Army TITAN Team from Raytheon Leverages MOSA Expertise

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July 01, 2021

Army TITAN Team from Raytheon Leverages MOSA Expertise

Published in Military Embedded Systems
Written by John McHale

DULLES, Virginia. Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) expertise is a key characteristic of the team Raytheon Technologies is putting together to support development of the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) program. TITAN is a tactical ground station that finds and tracks threats to support long-range precision targeting.

The Raytheon team is competing against a team led by Palantir Technologies (www.palantir.com) for Phase 1 of the Titan program’s ground system modernization, which will be a 12-month period. Phase 2 of the TITAN award is expected in January 2022, according to Raytheon.

TITAN is part of the first phase of the Army’s Ground Station modernization program. The Army Program Executive Officer Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors (PEO IEW&S) chose Raytheon and Palantir to deliver a prototype as part of this phase with a contract value of $8.5 million.

“Long-range precision targeting requires the utmost accuracy delivered in real time,” says David Appel, vice president for C2 Digital Solutions at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business (www.raytheonintelligenceandspace.com). “Having the right technology is essential, but having the mission know-how to integrate, deploy and manage a system over time efficiently and cost effectively is entirely different.”

Modular open systems architectures are critical to the program. “TITAN will be built in an open, modular, scalable configuration, tailorable to the user mission requirements operating at Brigade, Division and Corps echelons and will include a [MOSA] design, which allows each configuration to be scalable as well,” said Lt. Col Matthew Paul, Product Manager responsible for TITAN, said, in January during a TITAN Industry Day, according to a news release from Program Executive Officer Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors (PEO IEW&S).

For the Raytheon team, open architecture know-how will be delivered by Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions (www.curtisswrightds.com) through their solutions based on SAVE (Standard A-kit Vehicle Envelope) and CMOSS (C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards), as well as standards aligned to The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA). This proven foundation of compute, network, and network infrastructure management solutions will deliver an accelerated path to TITAN’s ground station modernization. This will yield deployable hardware at the brigade level and above, according to a Curtiss-Wright release.

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Modular Open Systems Approach

Adopting a MOSA open architecture offers a wide range of benefits:

  • Seamless Sharing across Domains and Machines
  • Rapid Innovation and Integration
  • Vendor Independence and Reduced Obsolescence
  • LifeCycle Supportability
  • Minimized SWaP

Sensor Open Systems Architecture

The SOSA Technical Standard defines a common framework for transitioning sensor systems to an open systems architecture. The SOSA standard leverages OpenVPX to define card profiles with specifications for features such as pinouts, Ethernet capabilities, and serial ports.

 

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C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS)

The U.S. Army CCDC CMOSS defines an open architecture that enables in-vehicle hardware and software resources to be shared where appropriate, greatly reducing SWaP-C, improving communications between systems, and creating a better user experience.