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Sanjay Garg – Director Tom Butash – Deputy DirectorMitch Ingham – Deputy DirectorTerry Morris – Deputy DirectorJim Rankin – Deputy Director

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Information Systems Group

• Overview• Recent Accomplishments• TC Status• Awards• Conferences• Moving Forward Plans

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Information Systems Group - Overview

My Goals•Strengthen AIAA by broadening its appeal to the emerging large segment of information system technology developers contributing to aerospace advancements: 1)All the TCs in the group are in good health and making valuable contributions to the AIAA goals

- Working with specific TCs to address membership, participation in AIAA activities etc.

2)The AIAA leadership recognizes the value of the information system technologies and provides adequate forums for bringing visibility to the contributions of this segment of the aerospace community

- Continue to work with AIAA leadership to have high visibility Information Systems related activities at Forum 360 level

3) The leadership of the TCs works together as a group to help attract the next generation of aerospace professionals to AIAA.

- Emphasizing to the TCs to attract Young Professionals and provide them significant roles

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Information Systems Group – Recent Accomplishments

• Established the Aerospace Cybersecurity Working Group Group has been very active and is bringing visibility for this area at AIAA forums. Panels at 2014 SciTech

and Space Forums. 25 members representing 12 PCs/TCs 6 months progress report score card provided as an addendum

• Updated name and scope for Sensor Systems and Information Fusion TC This will help the TC be stronger and aligned with emerging focus on sensor information fusion

• Reformulated the structure for Call for Papers for Infotech@Aerospace Provides opportunity for each of the TCs to have visible participation A strong I@A at 2015 SciTech in partnership with Unmanned Systems PC

• Bringing visibility to emerging technologies at AIAA Forums Worked with Emerging Technologies Committee to have a 360 deg panel on “Big Data Analytics for

Aerospace” at 2015 SciTech Forum A technical paper session on same topic at 2015 SciTech Proposed a 360 deg panel on “NASA Plans for Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation” for 2015 SciTech

• Established biweekly ISG leadership telecons Regularly share high level AIAA information with TC Chairs so that everyone is aware of challenges being

faced by the institution and changes taking place

• Closed out old business – Information Systems Review Data collected previously was not adequate to meet the objectives set out for the review

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Information Systems Group – TC Status

• Communications Systems – Very Active Good subcommittee structure, very active international participation. Award in good health Concerned about lack of visibility for ICSSC in the new AIAA forum structure

• Computer Systems – Struggling TC membership declining and not very active. Has struggled to keep up with emerging

technology areas. Needs active support from ISG leadership

• Digital Avionics – Very Active Strong subcommittee structure. Best papers including student papers. Healthy conferences

and award. Active participation in AIAA Section/Region activities Runs as an autonomous body – challenge is to strengthen ties with AIAA

• Information, Command & Control Systems – Struggling Static membership focused on defense related work. Needs active support from ISG

leadership Defense forum will provide opportunity to reinvigorate.

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Information Systems Group – TC Status (contd.)

• Intelligent Systems TC – Very Active Strong subcommittee structure. Very active participation in I@A conference. Bi-annual

special issues of JAIS. Best papers including student papers. Taking new initiatives – quarterly newsletter, workshop focused on autonomy being held Aug

7-8, Dayton OH. • Sensor Systems and Information Fusion TC – Needs Improvement

TC name and scope change will help to get to healthy status – TC chair motivated • Software TC – Active

Good participation in I@A, good subcommittee structure, healthy award. Active leadership. Leading ACWG. Strong collaboration with various other TCs.

ISG leadership input to be shared with TC leadership: consider writing annual highlight article for Aerospace America, strengthen membership and participation in conferences, actively pursue publishing papers in JAIS

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Information Systems Group – Awards• Summary

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Award Name Yearly (Y)/ Biannual (B) Technical Committee “New Venue

Aerospace Communications Y, Oct 1 Communications Systems Space (even), ICSSC (odd, non-U.S)

Aerospace Software Engineering B, Odd Years, July 1 Software Systems SCITECH

Dr. John Ruth Digital Avionics B, Odd Years, July 1 Digital Avionics Digital Avionics Conf

Information Systems B, Odd Years, July 1 Computer Systems, Sensor Systems

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Intelligent Systems B, Odd Years, July 1 Intelligent Systems SCITECH• Status

Information Systems Award not issued 2 consecutive periods. Have assigned responsibility to Terry Morris to establish a nominating committee and take active role to bring the award back to healthy status

Other awards are in good health The 3 awards to be presented at SciTech are all odd years – should we look into moving one to even years?

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Information Systems Group – Conferences

• Infotech@Aerospace Conference firmly established at SciTech Forum Jim Rankin to lead a team of TC representatives to develop an operating procedures manual

for I@A – ensure “transparent” process for selection of Information Systems Technical Chair

• International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) – Communications Systems TC: held with Space Forum in even years, and outside US in odd years ICSSC co-sponsored or co-organized with AIAA in even years Various issues with CMSTC/ICSSC which are currently being worked with TAC/AIAA

leadership

• Digital Avionics System Conference (DASC) and Integrated Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) – Digital Avionics TC Stand alone – co-sponsored by AIAA. In good health

• ISSUE – Is AIAA leveraging the value from co-sponsoring conferences? “Organizing society provides AIAA list of attendees and email addresses after the event for

AIAA to use in membership and other outreach” - Need a process to collect the information and ensure that it is being used effectively by AIAA

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Information Systems Group – Moving Forward Plan

• Continue to strengthen I@A – have well established procedure for selecting leadership team, updating call for papers, documenting lessons learned/best practices etc.

• Have visible ISG participation at other forums – Aviation, Space, Defense Already identified IS Technical Chair for 2015 Space – Mitch Ingham Working on identifying IS Technical Chair for 2015 Aviation Will work with Information and Command & Control Systems (ICCS) TC to lead participation in

Defense

• Continue to work with TC Chairs to strengthen Computer Systems and ICCS TCs• Continue to strengthen partnership with JAIS – have more TCs take leadership on special issues

in their areas• Work with AIAA/TAC leadership to address CMSTC/ICSSC issues• Look into establishing a Working Group on “Big Data Analytics for Aerospace”• Ensure AIAA is the forum of choice for emerging emphasis on “Autonomy in Civil Aviation” –

work this through ISTC• Aerospace world is “multi-disciplinary”. Will like to have greater partnership with other Groups for

joint sessions at forums – any suggestions?• Other suggestions ?

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ACWG Six Month Progress Report and Future Plans (January – July, 2014)

Aerospace Cybersecurity Working Group (ACWG)Prepared by Sam Adhikari, Chair, ACWGJuly18, 2014

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ACWG performance scorecard (January - July, 2014)and future plans

Activities as per charter and projected outcomes/goals

Six-month (January - July, 2014)Accomplishments

Future Plans

Recruitment of new members and SMEs Membership grew from 7 to 26 with many SMEs

Will continue activities

AIAA TCs/PCs Represented by ACWG Members

12 TCs/PCs Will continue activities

Corporations, Research Labs, Universities, NGOs represented by ACWG Members

17 Will continue activities

Other Related Professional Organizations Represented by ACWG Members

20 Will continue activities

Position and white papers Whitepaper on definition of Cybersecurity

Need to accelerate activities

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ACWG performance scorecard (January - July, 2014)and future plans

Activities as per charter and projected outcomes/goals

Six-month (January - July, 2014)Accomplishments

Future Plans

Support cyber security related forums and sessions

SciTech 2014 Conference – Cybersecurity in Space Systems Panel, January 14, 2014, National Harbor, MD

Space 2014 Forum Conference - Cybersecurity in Space Systems Panel, August 6, 2014, San Diego, CA

Space Mission Challenges in Information Technology Conference – Workshop on Cyber Risk for Modern Space Missions, September 25, 2014

IEEE Aerospace Conference – Technical paper session on Cybersecurity in Aerospace Operations, March 7-14, 2015, Big Sky, MT

Will continue activities

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ACWG performance scorecard (January - July, 2014)and future plans

Activities as per charter and projected outcomes/goals

Six-month (January - July, 2014)Accomplishments

Future Plans

Engage in Recommendations of Guidelines and Best Practices

Hierarchical decomposition of the Aerospace domain (continuing),

Aviation related WG activities

Need to accelerate activities

Identify cybersecurity issues and risks related to the aerospace industry

Questionnaire developed and ready for dissemination across

AIAA TCs/PCs, Aviation related EG Activities

Will continue activities

Help in development of recommendations in support of congressional testimony and public

policy activities of AIAA

No activity yet Need to start activities

Training aerospace professionals in cybersecurity Monthly telecon presentations by SMEs, participation in various

forums and panels

Will continue activities

Interface with relevant external and internal initiatives for threat analysis and response

No activity yet Need to start activities