Open Architecture

The Marine Corps has fielded the first open-architecture mission-systems computer aboard the UH-1Y utility helicopter and AH-1Z gunship. Northrop Grumman [NOC] manufactured and delivered its Tech Refresh Mission Computer (TRMC) […]

The modern Army relies heavily on equipment that can precisely locate and track all of its tanks, trucks and troops, but upgrading hundreds of thousands of GPS receivers across its […]

Senior military officials and lawmakers are sending a clear two-word message to the Defense Department acquisition community: Go faster. Increasingly the military services are interpreting that order, along with legislation […]

A Navy official said the service’s changing missions are driving open architecture structures and that quickening prototype work is important for the service going forward. As the Navy returns to […]

Installation and characterization of active protection systems (APS) on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and Stryker wheeled combat vehicle are lagging behind the effort to equip the Abrams tank with guided-missile […]

JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING, Washington, D.C. – During a change of command ceremony Oct.3, Marine Corps General Vincent Stewart relinquished directorship of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). After 33 months as […]

When the Army buys new gear for its helicopters, the acquisition community and industry view it as adding capability to an existing platform, but actually integrating new sensors and weapons […]

Written into the contract for the Navy’s newest combat aircraft training system is a requirement for industry bidders to use a government-established standard communication software architecture. The $142 million contract […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has hired three firms to find ways of defeating the small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) that have become one of the most pervasive […]

The Army is standardizing its mission command software across the active and reserve component to simplify the network architecture of operational units. Over the next two years, the Army will […]