Software Engineering Institute

To reduce the time needed to field capabilities and lower lifecycle costs, the Department of Defense (DoD)has instructed program managers to consider a modular open systems approach (MOSA). MOSA promotes extensibility and composability of platforms through technical standards such as the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE). However, a gap exists in verifying whether implemented capabilities satisfy the design constraints of a reference architecture such as FACE.

This project is creating an automated conformance checker that can be integrated into the continuous integration workflow to detect and report nonconformances in hours instead of the months or years that it takes to discover these problems today. This technology will correctly identify design nonconformances with precision greater than 90%.