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Guest Blog: From Evangelism to Mandate: The Rise of MOSA

Guest Blog: From Evangelism to Mandate: The Rise of MOSA

For many COTS [commercial off-the-shelf] vendors and VITA members, the Tri-Service Memo issued in January 2019 by the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force was the highest validation of several decades of their combined efforts.

09/07/2023
Military Embedded Systems Magazine

Bringing the Benefits of GCIA to Next-generation Ground Vehicles

The partnership between Curtiss-Wright and BAE Systems to develop a standardized MOSA open architecture for next-generation ground vehicles shows how MOSA can be leveraged to deliver new capabilities to next-generation ground vehicles.

05/15/2023
Avionics International

Open or Out: U.S. Military Requirements for Modular Open Systems Architectures

Now that the Army has chosen its preferred Future Long Range Assault Aircraft in Bell’s V-280 advanced tiltrotor, the race is on to populate it with mission systems that will allow the machine to operate through adversaries’ sophisticated air defense systems.

03/21/2023
Military Embedded Systems

Optimizing 100G VPX

Currently, there are two options for VITA 46.30 connectors: the TE Connectivity RT3 and Amphenol R-VPX EVO2 connectors, both of which meet the ANSI/VITA 46.30 standard intended for 100G (4-lanes @ 25 Gbaud) systems, and potentially beyond.

03/20/2023
Aerospace Tech Review

High Speed Cameras for Aerospace Testing

High speed cameras are used to capture pictures of very rapid events that would be impossible to capture with normal cameras.

03/01/2023
The Raspberry Pi SWaP-C Revolution: Driving Battlefield IoT

The Raspberry Pi SWaP-C Revolution: Driving Battlefield IoT

For size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C)-constrained applications, a military-grade Raspberry Pi-based mission computer defines a whole new class of solution for intelligence and connectivity at the tactical edge.

12/01/2022
DoD’s MOSA Mandate Drives CMOSS Approach to A-PNT

DoD’s MOSA Mandate Drives CMOSS Approach to A-PNT

The U.S. Army’s Mounted Assured PNT System (MAPS) program was initiated to replace existing GPS receivers and antennas in most of the Army’s ground vehicle variants.

12/01/2022
Military Embedded Systems

Multi-INT and SOSA: A Consideration of Next Steps

One of the key tenets of Multi-INT or multi-modality is that the architecture by its very nature is realizable through the core components of a sensing system which can accommodate more than one mission at the same time.

10/18/2022