DC SIGAda
Program for Thursday, 9 October 2003

Our Next Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 9 October 2003, as a Joint Meeting of the Baltimore and DC SIGAda Chapters. Mr. Steve Grimaldi and Mr. Victor Giddings will be speaking on "Real-time Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) CORBA: High Assurance Security for Real-time, Distributed Systems".

The presentation will start at 7:30 P.M. (Refreshments and Social at 7:00 P.M.) at the new MITRE2 Building in McLean, Virginia.

A frequent requirement in mission-critical systems is the need for high-assurance security. MILS security represents an evolutionary approach to building secure systems with many concepts that depart from, and some concepts derived from, the older Bell-LaPadula theories on secure systems (which form the foundation of the DoD Orange Book). The interaction of CORBA and MILS security is not addressed by the existing CORBA Security specification, since the CORBA specification does not address multilevel security and provides a overly wide trust model. This presentation will describe an initiative to integrate and standardize Realtime CORBA with MILS.

Steve Grimaldi, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Engineering of Objective Interface Systems, Inc., spearheads the initiatives of the company's cross-functional teams of sales, marketing, engineering, customer service and business development. Steve joined Objective Interface in 1998 as the Director of Engineering. As Director of Engineering, Steve guided the development of the ORBexpress™ product line while playing a major role in business development and marketing. Steve has spent the last twenty years involved in the research and development of real-time and distributed systems. Steve earned a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and has over 20 years experience in both engineering and business development for companies such as Booz-Allen & Hamilton and Arinc Research. His coordinates are:

2. Victor Giddings

Victor Giddings is a Senior Product Engineer with Objective Interface Systems, Inc. in Reston, VA. After joining Objective Interface in 1994, he has been responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing the products in the ORBexpress line of high-performance, real-time CORBA Object Request Brokers. While contributing to all aspects of the product development, Mr. Giddings brings expertise in hard-realtime systems and scheduling techniques.

Victor received a Master of Science with Honors from Johns Hopkins University in 1984 and an A.B. from Cornell University in 1977. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. He has also participated in several IEEE POSIX ballot groups. His coordinates are:

MITRE2 is on Colshire Drive just inside the beltway south of Route 123. Colshire Road is known as "Scotts Xing" on the North side of Route 123.

Colshire Road is located on Route 123, East of I-495 and West of the Dulles Access Highway.

• Going Northbound on 123 from I-495, Colshire Road is located 2 stoplights on the right.
• Going Southbound on 123 from the Dulles Access Highway, Colshire Road is located at the first stoplight on the left.

From I-495 south of Route 123 (Dolley Madison Boulevard):

From Dulles Access Toll Road or I-495 north of the Dulles Access Toll Road:

To obtain a map of MITRE2 Building and the MITRE Campus, visit =>
http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/Directions_MITRE2.html.

At the last DC SIGAda meeting on 8 May 2003, Karl Nyberg of the Grebyn Corporation gave an excellent presentation titled: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Cryptographic Source Code. Slides from his presentation are available online as a Powerpoint Presentation at http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/200305_OCR_of_Cryptographic_Source_Code.ppt (ppt, 118KB).

At the last Baltimore SIGAda meeting on 9 September 2003, Currie Colket and Bill Bail of The MITRE Corporation gave an excellent presentation titled: Highlights of the 8th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2003) Slides from their presentation are available online as a http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/Ada_Europe_2003_20030909.ppt (ppt, 21,347KB).

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