# Open by design: How Elastic supports MOSA, the DoD's Modular Open Systems Approach

DevFeed: [Open by design: How Elastic supports MOSA, the DoD's Modular Open Systems Approach](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/open-by-design-how-elastic-supports-mosa-the-dod-s-modular-open-systems-approach-4825.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-elastic-supports-mosa-modular-open-systems-approach>)

Author: Woody Walton

Published: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Elastic Blog - Elasticsearch, Kibana, and ELK Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/elastic-blog-elasticsearch-kibana-and-elk-stack.md>)

Topics: [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instrumentation.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>)

Tags: [acquisition](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/acquisition.md>), [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [defense-government-open-source-standards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/defense-government-open-source-standards.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [elasticsearch-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elasticsearch-platform.md>), [government-public-sector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/government-public-sector.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integration.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

Elastic explains how its data and analytics platform can support the US Department of Defense Modular Open Systems Approach through modularity, open standards, and component removability.

## Source excerpt

Major US defense acquisition programs are required to be designed around a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA). Here's what program offices need to know about how Elastic can support MOSA at the data and analytics layer.