TSCP to Present at Air Transport Association e-Business Forum

Oct. 18, 2007

HERNDON, Va., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Air Transport Association (ATA) e-Business Forum has invited the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP), the only government-industry partnership solving multi-national collaborative security needs in the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry, to present on secure information sharing at this year's conference.

The forum will provide a high-level overview of the latest commercial aviation industry developments to support engineering, maintenance, material and flight operations. It will also explore next-generation industry application standards and lessons learned from military aerospace collaboration projects. Attendees will learn how to achieve significant savings, increased security and operational efficiencies from the use of common global specifications.

On Thursday, Jeff Nigriny, U.S. outreach director for the TSCP, will detail the security implications of international information exchange between public and private organizations.

WHO: Jeff Nigriny, U.S. outreach director for the TSCP, president of CertiPath and CSO of Exostar WHAT: "Communities of Trust" WHEN: October 18, 2007 at 3:45 p.m. ET WHERE: ATA e-Business Forum, Miami, Florida

On Friday, Kaus Phaltankar, VP of business solutions for CertiPath, the TSCP's managing body, will demo the TSCP's first public specification, secure e-mail, and its benefits to the A&D industry.

WHO: Kaus Phaltankar, VP of business solutions for CertiPath WHAT: Demonstration of Secure E-mail framework WHEN: October 19, 2007 at 10:45 a.m. ET WHERE: ATA e-Business Forum, Miami, Florida

The TSCP is chartered with defining the specifications for identity federation, online collaboration and digital rights management-related technologies in mission-critical A&D environments. Current TSCP members include the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and General Services Administration (GSA); U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Department of Trade & Industry (DTI); the Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MoD); BAE Systems; The Boeing Company; EADS/Airbus; Lockheed Martin; Northrop Grumman; Raytheon; and Rolls-Royce.

For more information on the ATA e-Business Forum, please visit: http://www.ataebiz.org/forum

About TSCP

TSCP is the only government-industry partnership specifically focused on designing solutions to address the most critical issues facing the A&D industry: mitigating the compliance, complexity, cost and IT security risks inherent in large-scale, multi-national collaborative programs. The TSCP was founded in 2002, and has delivered several specifications and guidance documents on securing A&D supply chain data. The group today focuses on identity federation policies and governance. The TSCP is open to government organizations, prime contractors, integrators, suppliers and member trade groups. For more information, please visit http://www.tscp.org.

About CertiPath

CertiPath, LLC - a joint venture between ARINC, Exostar and SITA - enables secure trusted identity assurance between organizations, partners, and customers through the first commercially managed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based bridging mechanism. Initially designed for the international aerospace and defense (A&D) community, the CertiPath PKI bridge enables the transfer of secured and authenticated data globally between participating companies and domestic and foreign government agencies. This shared trust network drives down the cost of using PKI globally, as well as the cost associated with maintaining secured customer and supplier relationships on a one-on-one basis. For more information or to become a CertiPath customer, please visit http://www.certipath.com.

SOURCE Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program

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