Marcel Padilla is a Senior Engineer for CRL Technologies, Inc. and has and continues to support multiple Technology Development Directorate S&T projects implementing open architecture principles and PEO AVN software product line and architecture efforts. Mr. Padilla is one of the principal authors of the Hardware Open Systems Technologies (HOST) standard and Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACETM) Technical Standard as well as a comprehensive architecture strategy implementing a tiered architecture approach to define enforceable architectural requirements to achieve an organization’s technical and business objectives.