Andy Barrett
- Product Line Architect
- Thales UK
Andy Barrett is a Product Line Architect for Thales Flight Avionics (FLX) UK. Andy is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and has over 30 years’ experience of developing avionics software and systems across military and civil programmes.
His current role within the FLX UK Technical Directorate is to propose technical strategies and develop R&T studies that inform the product line architectures to meet the operational and business needs. This includes the application of Open System Architectures to current and future Thales FLX products.
Sessions
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FACE Developing Technical Standards & Updates
The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) is an open real-time standard for making safety-critical computing operations more robust, interoperable, portable and secure in the aerospace domain. The FACE approach is a government-industry software standard and business strategy for acquisition of affordable software systems that promotes innovation and rapid integration of portable capabilities across programs, including standardized approaches for using open standards within avionics systems and standards that support a robust architecture and enable quality software development for portability of applications across multiple FACE systems and vendors. What are the latest standards and how are the FACE standards developing for future programs? How do these standards affect programs such as Pyramid and ECOA?