1. © 2008 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. September 29-30, 2008 Welcome and Opening Remarks Presented by Dr. Jason Providakes, MITRE Sixth Service-Oriented Architecture for E-Government Conference

2. © 2008 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Conference Theme - Federal Collaboration and SOA U.S. government agencies need enabling services that: reduce complexity in their business processes streamline their technical profile address their security issues. Topics on collaboration in a services environment you will hear over the next two days:  Transitioning with the new Federal administration  Human aspects of collaborating in a shared services environment  Success stories and lessons learned 2

3. © 2008 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. An Opportunity for Collaboration The Conference is designed for collaboration:  Cross agency collaboration  Collaboration with industry  Collaboration with MITRE in its FFRDC role  Designed with 2 hours lunch/networking time each day MITRE is also facilitating two separate SOA-related communities of practice to meet concurrent with conference attendance:  Spacial Ontology  Semantic Exchange These sessions will take place during the 2 hour lunch/networking breaks 3

4. © 2008 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Current MITRE SOA Capabilities Services Modeling Services Engineering Services Management Technical Standards Current MITRE SOA Capabilities Services Modeling Services Engineering Services Management Technical Standards MITRE’s Approach to SOA  Everything begins with the business needs of the agencies  There is a set of enablers for those business needs, the processes and organization  SOA is the disciplined approach which establishes the connection between business processes and the enabling services. 4 Services Architecture Technical Architecture Standards Strategy, People, Core Business Processes Enabling Services Business Architecture Information Security Performance

5. © 2008 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Evolving a MITRE SOA Laboratory Capability Purpose of a SOA Laboratory Educational platform for our Federal Partners A Link and an Offering to compliment exiting industry laboratory capabilities Enhance existing MITRE expertise Testing & Innovation Platform Current Capabilities “SOA In a Box” – Bedford led MITRE Research Project C2C and FFA use of the Fuse API, a commercial open source SOA platform ACME – Agile Capability for Mash-Ups Environment 5

6. © 2008 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Evolving MITRE SOA Knowledge Management MITRE as a SOA Knowledge Management Hub Continued SOA Conferences Evolving MITRE SOA Laboratory Knowledge Sharing Proceedings Whitepapers Wiki, Blog Participation 6

7. © 2008 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. WELCOME! 7