Model Year Architecture

Model year architecture goals

• Design current generation with a view to change and upgrade on a regular basis
• Develop the design as a series of incremental (model year) stages (as opposed to a single design effort spanning a multi-year design schedule) that can incorporate emerging technologies as they become available during the successive model years.

The key is to make provisions in the early model years to make including new technologies easy in the later years.

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The model year architectural approach should adhere to the following principles:
Be open, promoting hardware/software upgradability and reusability in other applications

Utilize emerging state-of-the-art commercial technology whenever possible
Support a range of applications to maintain low, non-recurring engineering costs