LONDON, February 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Breakthroughs in Secure Information Sharing on the Agenda

At this year's Defence IT 08 conference, members of the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) will discuss issue and opportunities in secure information sharing in mission-critical environments, with an emphasis on how the obstacles are being overcome.

The session, moderated by John Taylor, Director General Information at the Ministry of Defence, will offer attendees a first-hand look at how organizations like BAE SYSTEMS, Rolls-Royce, the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S. Department of Defense are working together on initiatives such as secure e-mail, identity federation, online collaboration and digital rights management.

WHO: Chair: Mr. John Taylor, Director General Information, UK MoD Mr. Nick Bleech, IT Security Director, Rolls-Royce plc Mr. Des Powley, Technical Director, Security and ID Management, Oracle UK Mrs. Sue Weber, Deputy Director Information Assurance, DSSO Mr. Neil Ellett, Senior Partner, PA Consulting Mr. Wayne Grundy, Director, TSCP, UK CeB WHAT: "Information Assurance: How the sharing of information can be enabled and secured" WHEN: Thursday, February 21, 2008 from 1200-1330 [GMT] WHERE: Defence IT 08 Conference, RUSI, Westminster, United Kingdom

The TSCP is a unique industry partnership, bringing government agencies, aerospace and defence (A&D) companies and technology solutions companies together to define and test robust specifications that allow organizations to collaborate globally.

For more information on the Defence IT 08 conference, please visit:

http://www.dem-ltd.com/pdf/events/defence-it-082008.pdf

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 www.tscp.org.

Web site: http://www.tscp.org

Adam Parken of Corporate Ink Public Relations, +1-617-969-9192, aparken@corporateink.com, for Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program