Integrated Test Bed Facility

The ITB's avionics system is composed of multiple high performance processors, embedded software, and data communication systems. The avionics embedded software is a real-time implementation, in DoD standard Ada, operating across multiple processors and processor types. The ITB provides a real-time, crew-in-the-loop, full mission simulation/stimulation system. A high performance simulation host computer provides the mission environment along with several airframe models and drives out-the-window scene and sensor image generators. This provides the pilot (the avionics system evaluator) with a familiar operating environment. The system is designed to be modularly expandable and has been interfaced with an electronic warfare avionics laboratory and a communication/ navigation avionics laboratory, thus forming the foundation for a full avionics system hot-bench, Avionics Wind Tunnel.