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The next meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum takes place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas on July 18-19

About the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum

Our mission is to offer all organizations concerned with real-time and embedded systems solutions a forum, where we can share knowledge, integrate open initiatives, and certify approved products and processes.

IEEE PASC SSWG-RT Meeting Co-located

The IEEE PASC Realtime System Services working group will be meeting co-located with the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum in Austin.

The PASC SSWG-RT working group develops the IEEE profile standards (the POSIX 1003.13 series), and the POSIX real-time standards. The group will meet from Monday July 16 through to Friday Noon July 20. Further information can be obtained from the PASC website at http://www.pasc.org/SSWG-RT/.

In Austin, the forum will meet for two days on the Wednesday and Thursday. The format for this meeting is one of interactive working sessions interspersed with invited presentations. There is a no-host social event on the Thursday evening to wrap up the event. There is a summary session of the whole conference on the Friday morning.

Wednesday July 18th

9:00 - 10:10 General Plenary

This session led by Glen Logan, forum co-chair. The general session processes the general business of the forum, including high level reports from the subgroups, and liaison reports from other consortia and standards activities. This session includes briefings from Dock Allen (OMG), Diane Schleicher (SAE), Russ Richards (NCITS R1), Kevin Quick (UDI Consortium).

A detailed agenda is available at http://www.opengroup.org/rtforum/agenda-wg.html

10:10 - 10:40 Real-time Operating Systems: Emphasis on the Operating System Structure and Security, R. Scott Lewis, I/T Architect, IBM Software Group, Pervasive Computing

11:00 - 12:30 Safety Critical Software

A session on Safety-critical software will assess requirements and how the forum can address this area. This session is being led by Dave Emery, forum co-chair, and will include presentations and a discussion.

Invited speakers include:

Joseph Wlad, Wind River Systems. This session will look at experiences with DO178B.

Mike La Haye,OSE Systems Inc. This session will also look at DO178B

Lunch

2:00 - 5:30 Security Working Group Open Session

This session is being led by Sam Bowser, chair of the forum's security interest group.

The Security Interest Group will be evaluating the response to its call for information for security requirements for real-time and embedded systems. This will commence with several presentations on current approaches for security, and be followed by a general discussion.

Invited speakers include:

Steven L. Rangel, Green Hills Software -- Development of Secure Applications with COTS RTOS Technology

This session will look at the Green Hills Software's COTS RTOS, INTEGRITY, and how its capabilities are being utilized by application designers to develop secure application software. These capabilities include memory protection, time domain protection, guaranteed resource availability, denial of service protection, secure services, and resource management. Specialized tools suited for development of secure applications will also be addressed.

Edwin Lee, Raytheon ,-- Security in Embedded, Real-time Operating System

This presentation discusses security for Embedded RT Operating System (RTOS) by considering a minimum set of Security Robustness in the Operating System kernel (the CORE of the OS, Not to be confused with a special meaning of Kernel in the DII/COE paradigm). This Robustness should give the OS an absolute last line of defense if all other protections fail. It should also offer some minimum capability to support data isolation, should that becomes a necessity. Beyond the OS Kernel, and at the OS extension modules, such as the network protocol stack and the board interface module, Security APIs can be defined to support additional security functionality, such as encrypt/decrypt functions, key management support functions, and network security functions. The set of APIs should also be structured to be very efficient, tailorable and scalable, giving the developer a freehand to implement what they need without being overly cumbersome or rigid. If we can do that, the "31 flavors" of Embedded RT systems developers will benefit, and users will benefit.

Robert Allen, Boeing, --Real-Time Embedded Avionics Systems Security and COTS Operating Systems

Traditionally, the aerospace community has developed custom solutions to its security needs. In addition, the COTS Operating System/RTOS community, as a whole, has largely ignored security concerns. This presentation covers security concerns that occur within the aerospace community, and recent developments in the design of COTS operating systems for real-time embedded systems that could allow for more use of COTS-based operating systems in secure avionics applications.

Sam Bowser, Aerospace Corp., -- An Approach to Security for Soft Programmable Radios

This will be followed by a discussion of security requirements for real-time and embedded systems.

Joe Weiss, EPRI,-- Process Control Security Forum and Electric Power Infrastructure Issues

Russ Richards, DISA,-- Proposed Security APIs Status

Includes a Break at 3:30 - 4:00

Thursday July 19th

9:00 - 10:30 QoS/Real-Time and Embedded Systems (Joint Working Group)

A joint session with the QoS group ( Thursday morning) at which they will review the quality of service scenario developed since the Berlin meeting.

Parallel Breakout - Security Working Group.

The security working group will continue working on its charter and white paper.

Break

11:00 - 12:30 QoS/Real-Time and Embedded Systems (Joint WorkingGroup)

Parallel Breakout - Security Working Group Cont'd

Lunch

2:00 -3:30 Profiles Working Group Open Session

This session is being led by Glen Logan and includes invited presentations from the following:

Joe Gwinn, IEEE SSWG-RT Chair, -- POSIX Status Update

This session will present an update of current POSIX status, looking at the POSIX.13 profiles, the motivations for them and their current status. It will also give an update on the status of the POSIX.1 base standard

Doug Robinson, DISA, --Moving the DII COE Kernel into the 21st Century

After a brief discussion of the history and current status of the Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII COE) Kernel, this session will review potential changes to the path of the DII COE, discuss implications for APIs and POSIX profiles, and solicit inputs to resolve issues including interface and API requirements for systems spanning disparate time domains and POSIX configurations, impacts of distributed architectures, relationships between kernel components, and requirements for development and integration environments.

Michael Tiemann, CTO Red Hat, -- EL/IX Status.

This session will present an update on EL/IX Status with respect to POSIX.

This will then be followed by a discussion session on requirements for new profiles, in particular addressing:

• Can we being together the EL/IX specification and the POSIX 1003.13 profiles
• What is missing from the current profiling efforts?

Break

4:00 - 5:30 Requirements for Hard Real-time Behavior in Java®

This session is being led by Glen Logan, and Robert Allen, and will consist of a short presentation followed by an open discussion.

6:30 -- Informal social event (location TBD)

On the evening after the Forum there will be an informal social event (no host), which is an opportunity for attendees to come socialize and talk shop with each other. You may be interested in joining forces or at least coordinating your efforts with other Real-Time standards developers.

Speaker Biographies

(in alphabetical order)

Robert E. Allen, Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company.

Robert Allen is an Associate Technical Fellow for the Boeing Company. He has over 17 years of experience designing and developing embedded real-time systems. Robert has worked on, supported, or lead software teams working on Boeing fighters, bombers, and commercial aircraft. Robert is currently a member of the Boeing Phantom Works Software Technology organization which is chartered with providing enabling technologies to the Boeing software community.

Dr. Samuel E. Bowser

Dr. Sam Bowser has over 30 years experience in information technology, standards, and national defense technical issues. He started his career in the late 1950s designing "Nike" sites for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He spend the 1960s improving his education while working in the commercial computer segment of the Southern California economy. Since the early part of the 1970s Dr. Bowser has focused upon defense related technologies. During his employment by the Navy Laboratory system he was involved in extensive simulation and modling efforts including the orginal planning for the Aegis command and control system. The Navy work included sensor systems, electronic maintainance, software development, management of computer installations and computer laboratory systems.

Dr. Bowser spent the 1980s operating his own consulting organization serving as the lead for technical teams focused upon operational testing of new military hardware/software systems. The scope of testing covered ground and airborne GPS, tropospheric scatter radio, satellite communication ground systems, digital group multiplexers, intelligence systems, EW systems, extending to the M109A3 (155mm self proplled howitzer) and the Army Scout helicopter.

The 1990s focus was on new system design with an emphasis on C4ISR systems. Dr. Bowser also served as team lead for the creation and development of the DoD HCI Style Guide (current standard in DoD). Sam has provided support related to information technology, engineering, and standards for program such as AFTDS, MCS, MILSTAR, SIBERS, AFSCN and numerous other advanced system efforts. He has been involved with Real Time (RT) system design and security projects and issues for a number of years. While engaged in these projects he has participated in all versions to date of the DoD Joint Technical Architecture (JTA) and was part of the original conceptualization of DII COE. During his career he has represented the interests and opinions of the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Intelligence Community to the DoD and commercial standards communities. He is a demonstrated leader in C4ISR and RT technologies with a focus on IT, standards, and systems engineering.

David Emery, Principal Engineer, The Mitre Corporation

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.

Joseph M. Gwinn, Chair of the IEEE PASC Real-time System Services Working Group

Mr. Gwinn has been building , adapting and using real-time embedded operating systems for 25 years, most recently for a large US defense contractor. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and is the Vice-Chair of the POSIX System Services Working Group (SSWG), and is also the Chair of the Real-time subgroup of the SSWG.

Edwin Lee, Sr. Principal Engineer, Raytheon

Edwin Lee is a Sr. Principal Engineer in the Electronic Systems Segment of Raytheon where he works in El Segundo, California.

Edwin has been with Raytheon for over 10 years and has 20+ years of experience in the Development and Management of projects ranging from IEEE-488 instruments to RCS (Radar Cross Section) measurement systems. He was Program Manager of the ASDR (Advance Secure Digital Radio), an OSD program to develop a secure, software defined digital radio that used the first embedded Crytpographic MCM. Edwin's current technology focus is Information Assurance (IA) and Security. He currently heads up several DoD projects in IA and is involved in other DARPA IA research projects.

Edwin also actively participates in the DII/COE RTE (Real-time Extension) and has been working closely with DISA and the OSJTF in establishing Security Requirements in Embedded, Real-time Systems. He also participated in the Open Group and is an advocate for IA for Embedded Systems. He spoke in many technology symposiums and workshops in Raytheon and holds an MS degree in Computer Engineering from Loyola Marymount University. He has two children and lives in Torrance, California. He enjoys classical music, SciFi movies, good food, and of course, the Internet.

Glen T. Logan, Lt Col, USAF

Lt Col Logan is assigned to 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 is Co-Chair of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum.

He has over 20 years experience in systems acquisition including space launch vehicles, nuclear test ban treaty monitoring and modular avionics.

Colonel Logan is a distinguished graduate of the University of Louisiana - Lafayette and earned a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Steve Rangel has over 13 years experience as an embedded software engineer for real-time avionics systems. His experience includes system and software requirement analysis/specification, design, code development, integration, informal and qualification testing, maintenance, and customer interfacing. His background includes work on the MEDS Space Shuttle orbiter avionics upgrades at Rockwell/Boeing Reusable Space Systems, and various projects at Lockheed Martin Skunkworks.

Within the Center for Information Technology Standards, Mr. Richards is responsible for identification of DoD information technology requirements, assessment of the sufficiency of commercial standards to meet those requirements, determination and initiation of actions to correct deficiencies and to develop test and certification projects. In addition to his responsibilities as division chief, Mr. Richards represents the DoD in a broad number of information and communications standards bodies. He is currently the Chair of the NCITS Technical Committee R-1, Real-time Computing

Doug a graduate of Oregon State University, has spent more than twenty years developing realtime and embedded systems for various avionics and communication systems. Recent platforms and systems include the AC-130U, F-15E/S (radar), B-2 (radar), and the AATC (a communications-based train control system). Doug is currently the system engineer responsible for the development of the Realtime Extensions to the DII COE.

Michael Tiemann, Chief Technical Officer , Red Hat Inc.

Michael Tiemann is one of the first and most important pioneers of open source. His early work with GNU software created world-leading technologies, and became an inspiration to Linus Torvalds and an enabling technology for Linux in 1991. Today, as Chief Technical Officer of Red Hat, he continues to shape the future of open source as it drives the next-generation of embedded, post-PC computing devices. Prior to joining Red Hat, Michael served as the co-founder and Acting CTO of Cygnus Solutions, which was acquired by Red Hat in January 2000. During his ten years at Cygnus, Michael participated in a number of roles, helping to lead the company from a fledgling start-up to an admired open source powerhouse. He is a frequent speaker and well-respected expert within the open source community.

Joe Wlad, Product Marketing Manager, Wind River Systems

Joe Wlad has over 16 years of avionics design, development, test and evaluation experience including work at Douglas Aircraft Company in the MD-11 Test and Certification organization and United Airlines' B747 Fleet engineering and modification organization. Mr. Wlad has also worked for Trimble Navigation as an Engineering Manager in development and FAA approval of military GPS sensors. Currently, he is the DO-178B Product Marketing Manger for Wind River in Alameda, CA.

He is a FAA DER for Systems and Equipment and Software, is an active private pilot and has co-authored two patents on Global Positioning System integrity functions. Joe Wlad holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Buffalo and a MBA from Santa Clara University.