August 7, 2025
NORTHBROOK, Ill. – August 7, 2025 — UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS), a global leader in applied safety science, has become the first testing, inspection and certification company to join the Eclipse Foundation’s Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group, where it will contribute insight into the safe and secure adoption of open source software for automotive applications.
“UL Solutions is honored to be a key contributor to the Eclipse Foundation’s work and help advance automotive innovation,” said Dr. Florian Schmidt, general manager of the Software Intensive Systems group at UL Solutions. “Robust and secure software is foundational to vehicle safety, with open source software as a critical driver of innovation in the automotive sector. By collaborating across the industry, we can proactively identify emerging trends and mitigate security vulnerabilities before they escalate into operational risks.”
An international non-profit organization that provides a vendor-neutral environment for open source software collaboration and innovation, the Eclipse Foundation formed its SDV Working Group to provide a forum for individuals and organizations to build and promote open source software and open collaboration models needed to support in-vehicle and around the vehicle systems development and deployment.
The automotive sector is shifting from legacy architectures to a fully integrated, SDV development model that centralizes computing and enables continuous over-the-air updates—both foundational to reducing complexity and enabling continuous innovation. This transformation relies heavily on software, specifically open-source software, which offers several advantages, including accelerating time to market, reducing costs and improving security and transparency.
“Collaboration is core to building secure, open source automotive platforms that the industry can trust,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “Our governance model is designed to bring OEMs, tier-one suppliers, and technology leaders together in true partnership. We’re pleased to welcome UL Solutions to the Eclipse Foundation and to the Eclipse SDV Working Group as we continue advancing this important initiative.”
As software defined vehicles drive growth and present new challenges in the automotive industry, UL Solutions helps the industry address these obstacles through its Software Intensive Systems practice, guiding manufacturers across the product lifecycle with consulting, training, assessments and engineering services by helping automotive manufacturers and suppliers redesign automotive engineering value streams, increasing efficiency while helping ensure software-defined vehicles are safe, secure and continuously updateable.
Learn more about UL Solutions Software Intensive Systems for automotive applications.
About UL Solutions
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection, and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Solutions Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
About The Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organisations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. We host the Eclipse IDE, Adoptium, Software Defined Vehicle, Jakarta EE, and over 410 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, specifications, and frameworks for cloud and edge applications, IoT, AI, automotive, systems engineering, open processor designs, and many others. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit association supported by over 360 members. To learn more, follow us on social media @EclipseFdn, LinkedIn or visit eclipse.org.
Within UL Solutions we provide a broad portfolio of offerings to many industries. This includes certification, testing, inspection, assessment, verification and consulting services. In order to protect and prevent any conflict of interest, perception of conflict of interest and protection of both our brand and our customers brands, UL Solutions has processes in place to identify and manage any potential conflicts of interest and maintain the impartiality of our conformity assessment services.
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