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Election - 2004
In the 2004 election for Member-Representatives to the Governing Board, at close of
nominations on April 30th, we had 3 nominations for 3 vacancies. Therefore no
Customer-Members election was necessary, and the following nominees were duly approved to
go forward for formal appointment to the Governing Board at the next Board meeting in July
2004:
- Elaine Babcock, Chief, Standards Integration (GE3), DISA
- Ben Calloni, Senior Specialist, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
- Alan Doniger, Chief Technology Officer, POSC
In anticipation of a ballot being required, each of these candidates did provide a
"Personal Election Statement" and a "Short-Bio", which are available
below for members' information.
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Elaine Babcock
Chief, Standards Integration (GE3), DISA
I have been the DISA representative to The Open Group since 1998 and have been elected to
its Governing Board biannually since 1999 as a Customer Council representative. There I
have vigorously championed DISA and all customers’ requirements. I was elected to be
a Board Vice Chair last January. If re-elected as a Customer Council representative, I
pledge to continue to remind the vendors of customer needs and to work with them to find
win-win solutions. One example of my work in this area is the formation of the Grid
Enterprise Services Forum that brings together Defense and vendors interested in
Defense’s move to net centricity to understand requirements and provide advice. I am
also working to bring The Open Group and AFEI together to provide standards solutions for
net centricity. I will continue these initiatives and others to assure customer
requirements are met.
Short-Bio
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Ben Calloni
Senior Specialist, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
The commercial enterprise market is the driving influence for technology these days and
DoD can chose to partner with and ride the commercial wave or it can continue to develop
stove pipe, proprietary computer systems. Fortunately the Department of Defense has chosen
the former which is evidenced by many initiatives such as the OSJTF and the Navy OSA. The
Open Group has a purpose and mission that is right in line with these DoD approaches.
However the only way DoD and its contractors can truly leverage these technology advances
is to work within bodies such as TOG and OMG to insure that needs of DoD systems are not
forgotten as standards evolve. This is particularly true in the Real-time and Embedded
arena with respect
to safety and security where DoD experiences can actually benefit the enterprise arena as
Homeland Security intitiates in a post 9-11 world mandate the need for tighter safety and
security of much of our nation's
computer infrastructure. My participation is critical to my industry, my company, and my
customer base to insure that legacy and future DoD systems are able to enjoy cost savings
through the development of
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf, standards-based software and hardware computer components.
Short-Bio
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Alan Doniger
Chief Technology Officer, POSC
With six years of experience as Governing Board representative and having recently been
elected Board Chair, I have both a deep, working knowledge of the organization and a
dedication to deliver value to customer members and success for the organization as a
whole. Our big challenge is to achieve high degrees of functionality and interoperability
through collaboratively developed, open systems standards in the emerging generation of
technologies supporting net-centric computing networks and boundaryless,
information-centric enterprise operations. Meeting this challenge will deliver tangible
opportunities and benefits for customer members and industry as a whole. I respectfully
ask for your vote.
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