• Dr. Ian Cornwell, Technical Director, Integrated Transport Glasgow, Mott McDonald, Ltd., presenting on behalf of the U.K. Highways Agency: European Travel Information Distribution built on OMG technology
• Steven R. Ditmeyer , Director, Research & Development, Federal Railroad Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation presenting on: Intelligent Rail Systems
• Richard Hubert, Founder and CEO of Interactive Objects Software and author of Convergent Architecture presenting on: Applied MDA Process, Techniques and Returns at the Austrian National Railroad
• Steve Lewis, GIS Applications Manager, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation presenting on: The Geospatial One-Stop
• Ron Lindsey, Consultant, Communications Architecture, Contributor to Progressive Railroading and publisher of Full Spectrum presenting on: The Challenges of Interoperability in Transportation
• James Thomas, Director, Systems Engineering Resource Center (SERC), Federal Aviation Administration presenting on: Adaptation Improvement in the National Airspace System
• Walter R. Townsend, Regional Manager, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. Gardner Transportation Systems Business Unit presenting on: National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems Protocol (NTCIP) and CORBA
• E. Allen West, VP, CIO, Railinc presenting on: Information Interoperability in the North American Rail Industry

WHERE: Crystal Gateway Marriot, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202

Organized by the Transportation Domain Task Force Chairs:

Therese Smith - Air Traffic Software Architecture, Inc.

Ian Cornwell - Mott McDonald Ltd.

William Visnich - Union Switch & Signal, Inc.

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About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. Based on the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today. OMG’s well-established CORBAservices and industry-specific standards are being re-issued under the MDA in many popular middleware environments. OMG domain (industry-specific) standards cover vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing offices in Japan, the UK, and Germany.

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