RTI Connext TSS

The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium is a government and industry organization that develops software standards and business approaches for military avionics systems. Its primary purpose is to drive down acquisition costs and promote innovation and rapid integration of software systems for portable capabilities across services and programs using the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) . RTI Connext® Transport Services Segment (TSS) is certified FACE conformant and delivers a proven, low-risk path to both FACE conformance and RTCA DO-178C safety certification.
FACE Consortium
Within the FACE architecture, the TSS provides the APIs and capabilities that portable components use to exchange data. To help component developers and systems integrators meet their connectivity requirements, RTI offers a Certified FACE Conformant TSS product, support, consulting and engineering services, including:

  • RTI Connext TSS for developers and integrators who want to take advantage of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard in a system with FACE requirements. 
  • RTI Connext Tools to accelerate development, debugging, testing, integration, and optimization—including run-time system and data introspection.
  • RTI Connext TSS For FACE Training to learn from RTI experts how RTI Connext TSS enables you to rapidly integrate RTI Connext with other FACE software components.

RTI_FACE_Arch_Diagram-TS-Web-01242022FACE Reference Architecture with RTI Connext TSS

RTI, the FACE Consortium and The Open Group

RTI supports open industry standards and has been an active member of the FACE Consortium since 2010, and more recently the Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) Consortium. 

RTI Connext TSS maps the FACE Transport Services (TSS) Application Programming Interface (API) to the DDS API supported by RTI Connext products. This includes RTI Connext® Cert, which has been used in systems certified to DO-178C and is available with a complete DO-178C Design Assurance Level (DAL) A certification data package. In addition, RTI’s tools accelerate development and integration by making it easy to debug connectivity issues, visualize a running system, and analyze live data.


For more information, contact FACE@rti.com.


Learn more: RTI’s Military Avionics Blog Series