Lead in cybersecurity with Siemens & Black Duck — and earn the trust of aerospace customers, regulators, and investors.
Software risk is now program risk. Certification delays, export-control exposure, and contract risk often start with incomplete software evidence.
Siemens Polarion governs lifecycle evidence. Black Duck governs software supply chain risk. X-DLM™ connects both so aerospace teams can prove trust before reviewers ask.
Why Siemens and Black Duck — the only combination that addresses DO-178C lifecycle and supply chain simultaneously
Build your aerospace compliance and cybersecurity story on platforms customers and reviewers already recognize.
Siemens Polarion ALMThe lifecycle governance platform DO-178C certification authorities and EASA auditors already work with
Siemens Polarion connects every software requirement, architecture decision, code change, test case, and release approval into a single governed evidence trail. DAL A through DAL D. Plan for Software Aspects of Certification to Software Accomplishment Summary. Designated Engineering Representatives and EASA auditors review Polarion evidence trails routinely — they know what they're looking at and what they're looking for. X-DLM™ ensures your Black Duck findings are part of that trail.
Black Duck SCAThe supply chain intelligence that makes ITAR component control, CMMC SBOM, and launch software security defensible
Black Duck identifies every open-source component across source, binaries, containers, and firmware — including ITAR-relevant dependencies, license conflicts, embedded malware signals, and cryptographic export control implications. Named a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Application Security Testing for eight consecutive years. The SBOM Black Duck produces satisfies DoD SBOM delivery requirements, export control review documentation, and CMMC supply chain risk management evidence — in the formats program offices already accept.
X-DLM™ — The Integration LayerSiemens governs the lifecycle. Black Duck governs the supply chain. X-DLM™ makes both provable at certification speed.
X-DLM™ is Electro Source's proprietary integration layer between Black Duck and Siemens Polarion. Every Black Duck vulnerability, ITAR component flag, license issue, and malware signal becomes a governed Polarion workflow — with DO-178C practice mapping, ownership, response timeline enforcement, and approval history. The DO-178C evidence package, ITAR component review trail, and CMMC SBOM that certification authorities and program offices require are built continuously, not assembled the week before a Software Accomplishment Summary review.
What certification authorities and program offices are finding in commercial aerospace software
Commercial aerospace software carries the same open-source risk as any other codebase. The certification and export control consequence is categorically different.
Of aerospace, aviation, and transportation codebases contain at least one high or critical open-source vulnerability. Every one is a potential DO-178C evidence gap or ITAR traceability finding. Source: OSSRA 2026.
DO-178C Design Assurance Levels govern every line of safety-critical flight software. Each level requires documented, traceable, reviewable evidence of requirements, code, and test — not a policy document.
Days ahead of NVD that Black Duck BDSA advisories surface critical vulnerabilities on average — critical when ITAR-restricted components are involved and export control timelines are compressed. Source: Black Duck BDSA product documentation.
Defines defense articles covered by export controls. Open-source components with cryptographic, guidance, or propulsion applicability require documented review before they enter an export-controlled build.
Sources: OSSRA 2026. DO-178C / ED-12C. ITAR 22 CFR §120–130. Black Duck BDSA product documentation.
Three consequences that reach the CEO's desk — not the certification team's
DO-178C rejection. ITAR violation. CMMC disqualification. None of these are engineering problems. They are program problems — and they start in ungoverned open-source components.
DO-178C
A traceability gap at SAS review resets months of timeline
A DO-178C finding identified during the Software Accomplishment Summary review triggers a corrective action that must be closed before type certification — resetting months of program schedule. Polarion builds the evidence chain as engineering runs. X-DLM™ ensures every Black Duck finding is part of that chain, not discovered separately at review time.
ITAR / EAR
Open-source component traceability is an active ITAR obligation
Black Duck identifies components with cryptographic, guidance, or propulsion export control implications before they reach an ITAR-controlled build. X-DLM™ routes flagged components into Polarion review workflows with documented approval history — the evidence DoS and DoC enforcement reviews require. An undocumented open-source dependency in an export-controlled system is not a software defect. It is a criminal liability.
CMMC 2.0
CMMC non-conformity ends DoD contract eligibility
Commercial aerospace companies with DoD contracts — launch services, satellite software, ground systems — face CMMC Level 2 requirements. Non-conformity does not produce a remediation window. It produces disqualification across all DoD programs. X-DLM™ produces the CMMC SBOM, vulnerability response evidence, and supply chain risk management documentation C3PAO assessors require — built continuously from Black Duck and Polarion.
Your certification program is worth protecting. Build your brand on Siemens and Black Duck through X-DLM™.
15–30 minute discovery call. We show you exactly how X-DLM™ operationalizes DO-178C, ITAR, CMMC, and EASA SC-VTOL-01 evidence — on the Siemens Polarion and Black Duck stack that commercial aerospace program offices and certification authorities already recognize.
The X-DLM™ commercial aerospace trust equation