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Boeing Says FARA Avionics Approach Focused on ‘Full Implementation’ of MOSA

Frank Wolfe

Friday, March 6th, 2020

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Boeing's avionics approach to the company's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) design, released on March 3, is focused on "full implementation" of the U.S. Army's Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA), according to Shane Openshaw, the Boeing program manager for FARA. This month the Army is slated to narrow the field from five competitors – Boeing [BA], Sikorsky [LMT], Bell [TXT], Karem Aircraft, and AVX/L3Harris [LHX]– to two. Those two are to participate in a fly-off, likely in 2022 or 2023,…

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