New standard ensures a common operating environment for military avionics computer systems platforms SAN JOSÉ—March 19, 2012—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced its membership in the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium, managed by The Open Group, to provide a common airborne computing environment for the Navy and other military branches. The FACE Consortium is an industry-government collaboration consisting of 39 members, including the U.S. Navy Air Combat Electronics Program Office, the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research and Engineering Center, and several leading industry defense contractors and avionics suppliers. The new FACE Technical Standard defines a reference architecture for creating a common operating environment to support applications across multiple Department of Defense avionics systems. The standard is designed to enhance the U.S. military aviation community's ability to address issues of limited software reuse and accelerate and enhance warfighter capabilities, as well as enabling the community to take advantage of new technologies more rapidly and affordably. According to John Blevins, the director of product marketing at LynuxWorks, "The company has a long history of providing proven, [...]

Ruggedized single-board computer now offers COTS development and deployment platform for latest version of LynxOS-178 RTOS SAN JOSÉ, Design West/ESC—March 28, 2012—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded safety and security software market, today announced the availability of its board support package (BSP) and corresponding DO-178B/C level C artifacts for the Curtiss-Wright SVME/DMV-183 rugged single-board computer. The new BSP is a part of LynxOS-178 2.2.2, the latest release of the safety-critical RTOS (real-time operating system) from LynuxWorks. The BSP brings this FAA Level A certifiable RTOS to the Curtiss-Wright SMVE/DMV-183 board and adds support for both single and dual Freescale MPC7447A/7448 PowerPC (Power Architecture) processors with AltiVec technology. LynxOS-178 RTOS is the first and only commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) operating system to receive Reusable Software Component (RSC) acceptance from the FAA for DO-178B/C certification. RSC certification acknowledges a speedier, smoother and more reliable development path for system integrators. The ruggedized Curtiss-Wright SVME-DMV-183 can support up to 2 GB of DDR SDRAM and represents a significant advancement in functionality and performance for rugged single-board-computers. With the release of the BSP comes the addition of [...]

SAN JOSÉ—March 12, 2012—LynuxWorks™, Inc., the first and only embedded operating system vendor to receive Advisory Circular AC 20-148 approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for reusable software components (RSC), has received its second RSC approval for the LynxOS-178 product family. Today, with RSC approval, the LynxOS-178 Version 2.2.2 RTOS (real-time operating system) can be more extensively used by avionics systems integrators and embedded developers for the operating system portion of the safety-critical software code and supporting DO-178B/C artifacts for reuse in other system designs with other software components without the need for full recertification. "More than ever, software component use in safety-critical software for embedded military applications or avionics flight systems is critical," said Stephen Balacco, director, Embedded Software and Tools Practice, VDC Research Group, Inc. "With RSC approval, the software components identified as reusable are already approved by the FAA." The OS provider chooses software components that are target hardware-independent, such as the kernel and libraries, which can constitute as much as 65% of the code. From that perspective, RSC approval provides system integrators and developers a tremendous head [...]

First demonstration of SINA Multilevel Workstation using LynxSecure 5.0 shown at RSA 2012 SAN FRANCISCO and NUREMBERG, GERMANY—February 28, 2012—RSA and Embedded World Conferences—LynuxWorks™, Inc. a world leader in the secure virtualization market, and German IT security specialist secunet Security Networks AG today announced that they have ported the Secure Inter-Network Architecture (SINA) Multilevel Workstation on to the latest version of the LynxSecure separation kernel and hypervisor. The two companies have also entered into a collaborative agreement to develop, sell and market this combined product to organizations requiring the highest levels of security on a worldwide basis. This product can be used by government agencies requiring secure separation of multiple networks on a single workstation, and any Enterprise organizations with highly sensitive information that needs to be protected against malicious threats. First demonstration of the product can be seen in the LynuxWorks booth #332 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA, from February 27-March 1. "We have been closely working with LynuxWorks on migrating our SINA workstation concept to the LynxSecure high security platform," said Kai Martius, head of secunet's High [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA, AFCEA West—January 25, 2012—LynuxWorks™, Inc. announced that the Mission Systems and Sensors Division (MS2) of Lockheed Martin in Owego, NY, has selected the LynxOS® real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for use in conjunction with the United Kingdom (UK) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). The UK's AWACS aircraft were designed to provide an airborne early-warning capability by tracking aircraft at extended ranges. The AWACS has become invaluable for airborne command and control and their ability to relay vital information to commanders on the ground. According to Robert Day, VP of Marketing at LynuxWorks, "In recent years, LynuxWorks software has been selected for a growing list of current and next-generation aircraft. This is one more example of LynxOS' strength to meet demanding security and mission-critical software requirements." The result of 21 years of RTOS experience, only LynxOS combines hard real-time embedded technology with broad conformance to open and de facto standards like Linux®, POSIX® and UNIX®. All operating system components within LynxOS are designed for absolute determinism—hard real-time performance. This means that they absolutely must [...]

Free Seminar on December 8 in Herndon, VA SAN JOSÉ, CA—November 30, 2011—As cyber attacks become more common and yet more complex, new methods for understanding and protecting against them become a necessity. ValidEdge, a leading malware analysis company; LynuxWorks™, a leader in real-time security; and OPSWAT, the industry-leading multiple-engine malware-scanning provider, will host a free seminar on December 8, in Herndon, VA, to explore new technologies that protect against malware threats. Presenters at the free seminar include the following malware authorities: Lixin Lu, Chief Technology Officer, ValidEdge Thomas Chimento, PhD, Director of Product Management, at OPSWAT Robert Day, vice president, LynuxWorks, Inc The OPSWAT Metascan product provides IT professionals and software engineers an easy way to enhance network security and integrate multiple antivirus scanning technologies and URL filtering into their proprietary solutions. The ValidEdge technology and products are used to quickly dissect new and unknown malware as it enters a network, giving the same level of intelligence as if the malware writer included his source code with the attack. The LynxSecure virtualization platform from LynuxWorks is used to provide isolated secure [...]

The combination of the TransLattice Application Platform running on LynuxWorks LynxSecure 5.0 gives superior protection for sensitive cloud-based data and applications BALTIMORE, MD, MILCOM—November 9, 2011—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the secure virtualization market, and TransLattice Inc., the geographically distributed application platform company for enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments, today announced that they have ported the TransLattice Application Platform 2.0 onto the latest version of the LynxSecure separation kernel and hypervisor. This combination of the LynuxWorks highly-secure virtualization solution and the TransLattice distributed computing platform, offers new levels of security, availability, scalability and resilience for migration of data and applications to the cloud. "As we built the TransLattice Application Platform, we looked for virtualization platforms on which to host our solution," said Frank Huerta, CEO and co-founder at TransLattice. "We found that LynxSecure 5.0 from LynuxWorks offered the highest level of security required by our customers as they look to migrate their highly sensitive applications and data to the cloud. The high performance and scalability of LynxSecure is well-matched with the design of the TransLattice solution, and we believe that this [...]

LynxSecure highly secure virtualization technology and CoolShell blade server provide a versatile platform for military applications BALTIMORE, MD, MILCOM—November 9, 2011—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the secure virtualization market, and Themis Computer, a leading global supplier of ruggedized, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) board and system-level products for military applications, team to demonstrate a new rugged, high-performance multilevel secure solution at MILCOM 2011. The companies will showcase LynuxWorks' LynxSecure secure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor running on Themis' CoolShell blade servers. Nowhere are the requirements for secure high-performance computing more dramatic than the battlefield. The military requires transportable, high-performance, secure computing platforms optimized for field deployment—where difficult conditions are the norm. This means secure, compact, lightweight, and highly available computing that is easy to use. The ideal solution must be scalable and designed to maximize virtual environments. Because back-up windows are short and bandwidth is limited, access to data must be fast, secure, and reliable. LynxSecure's highly secure virtualization solution utilizes CoolShell's hardware-virtualization technology and multiple processor cores to provide one of the most advanced multilevel secure platforms available in military and aerospace systems [...]

Secure endpoint has encrypted disk bands linked to different LynxSecure domains for strong data security on a single platform ORLANDO, FL, NSA Trusted Computing Conference—September 20, 2011—LynuxWorks™, Inc. today announced its continued collaboration with Wave Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:WAVX) on the use of a self-encrypting drive (SEDs) with the LynxSecure separation kernel and hypervisor for running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single endpoint. The demonstration links individual encrypted disk bands to different secure virtual domains provided by LynxSecure, running on a single device. The demonstration takes place this week In the LynuxWorks booth (#310) at the 2nd Annual National Security Agency's (NSA) Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition (Orlando, FL, September 20-22). As the use of portable and mobile endpoints become more common in the business environment, the risk of data compromise through either physical or cyber theft grows. New mechanisms are required to protect sensitive information while the endpoint is either 'at rest' or 'on line' away from the company premises. The collaborative use of SEDs and secure virtualization on an endpoint offers this protection. SEDs are a better option than traditional [...]

ORLANDO, FL—September 10, 2013—LynuxWorks™, Inc, a world leader in the embedded software market, announced that the company will take a leadership role in teaching trusted development methodologies and demonstrating secure technologies at the Trusted Computing Conference in Orlando, on September 11. The Trusted Computing Conference brings together experts in the field of information security to discuss, explore, promote and emphasize the need for a standards-based approach. LynuxWorks will be using its LynxSecure separation kernel and hypervisor to show how a trustworthy foundation can help meet these needs for secure systems development. As well as demonstrating LynxSecure at the conference, LynuxWorks will also participate in two key conference sessions. Panel Discussion on Market Adoption and Outlook: The Trusted Computing Group has enabled the broad use of trusted computing by creating and standardizing technology. Will Keegan, LynuxWorks' technical director for software security will join this lively panel that will discuss how these technologies have successfully been used and then transition into a brief discussion of the market outlook. The discussion will be moderated by Derek Brink of the Aberdeen Group. Rapid Development, Evaluation and [...]