Phoenix, AZ – July 15, 2024. DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, today announced that it has named Gary Gilliland as Vice President of Marketing. Gary will take the reins from industry stalwart Greg Rose, who will be retiring to Spain to ride his motorcycle and soak up the Mediterranean sun.
Gary Gilliland has over 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of hardware and software solutions for embedded systems, with extensive experience in both military and commercial avionics. A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington, with a degree in electrical engineering, Gary was previously Technical Marketing Manager at DDC-I, where he has been responsible for product development, technical marketing, partner relationships and customer facing technical support with special expertise integrating Deos in avionics systems. Gary has also been the primary thought leader and presenter for DDC-I on webinars, trade show presentations, and conference technical papers for the past 10 years.
“Greg has been instrumental in DDC-I’s ascendency as the premiere provider of safety-critical operating systems, tools, and certification services to the avionics industry,” said Bob Morris, president, and CEO at DDC-I. “We wish him the best in retirement and thank him for his tireless efforts in driving sales and developing and promoting the DDC-I brand.”
“We expect Gary’s deep understanding of the safety-critical market, together with his extensive background in sales, marketing, partner relationships and customer support, to prove invaluable for our next phase of growth as we expand beyond avionics into the broader safety-critical military and commercial sectors,” added Morris. “Gary will also play a more pivotal role in providing guidance for the complex government flow-downs required for most defense contracts as we build upon the win-win, mutually beneficial approach to contract negotiation that Greg and I have championed.”
About Deos
Deos is a safety-critical real-time operating system. First certified to DO-178 DAL A in 1998, Deos combines DO-178C DAL A artifacts with FACE® Technical Standard support that encompasses the Safety Base and Safety Extended Profiles for the Operating System Segment (OSS). The Safety Profiles feature hard real-time response, time, and space partitioning, and both ARINC-653 and POSIX interfaces.
SafeMC technology extends Deos’ advanced capabilities to multiple cores, enabling developers of safety-critical systems to achieve best in class multi-core performance without compromising safety-critical task response and guaranteed execution time. SafeMC employs a bounded multiprocessing (BMP) extension of the symmetric multiprocessing architecture (SMP), safe scheduling, and cache partitioning to minimize cross-core contention and interference patterns that affect the performance, safety criticality and certifiability of multi-core systems. These features enable avionics systems developers to address issues that could impact the safety, performance and integrity of a software airborne system executing on Multi-Core Processors (MCP), as specified by the FAA Advisory Circular AC 20-193.
About DDC-I, Inc.
DDC-I, Inc. is a global supplier of real-time operating systems, software development tools, custom software development services, and legacy software system modernization solutions, with a primary focus on mission- and safety-critical applications. DDC-I’s customer base is an impressive “who’s who” in the commercial, military, aerospace, and safety-critical industries. DDC-I offers safety-critical real-time operating systems, compilers, integrated development environments and run-time systems for C, C++, and Ada application development. For more information regarding DDC-I products, contact DDC-I at 4545 E. Shea Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85028; phone (602) 275-7172; fax (602) 252-6054; e-mail sales@ddci.com or visit http://www.ddci.com/pr2411.
