7th SOA for E-Government Conference

NPR on Cloud Computing

By G C Network | August 29, 2008

You know it’s important when NPR covers it !! On the “All Things Consider” radio show, NPR took a look into cloud computing. I’m not sure if Computing In The…

Sun Federal Cloud Computing eBook

By G C Network | August 28, 2008

Sun Federal now has it’s ebook on cloud computing available for all. The website doesn’t really offer any new information, but it does highlight how Sun Federal is targeting the…

Amazon Elastic Block Store

By G C Network | August 27, 2008

Last week, with their announcement of Elastic Block Store, Amazon has made enterprise class storage in the cloud a reality. According to Dion Hinchcliffe of Ziff Davis,”Elastic Block Store finally…

HP CTO On the Future

By G C Network | August 26, 2008

In a recent Web Guild article, Shane Robinson, Chief Strategy & Technology Office for HP outilined his belief that we are in the early stages of a major shift. As…

Google serves as first line of defense during Russia’s invasion of Georgia (A plug for the cloud)

By G C Network | August 25, 2008

As reported by the Christian Science Monitor, “As Georgian troops retreated to defend their capital from Russian attack, the websites of their government, also under fire, retreated to Google. In…

Apptis and Servervault announce Fedcloud

By G C Network | August 22, 2008

On August 18th, Apptis announced a partnership with ServerVault to offer a trusted cloud computing environment to federal agencies. Called Fedcloud they are offering a federally compliant, on-demand infrastructure that…

SOA-R Educational Series Schedule Changes

By G C Network | August 21, 2008

Since launching the SOA-R series back in July, cloud computing has become a hot topic among national security professionals. Evidence of this high level of interest is obvious from the…

Comments from Mr. Robert Carey, DON CIO and Army COS General George W. Casey, Jr

By G C Network | August 20, 2008

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had the distinct pleasure to listen to both Mr. Robert Carey, CIO, Department of the Navy, and General George W. Casey, Jr., Chief…

Akamai at SOA-R Session

By G C Network | August 19, 2008

Had another very enlightening SOA-R session last week. Of particular note to me was Akamai’s vision of cloud computing. As presented by Fran Trently, Sr. Director Public Sector, Akamai is…

Six Benefits of Cloud Computing

By G C Network | August 18, 2008

A Public CIO magazine article, to be published later this fall, will highlight six main benefits of cloud computing. Reduced Cost Increased Storage Highly Automated Flexibility More Mobility Allows IT…

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.