This webinar will be held on November 4, 2021
2:00 PM EDT / 1:00 PM CDT / 11:00 AM PDT / 6:00 PM GMT Click here to register!
NASHUA, N.H. - Military & Aerospace Electronics has assembled a learned roundtable of experts on the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) technical standard and what it means for the U.S. military, for prime systems integrators, and for military embedded computing suppliers who are subject to the standard's guidelines.
This webinar roundtable discussion seeks to define the SOSA embedded computing market. The event will answer questions such as which embedded computing suppliers need to be concerned with the SOSA standard, and how the standard is expected to evolve in the future. The webinar also will give the government perspective on the benefits that SOSA offers the U.S. military and its international allies, and what military experts will look for from SOSA, now and in the future. The event also will give the prime systems integrator's perspective on how SOSA will influence major defense contractors, and what these companies will need from the embedded computing industry to meet the demands of SOSA and realize its potential benefits.
Panelists Mark Littlefield will discuss and answer audience questions about the SOSA market; Kirk Avery will discuss and answer questions about SOSA issues related to prime defense contractors; and Patrick Collier will discuss and answer questions about the government's perspective on SOSA.
Presented by:
Kirk Avery
Fellow
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Kirk Avery has more than 30 years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, integrating, and deploying systems and software for military and commercial fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, ground systems, training systems, and simulation systems, and has developed modular open-systems solutions. He is the Open Group's SOSA Consortium Technical Working Group Vice-Chair, and serves as Lockheed Martin’s Primary Steering Committee member for the FACE and SOSA Consortia, and is involved in open-architecture efforts such as OMS and HOST.
Mark Littlefield
Senior Manager, Embedded Computing Products & Services
Elma Electronic
Mark Littlefield is senior manager of embedded computing products and services for Elma Electronic. He has more than 25 years of experience in embedded computing, where he has held a range of technical and professional roles supporting defense, medical, and commercial applications. Mark holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in control systems engineering from the University of West Florida, where he wrote his thesis on a neural net approach to image processing.
Patrick Collier
Senior Open Systems Engineer
Aspen Consulting Group Inc.
Patrick Collier focuses on the development and use of open architectures for aerospace and defense applications. Previously he was a lead hardware engineer at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command Air Combat Electronics Program Office, where he helped develop the Hardware Open Systems Technology (HOST) set of standards. He also founded and chairs the VITA 78 (SpaceVPX) and VITA 78.1 (SpaceVPXLite) efforts. He is a cofounder and chair of the Open Group's SOSA Hardware Working Group.
