ADVANCING SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES FOR RAPID ADOPTION (ASTRA)
Summary
The Department of the Air Force is issuing an Advanced Research Announcement (ARA) titled Advancing Systems of Systems Technologies for Rapid Adoption (ASTRA) to fund innovative research that matures, prototypes, demonstrates, and evaluates algorithms, methodologies, and capabilities for rapid integration of systems‑of‑systems and automated test generation using the STITCHES tool chain. The effort targets a large investment of up to $200 million across multiple awards and is intended to enable global interoperability of heterogeneous electronic systems without requiring consensus, building on prior DoD research initiatives.