2022 FACE™ and SOSA™ Consortia TIM & Expo Scores!
In a flurry of excitement as soon as it opened, the U.S. Air Force/AFLCMC-hosted TIM & Expo kicked off September 27 with a focus on ‘Going Faster with Open Standards’. A special shout-out to the sponsors, Lockheed Martin and Elma Electronic, and to The Open Group 2022 event staff who made it all come together seamlessly.
The expo was anchored by substantial demos from the Services, including AFLCMC, Army PEO Aviation, DEVCOM C5ISR Center, and NAVAIR PMA-209 Avionics Architecture group. Over 50 FACE and SOSA member companies participated in demonstrating their latest solutions conformant or aligned to the FACE and SOSA standards.
More than 500 attendees gathered for the annual, one day TIM and Expo. Setting the tone at the outset was Lt. General Shaun Morris – Commander of AFLCMC at Wright-Patterson AFB. He delivered an impressive keynote address that extended to a broad invitation for feedback from Industry to assist the Air Force in delivering a war-winning capability. General Morris spoke about getting to an 80% solution, and allowing recognition there are effective options of acceptance (this is good-enough, don’t always wait until something is perfect) as well as placing a strong emphasis on leveraging re-use across Services. Ms. Jaqueline Janning-Lask, Director of Engineering and Technical Management Services at AFLCMC Wright Patterson followed General Morris’ Keynote. She pointed out how open standards help accelerate innovation. Both speakers addressed needing to do integration work and being cost-effective while optimizing time, cost, and capabilities to move ahead.
Several brilliant TIM paper presentations were given by experts from both the FACE and SOSA consortia. Those included “SOSA EO/IR Mission Thread” from Raytheon, “Scaling Connections with the FACE Transport Services Segment” from RTI, “Accelerating Technology Readiness Level and Technology Refresh” by Curtiss-Wright, and several more standouts too many to name here. The TIM papers are available on The Open Group website for a deeper dive.
And speaking of brilliant, the Expo booths were manned with technical and business development teams who relished consistent engagement with attendees. Booth demos done by Boeing, CAES, Collins Aerospace, Curtiss-Wright, Green Hills Software, L3 Harris, Mercury, Wind River, and many more were engaged on multiple FACE and SOSA efforts. All exhibitors appeared to be well-positioned on the dynamic approach spoken in 2020 by Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford -- to operate at the speed of relevance.
This year’s agenda gave attendees several added breakout sessions. In addition to a FACE Overview and SOSA Overview, new presentations included SOSA 101, Architecture & Requirements Model, Intro to Data Architecture, MORA 101, MORA 102, and MORA 103.
Deepest gratitude for this successful technical interchange goes to Dr. Ilya Lipkin, AFLCMC, Lockheed-Martin, Elma Electronic, FACE Consortium members, SOSA Consortium members, and the numerous featured companies and organizations that spent tireless effort to bring their best open architectures and open system advancements and teams to the Dayton Convention Center. A final note to The Open Group team that kept it running smoothly: Herding cats, shall we say is often a herculean task. Well done, all!
Check out the 2022 TIM presentations and circle September 2023 on your calendar. Expect news shortly regarding The Open Group / NAVAIR-coordinated FACE and SOSA Consortia TIM & Expo next year! Happy Holidays …
-FACE Newsletter Team
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