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How the SOSA Technical Standard Works with VITA Standards

Nov 16, 2022 2:00PM EDT (2 years ago)

One of the key differentiators of the Technical Standard for the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Reference Architecture, Edition 2.0 snapshot 1 is that it looks to adopt existing standards first in order to benefit from years of design and development experience. One such standard is OpenVPX...

SOSA and Small Form Factors

Nov 10, 2022 2:00PM EDT (2 years ago)

It is common knowledge that the 3U OpenVPX form factor is integral to The Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard. It enables interoperability and commonality in military systems for radar, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, and more. What is less known is that a smaller...

Empower sustainable aviation with digital twins

Nov 08, 2022 11:00AM EDT (2 years ago)

To reach net-zero emissions by 2050, the aviation sector must rapidly accomplish its complete technology transformation. Moreover, this schedule tightens even more considering the radical changes in aircraft architectures and technologies required to reach commercial maturity: new fuels, fuel sys...

Micron and Mercury bring high-density microelectronics to critical aerospace and defense applications through semiconductor industry collaborations

Nov 01, 2022 2:00PM EDT (2 years ago)

As the United States emphasis on microelectronics increases, the focus on leveraging advanced technology from trusted and secure semiconductor manufacturers is critical. The strategic collaboration between Micron and Mercury brings together key industry leaders through true customer focus, technolog...

Ask Siemens Anything: Digital twins for sustainable aviation and hydrogen-powered aircraft

Oct 25, 2022 11:00AM EDT (2 years ago)

Globally, aviation accounts for 4.9% of the CO2 and non-CO2 emissions. Industry is taking steps to reduce aircraft emissions and improve fuel efficiency in an effort to combat climate change but with twice as many air travelers expected by 2037, those efforts alone will not be enough. It’s clear...

Deploying Rugged COTS Systems in Battlefield Environments

Sep 14, 2022 2:00PM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

It’s been nearly 30 years since the famous COTS memo was sent by then Secretary of Defense William Perry, stipulating the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components wherever and whenever possible in military systems. While COTS procurement is now an accepted form of doing business, the main c...

Leveraging Commercial Tech for Military UAS Platforms

Aug 31, 2022 4:00PM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

Being able to rapidly vet and scale commercial unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology for military applications is a critical goal of the U.S. Department of Defense. The Blue sUAS 2.0 project for the Defense Innovation Unit is an example of such an approach. This program consists of 5 lines of effo...

Cooling Systems: Removing Heat from Embedded Electronics Systems

May 25, 2022 2:00PM EDT (2 years, 5 months ago)

It has been said “With great power comes great responsibility.” In modern military electronics systems that mantra might more accurately be “With great processing capability comes a great responsibility to get the heat out.” Whether it’s a graphics processor, a general-purpose processor, or an FPGA,...

JADC2 and Data-Centricity: Creating a Joint Posture of Deterrence

May 24, 2022 11:00AM EDT (2 years, 5 months ago)

The unbridled aggression from adversaries in the Ukraine has underscored the need to create a military posture that positions the U.S. and its coalition partners in a constant state of readiness with real-time information and decision-making. To bring focus to this effort, the U.S. Department of Def...

Applications for Future SOSA Conformant Solutions

May 04, 2022 2:00PM EDT (2 years, 6 months ago)

Now that the Technical Standard for the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Reference Architecture, Edition 1.0 has been published, it is only a matter of time before products that are currently aligned to SOSA start going through the process to become conformant to the SOSA Technical Standard....

Protecting Devices with Security Anchored in Hardware

Apr 14, 2022 2:00PM EDT (2 years, 7 months ago)

From mission-critical military electronics to the billions of IoT devices in homes, offices and factories, the need for security is growing rapidly. The exponential rise in data creation, and new workloads such as AI/ML with demand for low latency, real-time operation, require rapid advancement in c...

Unmanned Systems Virtual Conference

Apr 12, 2022 11:00AM EDT (2 years, 7 months ago)

Unmanned aerial systems (UASs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), unmanned surface vessels (USVs), and unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) continue to be force multipliers for the U.S. military operations. These platforms not only deliver lethality in wartime but also feed the Department of Defense (Do...

Keynote for Unmanned Systems Virtual Conference – Exploring Blue UAS 2.0: Leveraging commercial tech for military UAS platforms

Apr 12, 2022 11:00AM EDT (2 years, 7 months ago)

Speaker: Capt. Shelby Ochs, USMC, co-program manager of Blue sUAS 2.0 project for the Defense Innovation Unit

Hosted by Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Retired), Founder & CEO of P3 Tech Consulting LLC & host of the Dawn of Drones Podcast

Navigating Safety Certification in UAS Platforms

Apr 12, 2022 1:30PM EDT (2 years, 7 months ago)

Whether you call them UAVs, UASs, RPAs [remotely piloted aircraft], or just plain drones, they are not only a key force multiplier for the U.S. military but are also becoming a larger part of civilian airspace. While flight control technology for manned aircraft is well established and has many proc...

Leveraging AI for Unmanned Systems Applications

Apr 12, 2022 12:00PM EDT (2 years, 7 months ago)

Whether processing the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data collected by unmanned vehicles; coordinating manned/unmanned teaming; or countering swarms of drones, unmanned applications are dependent on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and will become even more so in the fut...

Applying a MOSA Strategy for Unmanned Systems

Apr 12, 2022 3:30PM EDT (2 years, 7 months ago)

In 2019, Air Force, Army, and Navy leadership mandated that the U.S. military use a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for new program designs and refreshes, calling MOSA a “warfighting imperative.” MOSA strategies are now being applied across multiple domains – air, sea, land, space, and electrom...

Protecting Sensitive Data and Algorithms At-Rest, In-Motion, and (Now) In Use

Mar 29, 2022 12:00AM EDT (2 years, 7 months ago)

While cryptographically protecting data at rest and in motion has become commonplace for military embedded systems that could fall into enemy hands, one vulnerability persists: the security of data or code as it’s moved into and used within working memory. In this web seminar, experts from Idaho...

Designing High-Performance Real-Time Avionics Systems for Multi-core processor

Mar 17, 2022 1:00PM EDT (2 years, 8 months ago)

The latest generation multi-core processors deliver high-performance compute and advanced security features, which can be used with real-time operating systems to meet safety and regulatory requirements for avionics systems. The FAA CAST-32A position paper defines objectives for the use of multicore...

Applying a MOSA Strategy Across Multiple Domains

Feb 23, 2022 3:30PM EDT (2 years, 8 months ago)

MOSA is not just about open architectures like SOSA, FACE, or CMOSS, but it also involves how those initiatives and standards can applied across all domains – air, sea, land, space, cyber, and spectrum – to create a MOSA ecosystem. Such an ecosystem enables the DoD to deploy capability more quickly...

MOSA for Military Aviation Platforms

Feb 23, 2022 11:30AM EDT (2 years, 8 months ago)

When most people think of a MOSA strategy for military aviation platforms, the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard usually comes to mind first. FACE, which enables the reuse of software elements across multiple avionics platforms, is in fact one important tool in the MOS...

MOSA Virtual Summit: Applying open architectures in avionics, radar, electronic warfare, & C5ISR systems

Feb 23, 2022 11:00AM EDT (2 years, 8 months ago)

In early 2019, Air Force, Army, and Navy leadership issued a joint memo mandating that the U.S. military use a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for new program designs and refreshes, calling MOSA a “warfighting imperative.” Now, as of 2021, MOSA is the law, as Congress passed legislation requiri...

Keynote for MOSA Virtual Summit: C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) “The Army’s SOSA Instantiation”

Feb 23, 2022 11:00AM EDT (2 years, 8 months ago)

This briefing will describe the Army’s push for modular open system architecture approaches across all C5ISR systems, to include current S&T activities and Acquisitions plans. CMOSS comprises a family of standards that together allow for system functional decomposition across clearly defined hardwar...

Bringing MOSA to electronic warfare applications

Feb 23, 2022 1:00PM EDT (2 years, 8 months ago)

As adversarial threats continue to become more complex, U.S. military electronic warfare (EW) and signal intelligence (SIGINT) solutions must be able to adapt more quickly. For decades, these systems have been closed architectures based on proprietary system and component designs, all of which have...

If your supply chain is compromised, the rest of your cyber strategy doesn’t matter

Feb 01, 2022 2:00PM EDT (2 years, 9 months ago)

In light of the "Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity" signed May 2021, and government technology planners looking to leverage more cloud architectures and IoT technologies, securing the services that involve the cloud has become critical. The Government’s trusted supply chain eff...

Accelerating Radar Research with an Open Architecture

Jan 26, 2022 11:00AM EDT (2 years, 9 months ago)

As threats and countermeasures evolve, researchers and systems engineers are challenged with bringing new radar capabilities from concept to the lab to fielded systems. A major obstacle on this journey is the time it takes to migrate IP from simulation to firmware, and to build up boards and infrast...