http://www.jpdo.gov The Home Page of the JPDO 120 http://www.jpdo.gov/newsArticle.asp?ID=132 The Joint Planning and Development Office, with its role in facilitating the multi-agency development of NextGen, places considerable emphasis on the value of transparency and open government. These are important values in implementing strategic change. With this in mind, the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) continues to look for ways to promote engagement with other departments and agencies of government. It’s a part of telling the NextGen story. On February 23, the JPDO’s Director of Interagency Architecture and Engineering Division (IAED), Dr. Ed Waggoner, hosted a meeting with a delegation of the Veterans Administration (VA) to discuss the JPDO experience in establishing its Joint Planning Environment (JPE). http://www.jpdo.gov/newsArticle.asp?ID=131 We are excited to announce that the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA, DC Chapter) have rescheduled their symposium on Information Exchange in the aviation environment entitled http://www.jpdo.gov/newsArticle.asp?ID=130 Due to the recent snow storms in the DC-Metro area, the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA, DC Chapter) postponed their symposium on Information Exchange entitled, Beyond SOA & Cloud: Next Generation Information Exchange in High Consequence Environments. Originally scheduled for February 10 at the Hilton Washington, in Washington, DC, this event will now take place at the same venue on either March 18 or 19, depending on the schedules of our speakers. All registrations and sponsorships will be transferred over to the new conference date. The JPDO and AFCEA will send out specific details about the rescheduled event shortly. http://www.jpdo.gov/newsArticle.asp?ID=129 The Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA, DC Chapter), will host a symposium on “Information Exchange” in the context of the Congressionally-mandated Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) initiative. This significant event—Next Generation Information Exchange in High Consequence Environments—will be held on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the Hilton Washington, Washington, DC. http://www.jpdo.gov/newsArticle.asp?ID=128 The Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) recently launched significant updates to two important Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) documents—the NextGen Concept of Operations Version 3.0 and the Safety Culture Improvement Resource Guide Version 1.6.

http://www.jpdo.gov/newsArticle.asp?ID=127 Government agencies and their trusted partners around the world face a common challenge: how to exchange services and information more rapidly, securely, and effectively across organizational and industry boundaries. This kind of Information Exchange is at the heart of transformational improvements in high consequence environments, such as intelligence, healthcare, and, in particular, aviation.