and various air and ground platforms.

The FCS Software Development Environment will use Workbench as a foundation-Wind River’s Eclipse-based development suite. Boeing opted for Workbench given its ability to operate across multiple development sites and companies, hosts, and operating systems.

Workbench will be applied across the FCS program to develop the system-of-systems common operating environment (SoSCOE). The SoSCOE supports several applications and platforms through a standards-based architecture and COTS computing hardware tailored to military use. Workbench will also help develop such solutions as battle command software, tactical and strategic communications, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors.

For more information, visit www.windriver.com.

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