Air Force Future Aerospace Science and Technology (HUFAST) Center

Abstract

In keeping with the primary objective of the grant the HUFAST research team designed and developed tools to assist in the development of component-based, fault-tolerant C4I systems. During the first two years of this effort the HUFAST research program focused on fault-tolerant issues involving C4I systems in distributed environments. The work researched fundamental problems in software engineering with special emphasis on those problems most common to avionics. This period provided the basis for the middle two years where the research emphasized more technical results. Further these middle two years allowed us to apply our earlier results and direct our efforts more towards issues of fault-tolerance in targeted heterogeneous applications. The avoidance of single points of failure in distributed, component-based systems was emphasized. The primary purpose of our research was realized during the latter two years of the project with the creation of a Software Development Kit (SDK) comprised of methods and tools to assist the developers of fault-tolerant. component-based software for avionics and aerospace.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA417085

Entities

People

  • Harry N. Keeling

Organizations

  • Howard University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Avionics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Neural Networks
  • Operations Research
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space