Atlanta, GA - TSOA-ID

Witness the Future of Defense Acquisition

The Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID) Atlanta was a unique event for the media, acquisition community, and industry influencers. Held on January 29, 2020, the event was sponsored by Representative Commands from Branches of the United States Armed Services and hosted by Georgia Tech Research Institute at the GTRI Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Leading Open Architecture experts gave live, hands-on demonstrations of Systems Acquisition and Integration, Module Specification and Development, Conformance (qualification), culminating with Open Systems Realization. Joining Tri-Service representatives in demos were select industry vendors representing Industry and Government partnerships with HOST, FACE™, SOSA™, CMOSS, and VITA Standards development organizations.

TSOA-ID (events) are designed for guests to experience and witness a greater maturity and acceptance of OA development. With FACE™, as well as standards defined through HOST, SOSA™, CMOSS, several Army, Navy and Air Force representatives showcased the ease of interoperability (exchange of hardware and software modules) which allows for faster incorporation of innovation and delivery of new capabilities (or replacement technology) to alleviate being forced into changing all components in an entire system. The growing market ecosystem achievement breaks decades-long barriers created by tightly integrated systems, thus allowing new capabilities to be transitioned orders of magnitude faster than in the past.

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By attending the Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID) event on January 29, 2020, you are entering an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur.

Keynote Speakers

Randall G. Walden

COL Nickolas Kioutas

CAPT Christopher R. McDowell

Keynotes

Reference / Background

HOST

Hardware Open Systems Technologies standard. Initiated by the United States Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Patuxent River, MD in 2014; version 4.0 published 14 August 2019

CMOSS

Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) / Electronic Warfare (EW) Module Open Suite of Standards. Initiated by the United States Army’s Communications Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (C5ISR CenterCenter) at Aberdeen Proving Grounds MD in 2013

SOSA™

The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium standard. Initiated by the United States Air Force’s Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH and The Open Group SOSA™ Consortium. Incubated within FACE™ – Future Airborne Computing Environment Consortium in 2015.

FACE™

The FACE Technical Standard is the open avionics software standard for making military computing operations more robust, interoperable, portable and secure; for use across the entire spectrum of military aviation systems through a common operating environment.