Interoperability Standards for a Network Based Instrumentation System

Abstract

The deployment of a standards-based networked airborne instrumentation on a new flight test program has led to a cost-efficient multi-vendor interoperable system with best-in-breed technologies. Airborne instrumentation systems have been deployed using vendor based proprietary network systems on a variety of DoD test programs which did not allow migration to better performing technologies. The development of standards-based network instrumentation systems has led to an opportunity for plug-n-play interoperability across airframes and organizations. This paper describes a standards-based, networked, multi-vendor instrumentation system on a new program that ruled out the use of a sole vendor proprietary instrumentation system.