DC SIGAda

The presentation will start at 7:30 P.M. (Refreshments and Social at 7:00 P.M.) at the MITRE 2 Building in McLean, Virginia

Munchies and soft drinks will be served at 7:00 PM, the general meeting will start at 7:30 PM, followed by the program.

Is the growing use of open source software in both commercial and DoD systems a security disaster in the making, or a wake-up call that it is time to change how we think about security in a networked world? Join us as Terry Bollinger discusses the pros and cons of open source software. Terry’s topics will include basic concepts of trust and risk in distributed systems and software, how internationalization of software development affects security, near-term dangers from automated attack and analysis, and the necessity of viewing distributed security as "continual warfare".

Terry Bollinger is an IT Analyst at the MITRE Corporation. He is the lead guest editor for the upcoming IEEE Software November/December 2004 issue of on how to make classic software engineering properties such as security, scalability, and maintainability more resilient in the face of rapid software change and global networking. Before that he was an editor of IEEE Software for six years, and guest edited an earlier issue of IEEE Software on Linux. Terry also authored an influential 2003 MITRE report that documented widespread use of open source software in the U.S. Department of Defense, wrote the Wiley Encyclopedia of Software Engineering article on Linux and open source, and was a co-recipient of the Potomac Forum Leadership Award for his work on open source issues. His other interests include physics, chemistry, and nanotechnology.

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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 DC SIGAda meeting on 13 May 2004, Dr. Alfred Kromholz of MITRE gave an excellent presentation titled: Mapping Software Assurance to the Software Engineering Process. Slides from his presentation are available online as a PPS Presentation at http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/20040513_Alfred_Kromholz.pps (ppt, 331KB).

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