When Safety Is Critical.
AFuzion provides aviation engineering and certification consulting, specializing in safety-critical software, hardware, and systems development for the global aerospace industry. Its engineers created the original aviation compliance Gap Analysis in 1989 and have provided training, templates, and certification services to aircraft developers, avionics OEMs, defense contractors, and regulatory agencies globally. The practice offers deep technical expertise in safety-critical standards including DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, and DO-326A/ED-202A cyber-security.
Onsite and offsite safety-critical engineering covering systems, safety, software, hardware, verification, validation, and process assurance.
System requirements specification and design for aircraft, avionics, satellites, CNS/ATM ground systems, missiles, and military equipment per ARP4754A, ED-153, and ED-79A.
DO-178C compliant software engineering covering high-level and low-level requirements, software design and coding, OOT application (DO-332), model-based development (DO-331), verification, structural coverage analysis, and performance testing.
DO-254 compliant hardware development including requirements engineering, FPGA/ASIC/PLD design, validation and verification, structural reviews, element analysis, and worst-case execution time (WCET) performance testing.
Safety analyses and assessments compliant with ARP4761/A, FAA 14 CFR 25.1309, and EASA CS-25.1309, including FHA, PSSA, PASA, SSA, FMEA, FTA, and safety assessment reports.
Project quality and process assurance defining and performing project QA/PA, auditing, assessment, and root-cause analysis compliant with ARP4754A, DO-178C, DO-278A, DO-200B, DO-254, AS9115A, and ISO 9001.
Proprietary aviation compliance gap analysis identifying and closing process gaps in civil and military safety-critical engineering standards.
Evaluates software requirements, safety, design, testing, and QA to assess and leverage compliance to DO-178C standards.
Examines hardware safety, requirements, FPGA/ASIC/PLD design, validation and verification, tool usage, and process assurance.
Assesses system safety, requirements, design, integration, tools, QA, configuration management, and validation and verification.
Examines aviation data quality requirements, data flow, safety, receipt/transmission, configuration management, QA, tools, and verification.
Examines ground-based communication, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic management systems safety, requirements, hardware/software, COTS usage, QA, and validation.
Examines aviation product cyber-security certification gaps, including planning, development, production, operation, and maintenance vulnerabilities.
Evaluates automotive electronics safety, ASIL, software, hardware, design, validation, verification, tools, and field support.
Civil and military compliance mentoring and certification auditing for FAA, EASA, and military standards, supporting aircraft categories per 14 CFR Parts 23, 25, 27, and 29.
Public, private, and video-based training covering aerospace and safety-critical standards including DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, and DO-326A.
Open-enrollment courses and live-streamed webinars on safety-critical standards, multicore processors, RTOS, and aerospace certification.
Tailored on-demand training courses customized to specific client products, processes, and engineering teams, delivered onsite or offsite.
Proprietary planning templates and compliance checklists for DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, and related safety-critical standards designed to accelerate certification.
Work in this area is organized into supported delivery tasks.
Support includes Enablement of engineering methodologies.
Support includes Agile.
Support includes Lean.
Support includes Model-Based development.
Support includes and CMMI.
Support includes to reduce safety-critical development costs and risks.
Expert witness and technical testimony services utilizing deep industry experience in safety-critical aviation systems and certification compliance.
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Aviation · 2023 · Client: Applied Avionics
AFuzion provided senior design and certification engineering support over a two-year period to help Applied Avionics secure full FAA TSO-C113b approval for its DAL A Integrated Signal Processor DCU120.