By Judy Cerenzia, The Open Group
Coming on the heels of the release of Edition 2.0 of the FACE Technical Standard and recent procurement pull from the Army and Navy, The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium is pleased to announce a groundbreaking FACE Air Force Technical Interchange Meeting and Exposition. The event is taking place April 2, 2013 at the Holiday Inn Dayton/Fairborn in Fairborn, OH, near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The Exposition will feature more than 25 partners from Industry and Government and offer a showcase of products and tools that are aligned with the FACE Technical Standard, which helps ensure warfighters can quickly and affordably benefit from continued software innovations.
Our Air Force hosts have put together a great lineup of speakers including keynotes by Lt Gen C. D. Moore II, Commander, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), and Maj Gen Dwyer L. Dennis, Air Force PEO Fighter Bomber. Attendees will also hear the perspective of industry executives with presentations from GE Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rockwell Collins and Real Time Innovations.
The FACE Consortium formed in June 2010 as a government and industry partnership to define an open avionics environment for all military airborne platform types. It has since grown into an aviation-focused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers and users. It provides a vendor-neutral forum for industry and government to work together to develop and consolidate the open standards, best practices, guidance documents and business strategy that promote acquisition of affordable software systems, innovation and rapid integration of portable capabilities across global defense programs, and higher efficiency to deploy capabilities.
FACE Air Force Technical Interchange Meeting and Exposition
Location: Holiday Inn Dayton/Fairborn in Fairborn, OH
(near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)
Date: April 2, 2013
Time: 8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
While the primary target audience is the aviation community based at Wright-Patterson AFB, this event is open to anyone who is interested in open standards and open architectures for aviation systems. There is no fee to attend, but we ask that you register in advance. To register, please visit: www.opengroup.org/FACE/events.
Judy Cerenzia is currently The Open Group’s Program Director for the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium. Judy has 10+ years senior program management experience leading cross-functional and cross-organizational teams to reach consensus, define, and meet business and technical goals during project lifecycles.