Aviation Certification Powered by the Semantic Web Stack

Every deployed DoD system undergoes certification (or qualification, for military) to assess the software system's fitness for use. Certification requires that human subject matter expert look over evidence and evaluate its conformance to standards such as DO-178C or theRiskManagement Framework (RMF). Current practices are not keeping pace with the ever-increasing size of software systems and the amount of evidence required for their certification. This problem is further exasperated when platforms are comprised of systems of systems developed by multiple suppliers, each providing data generated by different tools, in different formats, and captured with different granularity. We demonstrate the application of W3C Semantic web technologies to perform efficient evidence curation under a military research program. This tech stack offers the right solutions for integrating data from heterogeneous sources and for performing graph-traversal queries across data that changes at a regular frequency.