1. 1 United States National Update TBG6 Meeting New Delhi Forum October 2 - 6, 2006

2. 2 Summary Emphasis is on the PSCPM project Getting increasing buy-in from industry, government, and vendors Started working on implementation strategies

3. 3 Industry Boeing –Working on an updated proof of concept –Will lead into the implementation verification Raytheon –Started conversations with Raytheon corporate representatives –Have identified a potential project for implementation verification Northrop Grumman –Started conversations with representatives

4. 4 Government NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) –Expressed great interest in using the standard –DCMA has committed to helping them with their implementation Department of Defense –Increasing interest in the office of the Undersecretary of Acquisitions, Technology, and Logistics –DCMA is working to make the standard known throughout the DoD

5. 5 Vendors Deltek –Have acquired two other vendors (Welcom and C/S Solutions) –Have committed to supporting the standard in their C/S Solutions product (wInsight) Business Engines –Have committed to supporting the standard –Want to include it in their next release (later this year) regardless of its official status Dekker –Have committed to supporting the standard Artemis –Have expressed interest in supporting the standard

6. 6 Implementation DCMA has put together a toolkit that supports use of XML standards –Based on open source components and standards (JBoss, JBX, xFire, XMLBeans, MTOM, Java) –Should facilitate implementation verifications