Tech Demo Day

January 22, 2008

8:15 Creating DoDAF Products Faster With UPDM

Learn how the new UPDM standard will help you create DoDAF architectural products quicker and easier using UPDM standard tools. We will cover fundamentals of the new standard and how it relates to common UML tools.

How you will benefit:

Learn about the new standard for UML Profile for MoDAF and DoDAF (UPDM) managed by the OMG
See how DoDAF data is reused between products to create accurate architectures quickly
Understand how the new UPDM standard leverages UML and established standards

What will be covered:

Introduction to the UPDM standard
Overview of the sample project
Demonstration of ease of use under a UML tool implementing UPDM
See output each DoDAF product is used under UPDM and re-use between products

Session Leader:

Daniel Brookshier
Chief Architect
No Magic Inc.

9:00 Real-Time Hardware-In-The-Loop Modeling, Simulation, And Analysis Tool Set

The realistic validation of large-scale military wireless networks involves considerable challenges. Learn how a real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation tool set can be used to help identify network challenges early in the design phase, hardware and software performance limitations prior to integration, and accurate measurement of system performance prior to deployment. You will gain useful insights into the capability of the simulator to:

Large-Scale (>20 nodes) scenario
Add real hardware to the simulation
Predict network performance considering such parameters as antenna placement, platform orientation, and terrain shadowing
Demonstrate the effects of real-time network management software The demonstration will show:
3D real-time visualization of wing shadowing effects on the antennas between airborne platforms
Behavior of an ad hoc network with pro-active network manager software in the simulator
Real-time display of network statistics

Session Leader:

James Dyal
Manager
L-3 Advanced Networking Group

9:45 Leveraging JC3IEDM (joint Consultative Command And Control Information Exchange Data Model) In A Joint Coalition Environment

This presentation will provide a look at the JC3IEDM and its application as providing the foundation for a true Coalition Common Operating Picture. It will discuss at a high level how it enables interoperability and its uses in the future at the Headquarters and down for Situational Awareness. How you will benefit:

Discover lessons learned from current projects
Understand how JC3IEDM the enables coalition interoperability
Gain a view into future headquarters down situational awareness

Session Leader:

Randall Billy
President
Systematic Software Engineering, Inc.

10:30 Refreshment & Networking Break

11:00 4th Generation Mobile Communications Networks: Enhanced Capabilities For Crisis Communications

Evolving network technologies present unique opportunities to provide superior communications to first responders and government agencies. Learn how next generation networks can build upon, and refine, existing priority programs like the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service and Wireless Priority Service. You will gain useful insights into disaster communications planning, such as:

Enhanced priority communications inherent in an all-IP network
Continuity of Operations Planning – bridging infrastructure damage
Increased redundancy of integrated terrestrial and satellite communications

The demonstration will cover:

Priority and Preemption capabilities
Ubiquitous broadband data, video and voice coverage over commercially available handheld devices
Disaster support to evacuation routes
Reliable, authenticated and secure access to the network through a virtual handshake between the satellite and next generation cellular network

Session Leader:

Joan Grewe
Director - DHS Services
Terrestar Networks Inc.

11:45 A Cots Perspective: Transformational Intraplatform Networks

The GIG, NCO, and the adoption of IPv6 are key initiatives that are driving networking architectures into the core of every air, land, and sea platform in the battlefield. As a result, there is a formation of deeply embedded Intra-Platform Networks (IPNs) that are transforming vehicle electronics from the inside out. This session will discuss the most current embedded hardware and software technology trends that are helping to transform vehicle electronics architectures into secure high performance network ready systems. Attend this session to:

Learn how to apply the concepts behind Transformational IPNs to create network ready systems for legacy and future force programs
See examples of standard COTS/Modified COTS building blocks such as routers, switches, processing nodes, storage nodes, graphics engines, interconnects, standard backplanes, and ‘certifiable’ safety/security software components
Discover how to use these to reduce costs, reduce risks, and accelerate time to deployment

Session Leaders:

Nauman Arshad
Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager
Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing

Mike Macpherson
Director of Business Development
Curtiss- Wright Controls Embedded Computing

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Using A Metadata-Based Model Driven Architecture To Integrate Legacy Systems

Many organizations have multiple disparate data management systems that contain different types of data from the same or related domains. Analysts search systems for information, correlating relationships manually as they are discovered. This presentation will address a technology that simplifies that process. You will learn how the model-driven architecture (MDA):

Seamlessly integrates new systems into legacy applications
Synthesizes disparate data into a common operating picture
Catalogs relationships between data points

This presentation will examine the process of creating a MDA as well as the key benefits that have been realized by organizations using this approach.

Session Leader:

Leon Guzenda
Chief Technology Officer,
Objectivity, Inc

2:15 Coherent Nco – Experiences From The Swedish Ledsystt Program

The current work of transforming defense forces and civilian authorities towards a more network centric approach is going on around the world, and many countries have started this journey with various programs. Learn how Saab has supported the Swedish NBD program over the years and is now implementing the results into operational systems. You will gain useful insights into the Swedish NBD program and how Saab has been working together with the Swedish Armed Forces and the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV). This session will cover:

Involving SAAB personnel in the Swedish program
How this has provided broad experience in implementing network enabled capabilities from both a technical view as well as from an operational view
How results from the Swedish program have been transferred into the NCOIC
Implementing the results into existing operational systems

Session leader:

Mikael Lindberg
Director C4I Programme Management Office
Saab Ab

3:00 Refreshment & Networking Break

3:30 Generational Shift In Mobile Military Satcom

This session will describe the impending generational shift in Mobile MILSATCOM communications with terminals becoming 'better, smaller and faster,' the emergence of hybrid satcom-terrestrial technologies and the growing interest in small satellites.

Emerging MILSATCOM challenges in operational environments
The mobile MILSATCOM road map
Emergence of compact/backpackable X-band/Ka-band terminals
MILSATCOM to MILCOM: rethinking "On-the-Move" communications
The promise of microsatellites Participants will come to appreciate:
The growing capabilities of the next generation of mobile satcom Xband/ Ka-band systems
How the impending marriage between satcom and terrestrial technologies may cause them to reconsider their 'On-the-Move' programs
The blurring of lines between MILSATCOM and MILCOM

Session Leader:

Pervez Siddiqui
Vice President, Marketing
Norsat International

4:15 A Development Framework For NCW Programs

The NCOFW (Network-Centric Operations FrameWork) provides the basis for building NCW operational systems as well as the simulation applications for training, mission-rehearsal, brief & debrief, what-if scenarios, etc. This presentation will describe some of the technical challenges associated with building complex large-scale distributed NCW systems and how the NCOFW approach will address these and enable the user to quickly build systems that provide the required capabilities.

What this session will cover:

Issues and challenges with using the Distributed Data Service for NCW applications
Different strategies for efficiently and securely leveraging legacy systems
Using a dedicated framework to bridge simulation, training, analysis and operations

Session Leader:

Kevin Heffner
Software Product Architect, G6-Embedded Group, Product & Technologies
CAE INC.

5:00 End Of Day

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