LONDON, February 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Panel to Address Secure Information Sharing Requirements That Support the Front Lines

Exostar's senior vice president, Ludo Van Vooren, joins a prestigious panel of speakers at the Defence IT 08 Conference, to discuss the role of business-to-business networks in providing infrastructure and connectivity for defence agencies and their industry partners. Joining Van Vooren on the dais are representatives from the Royal Air Force, British Telecom and the U.K. Ministry of Defence.

The aerospace and defense (A&D) industry's global imperative is to ensure that the right information is available, securely, to the right person at the right time through interoperable, re-useable services and solutions. In this session, attendees will learn how requirements are evolving, the innovations under development and how organizations are working together to create a highly sustainable, scalable and defensible model for securing information in mission-critical environments.

"With Exostar's global footprint providing highly secure solutions for multi-enterprise collaboration along with its many roles in the key standards bodies that shape the industry, Exostar offers unique insights to this highly focused panel," said Amabel Grant, Exostar's vice president of international business.

WHO: Ludo Van Vooren, Senior Vice President, Customers, Exostar LLC WHAT: Panel 4: "Infrastructure and Connectivity: The underpinning need for a coherent U.K. Ministry of Defence infrastructure with connectivity to Industry" WHEN: Thursday, February 21, 2008, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Defence IT 08 Conference, RUSI, Westminster, United Kingdom

Exostar plays a leading role in numerous standard bodies at both a technical and strategic level. Mr. Van Vooren is a Vice President for BoostAero International Association, a group that supports A & D business processes with related BoostAero standards, including business processes, documents, data dictionaries, and IT framework, to facilitate seamless, efficient electronic business within the A & D industries and its trading partners. Exostar is a founder of Certipath, the PKI Trust Hub for the Aerospace and Defence industry, which enables interoperability for credentials at different levels of assurance. Exostar is also the Design Authority for the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program which includes leading defence contractors and government defence agencies from the US and UK.

For more information on the Defence IT 08 conference, please visit: http://www.dem-ltd.com/pdf/events/defence-it-082008.pdf

About Exostar

Exostar powers secure collaborative supply networks helping manufacturers and suppliers work together to gain visibility, control and integration of critical business processes, speeding time-to-market, increasing profitability and reducing risk. Initially launched in 2000, Exostar was founded to support the complex trading needs of the world's largest aerospace and defense companies, including BAE SYSTEMS, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Co. and Rolls-Royce. Today, its on-demand solutions provide business collaboration, secure infrastructure and supply chain execution capabilities for 40,000 trading partners worldwide. For more information, please visit www.exostar.com

Media contact: Lesley Cannata Corporate Ink Public Relations +1-617-969-9192 lcannata@corporateink.com Web site: http://www.exostar.com http://www.dem-ltd.com/pdf/events/defence-it-082008.pdf

Lesley Cannata of Corporate Ink Public Relations for Exostar, +1-617-969-9192, lcannata@corporateink.com