Attention:
To Members and Friends of Baltimore/DC SIGAda
(This presentation will be in the Baltimore/DC area - If you are unable to
attend, please let your colleagues in the area know about this opportunity)
Next Meeting:
Our Next Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 8 April 2003, as a
Joint Meeting of the Baltimore and DC SIGAda Chapters. John
Warther and Gordon Uchenick will be speaking on "High
Reliability, Safety, and Secure Solutions for Embedded
Developers". [and using this as a basis to discuss Wind River's
Trusted/Safety Critical VxWorks]
The presentation will start at 7:30 P.M. (Refreshments and Social
at 7:00 P.M.) at the Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics
Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland
Munchies and soft drinks will be served at 7:00 PM, the general
meeting will start at 7:30 PM, followed by the program.
Abstract: High Reliability, Safety, and Secure
Solutions for Embedded Developers
The advent of security requirements affects everyone involved in
the research , development , design, fabrication and production of
DOD systems that carry electronic information. To ensure our
DOD Aerospace and Defense customers have a roadmap to meet
these requirements, Wind River is investing in technology that will
meet the demands of IA Directive 8500.2.
Robert F. Lentz, Director of Information Assurance for the Office
of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence said "The DOD CIO and DOD's
Information Assurance Directorate will now develop
certification criteria so that the commanders can demonstrate
that their systems comply with the policy."
"This is not just a policy to deal with confidential information,
but the whole gamut: confidential, classified, sensitive and
public information," Lentz said."
Embedded Systems and Real Time systems are all an important
past of the military infrastructure and will be a foundation for our
future infrastructure. Wind River will present their High
Reliability, Safety and Secure Solutions for Embedded
Developers. They will discuss how their architecture strategy
addresses those programs that must meet high integrity,
safety-critical, and high-assurance requirements for the Ada 95 ,
C, and C++ programming languages.
The AE 653 operating system/software engineering environment
is utilized for avionics applications and many other applications
requiring temporal/spatial separation. It serves as a baseline for
Wind Rivers' work in the formal methods arena supporting the
Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) / Multi
Level Security (MLS) and Multiple Levels of Independent
Security (MILS) requirements instrumental in Communications
Security (COMSEC), Avionics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAV), and other mission critical applications.
Presenters:
1. John Warther
John Warther is the Industry Program Capture Manager. He has
been with Wind River for 3 years. Prior to Wind River, John
served as a Business Development Manager for Force
Computers, a division of Solectron. John also worked with CSPI
in the signal processing market supporting many Aerospace and
Defense programs.
2. Gordon Uchenick
Gordon Uchenick is a Field Engineering Specialist supporting the
Aerospace and Defense Community. He has been involved with
major Ada programs in the Avionics space. Gordon has been with
Wind River for 7 years and is based in the Baltimore area.
Directions From Washington, DC
From the Capital Beltway (I-495), Take the I-95 North exit;
10 miles to Columbia exit (MD Rte. 32 West);
2.5 miles to Washington, DC, exit (U.S. Rte. 29 S);
1.5 miles to make a logical RIGHT to go WEST on Johns
Hopkins Road (There is now a new style dual-traffic circle
overpass/interchange which replaced the traffic light at this
intersection.)
APL is located to the right, just past the service station;
Turn right at the sign: "Building 1 Visitor Parking";
Use Building 1 entrance near the flag-pole; The meeting is in the
cafeteria.
Detailed Directions and Maps are available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/Directions_JHU_APL.html
Slides From Clyde Roby's Presentation Available
At the DC SIGAda meeting on 9 January 2003, Clyde Roby gave
an excellent presentation titled: Evolving Ada Bindings and Ada
APIs.. Slides from his presentation are available online as a
Powerpoint Presentation at
http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/200301_APIWG-Presentation.ppt
(ppt, 276KB).
Please Put on Your Calendar
Please put on your calendar:
o 8 May 2003 - The next meeting of the ACM DC SIGAda
Chapter Meeting for Thursday - Karl Nyberg of the Grebyn
Corporation will be speaking on Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) of Cryptographic Source Code.
o 7-11 December 2003 - SIGAda 2003 will be held in San
Diego, California. Details at
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2003
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Business:
Please forward this message to people who might be interested in
attending. We welcome all new members as our attendance and
interests grow.
Many thanks to all earlier participants, contributors, speakers,
advisors, and friends, who are involved in helping to produce and
attend the meetings.
Jeff Castellow, Chair, DC SIGAda
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