JetOS

In Russia development of the operating system for civil aviation under the working name JetOS is conducted. A system is developed by State Research Institute of the aviation systems (GOSNIIAS) with involvement of third-party contractors. Minpromtorg acted as the customer. Izvestia with reference to own sources reported about it in October, 2017.

Creation of new OS is conducted for protection of the Russian developments in the field of aircraft from possible sanctions. At the moment on civilian airliners a number of foreign OS is used (MACS2, LynxOS-178, VxWorks 653, PikeOS). According to the scientists involved in development of JetOS, use of foreign software causes certain difficulties, for example, limited opportunities of modification, use of processors and need of runtime royalty fees to foreign developers.

According to scientists, the working prototype of a system already exists and is for the test stages and debuggings. The certified packet is going to be received by 2019. If earlier in airplanes there was a set of the systems connected to separate computing computers, then now all systems will be connected to the only computer with a set of different sensors for determination of parameters of flight, the expert Oleg Panteleev explained. The central processor and OS interacting with several standard blocks which can be replaced easily for the subsequent updating of the equipment will manage everything.

The passenger MS-21 liner will be the first airplane which will receive new OS.