Lynx Software Technologies (Lynx), a leader in solutions for the Mission Critical Edge, has announced a strategic collaboration with Lockheed Martin, a global aerospace and defence leader, aimed at delivering innovative and secure avionics systems that enhance customer capabilities. This partnership represents a significant advancement in defence technology, combining the expertise and resources of both companies.

The collaboration is designed to help Lockheed Martin’s customers transition from feature-centric to capability-driven development. By leveraging open standards like the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), Lockheed Martin will build its commercial common platform using Lynx’s award-winning LYNX MOSA.ic™ software framework. This approach is expected to increase agility, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and promote the reuse of design components across various defence programs.

“Lockheed Martin is setting a new standard for agility and efficiency in defence programs by adopting open architectures,” stated Tim Reed, CEO of Lynx. “Lynx is committed to supporting Lockheed Martin’s mission to facilitate quicker capability development and integration. Together, we are focused on providing a flexible, secure, and certifiable software foundation to ensure the U.S. military maintains its technological edge.”

Lockheed Martin has chosen Lynx MOSA.ic as the foundation for its reference architecture, which will include key general-purpose computer solutions. The collaboration aims to empower customers to swiftly adapt to new threats and opportunities while simultaneously reducing lifecycle costs and enhancing long-term platform flexibility.

“At Lockheed Martin, we are committed to providing our customers with cutting-edge solutions that promote interoperability, reusability, and cost savings,” said Steve Donlin, Lockheed Martin Avionics and Aircraft Modernization Director. “By working closely with Lynx Software Technologies and leveraging the LYNX MOSA.ic platform, we are helping our customers achieve its MOSA vision of creating more agile and capable systems built on open standards.”

LYNX MOSA.ic is built upon the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor and supports a range of operating systems, including LynxOS-178, Linux, Windows, third-party RTOS products, and bare metal applications. Unlike traditional RTOS platforms that integrate hardware control, real-time scheduling, security, multimedia, and application runtime services into a single stack, LYNX MOSA.ic allows system architects to partition systems into smaller, independent stacks tailored to specific application dependencies.

For more information about Lynx Software Technologies’ role in shaping the future of secure and modular avionics systems, visit www.lynx.com