Modular Open System Architecture, or MOSA, has long been a principal design consideration in the private sector but has not historically been a major focus in defense acquisition. This is changing as ...

The U.S. Army has pursued the development of open architecture system standards for several years and now is increasingly fielding such systems across its programs, including amongst its aviation and ...

The Navy’s acquisition strategy aims at open architectures in aviation programs. The U.S. military is using open architecture platforms on a greater scale, deploying interchangeable hardware and ...

How do you embrace innovation without straying too far afield from the accepted principles of scalability, adaptability and affordability? For the Defense Department, the answer appears to be adoption ...

The Open Group describes business architecture as how an organization is structured and motivated and architects help to develop open systems architectures that take into where the organization is and ...

Bell’s V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft was selected by the U.S. Army as its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft using MOSA considerations. (Bell) Modular Open System Architecture, or MOSA, has long ...