 Mike Bennett 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.  Bob Connor Bob Connor began his career with British Aerospace in 1977 having graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Physics and Electronic Engineering. His initial experience was in electronic design with particular application to closed loop control systems.  Glenn Dorsey 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.  Peter Goodliff Peter Goodliff is a Senior Information Security (INFOSEC) Engineer within the Thales DSC&AO business leading the Thales MoD Security workstream. Peter is particularly suited to this work coming from a military background comprising over 20 years experience of security management of military communications systems and practical implementation of JSP440 and Defence COMSEC and Cryptographic policy. He joined Thales in 2005 and was immediately instrumental in the determination of the security components required by the NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps C2IS programme (ARRC2IS). Peter became a CESG Listed Adviser Scheme (CLAS) consultant in 2006 and is well respected within this CESG managed group.
Peter is the Thales Senior INFOSEC Engineer with responsibility for UK MoD Air Platforms covering fixed wing programmes (such as the Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) platforms and the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) training system) and rotary wing air platforms (such as SeaKing, PUMA, and all Chinook platform types). In addition Peter is the lead security architect dealing with the unique security issues provided by the use of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV) on the MoD UK C4ISTAR WATCHKEEPER and Lydian programmes.  Ashley Hulme 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 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.  Lt Col Merfyn Lloyd OBE Merfyn Lloyd was appointed Science Advisor (SA) to Chief of Materiel (Land) (COM(L))in Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) in October 2007 to provide direct support to COM(L) and his staff. In doing so, he covers the broad spectrum of the Land environment to bring together issues that are relevant to or need resolution at 3 star level. In addition, he provides technical direction to several DE&S pilots and projects.  Michael Morua 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 �n 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 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.  David Price David Price joined Pi Shurlok 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 Shurlok OpenECU products, which are revolutionising the development route, from concept to manufacture, of electronic control systems.  Chris Raistrick 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 At TRENTON, Jim focuses on investigating new market opportunities, analyzing emerging technologies, developing and implementing 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 innovative and rugged computer boards and systems for the military, aerospace, government, medical, industrial automation and communication markets.  Steve Trimble 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 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.  Tony White 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. |
