Roundtable: SOSA Aligned Products in Demand, MOSA/SOSA Misconceptions, Future MOSA Impacts

Steve Edwards

Published in SOSA Special Edition 2025 by OpenSystems Mediaa (Page 20)
By John M. McHale III, Editorial Director

Now celebrating its 10th year, The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture, Or SOSA, Consortium has never been stronger, as products aligned to the SOSA Technical Standard grow in demand in military applications. I gathered a roundtable of SOSA Consortium members to discuss how the SOSA approach - an example of the modular open systems approach (MOSA) mandated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) - is enabling commercial innovation in radar and electronic warfare (EW), examine some common misconceptions regarding SOSA and MOSA, and predict where MOSA strategies will have the most future impact.

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