This week’s product, the SOSA Power Supply from Vicor, is aligned with The Open Group’s Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard. Designed for 3U OpenVPX systems that are aligned to the SOSA approach, the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) device is targeted at avionics, shipboard applications, and other defense applications.

This week’s product, Vicor’s MIL-COTS DCM DC-DC converter module, is an isolated, regulated DC-DC converter using high-frequency zero-voltage switching (ZVS) topology, operating from an unregulated, wide-range input to generate an isolated output. The commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) device is targeted at mission-critical military avionics, autonomous systems, shipboard, and other defense applications.

This week’s product, Vicor’s SOSA Power Supply, is aligned with the Open Group’s Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard. Designed for 3U OpenVPX systems that are aligned to the SOSA approach, the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) device is targeted at avionics, shipboard applications, and other defense applications.

This week’s product, the Vicor MIL-COTS DCM DC-DC converter module, is an isolated, regulated DC-DC converter, operating from an unregulated, wide range input to generate an isolated output. With its high-frequency zero-voltage switching (ZVS) topology, the solution delivers high efficiency across its specified input line range.

This week’s product, Vicor’s SOSA Power Supply, is aligned with the Open Group’s Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard and designed for 3U OpenVPX systems that are aligned to the SOSA approach. The commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) device is targeted at avionics, shipboard applications, and other defense applications.

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.

60th AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM & CONVENTION, NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Slashing the size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) of embedded systems remains a key focus for the defense industry -- a focus that was evident during talks and conversations during the first day of the annual convention of the Association of Old Crows (AOC).