Engineering Services

RTI offers a full range of services to help you speed development and improve the quality, scalability and performance of your application.

A consulting engagement can be structured to meet your business and technical requirements, whatever they may be. Whether it is a single, comprehensive engagement or a multiphase series of engagements, RTI's consulting services organization has the experience to ensure your success.

Product Development Services

We support you through all phases of your development lifecycle, from design through implementation, integration and testing. RTI's product development services include:

• Implementation Support
• Integration Services, such as custom target support, architecture validation, architecture standardization, and DDS, JMS and CORBA application integration
• Debugging and Testing
• Performance and Scalability Optimization

Turnkey Middleware

Let RTI design and build middleware to your specification. We have the experience to develop your application, ensuring it meets your performance and feature requirements, and is delivered on-time and under budget. Particular areas of expertise include:

• Networking — Making fault-tolerant, deterministic, real-time distributed systems work
• Control Systems — Expertise in unmanned vehicles, factory automation, and surgical and industrial robotics
• Real-time Software — Application development and system integration

Semi-Custom Software Solutions

RTI offers software components combined with our expertise to provide a semi-customized solution to fit your specific needs.

• Safety-Critical Application Certification: For applications requiring DO-178B certification, RTI offers RTI Data Distribution Service, Safety-Critical Edition, a small-footprint version designed for applications seeking safety certification.
• Integrated CORBA and DDS: RTI offers a complete software and services solution for applications that take advantage of both the CORBA and DDS middleware standards.
• Routing Solutions: RTI routing technologies can be leveraged and adapted to meet your custom integration requirements, such as bridging legacy systems and increasing data security.

Customized DDS-Compliant Products

RTI Data Distribution Service networking middleware implements the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard authored by the Object Management Group (OMG). Some customers may benefit from customized version of this product. Commonly requested customizations include:

• Ports to custom hardware
• Reduced memory footprint configurations
• New feature implementation
• Additional API functions
• Bridges between RTI Data Distribution Service and other products.

Customized Tools

Tools are essential for productivity during application development. Once a system is completed tools are still essential for system configuration, maintenance, and diagnosis. The following types of tools are available from RTI and can be customized to fit your application requirements:

• Type/topic management
• Network management
• IDL compiler (NDDSGen)
• Packet analyzer
• Protocol analyzer
• System browser
• Performance Utilities

Research Initiatives

RTI is engaged in numerous government-sponsored projects and research initiatives.