DoD Requires MOSA on Open Systems: Proteus Delivers
New milestone for Proteus Envision and Risky Project
The Defense Standardization Program within the U.S. Department of Defense has established Modular Open Systems as the preferred method of implementing open systems. In most cases, MOSAs are used to develop and support major systems, and is required by law for major defense acquisition program major systems and subsystems.
Utilizing MOSA in the management of such systems provides a consistent way to capture data from the underlying program systems in a consistent and flexible manner. The Department has identified several benefits of adopting a MOSA.
- Significant cost savings and avoidance over Government-off-the-Shelf (GOTS) and bespoke development.
- Schedule reduction and rapid technology deployment.
- Opportunities to rapid technical upgrades and tech refresh.
- Interoperability, including system of systems interoperability and mission integration.
- Alignment with the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) requirements of utilizing COTS over GOTS solutions.
Along these lines, SNA Software recently delivered a mission thread and capability assessment solution to a major DoD executive department. Utilizing the flexibility and power of Proteus Envision's MOSA attributes combined with the Linked Open-Data approach of Envision Transformer, SNA was able to provide a low-cost and rapid deployment of the capability.
Said John Driessnack, the University of Maryland Principal Investigator on the OSD Funded Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC) research, "The research team theorized the Department of Defense's need for robust modeling to that would reveal optimized investment portfolios across capabilities that then traced back to missions. The challenge was significant. The DoD had a large consulting firm write GOTS code that could handle one mission at a time, but was not capable of aligning multiple missions in an environment of dynamic cost, schedule, and performance with risks...."
"SNA Software did an amazing job bringing to life this model for a Department of Defense service. The SNA COTS Proteus Envision suite, tightly integrated with RiskyProject demonstrated it was possible to create the IMPACT model-based optimization tool with no coding. We just used the software out of the box with the pre-approved NIPR/SIPR software version. Completed in six months, it exceeded expectations given the millions that were spent on a less capable tool that is not CAC-enabled nor capable of segregating out highly classified data. The SNA team has a fantastic work ethic and laser customer focus."
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