ALOFT AeroArchitects has launched the ALOFT Innovation Lab, a systems integration facility intended to provide a realistic setting for testing aircraft technologies before they are installed on an airframe. The company says the lab recreates the architecture of a connected aircraft so that engineers can assess how hardware and software function together across traditional systems and its developing MOSAIC cabin ecosystem.
The initiative is also being offered as Lab-as-a-Service. ALOFT says original equipment manufacturers, suppliers and software developers can rent access to lab space,…