7th SOA for E-Government Conference

DISA Chief Technologist States Plan for Cloud

By G C Network | September 23, 2008

In an interview reported on in this month’s Military Information Technology magazine, David Mihelcic, DISA Chief Technology Officer, has laid out his goal for the agency’s cloud computing initiative. As…

Google, GeoEye, Twitter. What a Combination!

By G C Network | September 23, 2008

On September 9th, Bob Lozano posted his kudos to GeoEye for a successful launch of GeoEye-1. (Hey Bob! Where’s that post on your “cloud failure” last week?) According to their…

RightScale goes Transcloud

By G C Network | September 22, 2008

Over the weekend, Maureen O’Gara of SYS-CON media reported that RightScale is now offering a “first in industry” capability to provide application management across multiple cloud infrastructures. It now offers…

A Bill to Outlaw Cloud Computing…..

By G C Network | September 19, 2008

… is what we may see if we don’t educate our lawmakers now! That seemed to be one of the main point at last week’s Google workshop in DC. Berin…

NCOIC and Cloud Computing

By G C Network | September 18, 2008

Yesterday the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) had a very good session on cloud computing during their plenary session in Falls Church, VA. Led by NCOIC’s Bob Marcus, speakers…

Military Information Technology Cloud Computing Collaboration

By G C Network | September 17, 2008

Today, we’re happy to announce what we believe to be an industry first. “Military Information Technology Magazine“, as the publication of record for the defense information technology community, is collaborating…

Is 99.999% reliability good enough?

By G C Network | September 16, 2008

According to Reuven Cohen in his recent post, Cloud Failure: The Myth of Nines , the whole concept of reliability may be meaningless. “In the case of a physical failure…

You Probably Use Cloud Computing Already.

By G C Network | September 15, 2008

56% of internet users use webmail services such as Hotmail, Gmail, or Yahoo! Mail. 34% store personal photos online. 29% use online applications such as Google Documents or Adobe Photoshop…

20 Real-Life Challenges of Cloud Computing

By G C Network | September 12, 2008

Nikita Ivanov of GridGain offers some excellent insight into the nuts and bolts of getting the cloud to work. Definitely worth a read. To summarize: Most likely you do NOT…

3Tera Announces Global Cloud Services

By G C Network | September 11, 2008

Last week, 3Tera has announced the availability of global cloud services, based on their AppLogic grid operating system. 3Tera is currently running data centers in seven countries (United States, Japan,…

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.