California-based Pacific Defense has confirmed the parties in their team that will compete for the US Army’s CMOSS Mounted Form Factor (CMFF) program. Led by Pacific Defense, the CMFF team includes Thales Defense & Security Inc., BAE, Regal Technology Partners, Palantir, and STC.
CMOSS Mounted Form Factor is an open-architecture hardware system underpinning the Army’s next-generation combat computing platform. It will enable users to insert plug-and-play networked capability cards, including Assured PNT (APNT), mission command applications, and multi-band software-defined radios.
“Our company is purpose-built to drive the open-systems change the Army needs to take advantage of the commercial technology base and keep pace with the evolving threat,” said Pacific Defense CEO Travis Slocumb.
Pacific Defense says its CMFF team’s layered standards will make it simpler, faster and much less expensive to rapidly introduce new capabilities and commercial technology. The standards will also reduce complex integration challenges, eliminate proprietary interfaces and enable greater competition and reuse. Pacific Defense says its CMFF team brings essential capabilities to address program requirements, including ground and aviation platform design and integration, multi-waveform communications, Type 1 cryptographic implementation, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and production at scale.
“One hundred percent of what we do is modular, open system architecture. That, combined with this carefully curated team, will allow the Army to unlock mission systems’ technical baseline and enable rapid, recurring and affordable innovation,” said Slocumb.
