Lockheed Martin Goes with LynuxWorks
In client news this week, LynuxWorks distributed a press release that announced that Lockheed Martin has selected LynxOS 5.0 real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity 3.0 development toolkit for the radar design and development portion of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program. MEADS, under development by MEADS International for the United States, Germany and Italy, is designed to replace the Patriot and Hawk missile systems.
Combining battlefield protection with flexibility, MEADS protects maneuvering ground combat forces and provides homeland defense against tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and aircraft. The LynxOS 5.0 migration enables Lockheed Martin to take advantage of the latest LynuxWorks network stack and Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) technologies — both of which are now integrated into the software, while still maintaining POSIX conformance.
“Our decades of experience in the military market continue to be applied toward growing our partnership with Lockheed Martin and improving military technology,” said LynuxWorks CEO Gurjot Singh. “We have already demonstrated that our software was powerful enough to handle the stringent security demands of the MEADS launcher. We’re now going to prove it has the mettle to handle the MEADS radar controls.”
When completed, MEADS will be the only air defense system capable of immediate deployment upon arrival, beginning operations with a “plug-and-fight” capability. The system will provide greater firepower with less manpower than current systems, dramatically decreasing operations and support costs.
LynxOS 5.0 is a real-time POSIX-conformant operating system designed for real-time, mission critical systems. The high performance software supports application programming and Linux application binary interfaces (APIs/ABIs).
Luminosity 3.0 is a Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) that is based on the popular open-source Eclipse IDE platform. The third generation of Luminosity supports the latest LynuxWorks operating systems, including LynxOS 5 and LynxOS-SE and provides a simplified, flexible platform to create, edit, compile, manage and debug embedded and real-time applications. The easy-to-use interface gives developers easy access to a wide array of both enterprise and embedded plug-in tools to speed development and reduce time to market via the unique Luminosity Validated Plug-In Program.