Pacific Defense Unveils SX-923: A New Side-Loading SOSA/CMOSS Aligned Chassis for Mission-Critical Applications
Business Wire | October 14, 2024
“Pacific Defense, a leading provider of modular open systems approach (MOSA) products and mission solutions, today announced the launch of the SX-923, a side-loading chassis designed for high-performance multi-function processing and alignment with the C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS), The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™, or SOSA, OpenVPX™ and Standardized A-Kit / Vehicle Envelope (SAVE) technical standards. The SX-923 extends Pacific Defense's ComScan chassis portfolio, offering a rugged, high-performance platform ideal for ground and airborne applications.”
Pacific Defense Unveils Industry’s First 3U OpenVPX Plug-In Card with Silvus Technologies StreamCaster MN-MIMO MANET Radios
Business Wire | October 10, 2024
“Pacific Defense, a leading provider of modular open systems approach (MOSA) products and mission solutions, today announced the release of the SX-620, the industry’s first 3U OpenVPX™ plug-in card to bring Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (MANET) capabilities through Silvus’ MN-MIMO waveform technology to The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™, or SOSA Technical Standard and the C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) ecosystem. The SX-620 expands the company’s MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) technology portfolio by introducing the MN-MIMO waveform for the first time to mission-critical systems. Powered by the Silvus StreamCaster 4400 Enhanced (SC4200E) radio module, the SX-620 enables faster, more resilient communication at the tactical edge.”
Pacific Defense Announces US Army CMFF Program Team
Business Wire | August 13, 2024
“Pacific Defense, a leading provider of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and mission solutions, announced their team to compete for the U.S. Army’s CMOSS Mounted Form Factor (CMFF) program. Led by Pacific Defense, the CMFF team includes state-of-the-art industry technology leaders Thales Defense & Security Inc., BAE, Regal Technology Partners, Palantir and STC, an Arcfield Company.”
Supporting Ethical Decision-Making for Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Taylor & Francis | June 25, 2024
“This article describes a new and innovative methodology for calibrating trust in ethical actions by Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). For the foreseeable future, LAWS will require human operators for mission planning, decision-making, and supervisory control; yet humans lack the cognitive bandwidth and processing speed to make prompt, real-time ethical decisions. As a result, trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be required to support ethical decision-making. We use a Bayesian ethical decision model for: (1) human setting of ethical preferences and thresholds in accordance with Laws of War and tactical criteria; and (2) highlighting the factors that contribute to strike/no-strike recommendations for human evaluation. The model can perform an ethical analysis, provide a quantitative ethical strike/no-strike score, and recommend actions to reduce decision uncertainty. In this article, we describe successful initial evaluation trials of the Bayesian model and of a human interface for interaction with the model. Our Bayesian ethical decision model has an immediate application in wargames; the model can also be used to train operators in understanding the principles and key factors relevant to ethical decision-making; and it may eventually be used in actual military operations employing LAWS.”
Pacific Defense Continues Support of Team Palantir on the US Army’s Next Generation TITAN Program
Business Wire | April 16, 2024
“Pacific Defense, a leading provider of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and mission solutions, is proud to announce it will continue in its role as the C5ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) systems engineering, integration, and deployment lead for Palantir’s TITAN Prototype Maturation Phase (PMP) Team. Palantir USG, Inc. was recently awarded a prime agreement for the development and delivery of the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) ground station system, the Army’s next-generation deep-sensing capability enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Pacific Defense’s scope entails analysis, design, integration, and test of CMOSS-aligned mission capability to reduce TITAN system size, weight, and power (SWAP) footprint while also providing a modular, open architecture for rapid insertion of next-generation capabilities throughout the life cycle of the TITAN system.”
Pacific Defense Completes Hardware Integration Milestone for USSF MOSA Space Sensor Payload Development Program
Business Wire | April 8, 2024
“Pacific Defense, a leading provider of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and solutions, recently announced it has completed a key program milestone on the US Space Force (USSF) Moonraker MOSA space payload contract with successful checkout and integration of the Moonraker payload.”
Pacific Defense Awarded USN Contract to Advance AI and ML enabled EW systems for Multi-Mission, Multi-platform applications
Business Wire | March 4, 2024
“Pacific Defense, a leading provider of adaptive Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and mission solutions, was recently awarded a $17.4M contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to demonstrate advanced algorithms and software that reconfigures distributed battlefield sensors enabling delivery of multi-function effects from devices deployed at the tactical edge. The edge devices will be built from Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) aligned hardware and software to provide the benefits of a truly open architecture, including the ability to rapidly and cost effectively integrate new hardware and software on a recurring basis. This effort will also prove out the Office of Naval Research’s Ubiquitous Edge distributed software architecture on multi-function edge nodes. This modular design enables the creation of a secure EW software defined radio (SDR) multi-function operating environment that will accelerate future capability deployment.”
Perceptronics and Pacific Defense Awarded US Air Force Contract to Advance SOSA Solutions for Airborne EW and SIGINT Applications
Business Wire | December 11, 2023
“Perceptronics and Pacific Defense, leading providers of AI and ML enabled Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and mission solutions, were recently awarded $9.94M in new contracts by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) to advance and mature modular system capabilities aligned to The Open Group’s Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) technical standard for airborne Electronic Warfare (EW) and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) missions. The award builds on a series of prior Air Force, Navy, and Army awards to deliver a prototype system based on the proposed SOSA small form factor (VNX+) standard, advance SOSA security architectures, and apply artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms and techniques to EW/SIGINT functions.”
Pacific Defense Awarded USAF Phase II Development of Modular, Open Architecture Sensor for Cislunar Space Situational Awareness Mission
Business Wire | December 6, 2023
“Pacific Defense, a leading provider of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and solutions, announced it has signed a $9.4M Phase II contract with the Space Control Technology Branch of AFRL to complete development of a low size, weight, and power (SWaP) sensor built on MOSA principles to address the rapidly expanding challenge of space situational awareness (SSA) in the cislunar regime. The “Moonraker” system builds upon Pacific Defense’s expertise in MOSA system development, leveraging 3U software-defined radio (SDR) and graphics processing unit (GPU) technology and an open software framework comprised of company and industry-provided SSA applications. The Phase II effort will advance the work started in Phase I with the goal of producing flight-ready sensors.”
Pacific Defense Showcases its SOSA/CMOSS Equipped Demonstration Vehicle ‘Ares’ at Bold Quest 2023, Camp Pendleton, CA
Business Wire | November 15, 2023
“Pacific Defense, an emerging defense contractor specializing in Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) solutions, recently conducted a series of demonstrations at the Bold Quest 2023 field exercise at Camp Pendleton, CA, in support of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) ENDOR Future Naval Capability (FNC) initiative.”
Pacific Defense Awarded US Army Contract to Advance Integrated CMOSS Mission Systems for Ground and Airborne Platforms
Business Wire | October 9, 2023
“Pacific Defense, a leading provider of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and mission solutions, was recently awarded a contract by the US Army to further develop and mature mission solutions aligned with the U.S. Army’s C5ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) and The Open Group’s Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) technical standard. The award builds on a series of prior US Army, Navy, and Air Force awards to build a family of SOSA and CMOSS aligned capabilities that enable both ground and airborne mission capabilities to reduce risk in preparation for CMOSS Mounted Form Factor (CMFF) programs.”
Pacific Defense Selected for $900 Million US Air Force Architecture & Integration Directorate ID/IQ Contract
Business Wire | September 11, 2023
“Pacific Defense Strategies, a leading provider of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and systems, has been selected for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Architecture and Integration Directorate (AFLCMC/XA) Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract (MAC ID/IQ). The ID/IQ prime contract has a ceiling of $900,000,000. AFLCMC/XA established this ID/IQ contract to fulfill their goal of bringing multi-domain system capabilities and characterization of new technologies and systems through studies, recurrent demonstration, and rapid development that address Warfighter needs while launching high-confidence programs. Through this ID/IQ Pacific Defense is eligible to compete for Task Orders (TOs) in all categories of the ID/IQ contract.”
Pacific Defense Awarded Contract to Develop Modular, Open Architecture Sensor for Cislunar Space Situational Awareness Mission
Business Wire | December 15, 2022
“Pacific Defense, a leading open systems integrator delivering Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and solutions, announced today it has signed a contract with the Space Control Technology Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop and demonstrate a low size, weight, and power (SWaP) sensor built on MOSA principles to address the rapidly expanding challenge of space situational awareness (SSA) in the cislunar regime. The “Moonraker” system builds upon Pacific Defense’s expertise in MOSA system development, leveraging 3U software-defined radio (SDR) and graphics processing unit (GPU) technology, as well as an open software framework comprised of company and industry-provided SSA applications.”
Pacific Defense Awarded Defense Innovation Unit Contract to Deliver Assured PNT 3U Cards for Army and Broader DoD Adoption
Business Wire | October 25, 2022
“Pacific Defense, a leading open systems integrator delivering products and solutions based on Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), announced that it has signed a contract with the U.S. Marines to deliver multiple SX-3000 systems in support of The MAGTF Electronic Warfare Ground Family of Systems (MEGFoS) static site system evaluation effort.”
Raytheon Australia Selects Pacific Defense to Deliver CMOSS/SOSA EW Systems for the Australian Armyn
Business Wire | August 30, 2022
“Pacific Defense, a leading open systems integrator delivering Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and mission solutions, announced today that it has signed a definitive contract with Raytheon Australia to deliver force-level Electronic Warfare (EW) systems for Australia’s LAND 555 Phase 6 program. The chassis-based EW systems will include an array of plug-in cards and mission software, including wideband Software Defined Radios (SDR) and EW application software, enabling electronic support (ES) for signal detection and electronic attack (EA) jamming techniques. The new EW systems will be fitted to Bushmaster vehicles and will be interoperable with EW systems acquired by the RAAF, Royal Australian Navy, and other members of the Five Eyes community including the US Army.”
Army Selects Palantir Team, including Pacific Defense, to Build TITAN Program Competitive Prototype
Business Wire | June 28, 2022
“Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) announced today that it is one of two companies awarded a prime contract by the Army to build a prototype for the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN), the first Intelligence ground station enabled by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). The $36 million contract award is for the competitive prototyping phase that will span 14 months.”
Spectranetix to Design SOSA-Aligned Command-and-Control
Military + Aerospace Electronics | March 23, 2022
“U.S. Navy researchers needed an experimental command-and-control computer system that not only complies with open-systems standards, but also provides a secure and rapidly reconfigurable architecture. They found their solution from Spectranetix Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif. Officials of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Va., announced a $9.2 million contract to Spectranetix last week for the Modular Open Suite of Standards/Sensor Open Systems Architecture Node Based Resilient Networking and Electronics Warfare Orchestration at the Edge project. Company experts will develop and demonstrate a command, control, communications, computers intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) implementation of the Navy’s Enabling Dynamic Operational Radio Frequency (ENDOR) architecture.”
Spectranetix to Participate in the 2022 Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration in Solomons, Maryland
Business Wire | March 09, 2022
“Spectranetix, Inc., a Pacific Defense company, is proud to announce our participation in the Tri-Services Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID) Expo in Solomons, MD. Tuesday March 15, 2022. Spectranetix will be demonstrating a CMOSS multi-mission prototype aligned to the US Army CMOSS Mounted Form Factor (CMFF) efforts. The demo will showcase the innovative CMOSS/SOSA™ work driven by Pacific Defense and their select industry partners such as REDCOM Laboratories, Forcepoint, and CISCO, to truly integrate the missions in one chassis for Network Enabled Mission Command. The demonstration will highlight the operational benefits of robust, converged communication, situational awareness, Electronic Warfare / Signals Intelligence (EW/SIGINT) as well as Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing (APNT) capabilities integrated into a single CMOSS mounted form factor.”
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de Visser, E.J., Kidwell, B., Lu, L., Payne, J., Parker, J., Chabuk, T., Brooks, N., Scerri, P., Freedy, A., Parasuraman, R (October, 2013). Best of both worlds: Design and evaluation of an adaptive delegation interface. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2013 Annual Meeting. Vol. 57, San Diego, CA.
Smith, M.A., Woo, H.J., Parker, J.P., Youmans, R.J., LeGoullon, M., Weltman, G., & de Visser, E.J. (October, 2013). Using Iterative Design and Testing Towards the Development of SRTS: A Mobile, Game-Based Stress Resilience Training System. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2013 Annual Meeting. Vol. 57.
N. Brooks, E. de Visser, T. Chabuk, E. Freedy, and P. Scerri. An Approach to Team Programming with Markup for Operator Interaction (2013). In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
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Cohen, M. S. (2011). Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns: Time and Uncertainty in Naturalistic Decision Making. In K. L. Mosier & U. M. Fischer (Eds.), Informed by Knowledge: Expert performance in complex situation (pp. 371-96). New York: Taylor & Francis.
Cohen, M., Lipshitz, R. (2011) Three Roads to Commitment: a Trimodal Theory of Decision Making. Perceptronics Solutions White Paper.
Grannis, R., Freedy, E., & Freedy, A. (2011). Ultra Rapid Social Newtork Sampling in Cross-Cultural Environments. The HSCB Focus 2011 Conference: Integrating Social Science Theory and Analytic Methods for Operational Use.
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Cohen, M., Grannis, R., Freedy, E., Freedy, A., & Weltman, G. (2010). Full Spectrum Tools for Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Cultural Data in Decision Making. Perceptronics Solutions White Paper.
Cohn, J., Weltman, G., Ratwani, R., Chartrand, D., & McCraty, R. (2010). Stress Inoculation through Cognitive and Biofeedback Training. The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC).
de Visser, E., LeGoullon, M., Horvath, D., Weltman, G., Freedy, A., Durlach, P., and Parasuraman, R. (2010). TECRA: C2 Application of Adaptive Automation Theory. IEEE Aerospace Conference.
Jacobs, B., de Visser, E., Freedy, A., Scerri, P. (2010) Application of Intelligent Aiding to Enable Single Operator Multiple UAV Supervisory Control. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org).
Weltman, G., Cohen, M., Ratwani, R., Salas, E., & Freedy, A. (2010). Experimental Evaluation of the New Automated Team Composition System (ATCS) by Formation of Optimal Teams for an Engineering Research Task. Perceptronics Solutions White Paper.
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Cohen, M.S., de Visser, E., Freedy, E., Freedy, A., LeGoullon, M., and Weltman, G. (2008). Intuitive and Analytic Support for Decision Making. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Centered Control Processes, Delft.
Cohen, M.S., Sert, O., LeGoullon, M., de Visser, E., Freedy, A., Weltman, G., and Cummings, M. (2008). Cognition and Game Theory in the Design of a Collaboration Manager for Shared Control of Multiple UV Assets. Proceedings of the Symposium on Collaborative Technologies & Systems, Irvine, CA.
de Visser, E., Cohen, M.S., LeGoullon, M., Sert, O. Freedy, A., Freedy, E., Weltman, G., and Parasuraman, R. (2008). A Design Methodology for Controlling, Monitoring, and Allocating Unmanned Vehicles. Proceeding of Supervisory Control in Critical Systems Management Workshop, 3rd International Conference on Human Centered Processes, Delft.
de Visser, E., LeGoullon, M., Freedy, A., Freedy, E., Weltman, G., and Parasuraman, R. (2008). Designing an Adaptive Automation System for Human Supervision of Unmanned Vehicles: A Bridge from Theory to Practice. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, New York.
Freedy, A., Sert, O., Freedy, E., McDonough, J., Weltman, G., Tambe, M., and Gupta, T. (2008). Multiagent Adjustable Autonomy Framework (MAAF) for Multi-Robot, Multi-Human Teams. Proceedings of the Symposium on Collaborative Technologies & Systems, Irvine, CA.
Perceptronics Solutions. (2008). Netcentric Adaptive Information Management System (NAIMS). Perceptronics Solutions Brochure.
Weltman, G., Cohen, M., McDonough, J., & Freedy, A. (2008). Digital Common Operating Picture for Information Operations (DICOP-IO). Perceptronics Solutions White Paper.
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Freedy, A., de Visser, E., Weltman, G. and Coeyman, N. (2007). Mixed Initiative Team Performance Assessment System (MITPAS) for Training and Operation. Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference, Orlando, FL.
Freedy, A., de Visser, E., and Weltman, G. (2007). Measurement of Trust in Human-Robot Collaboration. Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, Orlando, FL.
Freedy, A., Weltman, G., Freedy, E., Parasuraman, R., De Visser, E., and Coeyman, N. (2007). Adaptive Delegation Interfaces (ADI) for Improved Situation Awareness and Reduction of Workload in Controlling Multiple Unmanned Vehicles (UV). Perceptronics Solutions White Paper.