Monday, March 12, 2007

Workshop: CMMI - Moving Ahead

1:00p.m.

5:00p.m.

This CMMI workshop will discuss changes required to migrate from CMMI 1.1 to CMMI 1.2, current CMMI and SCAMPI status, and future SEI CMMI Product Suite plans, including planned constellations for Services and Acquisition. Panel members will share Lessons learned adopting to CMMI and in SCAMPI A appraisals. This workshop provides practical information for engineers, managers, and process improvement professionals for applying the CMMI in their organization, and preparing for SCAMPI appraisals.

§   Mike Phillips, SEI

§   Sandra Cepeda, CSSA

§   Ellen Thompson, Lockheed Martin

§   Ted Davis, The Boeing Company

§   Tiffany Rogers Bussey, Morehouse College

§   Dr. Philip Reiner, Morgan,
a Stanley Company

Workshop: Evolutions and Revolutions: A look at Telecommunications in the Past, Present, and Future

1:00p.m.

5:00p.m.

This workshop summarizes telecommunications history, noting disruptive technologies and regulatory events.  Speakers will emphasize speculative telecommunications future trends.  They will discuss using open source to build telecommunication infrastructures and achieving economical telecommunications using open source/public domain technology.

§   Kevin Schneider, Adtran

§   Mark Spencer, Digium

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Keynote

8:30a.m.

9:00a.m.

Top Ten Risks in Net-Centric Systems

§   Don Reifer, Reifer Consultants

Netcentric Now

9:00a.m.

9:35a.m.

Applied Net-Centric Operations

§   Rick Toliver, TSI

9:35a.m.

10:10a.m.

The Myths of Service-Oriented Architecture

§   Grace Lewis, SEI

10:10a.m.

10:40a.m.

Break

10:40a.m.

11:15a.m.

Reengineering the ADTRAN Supply Chain

§   Tom Dadmun, Adtran

11:15a.m.

11:50a.m.

GIGLite.org

§   Chris Gunderson, W2COG & Naval PostGraduate School

11:50a.m.

Noon

Break

Luncheon

Noon

1:30p.m.

NASA Crew Launch Vehicle

§   Stephen Cook, NASA, Crew Launch Vehicle Project Manager

Systems and Software Architectures

1:30p.m.

2:05p.m.

Effects of Organizational Architecture on Net-Centric Systems of Systems

§   James D. Smith, II,
ISIS Initiative, SEI

2:05p.m.

2:40p.m.

Systems & Software Architecture Challenges for Small Robots Utilizing Modeling & Simulation

§   Avonelle Christian, iRobot, Software Program Manager

2:40p.m.

3:15p.m.

Future Combat Systems – Acquisition Challenges

LTC Matt Schnaidt, Product Manager, FCS (BCT) Software Integration

§   Paul Schoen, Boeing

3:15p.m.

3:45p.m.

Break

3:45p.m.

4:20p.m.

Virtual Alabama

§   Norven Goddard, Assistant Director for Science and Technology for the State of Alabama Homeland Security

4:20p.m.

4:55p.m.

System Of Systems Engineering Applied To Large Scale, Multi-National Challenges

§   Chris Vickroy, Boeing

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Keynote

8:30a.m.

9:00a.m.

Keynote

§   Helen Greiner, iRobot, Co-founder/Chairman of the Board

Net-Centricity: Securing Systems and Information

9:00a.m.

9:45a.m.

Getting Your Arms Around the Costs of Network Defense

§   Don Reifer, Reifer Consultants

9:45a.m.

10:15a.m.

Break

10:15a.m.

11:00a.m.

Software Cost Estimating Risk

§   Dr. Christian Smart

11:00a.m.

11:15a.m.

Break

11:15a.m.

Noon

All Eyes on NASA

§   Special Agent Martin Hare, NASA Counterintelligence (US Persons Only)

Luncheon

Noon

1:30p.m.

Biological Inspiration

§   Dr. Michael Hinchey, Director of Graduate CS & SW Engr Programs Loyola College in Maryland

Systems and Software Assurance

1:30p.m.

2:05p.m.

Systems and Software Assurance Shared Responsibilities and Challenges

§   Martha Wetherholt, Software Assurance Manager

2:05p.m.

2:40p.m.

The Top Ten Engineering and Program Management Techniques for Systems Assurance

§   Chris Powell, Sr. Technical Director, High Performance Technologies, Inc.

2:40p.m.

3:15p.m.

Field Programmable Gate Array/Complex

§   Richard Plastow, GRC Electronics

3:15p.m.

3:45p.m.

Break

3:45p.m.

4:20p.m.

Ensuring Mission Success in a Risk-Rich Environment

§   Christopher Alberts, SEI

Digital Combat Exercise Awards

4:20p.m.

4:55p.m.

DCE Results - S.A. Hale

§   S.A. Hale, TSI

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Workshop: Software & Systems Challenges – The Return to Formal Methods

8:00a.m.

Noon

The exploration of space is now a world wide effort, possessing dimensions such as; returning humans to the moon, sending robotic vehicles to inhospitable places such as Venus or Europa, and pushing commercial, defense, and even academic self-build space systems to new limits.  What are the major software engineering barriers or challenges lying ahead?  Are there any shared problems and common solutions?  How do we make mission software more reusable, cheaper, and most of all, more reliable?

§   Bob Savley, NASA-JSC

§   Mike Hinchey, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

Workshop: Migrating to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)

8:00a.m.

Noon

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become an increasingly popular mechanism for achieving interoperability between systems. Because of loose coupling, published interfaces, and standard communication model, SOA enables legacy systems to expose functionality as services, presumably without making significant legacy systems changes. Migration to services has been achieved in several domains, including banking applications, electronic payment applications, and development tools, showing that the promise is beginning to be fulfilled. The goals of this workshop are to talk about the fundamentals for successfully implementing SOA-based systems, potential issues in leveraging legacy investments as services, and SMART--a technique for analyzing the potential of reusing legacy components as services.

§   Pat Place, SEI

Luncheon 1

Noon

1:00p.m.

ROI for Process Maturity in High Maturity Firms

§   Don Reifer, Reifer Consultants

Luncheon 2

Noon

1:00p.m.

System of Systems Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE)

§   Paul Schoen, Boeing

Workshop: Meeting New Challenges in Acquisition

1:00p.m.

5:00p.m.

This Workshop will explore the challenges of Systems of Systems Acquisition with regard to what the Request For Proposal should consider, developing the necessary measurement indicators for project management, and the consideration for those processes that will improve the Project Manager's capability for interoperable acquisition.

§   Suzanne Garcia, SEI

§   James D. Smith, II, SEI

§   Bob Ferguson, SEI

§   Jack Van Kirk, PEO Aviation

Workshop: Securing Your Systems from the Ground Up – Software, Hardware, Networks

1:00p.m.

5:00p.m.

In this workshop, you will learn benefits of incorporating security into the software lifecycle. Software compromise risk during the development process is inversely proportional to level of security embedded in the software development process. Secure software results when adequate security protection is planned and implemented during the software lifecycle.  In addition, you will learn how to use the Security Audit and Penetration Testing Application (SA/PTA), to conduct various NetCentric system security activities.  SA/PTA puts 4GB of accessible materials at the Security Engineer's finger tips; over 24,000 files in 1,700 folders organized around checklists, databases, references, and tools.

§   SA Hale
, Teledyne Solutions