Let's Be Modular and Open (MOSA - Modular Open System Approach)

MOSA (Modular Open System Approach) is an integrated business and technical strategy employing a modular design to achieve competitive and affordable acquisition and sustainment. Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML) are being used increasing in industry and DoD has an interest in industry convergence. But the DoD Enterprise Architecture (EA) community also wants to break away from architecture as templates to be filled-out which can seem like filling out a government form – this is not what architecting should be. 

DoD wants to evolve towards usage focus, in which the architects determine the architecture data to be developed based upon actual uses of the data.  At the same time, DoD wants architectures to be better integrated and to dovetail-with and flow-into downstream systems engineering processes and model development, in particular Digital Engineering and MBSE.  Further use of Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MSA) tools and techniques is desired to evaluate architecture alternatives.  Yet further downstream, DoD seeks architecture methodologies that flow into software engineering and modernized software development, e.g., DevSecOps. 

Please join us for an important discussion on DoD’s goal of a new architecture framework that will support modernization, optimization, and integration goals and objectives.  There will be a Q&A portion to the webinar.