White papers, technical articles, and press coverage from the Skayl team and the open-standards community.
A candid, often funny retrospective on 15 years building the FACE® Data Architecture (from inventing the vocabulary and a 14-hour standards-comparison test to conformance testing and v3.0) and why durable data standards are an ultramarathon, not a sprint.
A fictionalized courtroom debate examining the tradeoffs between competing data model philosophies — and why the right approach depends entirely on the purpose of the model.
Skayl attends Navy Gold Coast in San Diego as part of the SBIR/STTR Innovation Hub, nominated to represent naval aviation innovation in small business research.
Gordon Hunt discusses Infrastructure-Centric Integration in Military Embedded Systems Magazine's 2022 FACE Special Edition, detailing Skayl's approach to the fundamental integration problem.
The infrastructure is the correct place to accommodate change — and the FACE™ Technical Standard supports and encourages this approach.
Skayl conducts a scalable integration demonstration featuring CinC™ at the Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID).
Changing the focus from application-centric to infrastructure-centric integration — Skayl's presentation at Aerospace Tech Week 2021 addressing the challenges of System-of-Systems interoperability.
A model is only useful if someone else can read it. A practical guide to clearer, reusable data models with essential best practices and five core patterns: Command, Observer, Specification, Uncertainty, and Associated-Observable.
Imagine you’re given the task of digging a trench and handed a teaspoon. Data modeling challenges come in two forms — tooling and technique — and conflating them consistently fails.
The FACE™ standard crosses the Atlantic for Aerospace Tech Week in Toulouse, gaining international traction with allied defense and aviation partners.
An inside look at the MSAD program from the systems architect's chair — what the demonstration proved, and what the Army learned about open-architecture integration at scale.
Warfighting capabilities are increasingly dependent on the speed, safety, and maintainability of complex systems integrations — and semantic model-based engineering changes that equation.
There is a sea change coming in System of Systems integration. Semantic model-based engineering raises the bar from syntactic data mapping to meaning-preserving interoperability across heterogeneous systems.
Skayl launches its Configurable Infrastructure Capability (CinC™), marking a transition from services firm to product company with a configurable SoS integration runtime.
How Skayl's Navy-funded SBIR research became a multi-domain integration capability with applicability across Army, Air Force, NATO, and commercial sectors.
The data modeling aspect of implementing the FACE Technical Standard challenges many programs. This paper illustrates the philosophical and structural aspects of building a data model through one engineer's journey.
Maryland small business Skayl wins the Best of Carroll County Cybersecurity Award for outstanding contribution to defense technology in the region.
A local profile of Skayl's growth in Westminster, Maryland — the story behind a defense-tech startup building integration infrastructure for the U.S. military.
Skayl signs a Navy CRADA to advance combat system development through improved data architecture and semantic integration methodology.
Episode 7 — Dave, Sonya, Jacob, and Taylor discuss data modeling, why we do it, the problems it solves, and what distinguishes syntax from semantics.
How do open source and open standards fit into the larger goal of open, interoperable systems? Clarifying the distinctions that matter for defense programs.
Episode 6 — Chris, Dave, and Sonya take a stab at explaining who Skayl is and what they do, starting from first principles, for host Taylor — the resident English Major.
Last week, I dropped my truck off for my mechanic to fix. The check engine light was on and the engine was running rough. The next
The U.S. Army selects Skayl as systems architect for the MSAD Capstone — validating open-architecture integration at the Army program level.
As Model-Based Software Engineering gains traction, data models will become more commonplace. The IDML framework helps contextualize conversations about interface documentation rigor and integration readiness.
Skayl’s automated integration tool is featured at a U.S. Army demonstration in Huntsville, showcasing live FACE-compliant rapid integration of avionics components.
Episode 5 — Skayl introduces the Interface Documentation Maturity Levels (IDML) framework: a qualitative tool for assessing integration readiness based on interface documentation rigor.
Skayl wins two U.S. Navy awards recognizing innovative research in system-of-systems integration and data architecture for naval combat systems.
Episode 4 — Dave's Famous Grocery Store Analogy makes data architecture accessible for everyone, even those newly initiated into the data modeling world.
The FACE™ Technical Standard is lauded as a great stride forward in open architecture. Here’s why every stakeholder — program offices, platform owners, and software vendors — should care.
Episode 3 — The Skayl guys conduct a postmortem on one of the Largest-Data-Models-Ever. Taming all that data was a tough job. Here are the lessons learned.
Episode 2 — Skayl jumps into the deep end, exploring how message models and data models differ and whether message models belong in the data modeling universe at all.
This paper outlines several real and perceived aspects of data modeling when following a highly prescribed and connected data architecture standard.
Episode 1 of the Three Guys & a Data Model podcast — covering data model basics, why they differ from other modeling technologies, and why they matter.
Skayl announces its membership in The Open Group FACE™ Consortium — an early signal of the company's commitment to open-standards integration.
Skayl announces it has received a Navy Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop system-of-systems integration technology.