Future Vertical Lift getting top-notch design architecture

Future Vertical Lift, or FVL, is an initiative looking at the next-generation of rotorcraft for 2040 and beyond for the U.S. military. FVL recently added new architecture, which promises to increase safety and security and reduce cost overruns, delays and performance problems, according to Alex Boydston.

It's called Architecture Centric Virtual Integration Process, or ACVIP, a type of Joint Common Architecture, or JCA, and it's so new, it's still in the demonstration phase.

Boydston - who is a project engineer for Joint Multi-Role, or JMR, Mission Systems Architecture Demonstration, or MSAD, for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, Aviation Development Directorate at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, spoke Oct. 29 at the National Defense Industrial Association-sponsored 18th Annual Systems Engineering Conference about the ACVIP Shadow Effort conducted on the JMR MSAD program's recent JCA demonstration.


http://www.army.mil/article/157995/Future_Vertical_Lift_getting_top_notch_design_architecture/