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Army

FARA Proposals Feature Modular Open Systems Approach for Avionics

By Woodrow Bellamy III

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

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FARA Proposals Feature Modular Open Systems Approach for Avionics

Troops in formation.

Company proposals for the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition tout their compliance with the service's desired modular open systems approach (MOSA) digital backbone to allow plug and play capabilities for the aircraft's avionics and mission systems. One of the companies that has said it will comply with MOSA, Lockheed Martin's [LMT] Sikorsky, unveiled its Raider X design for FARA this week at the Association of the United States Army annual conference. Raider X is a blueprint featuring…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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