Modular Open Systems Approach
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Location: Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor
Sub-Committee
Melissa Best -U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)
Dan Newport -U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC
Mag Athnasios -DCS Corporation
Alexander Karpinski -U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 7:00 am |
Registration |
| 8:00 am |
Opening of GVSETS and the Technical Sessions in Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor Thom Green - GVSETS Chair Valde Garcia - President, NDIA Michigan Chapter Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 8:20 am |
The Benefits and Challenges to Leveraging Commercial Off-the-Shelf Solutions to Modernize the Force Moderator: Tom Vern - Assistant Chief of Staff G5, Strategic Plans & Communications, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Pete Johnson - Vice President of Business Development for Integrated Vehicles, GM Defense Mike Milner - Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, American Rheinmetall Vehicles (ARV) Tim George - Vice President of Sales & Marketing, ND Defense LLC. |
| 9:25 am |
Best Paper Announcement Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Dr. Gregg Wildes - Business Development Manager, DornerWorks |
| 9:30 am |
Exhibitor Break |
(10:05 - 5:00 pm - Attendess will split up between the 6 different sessions) |
|
| 10:05 am |
Welcome to the MOSA Tech Session Mag Athnasios Senior Systems Engineer, DCS Corporation |
| 10:10 am |
Analysis of Time-Sensitive Networks for Mission-Critical Systems Dr. Stephen F. Bush - Senior Scientist, GE Aerospace Dr. Abdul Jabbar - Principle Engineer, GE Aerospace |
| 10:30 am |
Examining Time Sensitive Networking in Ground Vehicle Architectures Shane Sopel - Technical Specialist, Data Architecture, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Leonard Elliott - Technical Specialist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Erik Kinstler - Software Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC Christina Salama - Computer Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 10:50 am |
What’s the Protocol? Analyzing High Speed Protocols and the Effect of the Slip Ring Heath Kouns - Principal Engineer, Moog Inc. |
| 11:10 am |
Development of an Innovative Multichannel Fiber Optic Rotary Joint Using Spatial Division Multiplexing Ivan Ilan - Chief Electrical Engineer, Everaxis USA David A. Occhipinti - Executive Director, Everaxis USA Elliot Berard - Optical Research & Development (R&D) Manager, Everaxis Industries Dr. Sebastien Larousse - R&D Manager, Everaxis Industries Dr. Claire Autebert - Chief Optical Engineer, Cailabs Tangi Le Guennic - Program Manager, Cailabs Dr. Bertrand Denolle - Chief R&D Engineer, Cailabs |
| 11:30 am |
Sensor Latency Advantage in PCI Express Switched Fabrics Jim Reardon - Chief Technical Officer, One Stop Systems (OSS) |
| 11:50 am |
Lunch |
| 1:05 pm |
Introduction to the MOSA Afternoon Session Dan Newport - Branch Chief, Cyber Technology Development, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 1:10 pm |
Featured Speaker: Uncovering Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Mission-Critical Systems via Symbolic Execution Ulrich Lang - Chief Executive Officer, ObjectSecurity LLC |
| 1:30 pm |
Advancing Automotive Software Supply Chain Security: A Blockchain-Reproducible Build Approach Iwinosa W. Aideyan - PhD Student, Clemson University Dr. Mert Pesé - Professor, Clemson University Dr. Richard Brooks - Assistant Professor, Clemson University |
| 1:50 pm |
Counterfeit FPGA Characterization and Detection with Soft Sensors and Machine Learning Cody Crofford - Senior Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation Whitney Batchelor - Director of Research, Graf Research Corporation James Koiner - Senior Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation Margaret Winslow - Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation Mia Taylor - Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation Kevin Paar - Senior Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation Dr. Scott Harper - Chief Technology Officer, Graf Research Corporation |
| 2:10 pm |
MOSA and Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE): Putting Reusable Safe and Secure Software Into Practice Jay Thomas - Director, Field Engineering, LDRA Technology Inc. Ehsan Salehi - Field Applications Engineer, LDRA Technology Inc. Stephen Di Camillo - Technical Marketing and Business Development Manager, LDRA Technology Inc. |
| 2:30 pm |
Break |
| 3:15 pm |
Introduction to the MOSA Final Session Mag Athnasios - Senior Systems Engineer, DCS Corporation |
| 3:20 pm |
A Comprehensive Modularity Framework for Military Ground Vehcile Architecture Models Dr. Macam Dattathreya - Chief Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 3:40 pm |
Assured Armaments Reference Architecture (AARA): Enabling a Modular Open Systems Approach for Lethality Systems Jenelle Toppler - Assured Armaments Reference Architecture Project Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center (AC) Michael Wright - Chief S&T Advisor, Fire Control Systems & Technology Directorate, U.S. Army DEVCOM AC Adam Winters - Program Management Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM AC |
| 4:00 pm |
Enabling Operating System Portability with Virtual I/O Nathan Studer - Technical Strategy Lead, DornerWorks Gary Gilliland - Vice President of Marketing, DDC-I Chris Guikema - Senior Engineer, DornerWorks Eric Spidle - Embedded Systems Engineer, DornerWorks Aaron Larson - Embedded RTOS Support Engineer, DDC-I |
| 4:20 pm |
Leveraging ISO 26262-2018 to support MIL-STD-882E Compliance Dr. David LaRue - Senior Principal Engineer, FEV Luis Edwin Rivera Ruiz - Senior Safety Engineer, FEV |
| 4:40 pm |
Software Application Overview: AI Object Detection Inference for Video Nick Whitlock - Software Manager, EIZO Rugged Solutions |
| 5:00 pm |
MOSA Technical Session Conclusion Melissa Best - Electrical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC |
| 5:15 pm |
Networking Reception |