Navy taps Pacific Defense to run electronic warfare (EW) algorithms on open-systems embedded computing

ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. Navy electronic warfare (EW) experts needed to a company to host optimize EW algorithms to run on modern open-systems embedded computing systems. They found a solution from Pacific Defense Inc. in El Segundo, Calif.

Officials of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, Va., announced an $18.4 million contract to Pacific Defense last week for the Sanctuary Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Electronic Warfare (EW) Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) Ubiquitous Edge-aligned EW Systems project.

CMOSS is a suite of open-systems standards to promote modularity, interoperability, and flexibility in command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C5ISR), and electronic warfare (EW) systems.

CMOSS standards

CMOSS seeks to reduce embedded computing hardware size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), and enable rapid and cost-effective development, deployment, and upgrades of C5ISR and EW capabilities.

This contract asks Pacific Defense engineers to host and optimize EW algorithms on Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) open architecture cyber and electronic warfare systems at the edge for theater level superiority.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is developing the CMOSS open-systems standards for EW, communications, signals intelligence (SIGINT), and position, navigation and timing (PNT) systems that all work together.

On this contract, Pacific defense will do the work in Segundo, Calif., and should be finished by December 2026. For more information contact Pacific Defense online at www.pacific-defense.com, or the Office of Naval Research at www.onr.navy.mil.