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Collins Aiming To Build Digital Backbone For FVL

Kelsey Reichmann

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020

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Collins Aiming To Build Digital Backbone For FVL

The SB>DEFIANT produced by Sikorsky-Boeing is one of two aircraft selected for further testing under the JMR-TD program, a precursor to the Army’s Future Vertical Lift effort. (Image courtesy of Boeing Co.)

Collins Aerospace [RTX] is looking to develop a digital backbone for the Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) programs. While the modular open systems approach (MOSA) provides standards for creating open systems, it does not cover integration challenges, which the digital backbone would hope to do. During a webinar on Tuesday from Collins Aerospace at AUSA, Harold Tiedeman, chief engineer for FVL at Collins, presented solutions Collins has created for gaps left by MOSA. “The U.S. Army has that term, digital backbone,…

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