Military Embedded Systems

Since the inception of SpaceVPX, the space community has slowly shifted to a standards-based approach to systems, and a market for components has subsequently developed. With its focus on the development of solutions that follow a modular open systems approach (MOSA), the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Space Appendix will accelerate this trend and directly address the needs of these new rapidly fieldable space systems. Suppliers and integrators should prepare to leverage this emerging SpaceVPX market to address upcoming projects.

The SOSA Technical Standard is just that, a technical standard, written by technical people for a technical audience. 

The new VITA 100 suite of standards is shaping up to be an interesting display of computing system standards development. Built from years of experience, stemming from VME and OpenVPX, VITA 100 is drawing on the best of these earlier standards to craft a new standard that will enable suppliers and integrators to hit the ground running as soon as the documents are released.

The objectives of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) – to improve system capabilities, compatibility, and cost – are predicated on a tight collaboration between government and industry. Although each service branch of the military has a model or view of what it needs in its standards to produce the systems it requires, a common goal of interoperability has reshaped the military-electronics landscape over these past few years.