Standards Management

The Open Architecture Management (OAM) PE funds Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) maturation and its adoption by weapon systems across the DAF and the Department of War (DoW). The DoW Acquisition Transformation Strategy mandates Open Systems Architectures in all acquisition programs. The OAM PE democratizes implementation of open architecture across the DAF, accelerating fielding of capabilities, breaking vendor lock and increasing return on investment for cost, agility, interoperability, and lethality operational outcomes. This PE has a direct impact on how quickly the service can implement the DoW Open Systems Architecture Initiative. This budget funds the progression of Open Mission Systems (OMS), the Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI), other emerging MOSA standards, and integration across other DAF and DoW standards. OMS is a non-proprietary, open architecture standard to create reusable and replaceable components that promote speed of integration for adopting weapons systems. The UCI is the DAF's messaging standard for mission-level Command and Control (C2), providing common message definitions to enable C2 coordination across sensors, vehicles, data products, and software. Funding supports development of new mission-critical OMS/UCI features requested by the 30+ operational adopting platforms across the DAF and broader DoW partners. Funding also supports experimentation, modeling, integration events, and studies to establish a common DAF MOSA approach. This includes leveraging commercial industry standards and government-driven standards. Additionally, funding supports horizontal integration and interoperability across Government Reference Architectures (GRAs) and standards. These efforts use Agile methodologies and Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) software practices to deliver products securely to adopting platforms and enable continuous feedback to improve the standards. Further, funding provides targeted technical exploration and risk reduction with adopting platforms to facilitate their MOSA adoption while identifying any changes required within the DAF's MOSA standards. Funding may be utilized to implement innovation insertion, capability insertion, software increments, spiral upgrades, modular component swaps, and other insertions consistent with Modular Open System Architecture.