Traceability across engineering layers
System requirements, software requirements, hardware design, test cases, and verification results need live bidirectional links.
Industry Solution
Polarion ALM for Aerospace & Defense
Reduce certification risk across complex avionics, defense, and transportation programs with live traceability from system requirement to verification evidence.
The Challenge
Certification programs need proof, not scattered documents.
Aerospace teams must coordinate systems, software, hardware, safety, and suppliers while maintaining complete evidence chains for compliance audits and airworthiness reviews.
Certification evidence overload
Audit packages assembled manually from documents and spreadsheets are difficult to trust and expensive to maintain.
Supplier and variant complexity
Prime contractors, suppliers, and subcontractors need controlled exchange while preserving program baselines.
How Polarion Helps
From requirement to certification evidence.
Polarion gives aerospace teams a governed lifecycle repository for controlled engineering collaboration.
- LiveDocs for structured requirements, reviews, approvals, and baselines.
- Traceability matrices across systems, software, hardware, tests, issues, and release evidence.
- Workflow-controlled reviews with electronic approvals and full audit history.
- ReqIF-based supplier exchange and controlled impact analysis for changes.
- Dashboards and reports for certification readiness, open risks, and verification coverage.
Standards Coverage
Built around the aerospace compliance stack.
DO-178C
Software lifecycle evidence for airborne systems, including requirements, verification, reviews, and configuration control.
DO-254
Hardware assurance traceability from requirements through design and verification evidence.
ARP4754A
Systems engineering lifecycle support for aircraft and system development assurance.
DO-278A
Ground-based CNS/ATM software assurance processes with adaptable compliance evidence.
CMMI
Process maturity evidence through workflow history, planned work, reviews, and controlled baselines.
FACE / SOSA
Architecture and component traceability for modular defense and avionics ecosystems.
Ready to strengthen aerospace traceability?
Radax can help configure Polarion for certification evidence, supplier exchange, baselines, and program reporting.