Interoperable Open Architecture 2011
- 1. Military/Gov’t attend for FREE by booking before 30th September 2011 Interoperable open archItecture 2011 Main Conference: 27th-28th October 2011 Pre-Conference Workshops: 26th October 2011 Le Méridien Piccadilly, London, UK Expert International Speaker Panel includes: Examine the Fundamental Shift in Defence Conference Chairman: Mr Simon Masley, Procurement Strategy Away From Single- MOD DE&S Land Open systems Vendor Stovepipe Solutions And Towards Architecture Lead, UK MoD Genuinely Competitive Procurements Major General Nikolas A non-technical assessment of how a wide variety of Justice, Director, Research procurement programmes have architected greater Development and Engineering flexibility, capability and “plug-and-fight” interoperability Command, US Army Develop strategies to avoid vendor lock-in to lower system Lt Col Scott DeBolt, integration, maintenance and upgrade costs across the Mounted Requirements, lifecycle Manoeuvre Centre of Insights into leading OA programmes from UK MoD DE&S, US USD Excellence, US Army AT&L and the European Defence Agency, and how they could Ian Burch, Generic Vehicle improve your own procurement processes Architecture Project Office Examine ongoing international efforts to create open architecture Lead, DE&S, UK MoD standards by NATO, the Object Management Group, the Open Group, and the Technical Cooperation Panel, and how such Robert Chesney, Advanced standardisation can reduce the cost and risk associated with Vetronics Demonstrator and non-COTS architecture solutions Technical Cooperation Panel, Canadian DND Assessments of how future open architecture projects will be implemented, with presentations on the US Victory David Camm, Department Architecture, the Royal Navy’s type 26 Frigates, and the Head, Systems Engineering and French Integrated Modular Vetronics Project Integration Group, DE&S, UK MoD Benjamin Hermant, Pre-Conference Workshops: 26th October 2011 TACTIC Demonstrations Workshop A, 9:00-11:30 A Technical Assessment of Open Architecture Systems for Military Use Leader, DGA Led By: Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt, Deputy Director, Research, and Chief Technology Officer, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Daniel Klein, FICAPS Capability Manager, Workshop B, 12:30-15:00 Developing Open Systems Architecture European Defence Agency Led By: Simon Masley, MOD DE&S Land Open systems Architecture Lead, UK MoD "As usual excellent insight Register & LEAD SPONSOR CONfERENCE SPONSOR & update in concentrated Pay by 26th 2 day period" August 2011 Matthew Cole, QinetiQ to save up to £300 SESSiON SPONSOR MEDiA PARtNERS ASSOCiAtE SPONSOR JOiNt SESSiON SPONSORS +44 (0)20 7368 9300 www.IOAEVEnT.COM DEFEnCE@IqPC.CO.uk
- 2. pre conference WorKShopS: 26th october 2011 WORKSHOP A: 9:00 - 11:30 A Technical Assessment of Open Architecture Systems for Military Use Led By: Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt, Deputy Director, Research, and Chief technology Officer, Software Engineering institute, Carnegie Mellon University the goal of employing Open Architecture systems for military use is to to foster competition and innovation to improve performance and affordability via the use of modular designs, enabling public access to design specifications, reusing software design documentation and implementation artifacts, mandating common interface standards, and achieving seamless interoperability between system hardware and software applications. At the heart of Open Architecture systems are architectural concepts, services, and tools that are maturing as standards-based, commercial-off-the-shelf (COtS) frameworks, component-based and service-oriented middleware, and model-driven engineering technologies. Despite substantial advances in these technologies during the past decade, however, key challenges must be addressed before we can affordable and dependably build next-generation Open Architecture systems. This workshop will therefore: • Provide a survey of key characteristics that make architectures “open” • Examine the evolution of standards and enabling technologies that are relevant for open architectures • Summarize new challenges for open architecture systems arising from growth of scale, complexity, and expanded threat spectrum • Evaluate strategies for overcoming these challenges, as well as limitations with existing open architecture efforts • Review examples from the avionics and shipboard computing domains that illustrate key points WORKSHOP B: 12:30 - 14:30 Developing Open Systems Architecture Led By: Mr Simon Masley, MOD DE&S Land Open systems Architecture Lead, UK MoD this workshop is based on our experience of implementing open system architecture in the land sector of MOD. it will be of use to those seeking to work with the MOD, both customers and suppliers, and for those organisations wanting to implement their own open system architectures. it will cover what an open system architecture is, how it might be useful to you and look at benefits and risks. it will help you to work through the context in which you want to implement an open system architecture before taking you through some of the factors you need to consider during implementation. We will then summarise and discuss the ‘take homes’. it will require participation from all and help you situate open systems in your own particular context. At the end of it, we hope you will have a clear idea of what is involved in going down this route. Content: 3 Understanding your context 4 Doing Open Systems Architecture 1 Setting the scene - Acquisition model - Vision - introductions and outline of the workshop - Governance - Principles - Why MOD has done what it has - Architectures and standards - Stakeholders /investment partners - Getting to grips with the language - technology, people and process - Cost Benefit Analysis 2 Why Open Systems - is your timing right? - Safety and Security - Are you sure you know? - What about your legacy systems? - Buy in and education - Benefits 5 Summary and Take Homes Download free interviews, podcasts and articles at www.IOAevent.com ABOUT DEFENCE IQ Tel: +44(0)207 368 9300 Email: newsletter@defenceiq.com Defence Iq is an authoritative news source for high quality and exclusive commentary and analysis on global defence and military-related topics. Sourcing interviews and insights directly from senior military and industry professionals on air defence, cyber warfare, armoured vehicles, naval defence, land defence and many more topics, Defence Iq is a unique multimedia platform to discuss and learn about the latest developments within the defence sector. So join over 45,000 defence professionals today to claim your exclusive video interviews, podcasts, articles and whitepapers that are updated on a daily basis at www.defenceiq.com - and all for free. Join the community: http://www.defenceiq.com/join.cfm +44 (0)20 7368 9300 www.IOAEVEnT.COM DEFEnCE@IqPC.CO.uk
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- 4. conference DaY one: 27th october 2011 08:30 Coffee & Registration • Utilizing a common chassis system across the 09:00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks GCV family of vehicles to simplify architecture Merfyn Lloyd OBE, Science Advisor Chief of Materiel implementation and systems integration (Land), DE&S, UK MoD • Thoughts on the UK GVA programme, and possible international standardisation 09:10 The MOD’s Approach to Generic Vehicle Lt Col Scott DeBolt, Mounted Requirements, Architectures (GVA): Implementing, Updating Manoeuvre Centre of Excellence, US Army and Maintaining Defence Standard 23-09 • History and origins of MODs GVA approach 12:50 Networking Lunch • Scope of the current GVA Def Stan 23-09 13:50 Open Architecture on Scout SV • Outline of the MoDs GVA Office and its • Applying GVA in Practice responsibilities, including the Guidance document, • Designing for Modularity and Scalability the HMi style guide and the Land Data Model • Technology Insertion • Future direction of the GVA Def Stan 23-09 Speaker to be confirmed, General Dynamics UK Ltd Ian Burch, Generic Vehicle Architecture Project Office 14:30 Panel Session – Does improved after-market Lead, DE&S, UK MoD competition outweigh the increased development 09:50 Open Architecture Efficiencies in the Development cost of new IOA platforms? of DoD UAS Ground Control Stations the cost and interoperability benefits of iOA are • Assessing the inadequacies of “traditional” UAS scalable: the greater the buy in from all three services procurement: Vertically integrated, vendor-proprietary and international allies, the greater the cost saving. solutions, resulting in a reliance on large However, given the incremental nature of defence primary contractors procurement and the continually evolving nature of both • “Breaking open” proprietary ground control stations platforms and their sub-systems, can the increased cost components into a modular and scalable architecture and time of development be justified? Who should be that can be implemented according to individual responsible for the standardisation process, and how will UAS needs the hurdles to such standardisation be overcome? • Progress to date of the UCS working group and which Chaired By: Merfyn Lloyd OBE, Science Advisor Chief unmanned systems are taking priority of Materiel (Land), DE&S, UK MoD • Challenges within the programme and a view to 15:10 Charting Our Progress: Open Architecture Systems the future in US Armed Forces Parag Batavia, UCS Working Group, Acquisitions, • Migration over time from stovepiped, proprietary technology and Logistics, Office of the Under solutions to various types of open architectures Secretary of Defence • Survey of open architecture technology landscape for 10:30 Coffee & Networking enterprise and tactical edge 10:50 Achieving System Level Interoperability in • Evaluation of pros and cons of modern open Open Architecture architecture solutions • The ultimate goal of Open Architecture systems is Dr Douglas Schmidt, Deputy Director, Research, and to achieve systems level interoperability. the Chief technology Officer, Software Engineering institute, benefits sought by defence procurement agencies Carnegie Mellon University are the shift to a more open competitive 15:50 Coffee & Networking procurement process, increased opportunity 16:20 The Systems Engineering and Integration Groups’ for innovation, an optimised supply chain across Work on the UK MoD’s “System of Systems Approach” separately procured systems and greater agility in And The Open Systems Approach For The Type 26 deployment for the armed services Global Combat Ship • We will discuss best practise approaches that • Outline of the background to the MoD’s System of Systems several defence programs globally have adopted to approach, the goals of the project, and progress to date drive towards these goals and explain how they • Understanding the open systems approach to the have been achieved using a combination of open Royal Navy’s next generation frigates: architecture of standards technology and data-centric the type 26 Global Combat Ship integration processes • Assessing the maturity of the open systems design used on Commander Gordon Hunt, US Navy Reserves and the platform, and implications for other “open” platforms Chief Applications Engineer, Real-Time Innovations David Camm, Department Head, Systems Engineering Curt Schacker, CCO, Real-Time Innovations and integration Group, DE&S, UK MoD 11:30 US Efforts to Implement Open Standards with 17:00 Next Generation Open Architecture for the the Victory Architecture French Military: The DGA’s Integrated Modular KE yNOTE • Overview of PEO C3T: Striving to re-engineer Vetronics Programme ON: PRESENTATI y process to increase capability whilst decreasing cost US Army Vict or • Understanding the requirements behind the IMV Architectur e • The “Vehicle Integration for C4ISR/electronic programme, and how it will be utilised within the warfare inTerOpeRabilitY” (VICTORY) project: SCORPiON programme Eliminating redundant and duplicate components to • Utilising a data distribution service as an enabling reduce size, weight, power requirements and cost technology to facilitate reconfigurable, multi-role, • Digitisation of vetronics for plugging into the US fault resistant and cost-effective vehicles Warfighter information Network and the Global • Applying the IMV concept in the TACTIC NCW, and information Grid avenues of future work resulting from this testing • Success on the STRYKER vehicle demonstrator and Benjamin Hermant, tACtiC Demonstrations Leader planned future development for MRAP and and Vetronics Expert, DGA HMMWV vehicles Major General Nikolas Justice, Director, Research 17:40 Chair’s Close & End of Day One Development and Engineering Command, US Army 12:10 Improving Vetronics and Integration Efforts by Maintaining Control Over Architecture Design: The US Experience with the Ground Combat Vehicle • Continuing the work of the Future Combat Systems manned vehicles programme to replace armoured fighting vehicles in Heavy and Stryker brigade combat teams • Rationale for designing and maintaining control over the vehicle architecture, and options currently under consideration +44 (0)20 7368 9300 www.IOAEVEnT.COM DEFEnCE@IqPC.CO.uk
- 5. conference DaY tWo: 28th october 2011 08:30 Coffee & Registration • C4I DTF ongoing efforts and collaborations: information sharing and protection and collaboration 09:00 Chairman’s recap with PM-iSE and MiP 09:10 The Technical Cooperation Panel: Working Towards • Information Exchange Framework: Objectives and Multinational Standards to Promote Internationally standards efforts to promote truly open architectures Common Architectures • Aligning the work of the OMG with government • Background to the Canadian ADVANCE vehicle architecture direction and other standardisation efforts • Outline of the work of the Technical Cooperation Panel, its Michael Abramson, Co-chair of the C4I DTF Working participating nations and the projects under its consideration Group, Object Management Group • Pushing for the international rather than the national 12:50 Creating Open Standards for Military Applications; solution: Getting everyone on the same page before a The Open Group and the Future Airborne Capability “European” or “American” standard is created to limit Environment (FACE™) international interoperability • What is FACE, where did the idea come from, and why • Best practise in the next generation of open architecture is it needed? procurement: Working groups finding to date and • An overview of the Open Group and the FACE Consortium efforts to implement a NAtO wide design standard • Identifying the deliverables within the programme: • Future plans and avenues of investigation to overcome technical standards and business guides the hurdles to adoption of an international standard • Next steps after the initial public release of FACE Robert Chesney, Advanced Vetronics Demonstrator guidelines and future plans to update the standard and technical Cooperation Panel, Canadian DND Confirmed Representative from the US Navy, fACE 09:50 Open Systems Architecture (OSA) Assurance Working Group, The Open Group Strategy for REAL Competition After Deployment 13:30 Networking Lunch • What does open really mean? Locked-in solutions are utilizing OSA principles such as modularity; use open 14:30 Panel Session standards; loosely coupled middleware etc. - but are Assessing the Security and Reliability of they truly open? Interoperable Open Architecture • OSA advocates must pay attention to new demands With systems and system-of-systems operating on the such as open acquisition, data rights, and conformance: same architecture with published standards, there are the need to gain better understanding of OSA concerns surrounding the security of such systems and attributes that aid open competition after deployment the risk that may be posed from external interference. and place them more precisely in the Acquisition How can the security of these systems best be provided, Process. and how can reliability best be ensured? • With all investors claiming they are open, more emphasis Chaired By: John A Warther, Vice President of must be given towards verification and validation(V&V. Government Programs, Green Hills Software the Naval Open Architecture Key Open Sub- Systems(KOSS) tool is an enabler but, how can the 15:10 Multilateral Cooperation on Open Architecture KOSS results be used to ensure open competition? Defence Programmes: The Future Interoperability • The Naval OSA and The Open Group’s Real Time of Camp Protection Systems (FICAPS) Project Embedded Systems(RtES) forum are addressing these • Background to the FICAPS programme and the basis challenges. An V&V OSA tool known as the Open of franco-German cooperation on camp Readiness Levels(ORL)is under construction and protection systems eventually will be available as an open assessment tool. • Utilising standardised open architecture design Gerard Walles, OSA technical Warrant Holder and to ensure interoperability between multiple camp information Systems Security Lead, Naval Air Systems protection systems when deployed in theatre Command (NAVAIR) and active member of, the Open • Current status of the project and progress to date Group’s RtES forum. • Planned developments over the next 18-24 months, delivery time frame and how other nations can contribute 10:30 Software Requirements for Security and Safety in Daniel Klein, fiCAPS Capability Manager, Interoperable Open Architectures European Defence Agency • Adopting the MILS (Multiple Independent Levels of Safety/Security) architecture 15:50 Coffee & Networking Break • Secure implementation of middleware and COTS 16:10 The Military Vetronics Association: The Future of software components Vehicle Electronics in Europe • The role of system virtualization • Outline of the work of the Military Vetronics • Secure software development – tools and techniques Association (MiLVA) and participating members • The relevance of software certification • Current thinking with MILVA member states on the John A Warther, Vice President of Government Generic Vehicle Architecture and its implications for Programs, Green Hills Software vehicle standards within members militaries • Vision or Mirage: Are the benefits of standardised open 11:10 Coffee & Networking architecture likely to materialise and what challenges 11:30 An Open Approach to Open Architectures! do MiLVA members foresee in its implementation • Key to the success of Open Architectures is the • Avenues of future investigation and emerging work streams adaptation of various system interfaces Confirmed Representative from MILVA • A “one size fits all” middleware is simply not possible in 16:50 Promoting Service and Data Orientated Architecture the wider picture of C4I Within NATO: The Work of RTO IST 090 • How do we avoid vendor lock-in and maintain interoperability? • Why service and data orientated architectures are of • How to realise the potential of “Open Contracting” interest for NATO C4ISR, and what improvements can Tony White, Director of Advanced technology, Ultra they bring to battlefield disadvantaged grids Electronics • Overview of IST 090’s work to improve communication Adam Gaither, Product Line Manager, Open latency and bandwidth on disadvantaged grids to near Architecture Systems, Ultra Electronics “real time” standards Sean Bell, Chief Software Engineer, Ultra Electronics • Mechanisms needed to reduce the amount of necessary 12:10 The Object Management Group’s Effort to Promote bandwidth and improve reliability - the case for DDS Open Architectures for C4I • Project outcomes and how this will effect a wide • Outlining the Object Managements Group (OMG) variety of allied services (i.e. Blue force tracking, UAV role as a non-for-profit consortium for developing and video feeds, Alert notifications etc) maintaining computer industry specifications, and the Peter-Paul Meiler, Chairman of iSt-090 Working Group, successes of group to date. 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