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Today, new and existing ground systems are being required to become more operationally responsive. We must reduce the time from user request to system response, and rapidly adapt existing ground systems for new capabilities, missions, and interfaces. For GSAW’s twelfth year, we are looking for professionals with experience and insights into software and system architecture issues for operationally responsive spacecraft ground systems. This is the forum for the world’s spacecraft ground system experts to collaborate with other ground system users, developers, and researchers through presentations, working groups, and panel discussions on issues and solutions. GSAW’s affiliation with government and civilian organizations provides an unparalleled opportunity to advance the state of practice and research in architectures for spacecraft ground systems.

GSAW2008 is soliciting presentations covering all aspects of spacecraft ground systems with a special focus on flexible ground system architectures that are more responsive to user timeliness issues and changing requirements. Sessions will address methodologies, lessons learned, business cases and advanced technologies for topics including:

• Net-centric and service-oriented architectures
• Systems-of-systems, horizontal integration and complex systems
• Architecture modeling
• Frameworks and infrastructure
• Space and ground communication architectures
• Interoperability and standards
• Off-the-shelf and open-source components and software reuse
• Information assurance, security and cyber warfare
• Operations and sustainment
• Autonomy and automation
• Human factors
• Mission assurance
• Program, risk and change management

PLENARY PRESENTATIONS
Presentations will be fifteen minutes in length. Submit an abstract describing the results of your work, work in progress, or case studies relevant to one or more of the workshop's focus issues. Abstracts must not exceed two pages in length plus a cover page and should summarize the claims, scope, methodology, and generality of the work. 

WORKING GROUPS
Working Groups will be four hours in length. Submit a proposal for a working group session related to any of the focus issues of the workshop. Chair responsibilities may be found on the website.

TUTORIALS
Full and half-day tutorials are being held March 31, the day before the regular workshop program begins. We are seeking proposals for instructive tutorials on topics related to the GSAW2008 theme and focus issues. Instructor guidelines may be found on the website.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

• Proposals due: November 19, 2007
• Notification of acceptance: December 17, 2007
• Accepted presentations due: March 3, 2008
• Website: http://csse.usc.edu/gsaw or www.aero.org/conferences

UNCLASSIFIED SESSION INFORMATION
The hotel will host the general workshop at which there will be international attendees. Plenary presentations and working group summaries will be made available on the website and published on a CDROM distributed to registered attendees. Send submissions and inquiries to gsaw@aero.org or call 310-336‑0454.

CLASSIFIED SESSION INFORMATION
A classified session will be hosted April 3 at The Aerospace Corporation. The classification level of the presentations will be up to TS/SI/TK. All attendees will be required to have a TS/SCI clearance. Send submissions and inquiries to gsaw@gwan.npa.ic.gov or call 891-2321.