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  UMAA Compliance with less effort and cost (Introducing the WGT UMAA SDK) The UMAA standard as defined by PEO USC PMS 406: "The Unmanned Maritime Autonomy Architecture (UMAA - pronounced “you-muh”) is a PEO USC PMS 406 initiative to promote the development of common, modular, and scalable software for Unmanned Maritime Vehicles (UMVs) that is independent of a particular autonomy implementation through the use of standard interfaces. UMVs include both Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). While targeting the maritime domain, many of the interfaces accommodate ground and air domains where applicable." "While not specifying a single homogeneous software architecture for all vehicles, UMAA does require implementation of a service-oriented architecture. UMAA requires use of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) as a core feature to enable this loosely coupled service architecture. UMAA can be thought of as akin ...