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New DoD Working Group Promoting Modular Open Systems Architecture

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, October 18th, 2016

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New DoD Working Group Promoting Modular Open Systems Architecture

The ninth annual Open Architecture Summit took place Oct. 18 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

The U.S. Department of Defense has stood up a working group to promote modular, open-systems architecture (MOSA) in acquisition programs, a DoD official said Oct. 18.The membership of the modular open systems working group is currently limited to government agencies, including representatives of the Air Force, Army, Navy and parts of the Pentagon acquisition office, said Philomena “Phil” Zimmerman, deputy director of engineering tools and environments in the office of the deputy assistant secretary of defense for systems engineering. But…

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