The Pentagon must activate this powerful, underused approach to acquisition

As Secretary Pete Hegseth pushes to speed up the development and fielding of new weapons and systems, he should look to a powerful, yet underused tool: modular open systems approach.The law already requires MOSA to be used in major warfighting programs “to the maximum extent practicable” and Secretary Hegseth’s own Systems Engineering and Architecture office has been pushing the approach since February. It is direction that, if enforced, could do more to speed acquisitions and