It’s been nearly three years since ratification of the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard 1.0 and its impact is being felt across the services as requests for SOSA aligned products are finding their way into program requirements. SOSA, an example of the modular open systems approach (MOSA) mandated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is also changing the way government leverages commercial technology and existing open standards like VPX. To learn more, I gathered a roundtable of SOSA Consortium members to discuss SOSA’s impact on the community, business practices, common misconceptions, and the future of what SOSA may look like five or 10 years down the road.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment and Parry Labs will team up to develop and integrate a modular, next-generation uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for the U.S. Army's Long Range Reconnaissance program, the companies announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Digital-systems integrator Parry Labs has been chosen for two projects under the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium (AMTC) MOSA [modular open systems approach] agreement, tasks that are aimed at collaboratively defining the U.S. Army's MOSA requirements for computing and software operating environments for all future Army aviation procurements.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Military contractor ADS Inc. won a $38 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Troop Support unit on behalf of the U.S. Army to produce a electronic warfare (EW) jammer system aimed at protecting troops against modern improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and electromagnetic threats.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Parry Labs LLC has announced the successful demonstration of their hyperconverged mission computing technology, Stellar Relay, designed to enable Architecture, Automation, Autonomy Interfaces (A3I) capabilities for U.S. Special Operations Command in collaboration with the U.S. Army's Project Convergence.