The dod s bbp website defines an open architecture as a technical architecture that adopts open standards supporting a modular, loosely coupled and highly cohesive system structure that includes publishing of key interfaces within the system and full design disclosure regardless of the dr early in a program development that should reduce. Smaller, shorter, spiral deliverables that allows the government to task as you learn,reduces risk and delivers capabilities faster. A mosa is the dod preferred method for implementation of open systems, and it. Impacts and recommendations for achieving modular open. Modular open systems approach mosa reference frameworks. Open systems architecture an integrated business and technical strategy for implementing systems in the dod a technical architecture open standards, publishing of key interfaces, full design disclosure modular, loosely coupled and highly cohesive system structure an open business model. Open standards for the dod military embedded systems. Under secretary of defense issued a milestone memo mandating that all acquisition activity must incorporate the department of defense dod open systems architecture osa principles and practices. The air force wants to accelerate the speed at which it can add new systems to aircraft and, like other components of the military, it sees open architectures as the way to get there.
Dod open systems architecture contract guidebook for. Dod, and don policies and be based on open standards to support the dod s goals of net. The department of defense dod continues to embrace open architecture designs and open standards to enable more commonality in military sensor systems, vehicle electronics, radar, electronic warfare, and others. A componentbased radar open architecture containing the five elements discussed above is shown below in figure 3.
Improve competition open architecture with severable modules, allowing components to be. Defining an open system architecture standard for defense. Contents of the department of defense dod open system architecture contract guidebook for program managers note. The open group architecture framework togaf and the us. Dod transformation to serviceoriented information enterprise. We have just released the 2011 draft dod open system architecture contract guidebook for program managers. Naval open architecture home secretary of the navy.
A guide to applying system engineering to develop integrated, executable architectures is designed to establish a clear understanding of the dodaf and its purpose, and advance the readers skills in applying systems engineering to the dodaf. Customer members demand architecture standards dod information systems agency disa donate tafim as base. Open architecture in naval combat system computing of the 21st century. The language contained in this guidebook should be tailored to reflect the programs phase and the. Summit, which focused on open architecture in military acquisition. Recognizing the need for affordable and effective solutions, the dod calls for the use of open system architecture osa solutions in better buying power bbp 3. In addition, don commands must work with their intellectual property counsel to ensure compliance with oss license agreements. Air force open architecture distributed common ground system oa dcgs. Naval open architecture noa is the confluence of business and technical practices yielding modular, interoperable systems that adhere to open standards. Open architecture cuts cost, promotes competition, official says. Sensor open systems architecture sosa consortium the.
Dods perspective on radar open architectures the mitre. Compliance guide henceforth, guide provides direction on assessing and asserting compliance to the bea, in support of the defense business systems investment management guidance. Department of defense architecture framework wikipedia. Modular open systems approach mosa is an integrated business and technical strategy for the assessment and implementation of open systems in the dod. Today, it is a realtime softwarefocused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers, academia, and users. Dod architecture framework working group dod architecture. The open group architecture framework togaf the us department of defense developed a series of architecture guidance documents in the early 1990s known as the technical architecture framework for information management tafim. To be truly successful the approach must be easily adaptable to all platforms and. Facilitating interoperability with commercial, international, and military standards and compliance with relevant open system architectures. According to the department of defenses open systems joint task force, the oa bottom line is superior and more affordable weapon systems. A key enabler for open architecture is the adoption of an open business model, which. Open architecture in naval combat system computing of the.
Please visit our official homepage at while this is an open forum, its also a family friendly one, so please keep your comments and wall. Open system architecture osa contract guidebook for. Department of defense contractor in a weapon system acquisition. Sep 01, 20 the dod s bbp website defines an open architecture as a technical architecture that adopts open standards supporting a modular, loosely coupled and highly cohesive system structure that includes publishing of key interfaces within the system and full design disclosure regardless of the dr early in a program development that should reduce. Jul 15, 2019 some of these higherlevel standards include future airborne capability environment face, sensor open system architecture sosa, hardware open systems technologies host, and c4isrew modular open suite of standards cmoss. More than 220 corporate members of the open group architecture forum over 55,000 togaf series books shipped.
A key feature of dodaf is interoperability, which is. The don cio develops, maintains and facilitates a don enterprise architecture don ea that complies with federal and department of defense dod architectures. More use of standards and open architecture reduces the. Like other ea approaches, for example the open group architecture framework togaf, dodaf is organized around a shared repository to hold work products.
Jtnc operational value enabling support for intended application and capability. Open architecture cuts cost, promotes competition, official. C aircraft with open architecture avionics systems. An acquisition organization can use this standard to contractually acquire the documentation needed for communicating the software architecture design and conducting software architecture evaluations. Dod open systems architecture june 20 contract guidebook. The us dod and its military services are actively engaged in the development of many open architecture standards efforts, such as the face, host, oms, uci. The air force, navy, army, other government agencies, and industry. The department of defense architecture framework dodaf is an architecture framework for the united states department of defense dod that provides visualization infrastructure for specific stakeholders concerns through viewpoints organized by various views. Comp liance guide henceforth, guide provides direction on assessing and asserting compliance to the bea, in support of the defense business systems investment management guidance3 and 10 u. The department of defense dod open system architecture. Prepared by the department of defense open systems architecture data rights team distribution statement a. Approved for public release triservice convergence. A modular open systems approach mosa, formerly known as open systems architecture or open systems approach, can be defined as a technical and business strategy for designing an affordable and adaptable system.
Under the initiative, a framework for integration of c4isrew and other electronic mission equipment on ground platforms continues to be developed. Stretching back to the mid2000s there have been numerous efforts by all service branches to define sets of osa principles or requirements on the embedded computing systems they procure and deploy. These capabilities are key to developing and providing multimission capabilities in a radar system. For many years now, there have been efforts within the us defense community to adopt open system architecture principles or osa for defense computing platforms. Open systems architecture is a system design approach which aims to produce systems that. It includes a collection of the doctrinal, operational, business, technical, or industry standards, implementation conventions, standards options, rules, and criteria that can be organized into profiles that govern solution elements for a given architecture. The architecture design process is a trade and synthesis method to allow the program manager pm and systems engineer to translate the outputs of the stakeholder requirements definition and requirements analysis processes into alternative design solutions and establishes the architectural design of candidate solutions that may be found in a system model. Standards development, spie open architectureopen business model.
Nov 11, 2015 at a couple of recent conferences one on open architecture specifically, the other on military robotics i was struck by the consensus among defense officials that open architecture is 1. The sensor open systems architecture sosa in a nutshell. Dod open systems architecture contract guidebook for program. Avionics open systems architecture standardization vertical flight. Air force looks to get the moast out of open architectures. Future satellite system architectures and practical design issues. The authors are the open systems architecture osadata. Jan 31, 2018 choosing the right cots mezzanine module. More use of standards and open architecture reduces the dependence on proprietary technologies. This is the official and current version for the department of defense architecture framework. Current dod guidance requires the technical standards portions of models be produced. This guidebook is intended to implement and supplement, rather than replace, authoritative source figure 1. Oct 14, 2020 this december, jette told me, the army will start trying to harmonize all those different standards together to form one metastandard, a common modular open systems architecture for everything. Clark published sea power 21, his vision of the 21stcentury navy that would see innovative concepts and.
Mora is being incorporated into the victory architecture and standard specifications. The department of defense dod architecture framework dodaf, version 1. Absent an open architecture and standards applied to multivendor systems, the. Today, it is a realtime softwarefocused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers, academia, and us. Home books satellite systems design, modeling, simulation and analysis. Aug 01, 2018 modular open systems approach mosa is an integrated business and technical strategy for the assessment and implementation of open systems in the dod. The defense enterprise business and data standards website is under modernization. Don enterprise architecture department of navy chief. The initial focus of the radar osa dst is to collect and augment as necessary a set of open radar data standards that can be combined to build and modernize radars. This guidance may be especially well suited for acquisition programsfor. According to the department of defenses open systems joint task force.
Welcome to the official dod open systems architecture osa facebook fan page. For dod, open architectures turn from a nice idea to a budget imperative. Naval open architecture contract guidebook for program managers version 2. Because the dod is in the midst of reforming its acquisition policies and processes and. Started in 2017, the sensor open systems architecture group or sosa is an organization consisting of government, system integrators, and component suppliers who are working to craft an osa standard for defense sensor systems. This page is intended to provide updated information and discussion on open architecture and data rights.
Nov 05, 2014 open systems architecture also may be used to overcome barriers to competition by applying open standards and open business model principles, the guidelines book says. Adopting open architectures in systems that the defense department buys. Readers will understand what tools, processes, and techniques make a. Serviceoriented architecture soa influence acquisition strategy needs for. Open systems architecture an integrated business and technical strategy for implementing systems in the dod a technical architecture open standards, publishing of key interfaces, full design disclosure modular, loosely coupled and highly cohesive system structure an open business model transparency and leveraging of innovation across the enterprise. Alignment with hardware open system technologies host victory standard support office vsso. The air force has awarded a master idiq to develop, evolve, update via preplanned product improvement p3i initiatives, manage, and provide configuration control of the open mission systems and universal command and control interface standards, collectively referred to as the open architecture standards. In military services, new push from the top toward open systems.
Identified as a key tenet of better buying power, open systems architecture can help promote effective competition because it enhances system interoperability and the ability to integrate new capabilities without the re. There has been a lot of emphasis recently in the department of defense on the use of open systems architecture. The essence of open systems architecture osa is an organized decomposition, using carefully defined execution boundaries, layered onto a framework of software and hardware shared services and a vibrant business model that facilitates competition. Designing a nonpropriety open systems architecture based on dodrelevant government or commercially available open standards for reconfigurable. A mosa is the dod preferred method for implementation of open systems, and it is required by united states law. These principles include using existing or evolving open standards for welldefined modular hardware and software components that can be sourced. The repository is defined by the common database schema core architecture data model 2. Purpose and scope the dod business enterprise architecture. There are a great many existing open systems architectures and st.
Dasd ciia dod cio ia architecture approval and engineering guidance ia standards and. Open, layered radar data and control interface standards are. A3, 23 may 2014 victory standard specifications, versio. In telecommunication, open systems architecture osa is a standard that describes the. Open systems architecture data rights breaking vendor lock. An open architecture is a technical architecture that adopts open standards supporting a modular, loosely coupled and highly cohesive system structure that includes publishing of key interfaces within the system and full design disclosure. The department of the navy is a complex organization with disparate architecture development efforts and finite resources. For effective development of open systems, a program manager. Mar 26, 2019 per law, 10 usc 2446, a major defense acquisition program that receives milestone a or milestone b approval after january 1, 2019, shall be designed and developed, to the maximum extent practicable, with a modular open system approach to enable incremental development and enhance competition, innovation, and interoperability. Kaminski, under secretary of defense for acquisition and technology, directed acquisition executives in the department of defense to use open systems specifications and standards electrical, mechanical, thermal, etc.
Dod architecture and standards governance ndia systems. In 2019 the us defense embedded computing market underwent a transformation. Jan 31, 2017 the department of defense dod open system architecturecontract guidebook for program managers guidebook is to be usedby program managers pms who are incorporating open systemarchitecture osa principles into the acquisition of any system orservice, including those not considered to be information intensive. An open system is a system that employs modular design tenets, uses widely supported and consensusbased standards for its key interfaces, and is subject to validation and verification. Military standardshandbooks defense logistics agency. The face approach is a governmentindustry software standard and business strategy for acquisition. The open group future airborne capability environment face consortium was formed in 2010 to define an open avionics environment for all military airborne platform types. The open group hosts many of the standards, including those from the face and sosa consortiums. The example used in this report is drawn from an actual sad written by a major u. Key interfaces should utilize open standards in order to produce the most lifecycle benefits possible. Finally, implementation provides an open architecture that will allow platforms to accept future technologies without the need for significant redesign. Dod and industry work together to define how to evaluate mosa. These views are artifacts for visualizing, understanding, and assimilating the broad scope and complexities of an architecture.
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