Open architecture in naval combat system computing of the 21st century captain thomas j. This paper describes how the navy is shifting its efforts toward open architectures that 1 are. Trends emerging standards 6 c4isrew modular open suite of standards cmoss common open architecture radar program specification coarps future airborne capability environment face hardware open systems technologies host modular active protection system maps modular open radio frequency architecture mora. Apr 01, 2020 the 2021 scholarship application will be open from 1 april 2020 to 31 december 2020 all navy and nurse option officer interviews must be conducted by an officer at an nrotc unit. The head of the navys aviation system command is working on ways to bring the tenants of the pentagons larger push for open architecture computer systems to the. Find rewarding military career opportunities available in americas navy with options for both fulltime service and parttime service. A key enabler for open architecture is the adoption of an open business model, which. The ccm store also carries a variety of ccmlogo merchandise and exhibitrelated books and toys you wont find anywhere. An open systems approach reduces weapon system continue reading. Nov 11, 2015 it was designed from the ground up to be an open architecture modular system, said thomas dee, the deputy assistant secretary of the navy who oversees the program. Sosa opensystems standards embedded computing military.
A naval perspective on open systems architecture july 11, 2016 sei blog douglas c. Surface navy combat systems engineering strategy kathy emery, chief architect peo integrated warfare systems. Our architecture is designed for a fullfledged cbm system and it is necessarily formal. Utilize the disr with its toolset as the basic standards building blocks in cases where the navy needed standards outside of the disr goals e. Designing unmanned systems with greater autonomy using a federated, partially open systems architecture approach. An open architecture is a technical architecture that adopts open standards supporting a modular, loosely coupled and highly cohesive system structure that includes publishing of key interfaces within the system and full design disclosure. Open systems architecture osa the us navy fact file. The open business architecture o ba preliminary standard part i, a standard of the open group, is focused on transformations to the enterprise or organization. The department of the navy don requirements and acquisition process. Founded in 1860, the royal institution of naval architects is an internationally renowned professional engineering institution whose members are involved at all levels in the design, construction, repair and operation of ships, boats and marine structures. New systems will harness commercial products, powerful middleware to keep missioncritical systems online. Systems and software technology conference 2006 navy.
Navy standards working group nswg nswg to bring together the navy standards stakeholders to align navy standards activities with an approach of. Unless otherwise stated, the principal lead for the. At the chicago childrens museum store, youll find an assortment of oneofakind dolls, puzzles, games and more for kids and grownups of all ages. We have made attempts at rigorous definitions of open systems architecture, but in a nutshell, whats most important is the ability for multiple actorsincluding companies and government organizations. Free building product specifications all of arcat specs are written by csi fellows. Avoiding cost growth through open system architecture. This provided the organization a new means to objectively measure the effects of planned maintenance to engineer optimal maintenance plans.
France has adopted an open architecture approach for its naval combat direction. The naval open architecture oa compliance action list consists of the questions contained in the open architecture assessment tool oaat v1. Building and construction csi specifications arcat. Atlanta, ga august 27, 2019 the triservice open architecture interoperability demonstration a new, exclusive event for the media, acquisition community and industry influencers, and hosted by the georgia tech research institute at the gtri conference center in atlanta, georgia announces it will be held wednesday, january 29, 2020. Develop a navywide business strategy to support oa goals 3. Careers in naval architecture royal institution of naval. Future airborne capability environment face the open. Jul 17, 2017 an openstandard system architecture ossa is an architecture development approach that utilizes open standards to reduce the costrisk of ownership of weapons systems, delay system obsolescence, and allow fielding of capability more quickly. Specification of oa requirements for external interfaces. Maritime sigint architecture technical standards handbook. Instruction book for quickacting doors, navships 3160042, describes the single handle wheel us navy watertight door. Parallel navy efforts, such as the policy to incorporate software procurement requirements described under public law 107314 section 804 and the navy open architecture initiative, will be consolidated under my program. Open architecture computing environment oace was a specification that aimed to provide a standardsbased computing environment in order to decouple computing environment from software applications. The open group standards for enterprise architecture have been adopted worldwide.
With a force of 74,000 civilian, military and contract support personnel, navsea engineers, builds, buys and maintains the navys ships and submarines and their combat systems. What is open architecture and what are its advantages. Manager, records management, office of the chief information officer ocio, office of personnel management, 1900 e street nw, washington, dc 204156000. Usnas naval architecture and marine engineering program has worldclass facilities and awardwinning faculty, yet the major retains a closeknit atmosphere. Pdf naval open systems architecture strategy researchgate. The enterpriselevel content provides program managers with foundational information to be used in the development of their programspecific solution architectures.
Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture intended to make adding, upgrading, and swapping components easy. Management program project, the architecture of the department of defense. Open architecture for the integration of uav civil applications. Some of these higherlevel standards include future airborne capability environment face, sensor open system architecture sosa, hardware open systems. Additional guidance for this section can be found by conducting an open architecture assessment and in the system specific appendix. Pdf for the past 8 years, the navy has been working on transforming the. Shopping for gifts, souvenirs, collectibles, apparel navy pier. A military style guide was made possible with assistance from and general guidance of the department of defense dod legacy resource management pro. Robert thomas, speaking monday at the navy leagues seaairspace 2016 exposition, added in answer to a question, the service needs to add more open architecture capability to. Navy computing systems into a single opensystem computing approach. Under host a working group with folks from navair and vita are writing a threetier vpx standard that will have open architecture characteristics on the top two tiers with the bottom tier being proprietary and containing the secret sauce for navair, air force, or any other u. Air force looking to open architecture, common standards. Randall walden, director of the air forces rapid capabilities.
Our building product and material specifications are free to. Dynamic presentations and live demos from the navy, army and air force as well as industry experts, launch the triservice open architecture interoperability demonstration in january 2020. The team was comprised of over 100 members from across the navy and marine corps acquisition professional. Official website of the naval sea systems command navsea, the largest of the u. In 2011, the uk ministry of defence mod mandated open architecture for new land vehicles through the socalled uk defence standard 2309 generic vehicle architecture gva. In common with all majors at usna, naval architects study the fundamental core subjects of calculus, chemistry, physics and the humanities. The standard, ansitia568b dictates the performance requirements of the. The ccm gift shop is the place to shop for educational toys that wow. This strategy paper was developed by the naval open systems architecture enterprise team. Arcat specs are complete, accurate, and in the csi 3part and the canadian csc formats for building and construction professionals. The face consortium is a vendorneutral forum that provides standardized approaches for using open standards with avionics systems. Open architecture computing environment technologies and standards. Peo iws will help select common standards and products in the areas of.
Naval open architecture contract guidebook for program. Team to assess the navys plan to adopt open architecture the red team made recommendations to leadership. Navy open architecture program executive office,integrated warfare. Such development may be initiated by the office of personnel management or requested by an agency by writing to. Open systems architecture osa description an open systems architecture osa approach integrates business and technical practices that yield systems with severable modules which can be competed. Capabilitiesbased assessment cba users guide version 2. Navair developing open architecture ground and air test labs. Naval sea systems command home warfare centers nswc. Open architecture in naval combat system computing of. The don ea is an integrated architecture, as depicted in figure 1, which is made up of enterpriselevel architecture content, as well as the solution architectures of the don. To deliver enhanced, integrated warfighting capability at lower cost, the dod must move away from stovepiped solutions and embrace open systems architecture osa approaches that integrate business and technical practices to create systems with. With this in mind, efforts to promote open architecture systems were undertaken already several years ago at various levels across europe.
The department of the navy is a complex organization with disparate architecture development efforts and finite resources. Open architecture oa computing environment design guidance. The department of defense open systems architecture osa. Designed to meet the navy s program executive office integrated warfare systems open architecture computing environment standards, raytheons ssds mk 2 is the first fleet use of this open architecture software that leverages some of the total ship computing environment infrastructure developed for the zumwaltclass destroyer. Navy news service top stories top stories rss feed uss ronald reagan marks fifth year of service as part of u. The oaat was developed by the open architecture enterprise team oaet to provide a common approach to assessing the openness of naval programs. Open system architecture osa contract guidebook for program managers. Getting reliability, maintenance and a backbone built on open architecture right first is how the pentagon is approaching its future vertical lift programs, defense officials said on tuesday. The face effort sprang from us navy open architecture programs, promoted by the us naval air systems command navair, to enhance interoperability and software portability for avionics software applications across dod aviation platforms. Triservice open architecture interoperability demo in. Members involved in their evolution gain access to relevant knowledge, resources and experience, and have the opportunity to network with a worldclass community of experts and peers. To deliver enhanced, integrated warfighting capability at lower cost, the dod must move away from stovepiped solutions and embrace open systems architecture osa approaches that integrate business and technical practices to create. This approach significantly increases opportunities for.
The discussion began with guertin explaining his definition of open, as well as the litmus test he uses as the criteria for defining a system as open guertin. Redirect the oa implementation by defining architectures for domains based on their unique needs 4. This event will showcase neverbeforeseen developments in the growing open market ecosystem. The open standards based computing technologies specified as part of the open architecture computing environment oace can be assembled into a system in a variety of ways. Computing technology is a key part of the open architecture oa effort. Data element standards are developed to satisfy information needs. Naval open architecture noa is the confluence of business and technical practices yielding modular, interoperable systems that adhere to open standards with published interfaces. The navy nurse option combined sat score has been lowered to 1150. Navy is applying an open systems architecture osaii strategy that promotes open competition, cost control, innovation, and the rapid and affordable replacement, integration, and upgrades of capabilities to address warfighter needs. The goal of whole building design is to create a successful highperformance building by applying an integrated design and team approach to the project during the. The architecture of the department of defense iii acknowledgements the architecture of the department of defense. Naval architecture and marine engineering drawings san. The navy s leadership doesnt need to look far to find a successful model for its consolidated afloat networks and enterprise services canes program.
A military style guide was made possible with assistance from and general guidance of the department of defense dod legacy resource management program, under project number 10129. It was designed from the ground up to be an open architecture modular system, said thomas dee, the deputy assistant secretary of the navy who oversees the program. Modular designs based on standards, with loose coupling and high cohesion, that allow for. In turn, this progressive initiative significantly advanced submepps ability to. Military open architectures and vita standards military. Duties of naval architects might include designing a vessels hull and structure, arranging a crafts interior for power and. A military style guide, attempts to chronicle the evolution of military architectural styles and provides guidance for their identification, therefore promoting the stewardship of dods historic architecture while supporting the militarys mission. The naval architecture and marine engineering drawings collections consist of records created by naval architects, engineers, and shipbuilders. The navy talks about distributed maritime operations. Capabilitiesbased assessment cba users guide version 3. Wbdg is a gateway to uptodate information on integrated whole building design techniques and technologies. Us navy scalable aircraft hardware open system technologies host prototype development other solicitations to provide cargo helicopter with command, control and communications c3, integration and modification, maintenance, enhancement, and engineer support ctes iv associated with the integration of avionics and avioncs architecture for.
For example, the ibm pc, 2 3 amiga 500 4 and apple iie have an open architecture supporting plugin cards, whereas the apple iic computer has a closed architecture. Open architecture in network infrastructure, the term open architecture refers to the practice of using virtually any combination of standards compliant components in the design of the network. An open standard system architecture ossa is an architecture development approach that utilizes open standards to reduce the costrisk of ownership of weapons systems, delay system obsolescence, and allow fielding of capability more quickly. Department of defense handbook for preparation of statement of work sow. Mar 17, 2008 enterprise architecture published, march 17, 2008 the don cio develops, maintains and facilitates a don enterprise architecture don ea that complies with federal and department of defense dod architectures. In particular, the integration and interoperability of uxv. Vita triservice open architecture interoperability. Open architecture in naval combat system computing of the. Discover job opportunities ideal for your skills and interests in the u. Open architecture key to pentagons future vertical. Open architecture is reducing the cost and time needed to develop and deploy critical air force capabilities, but officials want to see further agreement with industry on standards, according to a lead official for rapid capabilities. The license is free to any organization wishing to use archimate documentation entirely for internal purposes. Robert thomas, speaking monday at the navy leagues seaairspace 2016 exposition, added in answer to a question, the service needs to add more open architecture. Downloads of the archimate documentation are available under license from the download link within the archimate information web site.
Several years ago, the navy and marine corps adopted naval open. The department of the navy enterprise architecture ea, with its initial release in july 2009 and version 2. Jul 11, 2016 a naval perspective on opensystems architecture july 11, 2016 sei blog douglas c. Open architecture for naval combat direction system nato sto. Part 2 overview of the navys open systems architecture. How the navy is using open systems architecture to. The open group future airborne capability environment consortium is a government and industry partnership to define an open avionics environment for all military airborne platform types. Navy analysis of submarine maintenance data and the. Jul 11, 2016 open systems approaches were first introduced in the dod in november 1994 when the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics directed that all dod components and agencies to use open systems specifications and standards for acquisition of weapon systems and chartered the open systems joint task force osjtf as a. Enterprise architecture published, march 17, 2008 the don cio develops, maintains and facilitates a don enterprise architecture don ea that complies with federal and department of defense dod architectures. Principles of naval engineering, navpers10788b, 1970. Sosa open systems standard gains momentum for embedded computing. A book is also available from the open group library as.
Don enterprise architecture department of navy chief. An extensible cbm architecture for naval fleet maintenance. Integrated topside intop joint navy industry open architecture study. Navy goes fullahead with open architecture defense systems. The open business architecture oba preliminary standard part i, a standard of the open group, is focused on transformations to the enterprise or organization. Modular designs based on standards, with loose coupling and high. The ronald reagan carrier strike group is underway. Open architecture computing environment oace was a specification that aimed to provide a standards based computing environment in order to decouple computing environment from software applications. Navy deputy, open architecture program executive office integrated warfare systems at its most fundamental, oa is an integrated engineering discipline, a technical approach.
The park holds over 150,000 drawings dealing almost entirely with west coast built vessels, shipyards and facilities. Oace open architecture computing environment us navy. The don cio develops, maintains and facilitates a don enterprise architecture don ea that complies with federal and department of defense dod architectures. Naval architects oversee the design and construction of ships. Naval open architecture is the confluence of business and modular design and design disclosure technical practices yielding modular, interoperable systems that adhere to open standards reusable application software interoperable joint warfighting that adhere to open standards with published interfaces. The navy s need for modules and open systems controlling cost while decreasing the cycle time for technology insertion will require the use of open architectures, module interface standards, commercial processors, etc.