Lynx, the leader in delivering solutions for the Mission Critical Edge, announced today that its LYNX MOSA.ic operating environment has been selected by Bell Textron Inc., a Textron company, to support the U.S. Army's Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA).

The LYNX MOSA.ic software framework offers a standard-based modular approach to integrating multi-core safety-critical and security-critical applications. This design allows users to leverage standards and maximize current and future reuse of software, development tools, integration tools and the opportunity to minimize system recertification. This framework provides Bell and its partners the flexibility and agility needed to meet the Army's Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) objectives.

"Our selection for Team FLRAA, which is poised to define the next generation of Army aviation, showcases Lynx's commitment to delivering a technologically advanced operating environment that exceeds the Army's requirements," said Tim Reed, CEO of Lynx. "LYNX MOSA.ic's modular architecture enhances current capabilities while laying the foundation for future innovation."

A cohesive system

LYNX MOSA.ic is a multicore operating environment for building robust, deterministic and predictable systems for the aerospace and defense sector. It leverages modern separation kernel and virtualization hardware technology to safely partition application, driver, security and management environments. Additionally, it includes modularity and interoperability properties that allow a wide variety of software components of different programming languages, runtime environments and abstraction layers to be reintegrated into a cohesive system.

Bell's selection of LYNX MOSA.ic as the operating system (OS) provider for both Arm-based system and Intel-based systems on the same aircraft speaks to the system and platform-wide benefits of a common and modular OS. The selection showcases that Lynx is a leading provider of operating systems in the aerospace and defense sectors.

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Ryan Ehinger, senior vice president and program director, FLRAA, Bell - "Bell's mission is to modernize and maintain the Army's aviation capabilities for decades to come. We are pleased to leverage the LYNX MOSA.ic as Team FLRAA works to equip soldiers with the speed and range they need to compete and win using the most mature, reliable and affordable high-performance long-range assault weapon system in the world."