Contracting Agency: U.S. Air Force
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Overview

The ISAIIH methodology was developed and documented with a focus on aviation T&E.  The effort was motivated by the requirement that current Instrumentation Support Systems (ISS) use vendor-specific languages in order to support the programming of instrumentation systems prior to instrumentation testing.  Since there are a number of vendors selling various data acquisition, control, transmission, and storage components, an ISS would not only have to interface with these different systems but also with the different vendors that sell various instrumentation systems.  Considering that it is practically impossible for a single ISS to interface with every known system and vendor, the ISSs typically select only a few and offer an almost complete solution for those hardware vendors.  This hinders the ability to mix and match vendors and develop a robust and cost-effective solution.  A second issue involves format change.  Any hardware vendor format change or functional enhancement requires a change in the ISS.  Even if these change considerations were to be deemed financially feasible by the ISS vendors, they would be incorporated into the next release after a considerable period of time.