OA Events
Upcoming
| April 30 – May 1, 2025 | MOSA for Defense Summit – National Harbor, MD |
| August 27-29, 2025 | MOSA Industry and Gov’t Summit & Expo – Gaylord National Harbor, MD |
| August 27-28, 2025 | FACE and SOSA Consortia Expo – Gaylord National Harbor, MD |
Recent
| January 22-23, 2025 | Military Aviation and Air Dominance Summit – Jackson Center, Huntsville, AL |
| September 16, 2024 | FACE and SOSA Consortia Technical Interchange Meeting Von Braun Center Huntsville, AL |
| August 27-28, 2025 | MOSA Industry and Gov’t Summit & Expo (2025 details fortcoming) Gaylord Convention Center National Harbor, MD |
| June 17-18, 2024 | MOSA Industry and Government Summit & Expo Gaylord National Harbor Convention Center, MD |
| September 18-19, 2023 | MOSA Industry and Government Summit & Expo – Attendee Registration Open The FACE™ and SOSA™ Consortia TIM & Expo is incorporated into the MOSA Summit |
| September 27, 2022 | The Open Group SOSA and FACE Consortia TIM & Expo |
| March 15, 2022 | Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration TIM and Expo – Solomons, MD |
| September 14, 2021 | The Open Group FACE™ Consortia Expo & TIM – hosted by PEO Aviation in Huntsville, AL |
| March 23, 2021 | The Open Group FACE™ and SOSA™ Consortia Technical Interchange Meeting (virtual TIM) www.expotim2021.com (open to the public) |
| September 21, 2020 | The Open Group FACE and SOSA & Virtual TIM www.expotim2021.com |
| January 29, 2020 | Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration www.tsoa-id.net |
HOST News
January 2025
December 17, 2024
Tri-Service Memorandum for Service Acquisition Executives and Program Executive Officers
Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for DOD Weapons Systems
December 9, 2024
October 30, 2024
November 20, 2023
NAVAIR Leveraging MOSA in avionics systems
Interview with CAPT Jarrod Hair, PMA-209 Program Manager
February 21, 2023
December 20, 2022
July 14, 2022
March 29, 2022
January 10, 2022
December 8, 2021
October 20, 2021
September 12, 2021
July 19, 2021
June 1, 2021
May 27, 2021
May 11, 2021
April 22, 2021
March 29, 2021
Open Architecture Systems Will Be the Contract Discriminator
AFCEA/SIGNAL. Adhering to OA will be the way of the future, as will digital engineering, Army leaders say at recent Technical Interchange Meeting hosted by NAVAIR PMA-209 in concert with The Open Group FACE™ and SOSA™ Consortia.
Military Embedded Systems
AI-based solution for ISR, EW shown by Curtiss-Wright at TSOA-ID
Lisa Daigle – “Lynn Bamford, President, Defense and Power at Curtiss-Wright, said of the demo: ‘As an industry leader in the development of open standards architecture solutions, we are very proud to participate in the Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration. Curtiss-Wright is committed to incorporating SOSA-, CMOSS-, and HOST-aligned modules as part of our standard product family and currently has multiple products in development aligned with these standards.’”
Military Embedded Systems
Development of the next-generation OpenVPX-based embedded system standard – A tri-service convergence of approaches: Part 1 of 3
Mike Hackert, Ben Peddicord, Dr. Ilya Lipkin – “While HOST added specificity to established, state-of-the-art industry standards, specifically VITA 65 – OpenVPX, it became apparent that the addition of HOST would do the same for the SOSA standard”
Military Embedded Systems
DoD leadership embracing open standards
John McHale – “…The different standards need to be monitored throughout development to ensure they are aligned. But in the end, it won’t matter whether your single-board computer is designed under SOSA or CMOSS or HOST – they will all work, said Lipkin, in response to a reporter’s question on the matter: “They just need a tweak” and they are all compatible.”
Military Embedded Systems
Military aircraft avionics face new data-processing and security demands
A few trends are emerging in military aircraft avionics – including a continued push toward large touch-screen displays, as well as a migration to multicore processing, open architectures, and a new focus on improving cyber resilience.
April 24, 2020
Future F-35 Panoramic Cockpit Display System to Feature Better Processing, Memory
A new Panoramic Cockpit Display – Electronics Unit (PCD-EU) for the Lockheed Martin F-35 is to feature significantly enhanced processing and memory.
Jan 29, 2020
SOSA flexes its muscles, eyes common ground among open-systems standards for military embedded computing
John Keller -“This latest set of standards … is steadily gaining traction in the Pentagon and in the defense business because everybody’s on board — the government as well as industry.”
Feb 11, 2019
SOSA, CMOSS, HOST, and Military Open Standards
William Wong – “HOST has been used in the integrated core processor (ICP) for the joint strike fighter (JSF) F-35, as well as for its panoramic cockpit display electronic unit (PCDEU).”
Feb 6, 2019
Open-systems electronics standards for military embedded computing gaining money and traction
John Keller – “The HOST program seeks to decompose military embedded systems into functional blocks to ease system design and reuse of embedded computing hardware and software. It’s intended to open systems for several different vendors and avoid locking single vendors into large system designs.”
