Standards and Specifications

  • Significant cost saving or avoidance
  • Schedule reduction and rapidly deploy new technology
  • Opportunities for technical upgrades and refresh
  • Interoperability, including system of systems interoperability and mission integration
  • Other benefits during the sustainment phase of a major system

Modular Open Systems Approach Enabling Standards.

Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), formerly known as Open Systems Architecture or Open Systems Approach, to support the DoD strategy for implementation of open systems, in accordance with Title 10 U.S.C. 4401.(b), Sec 805, which states all major defense acquisition programs (MDAP) are to be designed and developed using a MOSA.  

Vendors we’ve interacted with so far:

Vendor Registrations
Cooperative TEMs
Approval Rating

A Modular Design

Employs a modular design that uses modular system interfaces between major systems, major system components and modular systems.

Is Verifiable

Is subjected to verification to ensure that relevant modular system interfaces comply with, if available and suitable, widely supported and consensus-based standards.

Easily Reconfigure

Uses a system architecture that allows severable major system components at the appropriate level to be incrementally added, removed, or replaced throughout the life cycle of a major system platform to afford opportunities for enhanced competition and innovation.

Modular Open Systems Approach Enabling Standards.

What does this mean for you?

This means that your technology’s benefit to the Army is greater if it complies with our open standards, and we will be assessing that compliance at every stage in the Modernization process. The standards we use are:

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