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An effort is underway to develop an Open System Architecture for Condition-Based Maintenance. The architecture development has focused on the definition of a distributed software architecture for CBM. The distributed software model was selected due to the recent emergence of enabling software technologies and the benefits of the approach. In particular, the availability of network connectivity provides a ready hardware backbone over which the software system may be distributed. The requirements for a general CBM architecture are defined, and the framework of the distributed architecture is provided.