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Object Management Group Chairs Take Standards Work to Next Level at Coronado Membership Meeting
Task Force chairs of the Object
Management Group® (OMG®) reported about
technology processes underway at OMG's quarterly membership meeting from
December 5-9 in Coronado, California. OMG is one of the largest and
longest-standing not-for-profits, open-membership consortia that develop
and maintain computer industry specifications. Its international
community of more than 300 member companies is comprised of end-users,
vendors, government agencies, universities and research institutions.
Many members are thought leaders and experts in their fields who have
collaborated on technology and vertical standards over the past 27 years.
The following Chairs described their accomplishments/highlights during
the week and the work they plan to achieve in upcoming meetings:
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Claude Baudoin, co-chair of the Business Modeling & Integration Task
Force and Owner and Principal Consultant at cébé IT and Knowledge
Management: "The Business Modeling and Integration Domain Task
Force reviewed the status and made progress in three areas: the
upcoming RFP for a Business Architecture metamodel that includes
business capabilities as a central component; defining a model and
categories of business risk; and creating a UML® profile for the
ArchiMate™ language from the Open Group."
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Yves Bernard, co-chair of the OMG SysML® 1.5 Revision Task Force and
MBSE Leader at Airbus Defence and Space: "The Architecture Board
voted on a motion to recommend adopting the 1.5 revision of the SysML
specification."
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Dr. Bill Curtis, Executive Director of the Consortium
for IT Software Quality™ and SVP and Chief Scientist at CAST
Software: "CISQ held a well-attended Cyber Resilience Summit in
Washington DC with numerous government officials making presentations
on the need to secre and improve Federal systems."
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Sanford Friedenthal, Systems Engineering Domain Special Interest Group
(DSIG) chair and Consultant at SAF Consulting: "The Systems
Engineering DSIG is in the early phase of deriving the requirements
for the SysML v2 RFP that includes the requirements for a standard API
to support interoperability, and the data model requirements to
represent key systems engineering concepts consistent with industry
standards."
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Kenichi Nakamura, chair of the Hardware Abstraction Layer for Robotic
Technology™ 1.0 Finalization Task Force (HAL4RT™) and Director of
Japan Embedded Systems Technology Association (JASA): "We discussed
the issues of the HAL4RT version 1.0-Beta1 specification."
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Kenneth Rubin, co-chair of the Healthcare Domain Task Force and
Director of Standards and Interoperability at the Veterans Health
Administration Office of Knowledge Based Systems: "The Coronado
meeting was the venue for launching a new and promising collaborative
community - stemming from a very well attended and engaging workshop -
focused on applying BPM standards to foster portable health workflows
and clinical protocols."
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Ed Seidewitz, chair of the Model Interchange SIG and Director of R&D
at nMeta: "The Model Interchange Special Interest Group heard
presentations from three vendors - No Magic, Sparx Systems (News - Alert) and PTC -
on moving beyond model interchange to true modeling tool
interoperability, an ongoing discussion that will continue with a user
forum at our next meeting in March."
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Ronald W. Townsen, co-chair of the Command, Control, Computing,
Communications and Intelligence Domain Task Force and Chief Engineer,
General Dynamics (News - Alert) Mission Systems: "The C4I Task Force continued to
move forward with cyber issues such as monitoring DDS™ networks and
other standards for military systems."
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Charlotte Wales, co-chair of the Middleware and Related Services
(MARS) Platform Task Force and Lead Software Engineer at the MITRE
Corporation: "Hail and farewell to Virginie Watine who, after 13 years
of good and faithful service as MARS co-chair, is embarking on the
next chapter of her life - retirement. She will be replaced by Justin
Scaduto from General Dynamics, who will bring both youth and talent to
MARS for years to come. Preparations are also underway for hosting the
"coming out party" for the Information
Exchange Framework (IEF™) on March 22nd, 2017 during
the TC meeting in Reston."
To participate in OMG specifications, please visit http://www.omg.org/spec/.
About OMG The Object Management Group® (OMG®) is an
international, open membership, not-for-profit technology standards
consortium with representation from government, industry and academia.
OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide
range of technologies and an even wider range of industries. OMG's
modeling standards enable powerful visual design, execution and
maintenance of software and other processes. Visit www.omg.org
for more information.
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