C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards/ CMOSS

Definition

CMOSS is the U.S. Army's MOSA-aligned suite for ground-vehicle electronics, layering on VICTORY, SOSA hardware, and FACE software to allow card-level swap of radios, GPS, EW, and computing functions inside a common chassis. CMOSS is being extended to airborne and dismounted use cases and is increasingly relevant to CCA ground stations and tactical edge nodes that host CCA control software.

Reference attributes

Lead service

U.S. Army C5ISR Center

Builds on

VICTORY, SOSA, FACE

Form factor

3U OpenVPX cards

Typical functions

Radio, PNT, EW, compute

Related terms

• Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA)
  Tri-service hardware-and-software open standard for sensor and EW payload modules.
• Vehicular Integration for C4ISR/EW Interoperability (VICTORY)
  U.S. Army standard for in-vehicle network and shared resources across electronic systems.
• Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE)
  Open standard for portable airborne software components running on a common operating environment.