Military Embedded Systems

Modern C5ISR [command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] platforms are only as effective as their ability to process and analyze the data gathered from sensors.

The defense landscape is evolving rapidly – nowhere more visibly than in the skies over Ukraine. There, small, cost-effective drones have become indispensable tools for surveillance, targeting, and tactical disruption. This shift underscores a broader reality: embedded systems must now be smaller, more modular, and rapidly adaptable to new mission requirements. Platforms must be smaller, more modular, and rapidly upgradable. One powerful response to these demands is the emergence of the VITA 93 QMC standard that brings unprecedented modularity, flexibility, scalability, and ruggedness to system designers, making it highly relevant to modern defense and aerospace applications.

MOSA INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT SUMMIT & EXPO 2025 -- National Harbor, Md. Military Embedded Systems is pleased to announce the winners of its Best In Show awards at this week's MOSA Industry and Government Summit & Expo 2025. 

This week at the MOSA Industry and Government Summit Booth #514, LCR Embedded Systems is showcasing its VE02 chassis, which broadens the utility of the SAVE standard by enabling a dual 4-slot VPX plus power supply aligned to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard to fit within the SAVE envelope for Army ground vehicles.

Visit Pixus Technologies booth #407 to learn about their products aligned to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard and their lineup of OpenVPX-based solutions.

As the defense industry accelerates adoption of open standards, Open.Tech by Amphenol continues to lead the charge with rugged, interoperable interconnect solutions tailored for SOSA™, VITA, compliant systems. 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. The 2025 MOSA Industry & Government Summit, held Aug. 27-29 and co-located with the Space Industry & Government Summit & Expo, will focus on accelerating adoption of modular open systems across U.S. defense platforms, according to the event agenda.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. The defense industry’s adoption of the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard continues to gain momentum in 2025, with a surge in SOSA aligned hardware, software, and reference architecture updates shaping programs across the services, according to announcements from industry and the SOSA Consortium so far this year.

MOSA INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT SUMMIT & EXPO -- NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. One of the panel discussions at the upcoming MOSA Industry and Government Summit & Expo -- set to be held this week (August 27-29) in National Harbor, Maryland -- is called "HOST, FACE, OMS, SOSA, CMOSS Open Standards Aligning -- Critical Impact Yea or Nay." 

This week’s product, the Pacific Defense SABER 9-slot 3U OpenVPX system electronic warfare (EW) system (EWS1090VP), integrates counter-UAS (uncrewed aircraft system), counter-communications, counter-IED [improvised explosive device], and counter-radar electronic support capabilities. The EWS1090VP follows a modular open systems approach (MOSA) and is aligned to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard and C5ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS).