PLCS Implementor Forum February 25, 2010

1. PLCS Implementor Forum February 25, 2010

2. Topics • Objectives • How the PLCS-IF will work • Membership and Organization

3. PLCS-IF Objectives • Provide a neutral and open environment to accelerate development and implementation of PLCS adapters • Establish a vendor independent forum • Ensure that user's requirements are satisfied through real world scenario based testing

4. How the PLCS-IF Will Work • Initially three rounds of testing per year to accelerate development • Round of Testing activities • Software development • Test data preparation • Pre-processing • Syntax and structure validation • Post processing • Semantic analysis and evaluation • Results documentation and presentation

5. How the PLCS-IF Will Work • Each round starts and ends with a meeting • Meetings will be two to three days in duration • Analysis and discussion of results • Discussion and preparation for next round • Open forum presentation of summary results and plan • In between meetings, regular communication via e-mail, conference calls, and collaboration web site

6. Results of Testing • Participant specific testing results will not be provided outside the Implementer Forum • The results of testing a particular scenario may be sufficient so that it does not need additional testing • Testing results may require that a scenario is tested again in future rounds.

7. Results of Testing • Issues with the standard may be uncovered that require changes or extensions to the standard. These will be communicated to the appropriate standards body. • It may not be clear to participants how to implement a specific part of the standard, and recommended practices may need to be developed or modified to guide implementations.

8. PLCS-IF Membership • The PLCS-IF will be open to any organization that has adapters to the PLCS standard and is sponsored by any of the organizations supporting the PLCS-IF. Participants may include, but are not limited to: • Various branches of the Department or Ministry of Defense • OEM software vendors • First and lower tier commercial and defense contractors • Middleware software vendors • Ongoing Forum operations and maintenance will be supported through a Membership and Participant fee structure

9. PLCS-IF Organization PLCS-IF Governing Board PLCS-IF Forum Director PLCS-IF Advisory Board (e.g., rep. from PDES, Inc., OASIS TC, ASD, AIA) Management Infrastructure & Support Technical Infrastructure & Support

10. PLCS-IF Key Roles • Governing Board – Made up of key stakeholders; provides strategic guidance and operational direction to the forum • Forum Director – Responsible for organizing and facilitating the testing activities of the forum, and internal and external communication and marketing • Advisory Board – Provides tactical advice and recommendations to the forum; source of requirements and scenarios; • Management Infrastructure and Support • Supports Forum Director by providing program cost and schedule reports • Provides day to day support to the Forum Director • Technical Infrastructure and Support • Development and maintenance of testing tools and infrastructure • Data model expert to provide guidance to implementors

11. Initial timeline 3 Months 12 Months Inception Phase Sustainment Phase • Develop syntax & structure checker • Create data sets • Integrate RDL • Develop semantic analyzer • Develop statistics and results module • Develop and prioritize use cases • Develop initial testing documentation • For each round of testing: • Check files for proper syntax & structure • Create data sets • Regular conference calls • Reconfigure semantic analyzer • Reconfigure statistics and results module • Develop and prioritize use cases • Develop testing documentation • Develop or modify recommended practices • Meeting to wrap up one round and commence the next round Meetings

12. PLCS-IF Web Portal

13. PLCS IF Software Framework ?

14. For More InformationContact: Phil Rosche (843) 760-3593 rosche@scra.org