The Objectives of the RT&ES Tuesday Sessions were as follows:
Provide a general update of the Forum’s activities to provide new and current members with a better understanding of the value of the RT&ES Forum.
Provide an in-depth tutorial on AADL (overview, implementation, tools) in order that the RT&ES Forum members can consider this input as they choose modeling languages that will best meet their needs for modeling real-time solutions for the TOGAF modeling project as well as for use in modeling Multi-Independent Layers of Security (MILS) solutions.
Provide an overview and status update on the modeling work being done in TOGAF 9 so that the RT&ES Forum members can understand what, where, and how real-time attributes and parameters can be utilized with TOGAF for architecting real-time solutions.
Summary
The overview of the RT&ES Forum from Joe Bergmann, highlighting the Forum’s vision and mission and the activities being conducted to move them closer to that vision, was exciting. It really illustrated how much is going on, both in outreach (e.g., to NIST, Howard Schmidt, Cybersecurity Coordinator for the White House, NATO, EC) and in the progress being made in the following major activities: Standardization of MILS APIs, Extending TOGAF to the Platform, Open Systems Architecture, Safety-Critical Java, and the Development of a Commercial Certification Program under The Open Group for MILS.
Ed Roberts’ tutorial on Modeling Languages and Tools for High-Assurance Environments and his update on TOGAF Extensions for Real-Time was very well received – and very important for providing a good base of knowledge on which the RT&ES Forum will base some of their modeling prototypes.
Outputs
The participants walked away with a much better understanding of how active the RT&ES Forum is between the conferences and they had a better appreciation for the pros and cons of AADL and a solid basis from which to evaluate AADL for its application to both the MILS and the TOGAF projects within the RT&ES Forum.
Next Steps
The RT&ES Forum will continue their work in exploring various tools and modeling languages and will explore additional modeling languages and tools through interim web conferences and at the San Diego Conference.
Ed Roberts: AADL – SAE International Architecture Analysis and Design, a standard architecture modeling language, developed by and for the avionics, aerospace, automotive, and robotics communities.
