Safety Certification Standards Organizations
What is RTCA?
RTCA is a private, not-for-profit association founded in 1935 as the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, now referred to simply as “RTCA”.
RTCA is a private, not-for-profit association that develops consensus-based recommendations on airborne communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) system issues. RTCA produces minimum performance standards and guidance materials that are requested by the FAA and become a partial basis of FAA regulations for aviation systems and equipment. These standards are produced by committees of volunteers representing the interested and relevant stakeholders.
www.rtca.org/
What is EUROCAE?
The European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE) is an international organization that deals exclusively with aviation standardization for both airborne and ground systems and equipment and, in some respects, provides similar services to RTC EUROCAE offices are based in Saint-Denis, France.
www.eurocae.org
What is the IEC?
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a global, not-for-profit organization representing more than 170 countries that creates international standards and conformity assessment for electrotechnology, and specifically, functional safety of electrical /electronic/programmable electronic (E/E/PE) systems.
www.iec.ch
What is the ISO?
The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 169 national standards bodies. The ISO brings together experts to share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus-based, market-relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges.
www.iso.org/
What is SAE?
SAE is a global association of more than 128,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries. Our core competencies are life-long learning and voluntary consensus standards development. SAE's broad array of technical, historical, and statistical publications is distributed to customers in more than 65 countries annually.
www.sae.org/
What is CENELEC?
CENELEC is the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization. Most CENELEC standards are identical or very closely based on IEC international standards. Typically, IEC standards in the 60000 to 69999 range map directly to CENELEC standards, for example, IEC 61508 to EN 61508.
EN refers to “European norm” – EN Standards are European. IEC stands for International Electrotechnical Commission. IEC Standards are international. Standards that refer to the European implementation of an IEC Standard are designated EN IEC.
www.cenelec.org
What is MISRA?