CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW OPEN
Deadline – 23rd October 2026
The Avionics and Testing Innovations conference committee is inviting you to submit an abstract for consideration for inclusion in the 2027 Conference Programme.
If you are interested in speaking, sharing your experiences and expertise, please submit an abstract (which should be non-commercial in nature) by 23rd October 2026.
Topics of discussion will include, but not limited to:
Avionics Track:
- Mandates and Regulatory Frameworks Updates
- Avionics Technologies
- Avionics Enhancing Flight Efficiencies and Safety
- ADS-B
- Aviation Infrastructure
- Wireless onboard avionics networks
- Use and Trends in Avionics and Data
- Cybersecurity
- Avionics Technology Trends
- AI, Machine Learning and Autonomy in Avionics
- Secure Avionics Data Loading Systems
- System on Chip and Multicore Processing
- Embedded Systems on Chip (SoC) for Avionics
- SESAR 3 and NextGen
- Future for data comms and avionics
- EVTOLs, UAMs, and Drones
- Enhanced Flight Vision Systems (EFVS)
- Air Traffic Management and the shared airspace
- Uncrewed Aerial Systems and Unmanned Aircraft “Traffic System” Management (UTM)
Testing Track:
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Within The Testing Environment
- Data handling in Testing
- How to ‘test the test’ for reliability
- Cybersecurity in Testing
- Securing testing processes
- Linking of testing components
- Maintaining continuous airworthiness & testing requirements
- Latest regulation in Testing and Certification
- Blockchain in testing and test blockchain authentication
- High Level Integration and Testing, Complex, Digital and Embedded Systems
- Testing of multicore processors, system on chip and super integrated computers
- Multicore Avionics Certification
- Test multicores with multithreading inside
- Avionics Software Testing
- Testing software related systems
- Testing of digital systems and continuous testing of complex systems
- Testing for long periods, extended testing and long term soak testing
- Innovations in the Testing Environment
- Virtual testing, Remote Testing and Digital twinning
- What is the future role for 3D Modelling, Simulation & Validation and Automated Testing Equipment (ATE)
- Integration of AI into flight control and testing
- Use of AI for data analysis and to supplement staff shortages
- Software and Hardware in the Loop Testing
- Complete testing of sensors in MRO equipment
- Challenges in the Changing Testing Environment
- Measurement Testing Systems
- Simulation and Validation Testing
- 3D Modelling, Simulation & Validation
- Telemetry Testing Systems
- Automated Testing Equipment (ATE)
- UAM/UAS/UAV/eVTOL and Drone Testing
- Software Testing & Data Acquisition
- Autonomous Aircraft Software Testing
- EMC Testing Technologies
- Flight Data Controls Testing
FACE Track:
The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) standard covers a comprehensive set of topics aimed at achieving software portability, interoperability, and affordability across military/defense airborne platforms, including:
- Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)
- Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA)
- Operating System Segment (OSS)
- Input/Output Services Segment (IOSS)
- Platform-Specific Services Segment (PSSS)
- Transport Services Segment (TSS)
- Portable Components Segment (PCS)
- Standardized Interfaces
- FACE Data Architecture and Data Modeling
- Programming Language Run-times
- Software Modularity and Portability
- Interoperability
- Conformance Program
- Business Strategy for Acquisition
- Open Standards
- Real-time Computing Operations
Multicore Track:
- Core-to-core interference through shared hardware resources
- Difficulty in worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis
- Cache coherency and shared cache management
- Memory bandwidth contention
- Thermal management and power throttling affecting determinism
- Hardware obsolescence and long lifecycle support
- Maintaining temporal and spatial partitioning on multicore systems
- Mixed-criticality application scheduling
- Parallel software development and concurrency issues
- Deterministic inter-process and network communication
- Increased verification and validation complexity
- Certification of multicore platforms (e.g. CAST-32A compliance)
- Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) consolidation challenges
- Cybersecurity and side-channel vulnerabilities on shared hardware
- High-assurance security separation for classified and safety-critical software
- Managing high-performance radar, electronic warfare, and sensor fusion workloads
- Integration of AI/ML accelerators while maintaining determinism
- Fault tolerance and resilience under degraded or contested conditions
- Balancing performance with real-time safety requirements
- High certification cost and evidence generation for safety-critical systems