The promise of emerging open standards, Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA), Hardware Open Systems Technologies (HOST), C4ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS), and the Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE) are being leveraged for Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) system development. These “best-of-breed” technologies are being used to design, build, upgrade and deploy systems to our warfighters that are more complex and more capable with higher technology readiness levels, lower cost and reduced development and integration schedules. Adoption of open systems has been slow due to fears of delay in schedule and increases to cost in the development phase. Modern methods like MMOSA can mitigate those risks creating an environment for higher order application of open systems in new and upgraded platforms. This paper presents TES’ advances in utilizing Model-based Modular Open Systems Approach (MMOSA) in meeting the need to verify systems against the open standards they are built upon in order to achieve the high goals espoused by MOSA.
TES’ AWESUM® processes and tool suite enable the rapid development of hardware and software solutions for multi-organization development and integration to build complex cyber-physical systems (CPS) by creating flexible verification systems that can align with the operating environment and speed the process through test, verification and conformance.
Speakers:
Sean P. Mulholland is a co-founder of Tucson Embedded Systems, Inc. Sean has a B.S in Computer Science and Systems Design from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Sean currently serves as TES CEO and President. Sean has 31 years of experience in software intensive system development, design, integration and testing, especially as it relates to mission-critical and safety-critical systems. Sean has designed and built several product lines that produced significant advancements in the areas of Geographic Information Systems, Military Ground Systems, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and Manned aircraft systems. Sean is a contributing author to the FACE technical reference architecture and has been active serving as a key resource in FACE Data Architecture development. Sean’s current work is focusing on the development of a process and supporting tool suite for optimizing the system development of safe and secure systems for military and commercial systems.
Ken J. Erickson is a Principal Engineer with Tucson Embedded Systems and has been with TES for over 22 years. Ken has a B.S. in Computer Science and Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Ken has 29 years of experience in real-time and embedded software and systems requirements, design, development, integration and test, including both mission and safety-critical systems. He is an active participant in the FACE TWG Transport Services Subcommittee, FACE Security CRADA Working Group, FACE TWG Security Subcommittee, FACE Integration Workshop Standing Committee, and Integration Workshop – Getting Started Guide Subcommittee, a member of SOSA, as well as a member of the TES-SAVi FACE Verification Authority team. Verification work includes conformance testing of FACE 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 TSS, PSSS, Data Models and OSS.
