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Calendar

To see upcoming Working Group meetings please go to Workspace.vita.com and select the "ConCall Calendar" (Members only).

We also maintain a comparative schedule showing VSO and SOSA meetings here.

Upcoming events

    • Wednesday, May 14, 2025
    • 8:00 AM
    • Thursday, May 15, 2025
    • 5:00 PM
    • Leonardo DRS, Frederick, MD
    • 18
    Register

    The VITA Standards Organization (VSO) meets every two months to discuss, plan, and develop standards to support its members' interests. Observers are welcome. A meeting registration fee of $160 is charged for all in-person attendees. Non-members are welcome to attend (in-person or remotely) but a special registration code is required.  Please email VITA with a request to attend as a non-member guest with some details on your areas of interest.

    We are happy to announce that DRS will again be hosting our May 2025 meeting at their facility in Frederick, MD. We also have a greatly reduced hotel room block less than a mile from the DRS facility. See details below.

    We have a maximum in-person attendance of 40 members so please register early!  To assist with DRS security vetting, the in-person attendees registrations will be cut off on May 7.  Virtual Attendees registrations will still be allowed after that date.  Attendance by both US Citizens and Non-US persons is welcome.

    Meeting Facility

    Leonard DRS

    4910 Executive Ct South

    Frederick, MD 21703

    Recommended Hotel:

    Home2 Suites by Hilton Frederick
    4850 Buckeystown Pike
    Frederick, MD 21703
    Phone: (301) 695-0001

    Distance to DRS: 0.8 miles

    Discounted Group rate: $110/night (regularly $147)

    Group Code: VITA Conference

    Hotel rate cutoff: Thursday April 24, 2024

    Click here to reserve a room under the group rate before the deadline.

    Steve Devore and DRS have extended an invitation to all attendees to a enjoy a Hosted Happy Hour at The Brewers Alley in downtown Frederick on Wednesday after we close our meeting for the day.  If you plan on attending, please register by May 6, 2025 so that DRS can provide  a head count to the venue.


    Location: 

    Brewers Alley

    124 N Market St
    Frederick, MD, 


    Time:

    5:00pm - 8:00pm on Wednesday after the meeting closes.


    For Agenda and Docs visit VITA Workspace at http://workspace.vita.com.

    VITA Workspace login is required


    To participate via Zoom:
    Calendar of Working Group Meetings - VITA on day of meeting. Your VITA Workspace login is required.

    DRS would also like to host a Happy Hour downtown on Wednesday evening from 6-8pm in historic downtown Frederick: https://brewers-alley.com  If you plan to attend the happy hour, please register to attend (for headcount purposes) by TBD.

    • Wednesday, May 14, 2025
    • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Brewers Alley Downtown Frederick MD
    Register
    Steve Devore and DRS have extended an invitation to all attendees to a enjoy a Hosted Happy Hour at The Brewers Alley in downtown Frederick on Wednesday after we close our meeting for the day.  If you plan on attending, please register by May 6, 2025 so that DRS can provide  a head count to the venue.


    Location: 

    Brewers Alley

    124 N Market St
    Frederick, MD, 


    Time:

    5:00pm - 8:00pm on Wednesday after the meeting closes.


Past events

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 VSO Meeting - March 2025
Wednesday, March 05, 2025 VITA Alumni Happy Hour
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 47.0-2019 Construction, Safety, and Quality for Plug-In Modules Standard
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 40-2020 Service and Status Indicator Standard
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 67.0-2019 - Coaxial Interconnect on VPX – Base Standard
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 67.1-2019 - Coaxial Interconnect on VPX, 4 Position SMPM Configuration
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 VSO Meeting - January 2025
Monday, January 13, 2025 2025 Embedded Tech Trends
Wednesday, December 04, 2024 Beachside Pavillion "Connectivity" BBQ after Wednesday F2F Session: 4 December 2024
Wednesday, December 04, 2024 VSO Meeting - December 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the revised draft of ANSI/VITA 65.0-2023 OpenVPX System Standard
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the revised draft of ANSI/VITA 65.1-2023 OpenVPX System Standard Profile Tables
Monday, October 28, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the revised draft of ANSI/VITA 47.1 Common Requirements for Environments, Design and Construction, Safety, and Quality for VITA 47 Plug-In Modules Dot Standard
Thursday, October 17, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 46.6-2013(R2018) Gigabit Ethernet Control Plane on VPX in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Thursday, October 17, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 66.2-2013(R2018) - Optical Interconnect On VPX – ARINC 801 Termini Variant in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Thursday, October 17, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 66.3-2012(R2018) - Optical Interconnect on VPX - Mini-Expanded Beam Variant in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Thursday, October 17, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 51.1-2013(R2018) - Reliability Prediction MIL-HDBK-217 Subsidiary Specification in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 46.4-2012(R2018) PCI Express® on the VPX Fabric Connector in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the new draft of VITA VITA 46.31 - Higher Data Rate VPX - Solder Tail in Blind via
Tuesday, October 08, 2024 VITA Alumni Happy Hour
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 VSO Meeting - September 2024
Thursday, August 15, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the revised draft of VITA 68.1 - VPX Compliance Channel - Fixed Signal Integrity Budget Standard
Wednesday, August 07, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 60-2012 (R2018) - Alternative Connector for VPX in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 VSO Meeting - July 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 42.6-2009 (R2015) XMC 10 Gigabit Ethernet 4-Lane Protocol Layer in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 46.10-2009 (R2015) Rear Transition Module for VPX in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 51.3-2010 (R2016) Qualification and Environmental Stress Screening in Support of Reliability Predictions in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 66.0-2016 Optical Interconnect on VPX - Base Standard as a reaffirmed standard
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 66.4-2016 Optical Interconnect On VPX - Half Width MT Variant as a reaffirmed standard
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 51.2-2016 Physics of Failure Reliability Predictions as a reaffirmed standard
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 46.3-2012 (R2018) Serial RapidIO on VPX Fabric Connector in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 46.7-2012 (R2018) Ethernet on VPX Fabric Connector in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to maintain the reaffirmed standard ANSI/VITA 51.0-2012 (R2018) Reliability Prediction in ANSI Stabilized Maintenance
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 DRS Happy Hour May 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 VSO Meeting - May 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the revised draft of ANSI/VITA 86-2019 High Voltage Input Sealed Connector Power Supply
Thursday, April 18, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 46.9-2018 as a reaffirmed standard with errata
Thursday, April 18, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 17.3-2018 as a reaffirmed standard
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 VITA Alumni Happy Hour
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 VSO Meeting - March 2024
Monday, February 05, 2024 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the new draft of VITA 91.0-202x Connector for Higher Density VPX Applications
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 VSO Meeting - January 2024
Monday, January 22, 2024 2024 Embedded Tech Trends
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the new draft of VITA 87.0-202x Optical Interconnect on VPX Standard – Hybrid Variants
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 VSO Meeting - November 2023
Wednesday, November 08, 2023 VITA Alumni Happy Hour
Wednesday, November 08, 2023 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the revised draft of ANSI/VITA 67.3-2022 Coaxial Interconnect on VPX - Spring-Loaded Contact on Backplane
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 VSO Meeting - September 2023
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 VITA Alumni Happy Hour
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve IEEE P2818 ANSI/VITA 51.4 Standard for Reliability Component Stress Analysis and Derating Specification
Wednesday, July 19, 2023 VSO Meeting - July 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 17.3-2018, Serial Front Panel Data Port (sFPDP) Gen 3.0
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Stabilize ANSI/VITA 51.0-2012 (R2018): Reliability Prediction
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Stabilize ANSI/VITA 46.7-2012 (R2018): Ethernet on VPX Fabric Connector
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Stabilize ANSI/VITA 46.3-2012 (R2018): Serial RapidIO on VPX Fabric Connector
Thursday, May 25, 2023 Stabilize ANSI/VITA 60-2012 (R2018): Alternative Connector for VPX
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 VSO Meeting - May 2023
Monday, April 17, 2023 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve the revised draft of ANSI/VITA 46.0-2023x VPX Baseline Standard
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 VSO Meeting - March 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve revised draft to ANSI/VITA 65.0 and 65.1-2021
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 VSO Meeting - January 2023
Monday, January 23, 2023 2023 Embedded Tech Trends
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 68.0 and 68.1-2017 as reaffirmed standards
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Space Launch Beach Party after November 2022 F2F
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 VITA Meeting - November 2022
Tuesday, November 01, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Stabilize ANSI/VITA 48.5-2010 (R2017)
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve revised draft to ANSI/VITA 48.7-2014
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 VNX Marketing Alliance
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 VITA Meeting - September 2022
Friday, September 16, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 49.2-2017 VITA Radio Transport (VRT) Standard for Electromagnetic Spectrum: Signals and Applications
Tuesday, August 09, 2022 VNX Marketing Alliance
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 VITA Meeting - July 2022
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 VNX Marketing Alliance Kick-off
Thursday, June 02, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Revise ANSI/VITA 67.3 Coaxial Interconnect on VPX, Spring-Loaded Contact on Backplane Standard
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 VITA Meeting - May 2022
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Revise ANSI/VITA 74.0 Compliant System Small Form Factor Module Base Standard
Wednesday, April 06, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve DRAFT/VITA 66.5-2022x: Optical Interconnect on VPX Standard – Hybrid Variants
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 VSO Meeting - March 2022
Friday, March 04, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve moving ANSI/VITA 51.3-2010 (R2016) to Stabilized Maintenance
Friday, March 04, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 48.8-2017
Tuesday, March 01, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve new draft standard VITA 62.1-2022
Tuesday, March 01, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve Revisions to ANSI/VITA 62.0-2016
Monday, February 07, 2022 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve Revisions to ANSI/VITA 48.4-2018
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 VSO Meeting - January
Monday, December 13, 2021 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve Revisions to ANSI/VITA 78.0-2015
Wednesday, December 01, 2021 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, December 01, 2021 VSO Meeting - December
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 U.S. Army - FACE and SOSA Technical Interchange Meeting
Wednesday, September 08, 2021 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, September 08, 2021 VSO Meeting - September
Thursday, August 26, 2021 VMEbus in Military Systems
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 How SOSA Leverages VPX to Drive Product Designs
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 VITA Meeting - July
Friday, July 09, 2021 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve Revisions to ANSI/VITA 42.0-2016
Thursday, July 01, 2021 Call for Consensus Body Members to Approve Revisions to ANSI/VITA 65.0-2019 and ANSI/VITA 65.1-2019
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 66.0-2016
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 51.2-2016
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 VITA Meeting - May
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 The Open Group FACE™ and SOSA™ Consortia Technical Interchange Meeting
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 VITA Meeting - March
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 VITA Meeting - January
Monday, January 25, 2021 Embedded Tech Trends 2021
Wednesday, December 02, 2020 VITA Happy Hour
Wednesday, December 02, 2020 VITA Meeting - December
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Boards and Solutions - Virtual Conference about Embedded Computing
Monday, September 21, 2020 The Open Group FACE™ and SOSA™ Technical Interchange Meeting
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 VITA Meeting - September
Wednesday, July 15, 2020 VITA Meeting - July
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 SOSA™ and VITA: Enabling Open Standards for Improved Capability
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 VITA Meeting - May
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 VITA Meeting - March
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Embedded World
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 VITA Meeting - January
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration
Monday, January 27, 2020 2020 Embedded Tech Trends
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 VSO Meeting - November
Tuesday, September 17, 2019 VSO Meeting - September
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 SOSA and Its Impact on OpenVPX
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 VSO Meeting - July
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 Embedded Technologies Expo & Conference
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 VSO Meeting - May
Thursday, April 25, 2019 OpenVPX Technology: Roadmap to the Future
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 VSO Meeting - March
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Embedded World Conference
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 VSO Meeting - January
Monday, January 28, 2019 2019 Embedded Tech Trends
Monday, November 12, 2018 VSO Meeting - November
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 VSO Meeting - September
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 VSO Meeting - July
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 VSO Meeting - May
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 VSO Meeting - March
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 VSO Meeting - January
Monday, January 22, 2018 2018 Embedded Tech Trends
Wednesday, November 08, 2017 VSO Meeting - November
Wednesday, September 20, 2017 VSO Meeting - September
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 VSO Meeting - July
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 VSO Meeting - May
Thursday, March 23, 2017 VSO Meeting - March
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 VSO Meeting - January
Monday, January 23, 2017 2017 Embedded Tech Trends
Thursday, December 15, 2016 Scalable, Flexible, Adaptable: The Balance of Open Architecture Design & Defense Industry Standards
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 VSO Meeting - November
Thursday, September 22, 2016 VITA Technology Workshop
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 VSO Meeting - September
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 VSO Meeting - July
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 VSO Meeting - May
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 VSO Meeting - March
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 VSO Meeting - January
Monday, January 18, 2016 2016 Embedded Tech Trends Registration
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 VSO Meeting - November
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 VSO Meeting - September
Thursday, July 16, 2015 VITA Technology Workshop
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 VSO Meeting - July
Thursday, May 14, 2015 VITA Technology Workshop
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 VSO Meeting - May
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 VSO Meeting - March
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 VSO Meeting - January
Monday, January 19, 2015 Embedded Tech Trends At Large Attendee Registration
Monday, January 19, 2015 Embedded Tech Trends Sponsor Attendee Registration
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 VSO Meeting - November
Monday, October 06, 2014 MILCOM
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 VSO Meeting September
Tuesday, September 09, 2014 VITA 46.11 Interoperability Workshop
Tuesday, September 09, 2014 2014 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC '14)
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 VSO Meeting
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 VSO Meeting
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 VSO Meeting

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