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Modular open systems approach

US Department of Defense design approach requiring weapon systems to be built from modules with published interfaces, so subsystems can be replaced without redesigning the platform.

Known aliases

modular open systems architecture
MOSA

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Current clusters

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Northrop clears E-2D Block II design review, and what the Navy is buying is upgradeability

A completed critical design review moves the Hawkeye's mission-systems refresh into integration. The architecture claim, not the sensor claim, is the part worth tracking.

Publishers:interestingengineering.com

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