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Object Management Group Chairs Report on Future Direction of Technology Standards at March Membership Meeting
Chairs of Object
Management Group® (OMG®) Task Forces (TFs) and Special Interest
Groups (SIGs) reported about technology processes underway at OMG's
quarterly membership meeting, which took place from March 20-24 in
Reston, VA, USA. OMG is an international, open membership,
not-for-profit technology standards consortium, whose membership
represents the end-user, vendor, government agency, university and
research institution communities. Members develop and maintain standards
that influence the future direction of technology as well as impact
industries including space, government, finance, manufacturing, robotics
and healthcare.
On the meeting's last day, the following Chairs listed their subgroups'
accomplishments, as well as other significant events during the week:
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Claude Baudoin, co-chair of the Business Modeling & Integration (BMI)
Domain Task Force and Owner and Principal Consultant at cébé IT and
Knowledge Management: "The BMI TF completed the preparation of
a Request for Proposal for a Business
Architecture Core Metamodel (BACM), which the Technical Committee
approved for issuance."
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Graham Bleakley, co-chair of the Unified Architecture Framework® 1.0
Finalization Task Force and Solution Architect at IBM (News - Alert): "Held a
well-attended, full day of briefings and tutorials open to the public.
Topics included: a keynote on UAF's utility for the analysis of
cybersecurity and threat analysis as well as the applicability of UAF®
to the development of the Industrial Internet of Things and its
application to civilian architecture projects including an automated
mining site."
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Sanford Friedenthal, chair of the Systems Engineering Domain Special
Interest Group (DSIG) and Consultant at SAF Consulting: "The Systems
Engineering DSIG presented the initial requirements for the SysML® v2
RFP that includes requirements for a standard API to support
interoperability, and the data model requirements to represent key
systems engineering concepts consistent with industry standards. It
also conducted a usability session to emphasize the importance of
addressing usability concerns that span a broad class of users' needs.
The Systems Engineering DSIG also sponsored a new effort to develop a
UML® profile that provides SysML with the capability to model safety
and reliability information integrated with a system model. The Safety
and Reliability Profile for UML RFP was issued at this meeting. It
will enable the automation of many common, repetitive tasks required
during the design and certification of safety-critical systems and in
doing so, increases the correctness of and confidence in these
systems."
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Brad Kizzort, co-chair of the Space Domain Task Force (DTF) and Chief
Technologist at Harris Corporation (News - Alert): "The Space DTF conducted an
educational session on applicability of the existing OMG Alert
Management Service™ specification (ALMAS™), used in several,
non-space defense systems for management of alerts and alarms in
satellite ground stations."
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Kenichi Nakamura, co-chair of the Robotics Domain Task Force, 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 roadmap of
the Robotic Interaction Service™ (RoIS™)/Robotic Service Ontology (News - Alert)
(RoSO) and the issues of the HAL4RT version 1.0-Beta1 specification."
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Ken Rubin, co-chair of the Healthcare Domain Task Force (HDTF) and
Director, Standards and Interoperability, VHA Office of Knowledge
Based Systems: "On the heels of a successful Business Process
Management (BPM) workshop in December, the TF held a second workshop
focused on business process portability with an emphasis on clinical
workflow. Two workstreams will be ongoing, producing a pilot
demonstration and a "field guide." We received an update on the
Ordering Service - a SOA capability that will foster consistent
approaches to healthcare ordering (medications, labs, etc.); order
cataloging, and order management - on track for a likely vote in
Brussels. Finally, the HDTF did substantial work and issued the
Model-Driven Message Integration (MDMI®) RFP 2, a successor to prior
work focused on doing semantic translation between protocols and
formats while maintaining the integrity and meaning of the data."
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Ed Seidewitz, Model Interchange Special Interest Group (MI SIG) chair
and Director of R&D at nMeta: "Modeling tool vendors and users met in
the MI SIG to discuss users' challenges in achieving modeling tool
interoperability on large projects and on OMG modeling standards work
itself, and how standards and tools might be improved to meet these
challenges."
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Jeff Smith (News - Alert), co-chair of the Analysis and Design Platform (ADTF) Task
Force and Chief Systems Engineer at Multi Agency Collaboration
Environment: "The ADTF highlights included the Multiple Vocabulary
Facility RFP initial submission, Semantic Information Modeling for
Federation (SIMF) submission status update, a SysML V2.0 RFP update
presentation and extending Agent/Event Metamodel Profile and MVF LOI
and voting list deadlines."
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Ronald W. Townsen, Command, Control, Computing, Communications and
Intelligence Domain Task Force co-chair and Chief Engineer, General
Dynamics Mission Systems: "C4I is moving forward on multiple fronts:
tactical situation display interfaces, military-based navigation
interfaces, real-time monitoring of DDS™ middleware interfacing with
system security, and data labeling/tagging standards."
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Pamela Wise-Martinez, co-chair of the Government Domain Task Force
(GovDTF): "The mission of the GovDTF is to
empower government to use standard specs, tools and methods to build
and manage the people's business."
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Charlotte Wales, co-chair of the Middleware and Related Services
(MARS) PTF and Lead Software Engineer at The MITRE Corporation (News - Alert): "MARS
reviewed the final submission for the Information Exchange Framework™
(IEF™) Reference Architecture and hosted a productive IEF Info Day,
which uncovered opportunities for IEF's application to domains such as
farming and health. MARS's Data Residency Working Group completed the
preparation of a comprehensive discussion paper, "Data Residency
Challenges and Opportunities for Standardization", which will be
published in parallel by the Cloud Standards Customer Council™, whose
Security Working Group contributed to the paper."
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Dennis E. Wisnosky, chair of FIBO® Finalization Task Forces and EDMC,
Senior Consultant - Head of FIBO Development: "The Finance Domain Task
Force understood the next necessary steps to automate the development
of all FIBO domains in parallel."
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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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All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. *FIBO
and Financial Industry Business Ontology are registered trademarks of
the EDM-C, used with permission.
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