XML Working Group Joan Ugljesa NDIA PMSC February 8, February 4, 2005

February, Background What’s the purpose of the working group? Migrate the essence of the schedule and cost ANSI X12 transaction sets (806, 839) and UN/EDIFACT messages (PROTAP, PROCST) to an XML schema format Intent is to: Address formal government contract requirements Facilitate data exchange between other related entities such as a prime and their subs

February, What’s the End Benefit? A library of XML cost and schedule components defined in a broadly used industry standard Software vendor neutral format Established a formal standard that can be cited in contracts and requirements much like the ANSI X12 EDI transaction sets or the EIA/ANSI 748 EVMS standard Prevent new projects from reinventing the wheel – use suite of XML components in an ebusiness architecture framework

February, What’s Happened So Far PMSC meeting August, 2003 Work group formed PMSC meeting January, 2004 Motion made and carried to take the formal standards path February – June, 2004 Initiated contacts to determine best path forward (X12, CEFACT, OAGi) Selected Open Applications Group (OAGi)

February, About OAGi Not for profit industry consortium Standards development organization Uses ebXML core components (OAGIS 9.0) Broad set of schemas are widely used nationally and internationally (10 year history) Endorsed by and affiliated with other industry associations (AIA, European aerospace industry) UN/CEFACT approved XML syntax payload Practical, well proven, fast track approach to developing royalty free schemas Good fit for project management data!

February, What’s Happened So Far July - October, 2004 Worked with OAGi to identify three member sponsors to form a new working group November, 2004 Attended OAGi meeting to meet with potential sponsors: AF, Lockheed Martin, Boeing

February, What’s Happened So Far Outcome of November OAGi meeting: New OAGi A&D working group formed, AF is lead Two working groups under this umbrella: eOrder and Program Management Sponsors for PM data: AF, LM, Boeing Oracle and SAP have joined the working group

February, Influences and Politics France consortium, Boost Aero is putting pressure on AIA members to use their schemas Goal is a global XML standard for A&D under CEFACT (CEFACT has endorsed their outputs) Current focus: logistics, ordering, supply chain Not complete Proposed AIA member approach Use OAGi (Version 9.0) as tactical solution (now) CEFACT ebXML as the converging strategic solution (later)

February, OAGi Proposed Plan – PM Schemas Target complete date: July, 2005 Project definition phase: Initial steps complete Construction phase: March through May Key output: Use case scenarios (UML) Testing phase: Dependent on software vendor involvement Review and approval phase: June/July Publication: July/August Also dependent on eOrder working group to resolve security issues (user authentication and authorization) Dependent on status of security standard (SAML)

February, Resources ebXMLwww.ebxml.org OASISwww.oasis-open.org UN/CEFACTwww.unece.org/cefact/index.htm Open Applications Group (OAGi) Log of working group activities and documents Follow the link at the bottom of the home page