Alicia Taylor

FACE Consortium Director
The Open Group

Alicia Taylor serves as the Program Director for The Open Group FACE® Consortium. In this role, she is responsible for the strategic development and overall program management of the Consortium. Prior to taking the current position with The Open Group, Alicia spent 6.5 years as a contractor supporting US Army PEO Aviation where she was responsible for completing special projects, tracking budgets and tasks, coordinating the Army FACE & SOSA TIM and Expo, and providing expertise to the FACE Consortium & SOSA Consortium Business Working Group. During the last nine months, she supported the digital engineering and model-based system engineering program and contributed to policy, procedure, and SharePoint site updates. Before joining the DOD world in 2015, Alicia spent 26 years in higher education as a mathematics professor, department chair, dean, and vice president. She also holds a doctorate in Instructional Leadership.

Sessions

FACE Standards and Global Alignment
As aviation systems adopt open architectures, aligning the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) with NATO and other international standards is essential to achieving global interoperability. This session explores how the FACE Consortium—now an international community—is promoting a common approach to software portability and integration while encouraging broader international engagement in standards development and alignment. Discussion will focus on how FACE aligns with related initiatives such as MOSA and SOSA, and how collaborative efforts among governments, industry, and regulators are shaping the next generation of open standards—driving consistency, reuse, and accelerated capability delivery across allied airborne and mission systems.