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Officers

The Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum has two co-chairs:

• David Emery, The Mitre Corporation.
• Glen T. Logan, Lt Col, USAF

The Open Group staff supporting the forum are:

• Joseph Bergmann, Director
• Andrew Josey, Director

David Emery is a Principal Engineer in MITRE's Army Information Systems department, providing systems and software engineering on a variety of military command and control and weapon systems. He previously worked for Hughes Aircraft of Canada, Siemens Research and Computer Sciences Corporation, and served on active duty with the U.S. Army.

Mr. Emery received his B. S. in Mathematics from Norwich University, Northfield, VT in 1978. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, Field Artillery, and served in a variety of artillery and automation assignments on active duty. He became interested in Ada and large-scale software engineering problems while in the military, and his professional career has been involved in Ada, software engineering and software standardization.

He is active in both the IEEE and the ACM, and has participated in several international standards activities. His IEEE activities include Technical Editor of IEEE P1003.5, the Ada Binding to POSIX and contibuted to the recently approved IEEE Std 1471, Recommended Practice for Architecture Descriptions for Software Intensive Systems. He has served as Secretary and Treasurer for ACM's Special Interest Group on Ada, and as a member of ACM's Technical Standards Committee. Within ISO, he has been a member of the US Delegation to ISO/IEC SC22 (Programming Languages and Interfaces) and to ISO/IEC SC22 WG9 (Ada), and has chaired WG9's Ada Uniformity Rapporteur Group.

Mr. Emery has been honored with the IEEE Third Millenium Medal, Outstanding Contribution and Meritorious Service awards, and selection to the IEEE Computer Society's "Golden Core". SIGAda recently awarded him its Outstanding Contribution Award. He is published on Ada programming language bindings, software portability and architectural approaches for software-intensive systems. His paper Experiences Applying a Practical Architectural Method won Best Paper award at Ada-Europe '96.

Lt Col Logan is currently the Deputy Director of the DoD Open Systems Joint Task Force and directs a multi-disciplined government/industry team responsible for accelerating application of open systems concepts to weapon systems. He has over 25 years experience in systems acquisition including space launch vehicles, nuclear test ban treaty monitoring systems and modular avionics architectures.

As a space electronics engineer, he was responsible for the production and upgrade of mission critical range safety command and telemetry systems in support of DoD and NASA satellite launches and developed a specification for high-reliability space qualified hybrid microelectronics.

At Headquarters Air Force Technical Applications Center, Colonel Logan held positions as Program Manager for Advanced Seismic Instrument Development, Deputy Program Manager for Logistics and Chief, Subsurface Integrated Logistics Support Branch. In those positions he supported a major system upgrade of the global seismic network of the U.S. Atomic Energy Detection System (USAEDS) which monitors certain provisions of the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Immediately prior to his current assignment, Colonel Logan was the Air Force Modular Avionics Systems Architecture (MASA) Program Director responsible for transitioning advanced avionics concepts developed by new DoD aircraft programs (F-22, A-12 and RAH-66) into USAF inventory aircraft. During this assignment, he published a Modular Avionics Handbook-a definitive application reference-and led an integrated product team that developed the acquisition plan and migration strategy for the $0.75B T-38 Avionics Upgrade Program and the KC-135 PACER C