Over a decade ago, Rockwell Collins began the development of a single next generation avionics architecture designed to serve all the markets that we address - Business and Regional, Air Transport and Military. Rockwell Collins used a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) to develop this next generation solution.

MOSA is both an integrated business strategy and technical architecture. Our MOSA system solutions offer customers a number of key benefits including use of the Open Standards to leverage commercial industry technology investments, planned technology upgrades and obsolescence management, as well as enabling competition for technology upgrades with open interface standards. Furthermore, MOSA reduces development time and lowers acquisition and life cycle costs by leveraging investments from other programs using a common product line architecture.

Rockwell Collins MOSA solutions have been applied to a variety of avionics modernization programs with our Flight2 system offerings. We first leveraged our MOSA development into the military market in 1999 with the U.S. Air Force C/KC-135 tanker/transport Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) upgrade program. Since then, we have expanded our MOSA solution to a number of other platforms and programs, including rotary wing aircraft, ground systems, unmanned systems and other tanker/transport/mission aircraft.

In recent years, Rockwell Collins has also developed MOSA solutions for net-enablement of platforms using our OpenEdge offering.  As such, our MOSA solutions have become a key enabler for Net-Enabled Solutions by integrating avionics, data links and display systems across multiple platforms and providing unparalleled situational awareness to the warfighter.

Please contact Rockwell Collins for more information.