New technologies, tactics, techniques, and procedures are becoming increasingly vital on the battlefield. The U.S. military is acutely aware of this and is integrating lessons learned from recent military operations in the Ukraine, as well as other conflicts, into the Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2), a warfighting concept that has the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) seeking to achieve decision superiority.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Aitech is showcasing its latest advancements in military embedded systems at the MOSA Industry & Government Summit, emphasizing technologies built around the SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) open standards infrastructure, including its U-C8501 cybersecurity-enabled board, the company announced in a statement.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. Aitech Systems announced the M622, a fully managed 10 GbE/40 GbE Ethernet switch/router on an XMC that is designed for use in embedded and harsh-environment applications with SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) constraints.

It’s been nearly three years since ratification of the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard 1.0 and its impact is being felt across the services as requests for SOSA aligned products are finding their way into program requirements. SOSA, an example of the modular open systems approach (MOSA) mandated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is also changing the way government leverages commercial technology and existing open standards like VPX. To learn more, I gathered a roundtable of SOSA Consortium members to discuss SOSA’s impact on the community, business practices, common misconceptions, and the future of what SOSA may look like five or 10 years down the road.

Open architecture approaches like the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard are changing the way defense electronics designers build tomorrow’s military platforms. SOSA’s impact is felt within the electronic warfare (EW) community as requirements for the products based on the standard become more prevalent riding the modular open systems approach (MOSA) wave within the DoD.

Naval warfare demands seamless, real-time data sharing across multiple platforms, from aircraft to surface ships to submarines. As conflicts become increasingly complex and fast-paced, the key to winning lies in the ability to communicate critical data in real time.

As the defense industry grapples with exponential increases in mission data that must be collected, managed, and analyzed, the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to harness the power of big data and drive strategic decision-making represents an unprecedented shift in the industry.