Future Airborne Capability Environment

Today, it is a real-time software-focused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers, academia, and users.

The standard enables software developers to create and deploy a wide catalog of applications for use across the entire spectrum of real-time systems through a common operating environment.

[3][4][5] The FACE Consortium was formed by The Open Group as a "Voluntary Consensus Standards Body", as defined by the National Technology Transfer Act and OMB Circular A-119.

[6] One goal of the effort is to reduce the typical development and deployment cycle of new capabilities in military airborne platforms from as long as six years under the current methodology to as little as six months.

To meet the objectives of the technical approach, the FACE Technical Standard uses a standardized architecture describing a conceptual breakdown of functionality, called the FACE Reference Architecture, to promote the reuse of software components able to share common functionality across disparate systems.

This architecture defines standardized interfaces to allow software components to be moved between systems, including those developed by different vendors.

A Domain-Specific Data Model (DSDM) captures content relevant to a domain of interest and can be used as a basis for USMs.