Modular real-time operating system that enables rapid upgrades for the Warfighter
Deos is a dual-use technology first developed for commercial aerospace safety- and mission-critical systems. Deos offers military platforms a robust, tested solution with more advanced capabilities than legacy RTOS products.
Military platforms can leverage Deos for modular design and to speed agile software deployment. New functionality can be implemented quickly providing faster updates for the warfighter and enabling platforms to adapt to ever-changing threats.
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Incentivizing greater use of MOSA-based commercial products within military systems
The DoW is accelerating its shift toward acquiring weapon systems and subsystems from commercial suppliers. Commercial firms are seen as rapid innovation leaders, manufacturing in higher quantities that generate lower costs while quickly discarding even recent 1- to 2-year-old technologies to stay competitive. How can the DoW continuously integrate new commercial capabilities into long lived military vehicles? This panel will explore the use of MOSA to allow that to happen, what will incentivize military and commercial suppliers to support it, and what the military can do within the acquisition process to accelerate it.
MOSA Enabling Digital Backbone Capabilities for Army HADES
US Army Aviation HADES program has leveraged MOSA to enable digital backbone capabilities, accelerating advanced ISR capabilities to the warfighter. Using open architecture technologies such as time sensitive networking (TSN) and a FACE conformant RTOS reduces integration and testing time, facilitating faster future system upgrades. Panel members will include representatives from US Army Aviation, DDC-I, TTTECH and NAI sharing digital backbone development and integration experience. HADES is an example of MOSA enabled Army capabilities.
Thursday, September 24, 2026 9:00 AM in Wilson D
Moderator: Gregg Wildes, Defense and Aerospace Executive, DDC-I
Check out our recent HADES Program Overview!
What Deos Delivers:
- Enables faster upgrades and support for streamlined agile development
- Is aligned with MOSA, FACE, GCIA & PYRAMID
- Provides ultra-fast boot times for rapid spin up and system recovery
- Includes secure and modular boot for protection and customization
- Has a proven pedigree with millions of flight hours on tens of thousands of aircraft
- Is DO-178 DAL A certifiable when safety is mandated
- Provides portability and scalability across product lines: autonomous, crewed, and weapon systems
Move Beyond Legacy RTOS Products
Many legacy defense RTOS solutions carry inherent development and maintenance costs. They compile into a monolithic binary images that require a cumbersome and lengthy process to field new capabilities. Defense developers often are then forced to sacrifice critical qualification and testing steps to deploy updates in a timely manner.
The modular Deos kernel architecture provides a building block binary component structure. This architecture enables:
- The ability to isolate and re-use software modules across platforms
- Incremental updates and capabilities rapidly to systems
- A secure infrastructure
