1. AQUAS
Aggregated Quality Assurance for Systems
Presented by Charles Robinson
Research and project management at THALES
THALES is an integrator and services provider chiefly for electronic systems across both the civil and defense sectors employees with about 670M euros a year invested in R&D.

2. Project Ambition Work focus
Improved capabilities for managing complexity of systems to provide better assurance for safety, security and performance.
Work focus
Collaboration to specifically understand and improve the interlinking of the above qualities, through the product life-cycle and across domains
Requirements -> Architecting -> Implementation -> Validation -> Maintenance -> Retire -
Performance
Safety
Security

3. Consortium Status
Involved Partners: THALES, CEA, All4Tec, RealTime-at-Work, UBO (Uni.), Ellidiss Tech, ClearSy, Fennovoima, Netman, Nixu, POHTO, Uni. of Oulu, STUK, IKV, ObjectSecurity, City University, Siemens, Alten, NTNU, SINTEF
Domains: Space, Transport, Industrial Automation, Energy
Recent Projects Include: MERgE, SESAMO, PREDYKOT, VARIES, MBAT, CRYSTAL
Expertise required: Systems development, Services provision, Product life-cycle management, Standards involvement

4. Conceptual Implementation
Spec.
Design
Implement
Validate
Maintain
Retire
Domain 1
Domain 2
Domain 3
Domain 4
Enhance
Standards
and improve
efficiency
of their
application
Partner X
Partner X
Partner X
Partner Y
Partner Y S S P S S P

5. Relevance with all the ARTEMIS Challenges
Technology for model-based engineering
Managing Complexity, Safety & Security
Managing Diversity
Increase yield, robustness and reliability, generate system openness