11. KEYNOTE 2 : Rebuilding the Tower of Babel Better Communication with Standards

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1 DSTO-GD KEYNOTE 2 : Rebuilding the Tower of Babel Better Communication with Standards Abstract Matthew Hause Co-chair of the UPDM group, OMG The book of Genesis tells the story of how the peoples of the earth came together to build an enormous tower. To confound them in their task, God changed the languages of the different groups of people so that they were unable to communicate. Since they could not coordinate their efforts, the project was abandoned and the different groups dispersed throughout the world. The same problem exists today in the world of Architecture Frameworks. Although they express similar concepts, interchange between the different frameworks is awkward at best, time consuming, and leads to misunderstanding and miscommunication. This lack of communication was highlighted in a recent report on the conflict in Afghanistan, where the lack of interchange of architectures was cited as a limiting factor in coalition efforts and may have contributed to loss of life. This presentation will assess the current situation, examine international efforts to solve it, and identify future challenges. This will include: The role of standards for collaboration and communication Standards and standards organisations The Object Management Group (OMG) A brief history of Military Architectural Frameworks The interoperability problems of frameworks The Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) effort Using reference architectures to define a common conceptual dictionary Systems engineering, acquisition, and process Vertical and horizontally complementary emerging standards Future problems and potential solutions 99

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3 DSTO-GD-0734 Presenter Biography Matthew Hause is Atego s Chief Consulting Engineer, the co-chair of the UPDM group (Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF) and a member of the Object Management Group (OMG) SysML specification team. He has been developing multi-national complex systems for almost 35 years. He started out working in the power systems industry and has been involved in military command and control systems, process control, communications, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA), distributed control, and many other areas of technical and real-time systems. His roles have varied from project manager to developer. His role at Atego includes mentoring, sales presentations, standards development and training courses. He has written a series of white papers on architectural modeling, project management, systems engineering, model-based engineering, human factors, safety critical systems development, virtual team management, systems development, and software development with UML, SysML and Architectural Frameworks such as DoDAF and MODAF. He has been a regular presenter at INCOSE, the IEEE, BCS, the IET, the OMG, DoD Enterprise Architecture and many other conferences. Matthew studied Electrical Engineering at the University of New Mexico and Computer Science at the University of Houston, Texas. In his spare time he is a church organist, choir director and composer. Presentation 100

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