Next-generation military avionics systems must provide more advanced capabilities than ever before. However, these increasingly complex requirements have led to unsustainable increases in software complexity, cost, and development time, and the resulting bespoke code has limited adaptability to other aircraft platforms. Onboard software systems for military aircraft must become standardized.

To enable the benefits of such standardization, the industry must foster an ecosystem of solution providers willing to conform their software to the standards framework and open architectures.