The Art of Open-Standard System Architecture for Military Ground Vehicles

The art of open-standard system architecture (OSSA) and its usage for military ground vehicles is often misconstrued while using the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles. This miscomprehension leads to the production of highly expensive, unmaintainable, and unscalable systems. This paper discusses some of the major symptoms of a misconstrued OSSA and its impacts while using MOSA and MBSE, reasons for misinterpreting, and a corrective perspective of the art of OSSA for military ground vehicles.