U.S. Army releases white paper request for CMFF prototypes

The Army released a Request for White Papers (RfWP) to develop new CMFF prototypes, enabling cost and space savings and quicker technology insertion into its combat vehicles and platforms.

CMFF—short for C5ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) CMOSS Mounted Form Factor—is the Army’s effort to more easily and rapidly equip ground vehicles and aviation platforms with capabilities like positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), electronic warfare (EW) protection and others, through capability cards plugged into a common chassis.

The chassis, already plumbed for power, networks, and radio frequency, allows Soldiers to “plug and play” capabilities right into the vehicle without the need to custom install and upgrade individual communication and computing systems. Technology can be implemented with the simple swap of a card.

In this prototype effort, the key needs are to develop, procure and furnish the Army with the CMFF chassis, also known as Mounted Common Infrastructure (MCI), plus the smart display for user interface, hardware development, software development and Plug-In Cards with the following capabilities:

• Converging tactical communication waveforms
• Mission Command applications
• Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (APNT)
• Force Protection capabilities

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