FACE™and SOSA™Technical Interchange Meeting Panels - March 2021
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 2021-04-05

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.

Agenda
Open Standards – “How Do We Keep Moving Forward, What’s Next”
FACE™, SOSA™, CMOSS, HOST* Go Well Beyond Prototyping and Interoperability Demonstrations

Moderator: Jerry Gipper, Executive Director, VITA Trade Association
Panelists:
- Ilya Lipkin, Technical Expert for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Sensors and Engineering Directorate; SOSA™ Steering Committee Chair

- Joe Carter, US Army Program Executive Office, Aviation, Acting Systems Engineering Lead; FACE™ Steering Committee Chair

- Jason Dirner, Architecture Team Lead, Intel Technology and Architecture Branch, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command C5ISR Center, Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD)

- Tyler Robinson, NAWCAD Avionics Engineer, Lead Engineer for the Avionics Architecture Team, NAVAIR PMA-209
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The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE)
“FACE™ New Business Guide (v3.0) Overview – Key Updates to Know”

Presenters:
- Jason York , Sr. Software Analyst, U.S. Army PEO Aviation support from DEVCOM AvMC / Intrepid, LLC
- Brendan O’Donnell , FACE ™ BWG Vice Chair, U.S. Army PEO Aviation / Strategic Ventures Consulting Group, LLC
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The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA)
"SOSA™ Business Executive Overview: Benefits and Adoption of this New Standard"

Presenters:
- Michael Orlovsky, Senior Scientist, L3Harris Technologies
- Valerie Andrew, Strategic Marketing Architect, Elma Electronic
- Roy Keeler, Sr. Product & Business Development Mgr., ADLINK Technology
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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.