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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Greetings, Space fans!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'>I have attached Version 1.0 of the Space Domain Task Force agenda for the meeting in December at Burlingame (San Francisco). We will meet on Wednesday and Thursday of the OMG meeting week December 4-8, 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Attendance at the Space DTF plenary sessions has more than doubled over the past 18 months. The USAF Space & Missiles Systems Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have both joined as OMG members since the September 2017 meeting. They are seeking to better utilize OMG specifications in their organizational mission and influence the direction of future industry standards. NASA has increased its OMG membership level to Domain and increased their commitment to promoting space industry specifications. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'>The Space DTF is preparing for a productive 2018 as we publish long-awaited revisions (XTCE 1.2) as well as some vital new space industry specifications. Here is an overview of our current planned publications for 2018:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Work in Progress:<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#00A39C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#00A39C'>XTCE 1.2 Revision Task Force Report <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Deadline <b>March 30, 2018 </b></span><u><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#2E75B6;background:white'><a href="http://www.omgwiki.org/space/doku.php?id=xtce"><span style='color:#044A91'>http://www.omgwiki.org/space/doku.php?id=xtce</span></a> </span></u><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>This specification is an information model for spacecraft telemetry and commanding data. For a given mission there are a number of lifecycle phases that are supported by a variety of systems and organizations. Additionally, many of these organizations support multiple heterogeneous missions using a common ground segment infrastructure. Telemetry and command definitions must be exchanged among all of these phases, systems, and organizations. This is made difficult and costly because there is no standard method for exchanging this information. The lack of standardization currently requires custom ingestion of the telemetry and commanding information. This customization is inherently error-prone, resulting in the need to revalidate at each step in the lifecycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#00A39C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#00A39C'>Command & Control Message Specification (C2MS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Goddard Mission Services Evolution Center (GMSEC) has produced a middleware API, message definitions, and message exchange patterns for ground system interoperability that are in use in many ground systems. GMSEC has drafted a model-based satellite command & control message specification (C2MS) that will be submitted to OMG as an RFC at a future meeting. This model specification is intended to support new platform-specific implementations of the messages and exchange patterns, including the US Air Force Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#00A39C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#00A39C'>CubeSat Reference Model<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>With the assistance of the International Council on Systems Engineering, the Space DTF is drafting an RFP for a CubeSat Reference Model (CRM) based on SysML, that can be used to guide CubeSat mission developers from concept to launch. Based on the SysML prototype that INCOSE has developed and provided to multiple university CubeSat programs, a standard model could jump-start the engineering for university, non-profit, and commercial organizations initiating new satellite mission systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'>I also encourage your participation with other groups and activities within the OMG. Besides publishing the modeling specifications (UML/SysML) that facilitate software engineering in space and many other industries, there are special events and tutorials that your organization can benefit from. For example, this is a recent RFI from the Middleware & Related Specifications Task Force (MARS) that is relevant to space systems:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><b><span style='color:black'>Open RFI</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#00A39C'>: </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#00A39C'> <span style='background:white'>Secure Network Communications (SNC)</span></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black;background:white'><a href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc.cgi?mars/2017-9-29"><span style='color:black'>http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc.cgi?mars/2017-9-29</span></a></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Share your input. RFI responses are being accepted until <b>February 16, 2018</b>.<b><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white'>Our goal is to integrate communication software frameworks and technologies with automatic embedded software generation, security/prototyping environments and standard HPEC toolboxes/libraries through modernized standards. We are using this RFI to gauge interest in the SNC WG writing these standards by identifying stakeholders, along with their specific interests and needs. We want to incorporate new technology and modeling techniques. </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Action: <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#00A39C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#00A39C'>Attend: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><a href="http://www.omg.org/events/ca-17/index.htm">OMG’s Technical Meeting, December 4-8, 2018 in Burlingame, CA, USA </a>. Space DTF meets Wednesday and Thursday.</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#00A39C'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#00A39C'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#00A39C'>Save the Date: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>March 19-23, 2018, for the Space DTF Meetings at the <a href="http://www.omg.org/events/va-18/index.htm">OMG Technical Meeting in Reston, VA, USA</a>.</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#00A39C'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for reading. I'm interested in your organization's input, and hope to see you in Burlingame,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Brad Kizzort, co-chair Space DTF<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>