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2009 AF SOA Developer’s Conference

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May 20-21 2009

Montgomery, AL

Conference Overview

The 2009 AF SOA Developer’s Conference will focus on SOA related collaboration and reuse capabilities in the Air Force and DoD. The development of service oriented capabilities poses increasing challenges for AF and DoD software engineering teams, which are often distributed geographically and organizationally. The discipline of AF and DoD software engineering must address these challenges through the development and refinement of new collaborative and reuse techniques, processes, and tools that build upon sound engineering principles. Moreover, the ubiquity of software means that the discipline of AF and DoD software engineering itself is also extending. Software engineering teams and organizations must think of IT components not only as a software or hardware products, but also as services that can be shared and reused across the enterprise. This event will assemble a community of AF and DoD SOA peers to exchange ideas and discuss what has worked, what did not work, and review best practices. Attendees will benefit from lessons learned in real world implementations. Sessions presented will provide key insights into developing, managing and governing SOA related collaborative and reuse capabilities within the AF and DoD.

Registration

Registration is now open for the AF SOA Developer’s Conference 2009. To register, visit the Conference Registration page on the Montgomery AFCEA web site at:



Contacts

For more information concerning the AF SOA Developer’s Conference 2009, please contact Mr. John Hulsey, (COM) 334-416-1943, (DSN) 596-1943, john.hulsey@gunter.af.mil, or Mr. Scott Raley, (COM) 334-416-4709, (DSN) 596-4709, scott.raley@gunter.af.mil .

Conference Agenda-At-A-Glance

*Agenda subject to change.

Wednesday – May 20, 2009

2:00 - 5:00 CST

2:00-2:05 WELCOME

Welcome and Administrative Remarks, Mr. Olan Waldrop, President Montgomery AFCEA Chapter

2:05-2:55 KEYNOTE: Featuring: Brig Gen Ronnie D. Hawkins, Jr.,

Brig. Gen. Ronnie D. Hawkins Jr. is Director, Infrastructure Delivery, Office of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

General Hawkins received his commission as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program at Angelo State University in 1977. He has held a variety of communications positions, including an assignment on the Joint Staff as support manager for command, control, communications and computer systems, and he later served as Director of C4 Systems for Joint Task Force–Southwest Asia. 

General Hawkins has commanded Cadet Squadron 24 at the U.S. Air Force Academy; Air Combat Command's Computer Systems Squadron and Communications Group; and Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. He has served as the Director of Communications and Information, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, and Director of Communications Operations, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. General Hawkins has also been Deputy Chief of Staff, Communications and Information Systems, Multi-National Force-Iraq.

2:55-3:45 KEYNOTE: Featuring: Dr. Tim Rudolph,

Dr. Tim Rudolph, a Senior Level executive, is the Chief Technology Officer , Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. Dr. Rudolph also currently chairs the ESC Chief Technical Officers Team. In that role, he works with the senior technical representatives from each of the other acquisition wings and representatives from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and the Air Force's Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer. Additionally, as the Enterprise Director of Integration, he leads a number of initiatives collaborating across all the acquisition Wings at ESC.

Dr. Rudolph gained system development experience in multiple information technology companies. In March 1994, he co-founded Paradigm Technologies, Inc., an industry partner focused on the application of technologies in creative ways for multiple services, agencies and commercial enterprises, which he managed until divesting in 2007. He is a recognized pioneer in open systems such as Posix standards as well as modeling and simulation technologies, with extensive experience leading government and industry partners to advance technologies for enterprise solutions.

Dr. Rudolph has applied experience in multiple technical disciplines through all phases of the acquisition lifecycle, including requirements analysis, architecture, high-level design, development, integration, test, fielding and support. He has held a number of positions supporting Air Force activities. As a founding member of the ESC Enterprise Integration Team, he directed and supported wing, cross-wing, cross-system center and cross-agency integration activities.  Dr. Rudolph is a Certified System Engineering Professional by the International Council on Systems Engineering

3:45-4:00 BREAK

4:00-4:50 KEYNOTE: Featuring: Mr. Kerrie Holley, IBM CTO SOA COE

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Kerrie Holley is IBM's Global SOA Center of Excellence's SOA Leader. His team's charter is the creation and maintenance of best practices, method and IP, and to ensure consistency across all geographies for SOA.

In recognition of his sustained technical achievement and leadership, Mr. Holley was appointed an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 2000. In that same year Mr. Holley was elected to the prestigious IBM Academy of Technology which is comprised of 300 of IBM's top technologists.

His expertise centers around software engineering, architecture and translating business requirements into designs for cutting-edge network centric distributed solutions with a focus on business and IT fusion. Responsibilities include technical leadership for services oriented architecture, technical oversight for network centric software engineering projects, adaptive enterprise architecture design, IT strategy, formation of partnerships among clients and vendors, leading architecture reviews, and managing technical risks.

As CTO for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence, Mr. Holley, focuses on helping customers identify the business needs and technology capabilities needed to take advantage of service oriented computing and to realize sustained benefits of applying SOA.

Mr. Holley has a Bachelor of Art degree in mathematics from DePaul University and a Juris Doctorate degree from DePaul School of Law.

4:50 CLOSING REMARKS

Mr. Olan Waldrop, President Montgomery AFCEA Chapter

Thursday – May 21, 2009

7:00 - 4:15 CST

7:00-8:00 SESSION TOPIC: Securing Your SOA: Security Management in a Service-Oriented Architecture

7:00-7:20 Presentation: Successful SOA Security Integration

This presentation will focus on successful strategies for SOA Security integration.

Specifically, this presentation will:

o Highlight best practices and pitfalls related to SOA security integration

o Provide a vendor-agnostic and technology-agnostic design for access control & policy decision enforcement for clients & services, with code examples & references.

o Provide an overview & code of a custom Tomcat Security realm that can be customized for any enterprise and used by portals and web servers in order to map enterprise Attribute Services (ABAC) to the J2EE role-based (RBAC) security model for container-managed security

o Provide lessons-learned from several government SOA-based projects.

The code for the custom Tomcat Security Realm will be made available for reuse.

Presenter: Mr. Kevin T. Smith, ManTech Information Systems & Technology

Kevin T. Smith is a Senior Technical Director at ManTech Information Systems & Technology, and is the company’s Core Competency Leader for Application Information Assurance. A frequent presenter at industry conferences such as the RSA Security Conference, JavaOne, ApacheCon, SemTech, the Association for Enterprise Integration, the Potomac Forum, and Net-Centric Warfare, he has served as the Chief Security Architect for numerous award-winning SOA initiatives throughout the DoD and IC, and develops software-based security solutions for many customers. Smith is the published author of numerous articles revolving around Information Security and SOA in magazines such as SOAWorld & SOAInstitute, and he is the co-author of numerous technology books, including  last year’s Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies, and The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management.

7:20-7:40 Presentation:

This presentation will focus on the AF SOA Initial Infrastructure Build (IIB) Pilot security approach. It will include a description of Identity Federation, the use DoD PKI credentials for user authentication, and the use of SAML 2.0 tokens issued by WS-Trust Security Token Services (STSs) to support authorization decisions by Services.

Presentation highlights:

o Highlight SOA IA Fundamentals & applicable standards

o Discuss current AF SOA IIB Pilot Implementation

o Discuss Enterprise Level Security (ELS) and End-To-End Security Vision & Technical Challenges in Achieving that vision

o Provide lessons-learned from AF SOA IIB pilot efforts to date.

o Provide application and service integration details

Presenter: Mr. Michael Leonard, MITRE

Michael C. Leonard is a Principal Information Systems Engineer with The MITRE Corporation. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University. He has over 10 years of Information Assurance experience, with strong background in Identity Management / Identity Assurance, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Biometrics, and Identity Federation. Mr. Leonard currently supports the AF Cryptologic Systems Group at Lackland AFB, TX, and has provided engineering support for the AF SOA Initial Infrastructure Build (IIB) pilot in the areas of PK Enabling, Security Token Services, and Identity Federation. Mr. Leonard also represents CPSG on the AF Chief Technology Officer (CTO) team.

7:40-8:00 Topic Q&A Session

8:00-9:00 SESSION TOPIC: SOA Testing: Tools & Best Practices

8:00-8:20 Presentation: SOA Testing: Tools & Best Practices

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is changing the fundamental way in which applications are being developed and delivered providing increased agility, cost reduction, information sharing, and consolidation. With SOA, application logic is no longer located in a single server environment, developed on a single platform or language, and developed by a single development team. New SOA applications consist of multiple layers of different technologies, tied together by protocols and messaging standards over the Internet. These highly flexible applications that integrate so many components often include many points of failure where these systems connect.

This presentation will focus on best practices for testing SOA Solutions and a SOA Test Approach that extends traditional functional and performance testing tools such as HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) and HP LoadRunner with tools and practices to provide complete end-to-end validation of processes that connect highly interdependent services.

Presentation highlights:

o How SOA changes the way testing is conducted and the testing tools required

o Continuous testing practices before and during deployment

o Why Security testing moves from an end of project activity to an entire project life cycle activity

o A Flexible SOA Test Approach for testing services of highly interdependent systems 

Presenter: Mr. Rick G. Goodwin, SAIC

Rick G. Goodwin is an SAIC Technical Fellow and Chief Scientist for the Enterprise and Missions Solutions Business Unit at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Mr. Goodwin serves as a member of the Defense Solutions Group (DSG) Systems Engineering Technical Council (SETC) providing engineering leadership towards strategic research and business development initiatives within SAIC and the Defense Solutions Group. Mr. Goodwin is Chief Engineer for SAIC’s Enterprise Services Integration and Interoperability Laboratory (ESIIL) and the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Based Operations Independent Research and Development (IR&D) program. ESIIL consists of eight different research labs throughout the United States providing a distributed SOA infrastructure for performing research, developing operationally threaded demonstrations, and transitioning legacy C4ISR and Cyber capabilities to services implementations.

8:20-8:40 Presentation: Application Security Testing

This presentation will focus on successful strategies for identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in SOA applications. Vulnerabilities are introduced into application development at all stages of the application lifecycle. The earlier in the lifecycle you can identify the vulnerability, the cheaper the fix will be. To assist with identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities as early as possible, this session will introduce the audience to a training curriculum, a suite of tools, and a process that can be used within the coding and testing phase as well as the operational maintenance phase of the lifecycle.

Presenter: Mr. Daniel Bartko, 754 ELSG Application Software Assurance

8:40-9:00 Topic Q&A Session

9:00-9:30 BREAK

9:30-10:30 SESSION TOPIC: BPEL & SOA: Strategy, Design, & Best Practices

9:30-9:50 Presentation: SOA: Context is Everything

This presentation will discuss the definitions of SOA and BPEL from a developer perspective.

Presentation highlights:

o Illustrate how that developer perspective relates to SOA Best Practices when approaching a platform such as the IIB/SMI ELS

o Share lessons learned while designing and implementing BPEL Processes for the Deployment Readiness Service (DRS) into the AF SOA Initial Infrastructure Build (AF SOA IIB) environment.

Presenter: Mr. Jeffrey M. Cecil, General Dynamics

Jeffrey M. Cecil is a Senior Principal Engineer at General Dynamics Information Technology. While spending his early years designing and implementing Document Management and Workflow systems for financial data centers, he dealt with the real world problems encountered via large business acquisitions and the attempts to merge technology and operations. While at GDIT he was technical lead for the team that developed the first SOA oriented application, the Deployment Readiness Service (DRS), for the Initial Infrastructure Build (IIB).

9:50-10:10 Presentation: USAF Business Process Integration using BPEL PM

The AF continues to increase its commitment to and exploitation of Service Oriented Architecture technologies. The AF in collaboration with Accenture, has taken a first but giant step in implementing Oracle BPEL PM for business process flow orchestration and application integration to underpin AF financial transactions. This presentation will talk about how BPEL is implemented in DEAMS to automate business processes as well as explore its vast potential to become an Air Force standard for business process integration.

Presenter: Mr. Vic Burman, Accenture

Vic Burman is currently Accenture’s chief architect and engineer on DEAMS, where he is responsible for architecture, installation, and operations and maintenance of 20 development environments comprising the DEAMS build process. He works intimately close with CIE, GCSS-AF pre-production, and production environments. Vic has more than 15 years experience with Oracle technology, intimate knowledge of Oracle RDBMS internals and all aspects of Oracle E-Business Suite application and database administration, and award-winning expertise in supporting mission-critical database systems for Fortune 100 companies.

10:10-10:30 Topic Q&A Session

10:30-11:30 SESSION TOPIC: Metadata Environment (MDE): Supporting the AF Data Strategy

10:30-10:50 Presentation: Exploiting COI Metadata

This presentation will focus on design- and run-time use of Community of Interest (COI) products such as process models, vocabularies, authoritative data source designations and access rules:

Presentation highlights:

o Support enterprise visible, accessible and understandable data (Net-Centricity)

o Describe standards and state-of-practice useful to COIs in the creation of their products

o Describe and demonstrate an implementation of a Metadata Environment (MDE) offering aspects of Service Lifecycle Management, to include registration, vocabulary maintenance, deprecation, enterprise impact assessment, and semantic discovery of services, vocabularies and information assets.

o Provide lessons-learned from MDE implementation and COI governance.

Presenter: Mr. Joshua Powers, Logistics Research

Joshua Powers is a Senior Advisor at the Council for Logistics Research. He has an extensive background in the implementation of semantic discovery and knowledge representation. He was the architect of the Oracle ConText knowledge base, Semio’s Categorization and Classification engine and Convera’s internet-scale ontology and semantic search engine. He has been an evaluator and a Principle Investigator on DARPA projects involving entity extraction, link detection and misinformation detection.

10:50-11:10 Presentation: AF/A1 Data Services: Metadata Service Development and Infrastructure

Presenter: Mr. Jeff Farrand, AF/A1

Chief, A1 Portfolio Governance, Data and Architecture

11:10-11:30 Topic Q&A Session

11:30-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

1:00-2:00 SESSION TOPIC: SOA & Web Services: Infrastructure & Application Solutions

1:00-1:20 Presentation: GCSS-AF Web Services Infrastructure & Support

This presentation will provide developers with an overview on how to use Web services within GCSS-AF. Specifically, this presentation will address the following topics:

Presentation highlights:

o Overview the GCSS-AF Web services infrastructure solution in terms current and planned capabilities

o Overview the ESB to/from Web services transformation capabilities (including transforming Flat Files to/from Web services)

o Discuss DataPower SOA Appliance capabilities within GCSS-AF

o Discuss the GCSS-AF Web services security solution

o Discuss GCSS-AF Web services federation with other enclaves

o Demonstrate GCSS-AF Web services deployment including process overview, configurations and “how to” code examples

Presenter: Mr. Michael Acton, Strategic Initiatives

Mike Acton is the CTO of Strategic Initiatives for a major organization within Lockheed Martin. He has gained significant insight from the SOA programs he’s supported within the Air Force, Army, Navy, DISA, VA, Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies. He works with the Lockheed Martin SOA Competency Center and the Web Services Factory to keep abreast of the current state and future direction of SOA. On the GCSS-AF Program, Mike has served as the as the Chief Architect, Systems Engineering Manager, Production Operations Chief Engineer and Lead Developer. On behalf of his customers, he works directly with major vendors including IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, EMC, VMWare, RedHat and others providing input to influence the direction of their future product features and offerings. Mike’s interests related to SOA include enterprise architecture, SOA infrastructure, ITIL service management, practical governance, Web service high availability design and performance.

1:20-1:40 Presentation: Enterprise Solution-Supply (ES-S) Case Study

This presentation will focus on the Enterprise Solution-Supply (ES-S) application, which is a service-based architecture deployed within the GCSS-AF IF.

Presentation highlights:

o An overview of ES-S from a service perspective

o How ES-S works under the hood (the implementation)

o Provide lessons-learned from the ES-S project

Presenters: Mr. Paul S. Saladna & Mr. Alain D. Nicolet, Keane Federal Systems

Paul S. Saladna is an architect with Keane Federal Systems, Inc and the lead architect for the ES-S application. His technical experience covers a wide range of industries from retail to consumer products, to public health, and the DoD. He is a strong advocate of open source technologies and holds a MBA with a concentration in Electronic Commerce.

Alain D. Nicolet is an architect with Keane Federal Systems, Inc and the technical lead and Integrator for the ES-S application.  His experience covers a wide range of industries from the DoD (Navy, Air Force) and NASA to commercial B2B frameworks and the airline industry.  

1:40-2:00 Topic Q&A Session

2:00-3:00 SESSION TOPIC: Dashboard Solutions

2:00-2:20 Presentation: GCSS-AF Data Services Reporting Framework

This session will provide an overview of the GCSS-AF Data Services Reporting Framework, which is a collection of design patterns based on user-centered design best practices as well as a reusable framework from which developers can leverage RIA (Rich Internet Application) components to create compelling user experiences and SOA architecture to access and expose data as web services. The Reporting Framework was initially fielded in 2006 to meet the A4 community's Dashboard Reporting needs for aircraft maintenance data and has since been reused and expanded to vehicles, equipment, munitions, supply, and transportation as well as the Positive Inventory Control (PIC) initiative.

Presenters: Mr. Tony Tran & Mr. Scott Peterson, Roundarch

Tony Tran is a Vice President with Roundarch, an IT consultancy specializing in strategy, user experience, and technology. He has over fourteen years of consulting experience, primarily focused on web-based strategies & solutions including portals, content management, knowledge management, and business intelligence/analytics. Tony has spent the better part of the past 7 years dedicated to the GCSS-AF program supporting both the AF Portal and Data Services. Most recently, Tony helped the U.S. Air Force quickly adopt RIA (Rich Internet Application) technologies to enhance its Portal and Collaboration tools, as well as evolve its Data Reporting and Business Intelligence capabilities. Tony holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

2:20-2:40 Presentation: Dashboards on Demand

This presentation will focus on successful strategies for employing dashboards in any domain, with examples from the C2 World:

Presentation highlights:

o Overview of technical approach and architecture along with quick exposure to the myriad other possible approaches (literally hundreds of products and approaches emergent in this space)

o Provide insight into Accenture’s “30-day” sprint delivery process

o Provide example views from our Command and Control customers

o Although the capabilities we’ve implemented to date operate solely on the SIPRNET, we intend to have some demonstration capability for MITS via the CIE

Presenter: Mr. Jim Stogdill, Accenture

Jim Stogdill is the CTO of Accenture Mission Services where he focuses on technology direction and client solution development.  In addition to his work on specific client engagements, he spends a great deal of time advocating open source software, exploring ways Web 2.0 can contribute to DoD NetCentricity, and attempting to prove that an agile, generative, and secure environment can be achieved for the department.  Prior to joining Accenture he built B2B reverse auction systems for a major sourcing and procurement firm, brought heuristic-based optimization and online trading to the corporate treasury for a leading edge financial services firm, and traveled the world as a Naval Officer. Unfortunately from his vantage point it all looked like the inside of a submarine. He spends his free time hacking silver halides with decidedly low-tech gear.

2:40-3:00 Topic Q&A Session

3:00-3:30 BREAK

3:30-4:00 SESSION TOPIC: Supporting Collaboration in Software Development

3:30-3:50 Presentation:

Collaborative software development is becoming increasingly important in the practice of software delivery, particularly with the cross-boundary nature of SOA development efforts. A high level of collaboration is critical because the software development process remains fundamentally difficult. The difficulty is due, in part, to shifting requirements and other real-time changes. It is also due to the complexity of the products and services being delivered. Today's AF and DOD development teams are often geographically or organizationally distributed. All these factors require development teams to communicate and monitor progress throughout the development lifecycle.

Presentation highlights:

o Provide an overview of currently implemented AF collaborative tools and capabilities including the AFMC Enterprise Information Management (EIM) based 554 ELSW Software Developer’s SharePoint Site and the 554 ELSW Software Developer’s CoP that can be used to foster collaboration in SOA related development efforts

o Specific collaborative capabilities, including implemented tools such as discussion boards, wikis, blogs, document management, external partner collaboration, shared calendars, taskings and alerts

o A way ahead for identifying and resolving key issues in further advancing developer collaboration across the AF & DoD

Presenter: Mr. Scott Raley, 643 ELSS

Scott Raley is a Software Architect with the 643rd Electronic Systems Squadron (643 ELSS). He has over 20 years of software design and development experience. He started as a programmer with the USAF and has subsequently held positions as a Application Designer, Systems Analyst, Test Manager, and Project Manager. He has led a number of application development teams while working for the USAF and the DoD and his recent experience includes serving as the lead architect for the Air Force Service Oriented Architecture Initial Infrastructure Build (AF SOA IIB) Program. He regularly presents SOA and Web Service seminars to 554 ELSW personnel providing an overview of SOA & WS concepts and issues related to successfully implementing SOA based applications. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Troy University Montgomery and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Touro University.

3:50-4:00 Topic Q&A Session

4:00 Closing Remarks

Mr. Olan Waldrop, President Montgomery AFCEA Chapter

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