Open Source Software and Architectures
Thursday 11th November 2010, 1100hrs–1230hrs
Chaired by Hans Dieter Ehrenberg Coping with the High Bandwidth of Today’s Tasks Mr. Rolf Müller, ATLAS Elektronik GmbH, Germany Modern warships and patrol ships have to cope with a demanding bandwidth of different tasks. These tasks include traditional homeland defence, constabulary and diplomatic services. A modern warship independent of its size should allow for easy reconfiguration to the current demands of the strategic situation. This means, today the mission system might be optimized for stabilization and anti-piracy missions, tomorrow it might be configured to fulfil a classical military task. Additionally it has to comply with different networks e.g. traditional military Link 11/16/22/Y or modern maritime security networks. The traditional design of combat systems and combat management systems is no longer suitable because it will not allow for easy reconfiguration. With respect to available military budgets not all customers will be able to finance a big fleet of specialized ships. Therefore, a modern combat system suite needs an architecture complying with the evolving modular ship system designs which are offered by the shipyard industry today. This paper will address solutions for this demanding task in the field of combat system design and implementation. Leveraging Open Source Technology for High Availability Systems Mr. Edward Beck, Mission Solutions Engineering, LLC, United States Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capabilities are expanding: The U.S. Navy is poised to deploy an operational sea-based missile defense system on a fleet of Aegis cruisers and destroyers. This sea-based capability will incorporate the U.S. Navy’s Open Architecture (OA) initiative which formalizes the Navy’s desire for a new combat system architecture that would be based on COTS technologies and open standards to provide an unprecedented degree of interoperability and scalability. Solution providers are challenged to create innovative approaches to meet the Open Architecture requirements while maintaining the real-time and high-performance computing requirements for Ballistic Missile Defense. In response to the BMD OA challenges, Mission Solutions, LLC embraced the use of open source technology, in part, for the implementation of our Open Architecture solutions. Many organizations are consciously adopting open source software for use in high-availability systems. The lure of open source software is that it is ‘free’, with access to a worldwide development community that improves, adapts and fixes the software, without corporate bounds. But how can we ensure that systems which incorporate open source technology operate effectively? Leveraging open source software presents many challenges. This paper will discuss the open source movement and focus on the safety and security concerns of utilising open source technology in deployed solutions. The discussion will be augmented with a case study on our use of open source software for several critical components of a real-time weapons system for the U.S. Navy. Navigating the open source waters is challenging; however, when chosen effectively, the open source components can provide cost-effective benefits to the project.
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Diamond Industry Patron
I shared global reflection about maritime defence and security items: new concepts operational and technologies in naval systems.
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Admiral Francis de la Haye
Navy Adviser, Thales Group, France
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