A system that allows third parties to make products that plug into or interoperate with it. For example, the PC is an open system. Although the fundamental standards are controlled by Microsoft, Intel ...

You might not think about open systems on a daily basis, but the truth is, you’re surrounded by them. Decades ago, the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created ...

Bell’s V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft was selected by the U.S. Army as its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft using MOSA considerations. (Bell) Modular Open System Architecture, or MOSA, has long ...

Successful implementation of open systems standards for aviation systems requires a structural and cultural shift in how we establish requirements, fund programs, and work across organization ...

How do you embrace innovation without straying too far afield from the accepted principles of scalability, adaptability and affordability? For the Defense Department, the answer appears to be adoption ...

Ground Combat Systems' Common Infrastructure Architecture integrates multiple systems and eliminates redundancies in fighting vehicles by using open architecture. Soldiers have an easier-to-use ...

Having covered the increasing use of open software and systems in industry over the past several years now, it’s easy to see how u-OS (an open operating system designed to handle tasks such as device ...

A big step toward achieving multivendor interoperability with open systems was demonstrated by CPLANE.ai and collaborator ExxonMobil this year: It proved that deploying and integrating general ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...