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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
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
MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

EW and the DoD’s MOSA Mandate

Electronic Warfare (EW) system designers must constantly respond to new threats and come up with appropriate ways to respond.

10/03/2022