John Sheppard, the RightNow Technologies Distinguished Professor, was awarded a 1-year contract from the US Navy for $181K for his proposal CASS Technical Engineering Support: ATS Framework. John is collaborating with two research affiliates, Stephyn Butcher and  Patrick Donnelly, to implement and demonstrate semantic interoperability  between multiple diagnostic reasoner applications based on an emerging  IEEE standard. The results of this demonstration are expected to lead to  the Department of Defense mandating the standard for future acquisition  programs requiring advanced diagnostics on automatic test systems.  Congratulations, John! [March 2009]