Army planning open-architecture guidelines for contracts defense
Army planning open-architecture guidelines for contracts Jeannette Evans-Morgis delivers remarks during the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space STEM Expo. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams)
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The Army is working with industry to unify the technology it will buy for future platforms and vehicles by creating a modular and open-architecture approach.
Called the Common Modular Open Architecture (CMOA) initiative, the modernization push is in a feedback-seeking phase where the Army still hopes to hear more from industry. A team within the Office of the Chief Systems Engineer (OCSE) is developing the future contracting language and reference guides.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on May 03, 2021 at 2:43 PM
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WASHINGTON: The Army is asking industry if it can accelerate delivery of a new scout drone, FTUAS, to replace the aging RQ-7 shadow after a successful year of field tests of four competing prototypes, culminating in a rainy-day “rodeo” at Fort Benning.
It was “a great infantryman day, a cold, rainy day where we couldn’t have launched the Shadow in that weather,” Col. Scott Anderson, project manager for drones, said. “All those systems launched and flew really spectacularly in that kind of weather and got great feedback from the soldiers.
“Modular open systems architecture. is the foundation of all our future modernization,” said Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean. The Bradley replacement, OMFV, will be the test case.