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Customer-Member Candidates:
Personal Election
Statements
For the 3 Governing Board seats for Customer-Member-representatives,
we have 3 nominations. Therefore no election of Customer-Member organizations
is necessary.
Even so, the 3 candidates did submit their Personal Election Statements
and their short biographies, which we provide for members who may be
interested to know more about them.
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 bi-annually 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 biography
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 The
Open Group 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 initiatives in a post
9-11 world mandate the need for tighter safety and security of much of
our nations 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 biography
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.
Short biography
Any questions? Please mail Ian Dobson at
The Open Group
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