services that help speed up new development as well as existing projects seeking retroactive compliance. VSC products and services are primarily used in Avionics, Industrial, Medical and Transportation equipment certifications, but are equally useful for software development and test efforts where safety and product integrity is a primary concern. VSC’ s flagship products, Validation Suites™, and Validation Kits™, offer developers the benefits of using proven commercial embedded RTOS software without the overhead associated with creating and proving its compliance with software development standards. First released in 2000, Validation Suites have been exhaustively reviewed by their customers, users, QA experts and a host of national and international regulatory and certification authorities. Validation Suites are hybrid solutions that incorporate the best attributes of both “Commercial off the Shelf” and uniquely customized. Typically, the ratio of pre-existing (and reusable) certification artifacts to new artifacts may exceed ten to one. The ability to reuse existing development and test artifacts saves time and risk, and lowers development cost.