The SOSA™ (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) Consortium is developing common open standards for designing,building, and deploying hardware, software, and firmware components of new military electronic systems. SOSA contributing members are U.S. government organizations including the U.S.DoD, Army, Navy, and Air Force, as well as key representatives from industry and universities.
SOSA adopts the most appropriate subsets of existing open standards to form a multi-purpose backbone of building blocks for current and future embedded systems for Radar, EO/IR, SIGINT, EW, and communications. This article is an overview of the SOSA and VITA organizations and how they interact, along with the challenges,successful strategies, and illustrative examples.
