Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md- The 2025 Integrated Sensor Architecture (ISA) Community Summit held May 13 at Mallette Training Facility brought together stakeholders from U.S government agencies, industry, and partner nations for a full day of technical sessions, collaboration, and strategic planning.
Hosted by the Integration Directorate (ID) under Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors (PEO IEW&S), the summit featured a series of breakout discussions and briefings focused on advancing sensor data interoperability across systems, domains and coalition forces.
ISA began in 2014, created out of a Communications- Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Night Vision Lab as part of a deployable force protection system focused on solving interoperability issues. At that time, it was a research and development effort but has since evolved into a widely used and adopted application programming interface that has changed the approach to sensor integration.
At its core, ISA is a data model and an application program interface (API) that enables dynamic sharing of sensor and system data across networks. It defines a single semantic data model that supports all sensor types and security levels, eliminating the need for costly point-to-point integration. Maintained by the ID, ISA is a Government off the Shelf (GOTS) product that includes engineering documentation, developer tools, and support resources.
Ultimately, ISA ensures secure data transport, timely dissemination of information for commanders, and more synchronized operations across our formations.
Kyle Perkins, (acting) deputy PEO for IEW&S, opened the event with remarks that underscored the importance of ISA in today’s operational environment.
“ISA is at the heart of how we move, manage, and deliver sensor and intelligence data,”
said Perkins. “The real-world wins we’re seeing, from Project Convergence Capstone 5 to southern border operations, prove just how far this community has come.”
The main theme of the day was showcasing use-cases that demonstrated how ISA is enabling integration across a variety of operational scenarios. These case studies reflected the adaptability of ISA real-world missions, including intelligence data sharing at the tactical edge, cross-domain sensor integration, and coalition system interoperability.
“The point of the summit is to get the user community all in one room,” said Nick Legrand, the lead for the ID’s Open Architecture and Standards team. “That collaboration is what drives progress.”
The event included technical sessions such as ISA Best Practices, Tactical Assault Kit/ Android Tactical Assault Kit (TAK/ATAK) and ISA, and Designing an ISA Integration. Whether attendees were new to ISA or seasoned developers, the summit provided opportunities to learn and contribute.
The summit also highlighted ISA’s growing international impact, particularly through its recent ratification by the Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand (ABCANZ) standards board. That milestone supports interoperability among allied forces and reinforces ISA’s role in enabling seamless data exchange during joint operations and training.
A key message throughout the event was the continued need for innovation in data integrity and delivery. The ISA team encouraged industry, coalition, and government partners to bring forward new solutions that ensure critical data remains trusted, accessible, and operationally relevant.
“While flexibility is a great strength for ISA, it also allows for a lot of different implementations that overall provide great feedback to the standard itself,” said Christine Moulton, ID Director.
As the ISA community continues to grow, events like this summit serve as a cornerstone for collaboration, bringing together the people and ideas that are shaping the future of sensor and intelligence data sharing across the joint and coalition force.
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