Pan-TTCP Open Architecture System Workshop
Event
- Date:
- 24 September, 2007 – 26 September, 2007
- Location:
- DSTO-Edinburgh, Adelaide, South Australia
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Vision:
The expression Open Architecture Systems is widely used and widely claimed within the defence community. But what is an open system, why do customers specify openness, how do suppliers build open systems, how do we measure/test openness, and what are the S&T challenges in delivering open systems?
This Pan-TTCP Open Architecture Systems workshop will set about answering these questions and provide a forum where professionals from the TTCP nations can explore this principle. Specifically, this workshop aims to:
- Acquaint the participants with the state-of-the art and state-of practice in open architecture systems;
- Identify the key science and technologies that underpin open systems;
- Explore the mechanisms for specifying and procuring Open Architecture Systems;
- Share open systems technology directions in TTCP nations;
- Uncover the challenges in delivering and accepting open solutions to military customers;
- Identify open architecture system activities and issues that are common across the maritime, land, air and joint; and
- Identify topics for future collaboration within TTCP.
Who should attend?
- Government scientists and engineers
- Government procurement officers
- Military capability planners
- Industry and academia researchers in open system technologies (see note below)
The workshop is open to government military and civilian employees from the TTCP Nations. Selected industry and academia may also attend with prior approval from the workshop organiser. Professionals from industry or academia wishing to attend the workshop should be working on a relevant government project and will need to be sponsored by a government official (email the workshop organiser for further details).
Workshop Organiser:
Dr Todd Mansell (Deputy Chief Systems Integration)
DSTO-Edinburgh
P.O. Box 1500, Edinburgh, SA 5111, Australia
Phone: +61 8 8259 7566
Email: todd.mansell@dsto.defence.gov.au
National Points of Contact:
Australia: Dr Todd Mansell todd.mansell@dsto.defence.gov.au
Canada: Mr Dave Hazen Dave.Hazen@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
UK: Mr Steve Rowe sjrowe@dstl.gov.uk
USA: Rother Hodges hodgesrv@npt.nuwc.navy.mil
Call for Presentations
Presentation proposals should be sent to the Workshop Organiser and your National Point of Contact by 2 July 2007 (late proposals may be accepted at the organisers discretion). The proposal should include a title and short abstract (up to half a page) describing the proposed presentation. Presentations can relate to any warfare domain (Maritime, Land, Air and Joint) and should relate to one of the following areas:
- Open Architecture System Procurement and Through Life Support
- Open System business models
- Specifying Open Architecture systems for acquisition
- Procurement challenges (eg, acquisition strategies, risk perceptions, …)
- Through-life costing models for Open Architecture Systems
- Intellectual Property (ownership, management, and protection)
- Realising NCW through implementation of Open Architecture systems
- Open Architectures and Open System Engineering
- Architecting Open Systems
- Science and technologies underpinning open systems
- Standards approaches, architectural guidance and architecture frameworks
- Lessons in designing, building and managing Open Architecture Systems
- Relationship between Open systems and Open Source or COTS.
- Test, Evaluation, Acceptance and Measurement
- System openness and evolvability metrics
- Test and Evaluation of Open Architecture Systems in the military domain
Format of the Workshop
The workshop will take place over three days in Adelaide between 24 and 26 September 2007. It will involve a series of keynote and plenary presentations from representatives drawn from invited defence and government research institutes, universities, and industry. The workshop will also include a number of panel/syndicate sessions.
This is a pan-TTCP workshop and will cover open architecture systems issues related to all warfare domains. The TTCP Maritime Group is proud to be organising this workshop.
The Workshop will be conducted at the unclassified level with a copy of all presentations being provided to attendees at the conclusion of the workshop. It is the responsibility of the presenter to ensure their presentation is cleared to release prior to delivery.
Workshop Location
The Conference will be held at DSTO-Edinburgh, Adelaide, South Australia.
To register for the conference and for details on the administrative arrangements please contact:
Julie Vaughan
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
PO Box 1500
Edinburgh SA 5111
Ph. 08 82597048
Fax. 08 82595139
Email: julie.vaughan2@dsto.defence.gov.au