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Second Annual SOA Symposium
 BTA staff with CPS CEO Panzarella and SOA event guest Ripken
ARLINGTON, VA—April 21-22, 2010—The Second Annual SOA Symposium was a huge success. Hosted by Dennis Wisnosky, BMA CTO and CA, ODCMO, the event sported an all-star line-up of DoD officials, subject matter experts, SOA practitioners and celebrity personalities, who brought together lessons learned and emerging topics from government and industry SOA projects.

BTA staffed a booth during the Symposium to answer attendee questions and socialize the BTA mission. In addition, BTA personnel from the EP&I architecture development team conducted hourly presentations to provide overviews of how the BEA is used to transform the management and implementation of DoD business systems. Sessions included live demonstrations of BEA 7.0 content and focused on data integration through development of common vocabularies, Enterprise Standards, E2E Business Flows, implementation of Federation concepts and alignment to the DoD SMP.

Members of the BTA staff appear with special SOA guest Cal Ripken, Jr. (L-R) Scott Williams, Jessica Zucal, CPS CEO Phil Panzarella, Isabel Rubio, Ripken and Randy Coleman

With the theme "Discipline, Teamwork & Semantic Technologies", the conference hosted more than 400 participants from federal agencies, industry and academia, and covered the SOA lifecycle, technical issues, governance and policy aspects, as well as emerging innovations and issues of semantic integration and collaborative service-oriented solutions. Subject matter was subdivided into five tracks:

  • Track 1: Service-Oriented Architecture & Solutions
  • Track 2: SOA Case Studies
  • Track 3: Semantic Services, Data Management & Analytics
  • Track 4: Service Modeling, Service-Oriented Design & SOA Design Patterns
  • Track 5: Governance & Security

Response from attendees has been overwhelmingly positive, reflecting the outstanding value of the Symposium from a content, networking, and organization perspective.

CPS SOA Symposium Leadership and Support Staff
Sessions were well received by DoD personnel from many services and agencies with various levels of familiarity with the BEA. One consistent comment from attendees was that they had not realized how much useful information was available and downloadable from the BEA public Web site for their architecture and systems development efforts. Several attendees requested follow-up meetings to further explore specific opportunities for collaboration with BTA.

The SOA Symposium is a premier annual conference services offering a forum for practitioners, analysts, and industry representatives to present and discuss experiences and trends. Conference sessions are directed at business and technical architects, analysts, decision makers and IT practitioners.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has embarked on a path to implement SOA as a primary means to deliver increased capability to the warfighter by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations.

"Industry around the world has demonstrated that SOA can substantially reduce the cost of IT infrastructure while greatly improving business agility. The road to SOA must be traveled with a proven inclusive architecture that is jointly owned and managed by both the IT and the business communities in any organization.
To be successful, SOA must be considered to be a team sport that involves all elements of people, process, technology and especially trust."
—Dennis Wisnosky, CTO, BMA, US Department of Defense

This event was delivered in cooperation with CPS Professional Services, LLC, a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) dedicated to facilitating strategic success through business transformation.

Connecting VETS to USDA Training Conference
 CPS CEO Phil Panzarella on USDA panel
CPS CEO Phil Panzarella was invited by USDA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Program Manager Linda Epstein to represent CPS work at the "Connecting Vets to USDA Training Conference", November 17, 2009. A vendor outreach program, this annual conference promotes opportunities for veteran-owned small businesses to provide service to various agencies within the USDA, and highlights best practices for accessing these opportunities.

SDVOSBs providing products and services to the USDA described challenges encountered and discussed strategies they utilized to become successful players in the federal contracting arena. Information technology executives also discussed IT requirements and emerging trends within department agencies. Breaks were provided to attract small businesses to network with each other and with successful contractors such as CPS, who know how to service USDA programs most effectively. CPS has been a favored USDA service provider with a consistently positive record of past performance, including Business Transformation, Decision Support, Policy and Procedure development and Security Training. CPS regularly teams with SDVOSB partners on contracts of all sizes.

American Freedom Foundation / Festival on 09 Cox Local Edition
CPS CEO Phil Panzarella on Cox Local Edition
CPS CEO Phil Panzarella and Sgt. Major of the Army (ret.) Jack Tilley of the American Freedom Foundation joined Cox Local Edition September 21, 2009, to talk about their upcoming benefit concert. Country music artists Montgomery Gentry, Lee Ann Womack, and Phil Vassar performed at the George Mason Patriot Center on Saturday, November 7th. All proceeds were dedicated to benefit our wounded veterans and their families.

CPS is a proud sponsor of the American Freedom Festival. Organized by the American Freedom Foundation, Inc., this event features country music performers, actors, athletes, dignitaries and other supporters, joining together to raise money and awareness for the veterans of America's armed forces and their families whose lives have been affected by Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Tickets for this annual event are available for purchase online or by calling 202-397-SEAT or 703-573-SEAT. Tickets are available to our military at a discounted rate.