Open-Standards Integration Infrastructure
Integration as infrastructure, not engineering.
Configure how defense mission systems integrate, recompose, and upgrade – without rewriting code or reopening certification.
Operating principle Integrate Faster. Recertify Less.
The Integration Tax
Today, every upgrade pulls the program into the same cycle.
- 01 Custom code, written from scratch every time.
- 02 OEM-controlled baselines that resist modification.
- 03 Full recertification on every change.
- 04 Schedule slip that keeps pushing capability to the right.
The Mechanism
Configure the integration. Don't touch the systems.
Skayl's CinC is embedded across mission systems as an integration substrate. New capability is added by configuration in days, not months. Existing software stays untouched.
Legacy Mission Systems
What's already deployed
- Existing radar (Link 16)
- Vehicle electronics (CMOSS)
- Mission computer (UDDL)
- Combat system component
Skayl Integration Platform
Configuration, not code
- Data mediation
- Protocol mediation
- Model-driven routing
- Standards-aligned
- Certifiable infrastructure
New Capabilities
Added by configuration
- + New sensors / radars
- + EW / SIGINT payload
- + Launched effects / UAS
- + Joint datalinks
Existing baselines stay untouched · New capability added by configuration
Why This Scales
Only one paradigm scales linearly.
Three architectures for getting heterogeneous systems to interoperate. The difference isn't execution – it's how complexity grows when systems are added.
Application-Centric
O(n³)
Cubic scaling
Each app must understand every other app's interfaces, state, and interaction patterns.
Doesn't scale.
Message-Centric
O(n²)
Quadratic scaling
Middleware handles syntax. State and semantic alignment still live in each application.
Better – but complexity grows quickly.
Data-Centric
O(n)
Linear scaling
Middleware handles syntax and semantics. State lives in the infrastructure. This is what CinC delivers.
Scales linearly. This is Skayl.
Three Lenses, One Capability
What this looks like from where you sit.
The same product. Three procurement realities. Three reasons to ask for a briefing.
/01 Government Program Offices
Recertification scoped to the change – not the platform.
Existing certifications stay valid. ATO timelines stay on track. Architecture stays yours – your engineers can run subsequent integrations after initial setup.
/02 Primes & Integrators
Convert low-margin labor into high-margin fixed-bid.
Skayl is deterministic – predictable scope, schedule, cost. Bid integration as outcomes, not hours. Lift win rate. Expand contract value.
/03 Platform Owners
Architecture stays yours. Recompete at will.
Built on MOSA, SOSA, FACE, CMOSS, VICTORY, HOST, OMS/UCI, UDDL. No proprietary dependencies. No single-vendor trap.
Proof on US Defense Programs
Five months. $380K. Done.
An Army system-of-systems integration: five unmanned platforms, control software, AI tasking, visualization. The lead systems integrator was a year into negotiation. Skayl finished the integration before that negotiation closed.
Traditional Approach
$10-20M
1 year+ negotiating No contract signed. No work started.
A one-off proprietary integration – eventually.
With Skayl
$380K
5 months Delivered before the prime's negotiation closed.
Reconfigurable, reusable, extensible integration infrastructure. No OEM software modified. No recertification required.
Built On
MOSA·SOSA™·FACE™·CMOSS·VICTORY·HOST·OMS / UCI·UDDL·DO-178 Pathway
Active On Programs of Record
Across the services.
NAVAIR
FACE TSS, SOSA. Phase III BOA. Adaptive Avionics, reconfigurable mission systems.
NAVSEA
Combat systems integration and certification. ASW programs and submarine combat systems.
US Army CCDEVCOM
Aviation & Missile Center: Infrastructure SPL, FACE 3.0, DO-178 pathway, MSFTB, Launched Effects, RMS/TRACE.
Skayl is a teaming partner to all Tier 1 and Tier 2 primes. Skayl personnel serve as Vice-Chair of the FACE™ Domain Interoperability Working Group (maintainer of the UDDL standard) and Co-Chair of the SOSA Architecture Committee.