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SOSA Briefing Outlines Future Defense Sensor System Architectures

By Woodrow Bellamy III

Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

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SOSA Briefing Outlines Future Defense Sensor System Architectures

The Pentek, Herrick and Kontron C4ISR SOSA demonstrator system. Photo: Pentek

A Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) technical standard briefing at the Association of the United States Army annual conference outlined the future embedded computing design approach to developing and upgrading electronic warfare, signals intelligence, radar and communications applications for U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force aircraft systems in near future. SOSA is one of four open system standards that was mentioned in association with the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) memorandum signed by Air Force, Army and Navy officials in…

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