Jonathan Shaver, a 16-year Air Force Civil Servant, has made significant contributions to weapons integration and open architecture technologies. Early in his career, he focused on Universal Armament Interface (UAI) and MIL-STD-1553 protocols. In 2013, at the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate, Mr. Shaver pioneered the Weapons Open Systems Architecture (WOSA) program. WOSA initially addressed open architecture challenges for air-to-ground munitions, later expanding to air-to-air mission capabilities.
Concurrently, Mr. Shaver developed the Munitions Open Architecture Test and Evaluation Laboratory (MOATEL) to address critical verification and validation gaps in open architecture programs. MOATEL provides specialized analysis, testing, and verification tools to support government program offices in deliverable validation.
In recent years, the WOSA team, under Shaver’s leadership, has advanced the modularity component of the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA). This effort includes creating a unique Modularity Assessment process and an objective scoring metric to evaluate systems, including during source selection, enhancing decision-making for Air Force program offices.