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Calendar Archive, May 2009

Saturday, May 2, 2009
Career Survival for Engineers and Scientists in the 21st Century

Sponsors: IEEE-USA Career & Workforce Policy Committee, Washington Section, Northern Virginia Section, National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Time: Registration 8:00 am, program 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center, 7054 Haycock Rd., Falls Church, VA
Directions: Located adjacent to the West Falls Church Metro station (Orange line). Parking is available on campus and at the Metro station.
Cost: Advance registration (see link below) $10 for unemployed IEEE members or IEEE student members, $25 for IEEE members, $50 for non-members. Family plan: bring a spouse or family member for $10 more. On-site registration will be available at a higher cost. Cash and check payments accepted at the door for advance and on-site registrations.
More Info: This workshop is eligible for 7.0 Professional Development Hours, and PDH certificates will be available at no cost to attendees who register by Monday, April 20. Topics will include adapting to globalization, developing a career strategy, working as a consultant, communicating effectively, writing resumes, networking, and looking into emerging career fields. Continental breakfast and lunch are included. See PDF file (45k) for more information.
Contact: Register by 12:00 noon Friday, May 1 at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/557. For more information or questions, contact Wally Lee at w.h.lee@ieee.org or 301-468-2418.


Saturday, May 2, 2009
IEEE National Capital Area Awards Banquet

Sponsors: Northern Virginia and Washington Sections
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Frederica Darema, Senior Science Analyst, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation; and Dr. Charles K. Alexander, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University, and former President of IEEE.
Time: Reception 6:30 pm, dinner 7:30 pm, program 8:30 pm
Place: Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More info: Both keynote speakers are IEEE Fellows. Additional details will be published in the March-April Scanner and here.
Cost: $25 for IEEE members who purchase tickets (limit 2) by April 10. $75 for all others.
Contact: Reservations are required. A URL for secure online payment is available at http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/capitalarea/banquet09.html, along with an address for payment by check.
Sponsorships: Corporate sponsors may purchase tables of 10 for $750 or single tickets for $125 (includes recognition). For questions about sponsorships and payment arrangements, please contact Mr. Syed Ahmed, Banquet Chair, at 703-298-5235 or syed.f.ahmed@ieee.org.


Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting

There will be no Administrative Committee meeting in May. Please attend the IEEE 125th Anniversary Celebration on May 13.


Tuesday-Thursday, May 5-7, 2009
Second International Workshop on Mutual Recognition Agreements for Conformity Assessment of EMC and Telecommunications Regulations

Sponsors: National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Speakers: Please see the Draft Agenda at the URL below.
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 or 5:15 daily
Place: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
More Info: We invite all interested parties to attend this free workshop. All attendees MUST register no later than Tuesday, April 21. On-site registrations will not be accepted. Come learn about the most pressing issues and challenges for the international telecommunications MRA community. See the conference website at http://ts.nist.gov/Standards/Conformity/mra/2009-MRA-Workshop.cfm to view the draft agenda and list of industry sponsors, register for the workshop, make a hotel reservations, or for more information about visiting NIST.
Cost: Free
Contacts: A list of technical and administrative contacts is provided at the URL above.


Thursday, May 7, 2009
ASQ Biomed/Biotech Special Interest Group Meeting

Sponsor: American Society for Quality (ASQ) Section 509 BioMed/BioTech SIG
Cosponsor: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Speakers: Cathy H. Wu, Ph.D., University of Delaware and Georgetown University Medical Center; and Su Jane Wang, Ph.D., FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Review. (See topics below.)
Time: Refreshments and networking 6:00 pm; program 6:20-9:00 pm
Location: Kelly's Deli Conference Center, 7519 Standish Place, Rockville, MD Directions: From I-270, take Exit 9A. Turn left (East) onto Shady Grove Dr. Turn right onto Rockville Pike (Rte. 355). Turn left onto East Gude Dr. Immediately turn left onto Crabb’s Branch Dr., then left onto Standish Place.
More Info: Dr. Wu's topic is "Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine." Dr. Wang's topic is "A Systematic Framework of Genome Screening Seeking a Predictive Genomic Composite Biomarker for Potential Treatment Individualization." See Diamond story below.
Cost: Free, open to the public.
Contact: Please register at www.asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/35817 by 12:00 noon Thursday, May 7. For questions, contact Dr. George Chang, Biomed/Biotech SIG Chair, at gchang2008@yahoo.com or call 240-793-8425.


Monday-Thursday, May 11-14, 2009
7th International Symposium on Hysteresis Modeling and Micromagnetics

Sponsors: IEEE Magnetics Society, National Institute of Standards and Technology, American Physical Society, American Mathematical Society, The George Washington University Institute for Magnetics Research
Time: Reception 6:00-8:00 pm Monday; technical sessions all day Tuesday-Thursday.
Place: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
More Info: Pre-registration is required. See the conference website at www.metallurgy.nist.gov/magnet/hmm2009/index.html.
Cost: $575.
Contact: hmm2009announce@gmail.com


Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Aeromovel: Innovative Technology for Urban Mobility

Sponsor: Land Transportation Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Lee Rogers, International Transport Planning, Temple Hills, MD
Time: Lunch 11:30 am, presentation 12:00 noon
Place: American Public Transportation Association, 11th Floor Conference Room, 1666 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Take the Metro to Farragut North station (Red Line, use K Street exit) or Farragut West station (Orange and Blue lines, use 17th Street exit).
More Info: See Diamond story below. The National Capital Land Transportation Committee (LTC) holds monthly lunch meetings from September though June. The LTC is jointly sponsored by the ASME Rail Transportation Division and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society of the Washington and Northern Virginia Sections. All interested persons are invited. Membership in ASME or IEEE is not required.
Cost: $20 cash at the door for lunch.
Contact: Please RSVP by 4:00 pm Friday, May 8 to Karl Berger at karl.berger@dcm-va.com or 703-803-7917 or Ken Briers at ken.briers@parsons.com 202-775-3397.


Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee

There will be no Administrative Committee meeting in May.


Wednesday, May 13, 2009
IEEE 125th Anniversary Celebration

Sponsors: Northern Virginia Section, Washington Section
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750, Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks toward Macy's, turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Rd. If driving, see www.ari.vt.edu/ari_directions.html. There is a parking garage in the building with a $1 charge for 3 hours. After 6:00 pm, there is limited free street parking.
More Info: All IEEE members and guests are welcome to attend. A limited number of sponsorships are available for $125 and will include recognition. Technical societies and affinity group chapters are invited to present posters, displays, videos, or oral histories. Each chapter or individual should bring items suitable for a time capsule, which will be prepared at the 125th Anniversary Celebration and opened in 25 years for IEEE's Sesquicentennial Celebration in 2034. Help us make history on the occasion of IEEE's 125th Anniversary!
Cost: 125 cents
Contact: Register at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/467. For more information, please contact Monica Mallini at m.a.mallini@ieee.org for Northern Virginia Section members, or Tim Weil at trweil@ieee.org for Washington Section members.


Thursday, May 14, 2009
Life Members Meeting

Sponsor: Life Members
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave, McLean, VA
Directions: Take Exit 46 from the Beltway and proceed on Route 123 North to McLean, VA, about 2 miles. After crossing Old Dominion Dr., turn left at the next street, Ingleside Ave., and then left on Oak Ridge Ave. The library is on the left.
More Info: A light lunch will be served.
Contact: Dave Booth at 540 364-1350 or 703 346-3540, or dbooth@ieee.org.


Saturday, May 16, 2009
Next Generation Service-Oriented Networks: Modeling, Pricing and Optimization

Sponsors: Communications Society (Washington, Northern Virginia, and Baltimore chapters)
Speaker: Michael Devetsikiotis, Ph.D., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Place: Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences, Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD
More Info:
Diamond story below. Dr. Devetsikiotis is a Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.
Contact: Preregister at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/657. For questions, contact Debi Siering at siering@ieee.org.


Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Lunar Mini-RF Radars, Their Hybrid Polarimetric Architecture, and Other Remote Sensing at JHU/APL

Sponsor: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Speakers: Dr. R. Keith Raney and Mr. Frank Monaldo, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Time: Networking & light refreshments at 4 pm, presentation 4:30 pm
Place: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Parsons Auditorium, Building 1, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd., Laurel, MD
Directions: See www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/visitor/mapcampusold.asp. Use the Building 1 Entrance. Park in the visitor's lot near Building 1 or in any undesignated space.
More Info: For the presentation abstracts, speaker biographies and other information, see http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/grss.
Contact: James C. Tilton at j.tilton@ieee.org.


Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The Art of Consulting, Part 4: Getting Paid (and Other Legal Hassles)

NOTE: Each monthly session is in a different location in Northern Virginia.
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Speaker: Dr. Bob Miller, Trace Systems, Inc.
Time: 6:00-8:30 pm
Place: Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Conference Room 2/3, Fairfax, VA
Directions: See www.fairfaxcounty.gov/maps/locatMap.htm. From I-495, take I-66 West to Exit 55B Fairfax County Pkwy North (Route 7100). Turn right onto Fair Lakes Pkwy East. Turn right at light onto Monument Dr. Turn right at light onto Government Center Pkwy. The Government Center is on the left.
More Info: See Diamond story below. All IEEE members, student members, and guests are welcome. Sandwiches will be served.
Cost: $20 cash at the door.
Contact: Please register by 12:00 noon on May 18 at http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/413. For additional information about the workshop, contact Monica Mallini at m.a.mallini@ieee.org.


Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Washington Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet

Sponsor: Washington Academy of Sciences
Speakers: Dr. Brendan Kelly, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: The Atrium at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the Beltway, take Route 7 toward Tysons Corner. Drive 4.5 miles west on Route 7, turn left onto Beulah Road and drive 2.5 miles to the entrance on the right.
More Info: See www.washacadsci.org/Banquet/Index.htm.
Cost: Member and one guest $45 per person; non-members and additional guests $50 per person; after May 12 $60 per person. To purchase tickets, see the Reservation Form link at the URL listed above.
Contact: For questions, contact banquet@washacadsci.org.


Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Women in Engineering Academic Workshop

Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Time: Greeting 6:30 pm; workshop 7:00 p.m.
Place: North Star Group, Suite 860E Conference Room B, 600 Maryland Ave. SW, Washington, DC
Directions: The Capital Gallery Building is near the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station (Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange lines). Use the Maryland Ave. and 7th Street exit and look for 600 Maryland Ave. (Capital Gallery Building) on your right at the top of the escalator. Enter the building and walk straight ahead past the Vie de France restaurant and turn right to take an elevator to the 8th floor. There is also a parking lot under the building.
More Info: We plan to have information on our Academic Outreach program. All IEEE members, student members, and guests are welcome.
Contact: RSVP by Friday, May 15 to Varetta Huggins at vhuggins@ieee.org.


Thursday, May 21, 2009
LEED and Energy Savings for New & Existing Buildings

Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: Bonnie Remar, General Electric
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750, Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks toward Macy's, turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Rd. If driving, see
www.ari.vt.edu/ari_directions.html. There is a parking garage in the building with a $1 charge for 3 hours. After 6:00 pm, there is limited free street parking.
More Info: A light dinner buffet will be served, followed by the program. All interested persons are invited.
Cost: Free for IEEE members; $10 for non-members.
Contact: Rich Phillips at rdphillips@ekfox.com or 800-520-4771 ext. 113.


Wednesday, May 27, 2009
SCAMPI C Appraisal Using the CMMI for Acquisition

Sponsors: Computer Society, American Society for Quality (ASQ) Section 509 Software SIG, Society for Software Quality (SSQ)
Speaker: Carol Klingler, Lead Software Systems Engineer, MITRE Corp., and John Kennedy
Time: Pizza & networking 6:30 pm, program 7:00 pm
Place: The meeting will be held at five locations using video teleconferencing. The presentation will originate from MITRE Corp., 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA. Other addresses are provided at the registration link below.
More Info: See Diamond story below, and the announcement flyer at www.asq509.org/ht/a/GetDocumentAction/i/38808. All interested IEEE members and guests are invited. If you cannot attend at any location, select telephone dial-in when you register.
Cost: Free
Contact: Registration is required by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, April 26 at www.asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/26913. To RSVP for Silver Spring (FDA), please indicate citizenship. If not a U.S. citizen, please provide your title, employer, and address at least two business days before the meeting. For registration problems or further information, contact Scott Ankrum at ankums@mitre.org or 703-983-6127.


Diamond Stories


Thursday, May 7, 2009
ASQ Biomed/Biotech Special Interest Group Meeting

Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine will be presented by Cathy H. Wu, Ph.D. She is the Edward G. Jefferson Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Delaware; and a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Director, Protein Information Resource, at Georgetown University Medical Center.

A Systematic Framework of Genome Screening Seeking a Predictive Genomic Composite Biomarker for Potential Treatment Individualization will be presented by Su Jane Wang, Ph.D. She is Associate Director, Pharmacogenomics and Adaptive Design, Office of Biostatistics, Office of Translational Sciences Center for Drug Evaluation and Review (CDER), FDA; and adjunct faculty, Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals, Johns Hopkins University.

By unlocking the secrets of the human genetic code, the Human Genome Project has opened an entirely new scientific horizon, rich with opportunities to expand our understanding of the interplay between environment, biology, and pathology. Such knowledge is central to the successful translation of genomic information into tangible benefits for human health. It is, however, a problem of substantial complexity that requires multidisciplinary collaborations among computational, mathematical, biological and clinical expertise.

Bioinformatics and computational biology is an emerging field where biological and computational disciplines converge. With systems integration becoming the driving force for 21st century biology, researchers are systematically tackling gene functions and complex regulatory processes by studying organisms at different levels of organization, from genomes and proteomes to metabolomes and interactomes. An integrative bioinformatics approach in the systems biology context allows researchers to gain fundamental understanding of biological and disease processes, facilitates drug discovery and disease diagnosis, and translates "bench" knowledge into "bedside" benefits.

Systemic genomic screening for biomarkers and related personalized medicine will also be discussed.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Aeromovel: Innovative Technology for Urban Mobility

The Aeromovel system is a new implementation of an old idea: pneumatic propulsion. Aeromovel blowers propel air (under low pressure) through a duct built into the guideway. The pressurized air pushes a propulsion plate attached to the bottom of the vehicle. This propulsion plate acts like an upside down sail, propelling the vehicle forward and helping to stop it when the air flow is reversed.

The light weight of Aeromovel vehicles ensures that energy is not wasted moving heavy deadweight (empty vehicles); the extreme simplicity and high reliability of Aeromovel results in reduced maintenance requirements. Air propulsion eliminates the problems of heavy rail traction; wear on wheels and tracks is reduced to a minimum.

Acceleration and deceleration are smooth and efficient; traction noise and vibration are minimized; vehicle speed can reach 80 km per hour (50 mph) in urban applications. The combination of pneumatic propulsion and non-axle wheel design permits Aeromovel vehicles to climb steep gradients up to 12% and traverse sharp curves with a radius as low as 25 meters (82 feet).

The use of stationary air blower permits optimum design of power plants in relation to specific requirements for each route segment. Major cost savings are obtained by appropriate sizing of air blowers for each route section.

Lee Rogers is a transport planner with extensive international experience. He has worked with local airlines, international carriers, and helicopter firms to address regulatory issues. He evaluated intermodal patterns for the merger of the Union Pacific and Rock Island railroads. He was involved with the marketing of Aeromovel technology in Brazil and Indonesia.

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Saturday May 16, 2009
Next Generation Service-Oriented Networks: Modeling, Pricing and Optimization

With advances in various networking technologies creating connections with enormous bandwidth and low latency, transport services offered by telecommunication service providers are becoming commoditized. In order to differentiate their services against those of their competitors, these service providers are seeking to enable value-added services layered on top of the commodity transport service. At the same time, businesses across all industries realize the need to be flexible and adaptable to change in order to succeed in today's information-driven economy.

A robust, scalable, and dynamic communication and integration infrastructure is necessary to connect service consumers and providers within and between corporations. Service-oriented networking (SON) is an emerging architecture that directly addresses this need by enabling network devices to operate at the application layer to provide functions such as service-based routing, content transformation, and protocol integration to consumers and providers. We anticipate that enterprise applications of the future will leverage distributed SON deployment patterns where large numbers of SON devices coordinate with peers using network-wide application-specific policies, in order to determine the appropriate points in the network to perform configuration changes based on prevailing network and application conditions.

Modeling and adaptation of resources based on state and workload (current or predicted) is highly desirable in emerging high-performance computing and information service systems, on the path towards completely "autonomic" services. In this seminar, we provide an overview of our efforts at NC State, in collaboration with IBM, Cisco and Nortel, to develop frameworks and algorithms for modeling of emerging next generation network-based services, predictive and dynamic resource allocation, traffic modeling and adaptive scheduling.

We describe techniques in a modeling and control framework that includes quality of service, pricing and economic considerations. We present an overview of approaches that we have used for profit or utility-oriented scheduling in service access nodes. We are currently working to apply similar techniques to Web services, network appliances and multimedia services (e.g., SIP and IMS).

Michael Devetsikiotis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the Dipl. Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

As a student he received scholarships from the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece, the National Technical Chamber of Greece, and the Phi Kappa Phi Academic Achievement Award for a Doctoral Candidate at North Carolina State University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the honor societies of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi.

In October 1993, Dr. Devetsikiotis joined the Broadband Networks Laboratory at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, as a post-doctoral fellow and research associate. He later became an adjunct research professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, in April 1995, an Assistant Professor in July 1996, and an Associate Professor in July 1999. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State as an Associate Professor in October 2000, and became a Professor in July 2006. He remains an Adjunct Research Professor in the SCE Department, Carleton University. He is also an active member of the Operations Research faculty, and an associate member of the faculty of Computer Science at NC State.

Dr. Devetsikiotis served as Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling and is now a member of the Communications Society's Education Board. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and is currently an Area Editor of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling, the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and the Journal of Internet Engineering.

He has co-chaired the Next Generation Internet symposium under IEEE ICC 2002 in New York, the High-Speed Networks symposium under IEEE ICC 2004 in Paris, the Quality, Reliability and Performance Modeling (QRPM) symposium under IEEE ICC 2006 in Istanbul, and the Quality, Reliability and Performance for Emerging Network Services symposium under IEEE Globecom 2006 in San Francisco. He served recently as Workshops Chair for IEEE Globecom 2008 in New Orleans, and will co-chair the QRPM Symposium under IEEE Globecom 2010.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The Art of Consulting: Getting Paid (and Other Legal Hassles)

The National Capital Area Consultants Network is pleased to present an encore of a series that was very popular a few years ago, The Art of Consulting. Developed by local members, the series combines presentations with a roundtable discussion forum to help you determine how consulting fits into your career plan in the current economic climate. If you've been thinking about becoming a consultant, or thinking that you might have to, here's something you won't want to miss. We'll show you what works, what doesn't work, and what it takes to make it in business.

The Art of Consulting series is designed for IEEE members and other engineers who practice consulting, are thinking about consulting, or want to take charge of their careers. Sessions will cover topics such as running a consulting business, marketing, getting paid, contracts, and effective communication. Attendees can expect to hear fresh ideas and proven techniques from experienced consultants. They will find a hospitable, informal atmosphere in which to compare notes with others to find out what works and what doesn't - from people who know.

Part 4: Getting Paid (and Other Legal Hassles) will cover an often neglected aspect of doing business: getting paid. More specifically, we'll talk about why that might not happen, and defensive strategies you can use to make sure that you do get paid. Contracts are important, but a contract cannot protect you completely. There are simple but vital steps that you need to take from the very beginning to avoid problems. Relax -- we'll show you how.

Bob Miller, the workshop leader, owns Trace Systems, Inc., which provides custom software and electronic design services. Dr. Miller is experienced in bringing high tech products to high volume production. He managed the group at Zenith that first put Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filters into color televisions for the first time. These devices are now mass produced worldwide, in quantities of over 50 million per year. He has a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He received three George Westinghouse Innovation Awards for commercial product concepts. He has six patents, over 25 publications, and is the principal author of Acoustic Charge Transport, published by Artech House in 1992. Visit his website at www.tracesystemsinc.com.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
SCAMPI C Appraisal Using the CMMI for Acquisition

This presentation, Boldly Going Where Few Have Gone Before: SCAMPI C Appraisal Using the CMMI for Acquisition, will describe lessons learned from performing a successful SCAMPI C appraisal using the CMMI-ACQ. The presentation will emphasize practical guidance that can be used by others performing appraisals against the CMMI-ACQ.

Topics in the presentation will include:

  • • Applicability of CMMI-ACQ specific practices to the government program office, contractors performing program management office functions, and suppliers.
  • • Areas of the CMMI-ACQ that may be difficult to appraise because they are often performed by a separate government organization.
  • • Differing experience needs of a CMMI-ACQ appraisal team versus a CMMI-DEV appraisal team.
  • • Preparing the appraisal team for using the CMMI-ACQ.
  • • Areas of the CMMI-ACQ that may be confusing to appraisal team members new to the CMMI-ACQ.

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