FACE Standards and Global Alignment

Alicia Taylor FACE Consortium Director / The Open Group

Alignment of MOSA Standards with Mixed-Criticality Approaches to Cost Reduction

Clifford Bilbrey Senior Solutions Engineer, Global Aerospace and Defense / Qt Group, USA

Jean-Philippe Amouroux Embedded Software Architect / Thales Avionics, France

EU-MOSA: A Strategic Framework for Modular Open System Architecture in European Defense Aviation

Mauro Baldassarre Avionics Systems Engineer / Leonardo S.p.A., Aeronautics Division, Italy

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.