AdaCore’s expertise in programming languages, compiler technology, formal methods, and regulatory compliance helps defense primes, avionics manufacturers, and developers of unmanned and autonomous platforms reduce software risk, meet assurance objectives, and sustain critical systems throughout long program lifecycles.
Managing Software Risk Across Defense Programs
Defense primes and developers of unmanned and autonomous systems must manage increasingly complex software while meeting strict safety, security, interoperability, and compliance requirements. Software now underpins flight control, navigation, communications, propulsion, surveillance, mission management, and other functions where defects can compromise safety, platform availability, or mission performance.
Organizations must also coordinate multiple programming languages, development tools, suppliers, operating systems, and hardware generations. This makes it more difficult to maintain traceability, identify vulnerabilities, demonstrate compliance, and sustain critical software throughout long defense program lifecycles.
Responding to Growing Autonomy & System Complexity
UAVs and autonomous defense systems are incorporating greater autonomy, artificial intelligence, advanced sensors, connected subsystems, and increasingly sophisticated software architectures. As this complexity grows, defects discovered during integration or certification can result in extensive rework, program delays, and higher costs.
Software assurance is also becoming more closely linked to cybersecurity and supply chain management. Defense organizations need visibility into the compilers, runtimes, libraries, operating systems, and third-party components used to build their systems, while ensuring that software remains secure, maintainable, and compliant as platforms evolve.
Supporting Critical Defense & Unmanned Applications
AdaCore supports defense primes, avionics manufacturers, and organizations developing safety-critical unmanned, autonomous, and mission systems. Its technologies can be applied across:
- Flight control, guidance, and navigation
- Propulsion and subsystem management
- Communications, surveillance, and data networks
- Mission and platform-management systems
- Command-and-control platforms
- Radar and tactical systems
Reliable Software Through the Whole Development Cycle
AdaCore build and qualify compiler toolchains and analysis and testing tools for legacy and cutting-edge architectures. These technologies help organizations engineer reliable software throughout the development lifecycle. Capabilities include:
- Ada, C/C++, and Rust
- DevOps ready tools
- Customizable Runtimes
- Static Analysis for C and C++
- Static Analysis for Ada
- Dynamic Analysis
For airborne programs where DO-178B/C applies, AdaCore technologies support projects up to Design Assurance Level A (DAL A) and provide qualification material for verification tools. AdaCore produces Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) for all AdaCore products supplied in the industry-standard SPDX format, allowing automated incorporation into customers’ vulnerability management and reporting systems.
