1 Microway Systems Inc. 193 Bloomfield, Outremont, Montreal Presenting the MHP EV&V CONSORTIUM December 4, 2003.

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Microway Systems Inc.193 Bloomfield, Outremont, Montreal

www.microwaysystems.com

Presenting the

MHP EV&V CONSORTIUM

December 4, 2003

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MHP External V&V Consortium Proposal

Building a team to provide External V&V and real-time simulation-based testing for the Maritime Helicopter

Project (MHP)

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Examples of V&V contracts on large projects

• Governments encourage Independent V&V on major projects

• Value-added External V&V improve product safety, quality and save money

Project Client IV&V Contrator(s)Canadian Arm II Canadian Space Agency PRIOR Data ScienceFrigate program DND Many IV&V contractors, including

the Naval Test EstablishmentInternational Space Station Canadian Space Agency Many IV&V contrators: C&CA,

Microway, Naresh Kotary, etcThree Gorges Dam, Yangtzey River

Chinese government Hydro Quebec International

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External V&V Consortium Offering

• Services for Maritime Helicopter Project– External Validation and Verification (External V&V)– Real-time simulation-based testing

• Model-based engineering design• Aircraft-in-the-loop testing

– Aerodynamics, wind engineering (ship-helicopter interactions) and in-flight-icing modeling and verification

• Products for Maritime Helicopter Project– Avionics test-benches based on high-fidelity real-

time simulation– Real-time simulation software for COTS systems

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How External V&V can help win contract

• Help meet DND Canadian content objectives– Canadian content with high technical competency– Builds Canadian expertise for future projects

(MHP, F18, and Aurora upgrades, Strategic Heavy Lifter project)

• Reassure DND on system integrity– 100% arms-length external V&V auditor – no conflict of interest– Provide safety and technical assurance

(as an external accounting audit provides financial confidence) • Lower bid price

– Bidder can propose his own choice of auditing depth that would lower the V&V cost compared to full-fledged IV&V

– Consortium’s advanced simulation technologies have a proven record of lowering cost and speeding development and certification

• Improve client satisfaction– Enhanced safety assurance– Virtual prototyping optimizes design to meet DND

requirements

– Faster development and certification help meet delivery milestones

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Value Added Methodologies Expertise

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Unique value-added offer

Provide confidence to the DND on system integrity

Competent V&V Organization audits quality of work done by prime contractor and subcontractors

Microway

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Reduce the high cost of conventional IV&V

HW and SW-in-the-loop model-based engineering testing using unique simulation technologies and services

Opal-RT, UTIAS

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Shorten delivery period for SW development, Speed up certification

Inspection and software in the loop model-based design (approach pioneered with Embraer, comparing the results of actual controller with the simulation results)

Microway, Opal-RT

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Improve flight and landing safety

Aerodynamics, wind, icing analysis Microway, NTI, Opal-RT

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Increase satisfaction with final product

• Participation in design reviews• System optimization based on high-

fidelity dynamic simulation and virtual prototyping

Microway, Opal-RT

6. Build Canadian expertise for use in future projects

• PRIME retains IP of External V&V, test methodologies and sim models

• Consortium maintains and extends Canadian expertise

External V&V Consortium

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Conventional IV&V organization

1. Technically and managerially independent of both DND and the helicopter supplier

2. Carries out independent analysis and testing – Uses its own V&V facilities and tools – Covers any gaps in the helicopter supplier’s V&V and

critical development processes – With this additional vigilance, the IV&V organization

provides confidence to DND on the safety, integrity and performance of the software and of the system

3. Typically very expensive– For certain U.S. ballistic-missile procurements, the

cost of IV&V has equaled or exceeded the total software development cost

– Intellectual Property (IP) belongs to IV&V organization and must be re-licensed or rebuilt for future projects

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Value-added External V&V approach

1. Still independent technically and managerially from the DND and the helicopter supplier’s V&V activities

2. Proposes a different approach to External V&V:a. Audits supplier's V&V philosophy, organizational structure, plans,

procedures, facilities and tools to assess adequacy

b. External V&V Discrepancy Reports identify improvements to supplier’s V&V, ensuring that necessary safety-test procedures are developed and executed and that issues are made visible to DND

c. Enhances supplier’s V&V with unique simulation methodologies, especially for avionics (upgraded often during the helicopter life cycle), feeds back simulation-test-bench to engineering cycle

d. Otherwise uses DND or university-owned facilities, i.e. McGill, UTIAS

3. Results as compared with conventional IV&V organization:

a. Improved safety

b. Reduced cost and faster delivery realized on first project

c. Increased savings on future projects

d. Optimized performance and to improve safety and user satisfaction

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Unique simulation methodologies

1. Opal-RT: Real-time and non-real-time simulation models

a) Desktop Simulation: Engineering analysis, designb) Engineering Simulator: Ground Based Simulator

checks aircraft handling qualities, failure cases and hazard level

c) Iron Bird closed-loop simulation: Tests the real hardware against the simulation (including Acceptance tests for avionic system release)

d) Aircraft-in-the-loop simulation: Cut time and cost and increase safety

2. Newmerical Technologies International:a) Aerodynamic performance and thermodynamic

analysisb) CFD-based Icing analysis and air wake effects for

landing and take-off from ships

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MHP External V&V ConsortiumMHP PRIME

CONTRACTOR

External V&V Consortium

(100% CANADIAN)

NTIAerodynamics,

Wind, Icing Analysis Experts

UTIAS ( U. of T. Inst. for Aerospace Studies)

Virtual Reality Experts

Opal-RTReal-Time

Simulation Experts

MicrowayAirworthiness and

V&V Experts

INFO-KIT Technologies

e.Learning training

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Consortium experience• Proven ability to perform to military standards:

– Airborne products certification– Data modeling, object-oriented design, systems engineering– IV&V, simulation, testing– DO-178 B, DO-248, DO-254, ANSI/EIA 649 1998, MIL-STD-

2167A, IEEE/EIA 12207.0-1996, IEEE/EIA 12207.1-1997, SAE-ARP4761

– Specification writing, program management

• Provides unique technologies: – Cost-effective use of COTS hardware to accelerate

engineering-test cycle using model-based methodology – Faster, more accurate modeling using most advanced COTS

mathematics software– Rapid development, troubleshooting, verification and

validation of aerodynamic, electromechanical, hydraulic systems, and their respective controllers for certification:

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Consortium track recordConsortium

memberClient Service

and/or Product

Benefit

Microway Canadian Space Agency

IV&V and Certification Consulting Services

Tens of M$ less than conventional IV&V

Opal-RT Embraer COTS Engineering Simulators and Simulation Services

M$ savings using COTS HW, approx 1 year advance in schedule

UTIAS (with DCIEM) DND Virtual Simulator of helicopter landing on frigate

Tens of M$ less than conventional simulator

NTI DND Aerodynamic and unique icing analysis

Improved safety

INFO-KIT Technologies

ÉNPQ / GE Hydro

LMS / LCMS and content development

Tracking training process and AICC content standardization

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Introducing Microway• Aerospace and avionics expertise

– Safety and IV&V for the International Space Station: Canadian Space Agency (1996-1999) IV&V and S&PA sub-contractor

– Sikorsky HH-53, Agusta-Bell AB-212, AB-412, Agusta A-109, A-129, Eurocopter TIGER

– Lockheed C-130 H Combat Talon, CP-140- Aurora Patrol Aircraft– Airworthiness Delegation: Airborne Equipment Certification

BAE Systems and CMC Electronics (1999-2001)– 2002-2003 DO-178B, DO 248 & DO254 level A for the EMC 50

FADEC Operating System and Controller for aircraft Engines for GPECS of Goodrich

• Development and management of complex real-time software systems using state-of-the-art SW and HW– Software Capability Maturity Model, – Change management, – TQM, JIT, Total System Intervention, – Software quality

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Introducing Opal-RT

• Parallel digital simulator systems– General purpose parallel real-time simulators– Aviation-specific simulators, block set and SW tools

• Aerospace engineering services– System modeling– Flight Controls Analysis– Fly-by-wire Control Laws Design– Handling Qualities Analysis– Failure Hazard Analysis

World leader in distributed and parallel computation on off-the-shelf PC-based platforms, Opal-RT supplies a unique technology that empowers real-time solutions for simulation, control, testing and related applications:

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Opal-RT Simulators• Electrical Engineering Simulator

– A Real-Time Simulator of power systems found in aircraft and other vehicles such as trains, ships, and off-highway and hybrid-electric vehicles.

• RT-LAB Rapid Prototyping Controller & Software Integrator – A modular real-time algorithm prototyping system based

on industry standard bus architectures and network interfaces.

– Provides a pre-configured PC-based target for rapid prototyping, hardware-in-the-loop, real-time performance or the power of parallel processing.

• RT-LAB Test Flight – An inexpensive "aircraft-in-a-box" simulator for testing

avionics, hardware components and control code. • RT-LAB UAV Engineering Simulator

– Takes your UAV concepts from model to operating in a real-time HLA federated simulation, smoothly and painlessly.

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Partial List of Opal-RT Customers• Department of National Defense Canada

• DSO National Labs (Singapore Armed Forces),

• Embraer (Brazilian aircraft manufacturer for commercial and defense markets)

• Marintek (Norwegian Maritime Technology Institute, specializing in naval systems)

• Mechtronix Systems (flight-training devices)

• United Defense

• Pratt & Whitney Canada

• Mannarino (aerospace control HIL test system)

• CS Communication (Gas turbine control HIL system)

More than 110 customersin automotive, electrical systems, research center and universities

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Introducing NTI

Newmerical Technologies Inc. provides expertise and technology in the following areas:

• Aerodynamics– Aerodynamic performance– Thermodynamics of all systems

• Icing– Rain, snow and ice effects on helicopter– Performance at sea, in rain and ice storms – Review of certification requirements, if any

• Database for simulators– Real-time simulator CFD-based databases for flight and for icing– Real-time simulator CFD-based databases for air wake effects

for landing and take-off from ships

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NTI Customers: Aerospace + Icing

Merlo, Kanofsky & Merlo, Kanofsky & Brinkmeier, Ltd.Brinkmeier, Ltd.

Merlo, Kanofsky & Merlo, Kanofsky & Brinkmeier, Ltd.Brinkmeier, Ltd.

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NTI Customers: Wind Engineering +

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Introducing INFO-KIT Technologies

INFO-KIT Technologies provides services and technology in the following areas :

• Authoring tool (Tactic!)– Easy content development software– SCORM and AICC compliant

• Learning Management System \ Learning Content Management System (eduZone)

– Courses creation– Training management– Skills management – Competency management

• eLearning simulator (3DSEV)– 3D simulator Web-based– Linked with eduZone

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INFO-KIT Technologies Customers:

• Department of National Defense Canada (Tactic!)

• Hydro-Québec (Tactic!)

• Gentilly Nuclear Power Plant (eduZone)

• Pratt & Whitney Canada (Tactic!)

• Québec National School of Firefighting (eduZone and Tactic!)

• GE Hydro (Tactic! + courses dev.)

• Marguerite-Bourgeoys School Board (eduZone + 3D + courses dev.)

• Integrated Performance Solution (eduZone)

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Conclusion

• Major projects require significant V&V expenditure

• Value added External V&V – improve safety, – improve product quality – save time and money

• The proposed External V&V consortium offers – Unique 100% Canadian solution– Unique advanced simulation technologies

applied to External V&V