7th SOA for E-Government Conference

“Cash for Clunkers” Should Have Used the Cloud!

By G C Network | August 24, 2009

Rich Bruklis wrote an excellent essy on how the government missed a perfect opportunity to use cloud computing. In “Cloud Opportunity Missed” he writes: “It appears that the voucher system…

US Navy Experiments With Secure Cloud Computing

By G C Network | August 20, 2009

This week in San Diego, CA the US Navy held the initial planning conference for Trident Warrior ’10. The Trident Warrior series is the premier annual FORCEnet Sea Trial Event…

GSA To Present On Cloud Initiative at NCOIC Plenary

By G C Network | August 13, 2009

A General Services Administration (GSA) representative is now scheduled to provide a briefing on the agency’s cloud computing initiative during a “Best Practices for Cloud Initiatives using Storefronts” session on…

FAA CIO Focuses on Cybersecurity

By G C Network | August 12, 2009

During this week Federal Executive Forum, FAA CIO Dave Bowen mentioned protection against software vulnerabilities, wireless intrusion and website vulnerabilities as his top cybersecurity priorities. As the Assistant Administrator for…

DHS Asst. Secretary Addresses Cybersecurity Priorities

By G C Network | August 11, 2009

Greg Schaffer, Assistant Secretary for CyberSecurity & Communications for the US Department of Homeland Security, sees Trusted Internet Connections, EINSTEIN, and front line defense of the nation’s networks as top…

US DoD Chief Security Officer on Cybersecurity Priorities

By G C Network | August 10, 2009

In a Federal Executive Forum interview, Robert Lentz, Chief Security Officer for the US Department of Defense, highlighted the departments cybersecurity priorities. Mr. Lentz is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of…

Twitter Under Denial of Service Attack

By G C Network | August 6, 2009

Multiple sources are reporting that Twitter continues to be under a denial of service attack. Some are speculating that this represents the power of a coordinated bot network attack. For…

NCOIC Holding Full Day Cloud Computing Session

By G C Network | August 5, 2009

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) will be holding a one-day cloud computing session during its plenary meetings, 21-25 September at the Fair Lakes Hyatt in Fairfax, VA. A…

Sevatec a New Player in the Federal Cloud Computing Market

By G C Network | August 3, 2009

Just in time for the new Federal Cloud Computing Storefront, Sevatec, Inc. is announcing the development of a toolkit to help federal agencies transform their enterprise architectures to cloud computing…

GSA Releases Cloud Computing RFQ

By G C Network | July 31, 2009

Following through on a much anticipated action, GSA released their Cloud Computing Request For Quotation (RFQ) today. Cloud computing is a major part of President Obama’s reform effort and this…

On April 28, 2009, Mitre will be holding its biannual SOA for E-Government Conference. This conference is one of the region’s premier opportunity for federal managers and MITRE Subject Matter Experts to network with fellow technology and business leaders. This edition will focus on the development of practical approaches to initiating and utilizing SOA across the government. The agenda includes:

  • Mr. John Shea, DoD Office of the CIO, IP&I – Title: SOA – Where is the Federal Government Now?
  • Dave Mayo, IAC EA-SIG and Everware-CBDI – Title: Government Transformation: Service Oriented Government
  • Ajay Budhraja, Deputy CIO, U.S. Department of Labor – Title: Enterprise SOA Strategy, Planning and Operations with Agile Techniques, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
  • Teri Li Hoffman-Boswell (MITRE) and Dr. Glen White (DoD) Chief Engineer, Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES), DISA – Title: Delivering Core Enterprise Services to the DoD and IC Communities
  • H. Kong and I. Chang (MITRE) – Title: AF SOA ESB C4I Integration Case Study
  • Michael Clark, CIV, GCSS-AF Outreach; Harvey Reed (MITRE) – Title: Global Combat Support Systems-Air Force: Foundations of an SOE
  • Sharon Orser Jackson (MITRE) and Captain Edward Wagner – Title: DCGS SOA Case Study
  • Dr. Mohamed Hussein (MITRE) – Title: Evolutionary Strategies for the Development of a SOA-Enabled USMC Enterprise

This event is open to government personnel and contractors. Registration is required (https://www.mitre.org/register/soa/) and is limited to 250 people attending in person.

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2 Comments

  1. Greeku on March 18, 2010 at 8:31 am

    Nice Post



  2. Sri on March 18, 2010 at 10:43 am

    Sounds interesting and Informative. I hope this conference would have been held in an excellent way. By the way I had been part of a Computing Conference in 2009. It was also great.