Increase productivity, reduce design costs: CS works side-by-side with its customers – aircraft manufacturers, engine makers and equipment suppliers – to help their value-added take off. A strategic player in the aeronautics value chain, CS carries out complex projects, working for major industrial firms in the business.

A strategic partner in the aerospace sector, CS handles complex projects for major customers. The largest engine manufacturers, such as Turbomeca and Pratt & Whitney, the most innovative aircraft builders, such as Airbus, and worldwide equipment suppliers, such as Thales and Safran, rely on CS specialized know-how for the development, integration and maintenance of their critical real-time embedded systems and their technical information systems.

AERONAUTICS SYSTEMS

Towards full outsourcing of functions
Air traffic management (ATM) applications, embedded systems, modeling and virtual reality – from project definition to specification to integration, the overall proven capacity of CS enables it to manage development programs end-to-end, even for customers who want to outsource entire functions.

CS banks on its long experience with high-tech industries, which typically impose sever performance and reliability constraints. Flight warning and control, braking, communication and more: all CS systems meet strict quality and security norms, like DO178.
Furthermore, its 20 years of experience with embedded mission-critical real-time software, have made the company a worldwide acknowledged expert on DO178-B recommendations. In addition, CS actively participates in formulating new DO178-C recommendations, foreseen in 2008. The company also has CMMI level 3 certification, and aims for level 5 in 2009 (the Capability Maturity Model Integration, or CMMI approach, was created by the Software Engineering Institute, SEI, under the sponsorship of the American Department of Defense).

CS offers its aeronautics customers a broad selection of resources for:
• development of avionics systems and embedded software,
• systems testing,
• technical documentation and logistics data management,
• technical and aeronautics information systems,
• air traffic control systems,
• 3D training simulators,
• scientific applications and digital simulation.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

The availability of maintenance and operating manuals is increasingly critical to aviation operations, which is why documentation software is moving to the forefront of user concerns. In order to meet the needs of the manufacturer, Airbus, and its equipment suppliers, CS instituted a competency cluster that specializes in document production software tools. The company's latest release is MDS (Modular Documentation System), which enables writing and publishing aircraft manuals, not only which conform to norms of the International Air Transportation Authority (IATA), but also to military standards of AECMA (a European association of aerospace industries).
Furthermore, CS is in numerous projects for technical data management and PLM (product lifecycle management). It has opened up new horizons in Europe, since it became a certified provider for EADS through a joint venture, CenProCS AIRliance, consulting on, developing and managing solutions for industrial IT and PLM.

METHODS AND FORMAL PROOFS

Over the last 20 years, CS has defined and disseminated many formalized methods. Today, it is at the heart of some of the largest R&D projects: for example, ACOTRIS, Neptune, OpenEmbeDD and Topcased. In fact, Topcased (an initiative of OPEES within the competency cluster, Aerospace Valley) integrates some of the most advanced technologies in real-time embedded systems.

INNOVATION

The European Commission launched its Single European Sky initiative with a view to harmonizing the organization of air transportation in Europe. This way, the European Union aims to meet the future needs of its citizens in terms of capacity and safety. This initiative led to the launch of the program, SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research), co-sponsored by the European Commission and Eurocontrol.
Harmonization brings into play two principles: on the one hand, interoperability between ground systems, namely civil and military communications, and on the other hand, integration of airborne and ground systems in order to enable better management of aircraft flight paths, with increased usability of satellite-based data links and positioning.
The entire spectrum of CS activities is engaged: secured architectures, communications, aerospace, embedded systems, its capability to act as prime contractor for comprehensive systems (such as air traffic control centers), and of course validation using its high-performance simulation resources.


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