Modular Open Systems Approach (CoP)

MOSA Tri-Service Memo published by the Service Secretaries Jan 2018.

Mar 29, 2006, OSD Memorandum on Award Fee Contracts (FAR 16, DFARS 215, DFARS 216 Mar 29, 2006, OSD Memorandum on Award Fee Contracts (FAR 16, DFARS 215, DFARS 216

CLE019 is a course that will describe the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) principles from a business and a technical perspective and provide program examples of successful MOSA implementation, as well as sources that can assist an organization in implementing MOSA. This course is designed to provide familiarization with lifecycle best practices for MOSA. It will present MOSA definition, major system components, major system interfaces, interface standards, Government and commercial standards, and other widely supported consensus-based standards. It will present the benefits of MOSA implementation and demonstrate how and when to adopt a MOSA. It will also describe the importance of MOSA for IP, Data and Data Rights. The course will provide examples on how to use MOSA, a trade study demonstrating the risks and benefits of implementing MOSA, and demonstration of data rights that the government needs to implement MOSA. The course will also describe the potential benefits of MOSA as well as highlight applicable DoD policy for the acquisition and management of MOSA and its importance to IP, Data and Data Rights.

This section of the DFARS contains clauses and provisions for incorporation into contracts and Requests for Proposals critical to ensuring the government Rights in data are addressed. DFARS SUBPART 227  This section of the DFARS contains clauses and provisions for incorporation into contracts and Requests for Proposals critical to ensuring the government Rights in data are addressed.

2015 IP Strategy Brochure

OUSD Systems Engineering Guidebook

DI-MGMT-82099 Open Systems Management Plan (OSMP) Data Item Description (DID) The essence of Open Systems Architecture (OSA) is an organized decomposition, using carefully defined execution boundaries, layered onto a framework of software and hardware shared services and a vibrant business model that facilitates competition. An Open Systems Management Plan (OSMP) describes the developer’s approach for using modular design, standards-based interfaces, and widely-supported, consensus-based standards to achieve these goals. The OSMP shall include a developer’s plans for a modular, open architecture, to include use of open interface standards and Technical Reference Frameworks (TRF); design and management of, and dependencies between, Computer Software Configuration Items (CSCIs); design information documentation; technology insertion; life cycle sustainability; treatment of proprietary or vendor-unique elements; and reuse of existing items. The OSMP includes a support plan for the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and provides the acquirer visibility into the developers’ open systems approach and implementation. This forms a basis for evaluation of a developer’s proposal and adherence to MOSA technical and business goals.

Apr 24, 2013, USD (AT&L) Memorandum for implementing Better Buying Power 2.0 (http://bbp.dau.mil) http://bbp.dau.mil