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OMG Advances Standards at Technical Meeting; Elects New Board Members in Santa Clara, Calif.
Meeting December 8-12 also featured SysML Information Days,
and co-located meetings of the BPM Consortium and SOA Consortium

Needham, MA, USA - December 22, 2008 - Members of the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) met in Santa Clara, Calif., during the week of December 8-12, 2008. At this meeting, three final reports for specifications finished the adoption process and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees approved the issuance of four new requests for information/proposal. Four members were elected to the OMG Board of Directors. A new task force, the System Assurance PTF, was chartered. This meeting was co-located with the SOA Consortium and the BPM Consortium.

The following were elected to serve on the OMG Board of Directors:

• Pete Rivett, CTO, Adaptive
• Rob James, Director of IT Architecture, HSBC
• Richard A. Russel, Business Development Technologist, Northrop Grumman
• Robert Lario, Principal, Visumpoint

The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve three specifications:

• Federal Transition Framework (FTF) FTF Final Report
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Services 2.0 FTF Final Report
• 2nd Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) FTF Final Report

Additional Specifications Moving Toward Adoption
In addition to the specifications mentioned, the following specifications are expected to go before the OMG Board of Directors for adoption at the next meeting.

• Robotic Localization Service RFP
• Executable UML Foundation Revised Submission
• CORBA Binding for WSDL RFC
• Ruby CORBA Language Mapping RFC
• GIOP Compression Submission
• DDS for Lightweight CCM Submission
• UPMS Submission
• Retrieve, Locate, Update Service (RLUS) Revised Submission
• UPDM RFC Submission
• Smart Antenna FTF Report
• Ground Equipment Monitoring Svc 1.0 FTF report

Get Involved: Processes Open for Participation
OMG is an open-membership organization and welcomes any organization, government agency, or university to join and contribute to our specifications. The following were issued in Santa Clara and are currently open to participation.

• UML Profile for XBRL Global Ledger Framework RFP
• Naval Meteorological & Oceanographic RFP
• Future Development of UML RFI
• Handling Non-Functional Properties in a Service Oriented Architecture RFI

Non-members may download information on any of these Request processes from http://www.omg.org/public_schedule. For some processes, member votes have extended the Letter of Intent (LOI) dates beyond the deadline stated in the Request for Proposals (RFP). For more information on any RFP, send an email to info@omg.org.

New Task Force
The System Assurance PTF was chartered in Santa Clara. This new task force combines the interests and work of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Task Force and the Software Assurance Special Interest Group. Djenana Campara, CEO, Hatha Systems and Ben Calloni, Lockheed Martin Fellow, Lockheed Martin, are acting co-chairs of the new Task Force.

Meeting Sponsors
This meeting was sponsored by: Annual Sponsors: No Magic, Inc., PrismTech, Sparx Systems; and Silver Sponsors: Interfacing, Lombardi Software and VisumPoint.

Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. during the week of March 23-27, 2009. Members and non-members are invited to attend the Information Days; the BPM Consortium event "BPM in Government;" OMG Tutorials; and the co-located meeting of the SOA Consortium (http://www.soa-consortium.org) that will be held during the meeting week.

Interested non-members may attend OMG Technical Meetings as observers; for an invitation see http://www.omg.org/tcguest. Members may register for the meeting at http://www.omg.org/registration. All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.omg.org/specifications.

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About OMG
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries, including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based Communications and Space.

OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG's middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries. 

More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org. OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.

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Edited by Stephanie