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Aerospace & Defense

RTI software provides the standards-compliant connectivity foundation for hundreds of the world’s mission-critical Aerospace and Defense system designs.

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Enabling a Modular Open Systems Approach

Performance

Exceed stringent real-time requirements.

Scalability

Discover data and devices automatically easing system scalability.

Reliability

Deliver nonstop availability with no single point of failure.

Security

Provide fine-grained security.

The Standard in Mission-Critical Connectivity

Real-time Aerospace and Defense applications must employ a modular open systems architecture to:

  • Minimize integration, maintenance and upgrade costs,
  • Foster reuse and
  • Enable rapid reconfiguration to meet evolving mission requirements.

With its interoperability, portability, loose coupling and real-time Quality of Service (QoS), the Data Distribution Service (DDS™) is the predominant standard for implementing mission-critical open architecture systems.

As the leading DDS solution, RTI Connext provides the proven and most productive environment for developing DDS compliant systems. Its broad support for programming languages, operating systems, processor architecture and network types make it ideally suited to integrate everything from sensors at the edge, to track management in the cloud.

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RTI in A&D

Proven in mission-critical deployments, connecting land, sea, air, cyber and space-based systems.

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Transforming MOSA Systems

A whitepaper on the benefits of deploying a data-centric architecture.

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See Who is Using RTI Connext

RTI’s proven technology and expertise have played a key role in mission-critical Aerospace and Defense systems around the world.

 

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Applications

RTI technology and expertise are proven across Aerospace and Defense applications to securely and safely integrate mission-critical systems.

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All-Domain

Meeting the need for fast, scalable, reliable and secure connectivity within and between land, sea, air and space-based systems.

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Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)

MOSA

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Avionics

RTI technology and expertise are proven around the globe in avionics systems built for the future.

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FACE

Air Traffic Control

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Ground

RTI Connext delivers military-grade connectivity for ground systems that support open GCIA, MOSA, CMOSS and other software-defined vehicle designs.

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Maritime

Connext handles connectivity for many of the most complex and sophisticated surface vessels and systems on today’s waterways, enabling the next generation of maritime systems to develop the highest level of protection, with lower cost and error.

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UMAA

Exploration

Underwater Drones

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Space

Connext is improving our ability to communicate, explore, live and work in space

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Communications and Optics Technology

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Modeling, Simulation and Training

Connext is the platform that brings distributed simulations together in a secure, high-performance, scalable environment. 

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Success Stories

Large Distributed Control System
Large Distributed Control System
NASA Kennedy Space Center
RTI Connext reduces complexity for NASA’s Launch Control and Data Systems through a DDS data exchange infrastructure that provides fault tolerance through passive process replication, message traceability, persistence profile, and content subscription profile capabilities.
Non-Stop Reliability
Non-Stop Reliability
Raytheon Ship-Wide Area Network
The Ship-Wide Area Network (SWAN) on the US Navy LPD-17 runs machinery, damage control, steering, magnetic signature, mission control, navigation and communications. Connext supports redundant networks, data and sensors without servers.
Real-Time Message Delivery
Real-Time Message Delivery
US Navy Ship Self-Defense System
The Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) is the "last line of defense" and coordinates high-speed radars, targets defensive missiles and directs 1000+ rounds/sec at incoming cruise missiles. Connext delivers messages in real time.
System of Systems Integration
System of Systems Integration
General Dynamics LCS
RTI connects disparate systems, merges multiple languages on multiple operating systems, and handles DIL links and legacy interfaces for the US Navy Littoral Combat Ship. RTI is the leading vendor of combat system messaging.
Massive Application Scalability
Massive Application Scalability
Zumwalt DDG 1000
RTI Connext coordinates and manages complex, diverse onboard hardware and software systems, including hundreds of computers, thousands of applications, and more than 10m publish-subscribe pairs.
Interoperable Open Architecture
Interoperable Open Architecture
Next Generation Naval Systems
Standards-based, high-performance connectivity platform breaks vendor lock-in, drives interoperability and future-proofs architectural designs: Lockheed Aegis, Raytheon DDG 1000, Raytheon SSDS, LCS (Lockheed and GDAIS), Raytheon LPD-17, etc.
Easy Technology Upgrade
Easy Technology Upgrade
Boeing AWACS Airborne Surveillance, Command & Control
The Boeing AWACS upgrade design is more open and supportable. Connext's open and extensible connectivity platform lowers maintenance cost.
Large Scale Asset Tracking
Large Scale Asset Tracking
US Army Blue Force Tracker (JBC-P)
A redesign using DDS and data-centric technologies significantly reduced code size and CPU utilization, resulting in a fully redundant system capable of 250K tracks.
Enabling Advanced UAV Middleware
Enabling Advanced UAV Middleware
General Atomics Predator/Reaper
"The DO-178 version of the RTI Connext [DDS] middleware is a key part of our Airworthy MQ-9 UAS development program." – Jeff Hettick, Senior Engineering Director at General Atomics
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Ground-Air Cooperative Control
General Atomics Ground Control Stations
RTI's connectivity platform, services and open architecture sped the development and lowered costs of delivering real-time data acquisition, analysis, and response for uncrewed aircraft systems such as Predator GA.
Unmanned Vehicle Architecture
Uncrewed Vehicle Architecture
OSD UCS and FACE
RTI leads in defining a standard architecture for uncrewed vehicles and avionics. RTI chairs the OSD architecture for UCS (ground stations) and is a key contributor at FACE (avionics).
Human Robot Interaction Library
Human Robot Interaction Laboratory
European Space Agency
ESA uses Connext for communication and video to demonstrate long-distance object control from aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Coordinate Operations
Coordinate Operations
Shanghai Airport Authority
RTI Connext runs ground control at most major airports in the SE China Region (Shanghai PVG). Operations are extending to air traffic control in the future.
Training and Simulation
Training and Simulation
CAE
Pilots around the world consider CAE’s Sim XXI full-flight simulator to be the closest simulation of the true experience of flight. Connext helps to achieve this level of full-flight simulation.

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