30th November 2010
Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Reading, Berkshire, UK

Speakers 

Mike Bennett
Senior Systems Engineer, Mission Systems, Military Air Solutions
BAE Systems

Mike Bennett is a product manager for BAE Systems Military Air Systems (MAS) modular, real-time and safety-critical middleware. He graduated from the University of York in 2004 with a PhD from the real-time systems researching requirements for modular avionic systems.

He then joined BAE Systems, working on the implementation of a safety-critical IMA (Integrated Modular Avionics) operating system/middleware for the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) aircraft. Since then, Mike has worked on product development of the middleware and its deployment on other platforms. He is particularly interested in the integration of COTS software into safety-critical systems.




Bob Connor
Principal Engineer
QinetiQ

Biography to follow …





Glenn Dorsey
Vice President, Slip Ring Products
Moog Components Group

Glenn Dorsey started his career with Poly Scientific (now Moog Components Group) in 1979 as a design engineer. He joined Kollmorgen, Industrial Drives (now Danaher) in 1984 as the Manager of Manufacturing Engineering and worked with new processes for producing high performance electric motors. In 1988, he became the Director of Engineering and subsequently VP of Product and Business Development with Electro-Tec Corp., where he worked with high-speed data transfer and power transfer devices. When Electro-Tec became part of Moog Components Group in 2005, he became Group Vice President responsible for the Slip Ring Product Line.

Glenn has a BA from Duke University and a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Virginia. He has multiple patents in the area of high speed data transfer and has published numerous articles on the subject.



Alan Hooley
Chief Security Engineer
Thales

Biography to follow …





Ashley Hulme
Test Support Manager
EADS Test Engineering Services (UK) Ltd

Ashley Hulme, IEng, MIET, SMIEEE is a Test Support Manager at EADS Test Engineering Services (UK), where he has worked for the past 8 years. He has been involved with Test Engineering for 36 years, in both commercial & military fields. His responsibilities include customer support for many of the products supplied by the company. For the last 21 he has been an active contributor to IEEE SCC20 Test Description standards and currently a member of the Steering Committee. He was Chair for the development of IEEE 771, 1641 & 1641.1 standards.



Joseph M Jacob
Senior Vice President
Objective Interface Systems, Inc

Joe Jacob is Senior Vice President of Objective Interface Systems, Inc. Joe is a frequent presenter on the use of communications middleware in Software Defined Radios (SDR), Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) architecture and security/safety-critical middleware.

He is also a frequent presenter and writer on High Assurance Middleware, and he is the Chair of the SDR Forum (now Wireless Innovations Forum) Safety-Critical Working Group. Joe has authored articles on SDR and MILS applications as well as security-critical and safety-critical middleware which have been published in both the United States and Europe.




Lt Col Merfyn Lloyd OBE
Science Advisor to Chief of Materiel (Land), MOD DE&S Generic Vehicle Architecture the application of open standards to system architecture
Dstl

Biography to follow …




Michael Morua
Principal Systems Engineer
Atkins Global

Employed at Atkins since 2006 as a principal systems engineer, Mike Morua specializes in system of systems issues and is currently working with the MoD and Network Rail to develop system of systems approaches. Mike also worked with the Australian Army to define a system of systems approach for the LAND 400 future combat vehicle programme. During his career, Mike also held the position of C4ISTAR and Electronics Architecture lead for the FRES programme and during 2003-2005 was employed at Boeing as C4ISR Interoperability lead for the US Army ín the Future Combat System programme. Mike also served as a Surface Line Officer in the US Navy from 1982 to 2002 and taught Strategy and Tactics and Network Centric Warfare at the US Naval Academy. Graduated from the US Naval Postgraduate School (MS EE) in 1990 and the University of California, Berkeley (BS EE) in 1982.



Keith Mowbray
Executive Vice President Business Development
Dytecna Ltd

A graduate Engineer, Keith Mowbray worked for the UK MoD for ten years on a wide range of projects and programmes within the now extinct Defence Research Agency. Upon leaving the MoD Keith entered commercial defence organisations working on the design and development of a range of monitoring technologies in the Aviation sector.

Moving into business development twenty years ago, Keith stayed in the defence sector offering strategic development to organisations in the UK and overseas. He has worked in the USA, Europe and Australia with a track record in developing opportunities in the defence market sectors for large prime contracting organisations and small to medium enterprises.

More recently, Keith joined Dytecna in 2001 helping the business grow dramatically and has been instrumental in the opening of the Dytecna Asia Pacific business in Melbourne Australia which now employs some 45 staff and is also focusing on the move into the USA in 2010.



David Price
Senior Engineering Manager
Pi Shurlock LLC

David Price joined Pi Shurlock in 2004 as Senior Engineering Manager of the Cambridge, UK Design Centre, where he has been heavily involved in developing control strategies for common rail fuel injection and after treatment controls in diesel powertrains. His breadth of experience in automotive system engineering guided the latest generation of the innovative Pi Shurlock OpenECU products, which are revolutionising the development route, from concept to manufacture, of electronic control systems.

Prior to Pi Shurlock, David led the Systems Engineering team at the Motorola European Automotive design centre, having spent three years at Motorola's centre in Detroit. An engineering science graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford, David has held senior roles with leading companies in the UK automotive industry. While at Lucas in Birmingham he worked on electronic throttle systems and then on-board diagnostic systems, leading the team that implemented the Sagem-Lucas OBD II system onto four new 95 model year vehicles.




Chris Raistrick
Professional Services Director
Kennedy Carter Limited

Chris Raistrick is the lead author of the book Model Driven Architecture with Executable UML. He performed the role of chief modeller on the two NATO studies described in this presentation. For the past thirty years, Chris has been applying state of the art modelling techniques on a wide variety of military projects, and has spoken at many technical forums such as the Embedded Systems Conferences, UML <200x>, OOP 2006 and a number of OMG events.



Jim Renehan
Director of Marketing & Business Development
TRENTON Technology, Inc.

At Trenton Technology, Jim focuses on investigating new market opportunities, analyzing emerging technologies and developing commercial marketing programs. A key role of Jim's is working with Trenton's award winning engineering and manufacturing team to define, develop and deliver the next generation of dependable, yet innovative embedded computing products and systems. Prior to joining Trenton, Jim was with Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley and held a variety of positions in the Electronic Operator Interface product group.

Jim has published several articles in various trade publications and has spoken at numerous technical conferences on embedded computing and factory automation topics ranging from employing PCI Express in computer systems to discussing the application of future computing trends in factory floor automation. He has also developed and conducted several training programs on these various topics. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from Iowa State University of Science and Technology in Ames, IA.




Steve Trimble
Engineering Director
Goodrich ISR Systems

Steve Trimble is Engineering Director, of Malvern-based Goodrich ISR Systems, and is responsible for the overall engineering direction, research and development and product management activities within the company.



Rod White
Account Manager
LynuxWorks

Rod White has a strong technical background and has experience in dealing with complex military & aerospace security and safety-critical systems gained over many years. Rod's original training as a Software Engineer and his exposure to many different programmes has given him a unique perspective on the security problems facing the military & aerospace sectors.

His championing of leading technology to help customers meet these challenges, and still deliver on time and within budget, has been both innovative and timely and has led to his involvement in many projects which required a high level of partnership to be successful within the scope of standards like Common Criteria and DO-178B/ Arinc 653.





Tony White
Director of Advanced Technology
Ultra Electronics

Tony White is Director of Advanced Technology at Ultra Electronics Electrics in Cheltenham where he has been based for the last 10 years. Tony began his career with the United States Air Force, working on avionics systems supporting the European taskforce, before moving into industrial automation which took him around the world on a variety of projects.

During his career at Ultra Electronics, he has become well known in the Land Systems community and sits on several industry working groups, including the Vehicle Systems Integrators and Generic Vehicle Architecture MoD sponsored forums. An expert in electronic systems architecture, Tony leads the R&D activities at the Cheltenham site, which provides a range of platform solutions including power management, computer networks and video systems for both Land and Air domains.




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