SIGAda 2007 extended early registration rates

SIGAda 2007 extended early registration rates

[John McCormick]

SIGAda 2007 has extended its early registration rates through November
1st!  This allows everyone to take advantage of the lower rates during
the time that the government is working under a Continuing Resolution
(CR) for appropriations.

Note that current policy regarding a Continuing Resolution does not
prohibit attendance at conference tutorials, workshops, and sessions
which are directly related and relevant to current duties and
responsibilities of software engineers, information technology
specialists, IT security engineers, managers, etc. Such attendance is
justified and can currently be funded by the federal government. The
SIGAda 2007 conference falls under this policy.

As the SIGAda 2007 conference is scheduled shortly after the
government's new fiscal year, we encourage all federal government
employees and contractors to take this opportunity to attend and
register using the early registration rates, now extended through
November 1st to everyone.  More information is available on our
website at http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2007/

SIGAda 2007 includes Tutorials on Exposing Ada Web Services Using a
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Ada 2005, Security by
Construction, and Languages for Safety-Critical Software: Issues and
Assessment DO178/DO278. It also includes Technical Papers such as High
Assurance Profile for CORBA, Neural Networks, and SPARK Ada.
Exhibitors are Lockheed Martin, AdaCore, OC Systems, Praxis, Northrop
Grumman, Telelogic, Genco Systems, ARTiSAN Software, Ellidiss
Software, Aonix, and Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.

The workshops include a Two-Day Summit on Software Analysis sponsored
by NIST and the Department of Homeland Security. All the Workshops are
free with a minimum one-day conference registration. The conference
will have a grand Banquet on Tuesday evening with outstanding Ethnic
Cultural Performances.

As a recent note of interest to the Ada community, the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) has just announced Government Acceptance
of a multi billion dollar Ada based core Air Traffic Control System
developed on budget and ahead of schedule (see
http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=7714 for
details).