Tony Perry is the Principal System Architect for "Transitional Technology" on staff to Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information System's Chief Technology Officer. His role in this position is to influence the technological direction taken by the corporation in implementing various aspects of computing technology that will have potentially disruptive impact on the Lockheed Martin businesses.

Mr. Perry has worked both as an Aerospace weapon systems design/systems engineer and more recently as an information systems engineer and architect.

His career began twenty-nine years ago when he earned a BS in physics and a BA in mathematics from the University of West Florida. Since then he has participated in various Aerospace disciplines including Mechanical, Electro-optical, Electronic, and Computer engineering, and has developed and successfully fielded a number of system/component designs. He has also managed operations for the Martin Marietta Aerospace Computer Aided Design organization and managed the development of the system and hardware environment for an automated repair depot for a U.S. Air Force customer.

Presentation
The Need for Semantic Interoperability
The concept of "Semantics" is highly contextual and dealing with these numerous contexts is the greatest challenge of "Semantic Interoperability.  Lockheed Martin as one of the world's largest Aerospace companies deals in almost all contexts of business, government, and society.  Because of this Lockheed Martin perceives a great need to overcome this challenge. This presentation provides a statement of a perceived need for "Semantic Interoperability" from the presenter's perspective as "Principal System Architect" for the Lockheed Martin EIS Chief Technology Office. The context is the Lockheed Martin Corporation and the Aerospace industry but this is not an "official" position of either.  Solutions do not appear to be rapidly forthcoming and the players in the game seem not to be converging towards a common goal.