DC SIGAda
Program for Tuesday, 8 April 2003

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.

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.

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.

Detailed Directions and Maps are available at: http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/Directions_JHU_APL.html

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:

• 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.
• 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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