FACE SOSA Technical Interchange Meeting Keynotes - 2021 March
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 2021-04-02

The Open Group FACE™ and SOSA™ Consortia TIM (Technical Interchange Meeting) virtual event is an important opportunity to discover new advancements and the progress being made for functionality and interoperability of modular open system environments. The event features distinguished Tri-Service experts and Open Architecture/Open Standards speakers from the Navy, Army, Air Force, and other DoD leadership, plus select members in the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) and the Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) Consortia.

Technical Interchange Meetings allow DoD, Industry and Academia to collaborate on Research and Engineering technology challenges. This TIM will feature expert presentations by a cross-section of the defense community. Attendees will hear presentations from government, detailing the positive impact of FACE and SOSA adoption for buyers (end users), suppliers, integrators, and business representatives, including both Business and Technical lessons learned.

Audience: The TIM is geared to program managers, procurement managers, across all the services as well as their contractors and suppliers.
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Agenda

What to Expect Today
- Sally Bixby, emcee in support and on behalf of NAVAIR PMA-209 

Welcome and Introduction 
- Captain Margaret Wilson , Program Manager, Air Combat Electronics, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR PMA-209)

Speakers:

“Open Architecture: Key to Readiness and Speed of Capability Development”
- Vice Admiral Dean Peters, Commander, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)

“Perspective on Modular Open Systems Approach Adoption Efforts Gaining Speed”
- Gary Kurtz, Member of the Senior Executive Service, Program Executive Officer, Aviation Common Systems & Commercial Services (PEO (CS)), Department of the Navy, ASN (RD&A)

- Randall Walden, Member of the Senior Executive Service, Director and Program Executive Officer for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force
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FACE™ Consortium
The FACE™ Consortium is a government, academia, and industry partnership formed to define an open avionics environment for all military airborne platform types. It has since grown into an aviation-focused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers, and users. It provides a vendor-neutral forum for industry, academia and government to work together to develop and consolidate the open standards, best practices, guidance documents, and business strategy. These objectives promote acquisition of affordable software systems, innovation, rapid integration of portable capabilities across global defense programs, and higher efficiency to deploy capabilities.

SOSA™ Consortium
The SOSA™ Consortium empowers government and industry to collaboratively develop open standards and best practices to accelerate the deployment of affordable, agile, and composable sensor systems.

The Open Group
The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards.  Our diverse membership includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators, academics, and consultants across multiple industries. It is also an enabler for consortium participation by US Government agencies. For more information, visit www.opengroup.org.