Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)

We provide MOSA efforts across DoD programs

CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY

MOSA technology to solve warfighter needs

JHNA provides unparalleled expertise to the government in the exploration of innovative ways to employ various types of manned and unmanned aircraft systems with disparate capabilities, avionics and mission systems software, and survivability or lethality payloads, as part of aviation operations involving teamed engagement, force protection, and maneuver.

MOSA Services

CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY

MOSA technology to solve warfighter needs

JHNA provides unparalleled expertise to the government in the exploration of innovative ways to employ various types of manned and unmanned aircraft systems with disparate capabilities, avionics and mission systems software, and survivability or lethality payloads, as part of aviation operations involving teamed engagement, force protection, and maneuver.

MOSA Services

JHNA has staff both leading and working MOSA efforts across DoD programs with key efforts focused on:

  1. Development MOSA strategies for programs, families of systems, and executive offices,
  2. Development of architectures aligned to MOSA strategies,
  3. Contribution of expertise in open system standards for application to MOSA acquisitions, and
  4. Contribution of expertise in major systems integration to guide MOSA-based product line approaches to maximize reuse across a portfolio of programs managed by an enterprise executive office.

JHNA's EXPERTISE

JHNA Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) EXPERTISE

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MOSA Strategy

JHNA has experienced staff involved in the establishment of MOSA strategies for both government and commercial clients. As an example, US Army PEO Aviation relies on JHNA subject matter experts to establish the PEO enterprise approach to modularity applicable across their portfolio of programs. This strategy guides program-specific acquisitions to ensure MOSA business and technical objectives are achieved for the enterprise, such as strategic reuse and quickly deploying common capabilities to the field. These strategies support the concept of buy once and use many times.

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MOSA Architecture

Following architectural standards published by standards bodies, such as ISO, INCOSE, and IEEE, JHNA has experienced staff able to apply those standards to create architectures and architectural frameworks that an enterprise can use to achieve their MOSA business and technical objectives. MOSA architecture development led by JHNA produces processes and technical content to implement MOSA strategies for an enterprise and its subordinate programs. Examples of MOSA Architecture products either led by or involving JHNA staff are the US Army PEO Aviation Enterprise Architecture Framework, Enterprise Product Architecture, and Enterprise Technical Architecture. Similar products have been produced for commercial clients aligned to their product line strategy.

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OSA Standards and Application

JHNA staff is experienced with Open System Standards, such as the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACETM), Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA), and contributing standards, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) as employed by higher-level integrating standards. JHNA uses its expertise in OSA standards and applies them to support customer driven MOSA capabilities demonstrated at in-house labs, open technical conferences, and warfighting experiments, such as US Army Project Convergence.

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JHNA digital engineering METHODS EXPERTISE

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Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE)

MBSE represents both a current and growing area of expertise within JHNA. JHNA has engineers skilled in numerous MBSE tools and methods at all levels starting with entry and leading to seasoned professionals. The JHNA approach to this technology is to combine MBSE tool training with expertise in the domain of application. JHNA believes this approach separates us from the competition by having a base of staff knowledgeable in both MBSE tools and how best to apply them based on domain knowledge. Domain knowledge is not easy to acquire and maintain. JHNA has hiring and retention practices to ensure this high level of MBSE expertise is available for clients needing to apply MBSE techniques for their business and technical developments.

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Agile SW and Development Tools (DevSecOps)

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Systems Engineering and Modeling Languages

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JHNA's digital engineering METHODS process

In the early stages of systems engineering, our work centers around clarifying the end user’s needs and problems, capturing the goals the system is intended to support, and then measuring and evaluating the system's effectiveness in supporting these goals.

Our JHNA consultants do this by documenting the required system functionality, interfaces, physical and performance characteristics linked directly to the goals, and any effectiveness measures documented in our modeling environment. We then capture alternative system solutions by organizing the preliminary system design into modeling components that satisfy the modeled system requirements. This provides a digital environment to compare and contrast solutions that optimize the design and maximize the stated effective measures.

Characteristic of our careful and diligent work, our model based engineering environment maintains traceability from the system goals to the system and component requirements. It is during the system integration and test process, that the verified components are integrated into the system. System test cases are developed and digitally documented to verify the system requirements are satisfied.

The end result is a disciplined system engineering process coupled with digital engineering rigor that produces a well-documented and traceable balanced system solution that satisfies our stakeholder needs.  

On-going Support

During the operations and support phase, our JHNA consultants continue to fine tune solutions. We develop fielding plans, assist with system upgrades, develop training programs that optimize system use, and facilitate hardware and software training and integration.

JHNA’s end-to-end system development support ensures the system stays responsive to warfighter needs and within the realm of engineering capability.