Tag Archives: open architecture

The U.S. military has launched efforts to modernize its explosive ordnance disposal technologies and one of the service branches has made progress developing robotic systems in the past year, National Defense reported Friday.

A battle management team of the U.S. Air Force has developed an open architecture for the service branch’s Distributed Common Ground System that works to support the service branch’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements. The Air Force said Thursday the team collaborated with the Air Combat Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory to …

A defense policy bill the House Armed Services Committee approved two weeks ago contains a provision that would require the Defense Department to implement open architecture-based weapon systems “to the maximum extent practicable,” Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes an earlier version of the committee’s 2017 National Defense Authorization Act had called for …

A U.S. Air Force official has said the service branch has started to subject its F-35 fighter jets to combat mission tests against Russian- and Chinese-made aerial defense platforms through the use of “open air” ranges as well as computer modeling and simulation environments. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, director of …

The U.S. Air Force has applied open architecture and agile models toward updates of its ground infrastructure for analysis and processing of data collected from military sensors, drones and manned aircraft, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes the Air Force Research Laboratory last year built an open prototype of the Distributed …

The U.S. Air Force plans to wrap up an open architecture agreement with a consortium of companies in the next few weeks in a move to accelerate the service’s acquisition process, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Scott Maucione writes the open architecture procurement process will use the other transaction agreement. Camron …

Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, has outlined three provisions on technological innovations in the reconciled bill of the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016. Rossino wrote in a blog post published Oct. 13 that House adopted a Senate provision …

Daniel Goure, a vice president at the Lexington Institute, has offered the Defense Department six cybersecurity strategies to help ward off sophisticated threats to the department’s computer networks. Goure said that DoD can leverage or repurpose existing security controls to provide extra support for the Defense Information Systems Agency-run Host-Based …

The U.S. Army looks to use open interoperability profiles to develop an autonomous technology for tactical ground vehicles, the Army News Service reported Monday. Lisa Ferdinando reports Mark Mazzara, robotics interoperability lead at the Army’s program executive office for combat support and combat service support, has offered a three-phase approach …

The Defense Department seeks to access data rights for systems that DoD acquires from industry as part of the agency’s open architecture strategy under Better Buying Power 3.0, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Jared Serbu writes Katrina McFarland, assistant defense secretary for acquisition, said DoD does not intend to deter …