Session
Technical Session V: Standards and Modularity
Abstract
It is imperative for the United States Air Force to find innovative solutions for more affordable and resilient warfighting capabilities. The ever tightening budget environment is driving an unprecedented need for new material solutions which are more affordable, and resilient, yet deliver the same or better capability. The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Chief Scientist has initiated a Modular Open Networked Architecture (MONA) framework to create new material solutions meeting this need and ensuring the material solutions abide by Department of Defense requirements for modularity, interoperability and net centricity. This paper outlines the benefits and characteristics of a MONA system, with a focus on the software architecture that enables MONA. The paper will highlight the resources available, process of implementation, and lessons learned from the Standard Network Adapter for Payloads (SNAP) implementation. Finally, the paper presents ways in which the small satellite community can participate in the technology development and risk reduction necessary to mature this technology for all spaceflight systems. The small satellite community can play an important role in the transition of MONA from demonstration to flight-proven capability. Small satellites of all form factors represent a cost effective environment to buy down the risk of a modular open network architecture for space systems and lessen the impact of the non recurring engineering necessary to implement the framework.
Presentation
MONA Framework for Leading Change: The Small Satellite Paradigm
It is imperative for the United States Air Force to find innovative solutions for more affordable and resilient warfighting capabilities. The ever tightening budget environment is driving an unprecedented need for new material solutions which are more affordable, and resilient, yet deliver the same or better capability. The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Chief Scientist has initiated a Modular Open Networked Architecture (MONA) framework to create new material solutions meeting this need and ensuring the material solutions abide by Department of Defense requirements for modularity, interoperability and net centricity. This paper outlines the benefits and characteristics of a MONA system, with a focus on the software architecture that enables MONA. The paper will highlight the resources available, process of implementation, and lessons learned from the Standard Network Adapter for Payloads (SNAP) implementation. Finally, the paper presents ways in which the small satellite community can participate in the technology development and risk reduction necessary to mature this technology for all spaceflight systems. The small satellite community can play an important role in the transition of MONA from demonstration to flight-proven capability. Small satellites of all form factors represent a cost effective environment to buy down the risk of a modular open network architecture for space systems and lessen the impact of the non recurring engineering necessary to implement the framework.
