23rd Annual National Test & Evaluation Conference

"Test & Evaluation in Support of Operational Suitability,
Effectiveness & Sustainment of Deployed Systems"

12 - 15 March 2007

Hilton Head Island, SC

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Agenda

Monday, March 12, 2007

Tutorial Sessions
T1. Innovative Acquisition Methodologies in Support of Test & Evaluation Objectives

• Mr. Jeffrey Manthos, Program Analyst, GSA

T2. The Critical Link Between Test & Evaluation and Modeling & Simulation

• Dr. Mark Kiemele, President and Co-Founder, Air Academy Associates

T4. DoD Acquisition Policy on Suitability KPP and Related Issues

• Dr. Paul Alfieri, Director of Research, DAU

T5. Innovative Acquisition Methodologies in Support of Test & Evaluation Objectives

• Mr. Jeffrey Manthos, Program Analyst, GSA

T6. The Critical Link Between Test & Evaluation and Modeling & Simulation

• Dr. Mark Kiemele, President and Co-Founder, Air Academy Associates

T8. DoD Acquisition Policy on Suitability KPP and Related Issues

• Dr. Paul Alfieri, Director of Research, DAU

 

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Session A
Chair: Mr. James O'Bryon

Keynote Address:

• Assuring Quality and Sustainability in a Competitive Market - Mr. Keith E. Williams, President & CEO, Underwriters Laboratories

Session B
Chair: Mr. James O'Bryon

OTA's Roundtable: Military Perspectives on Testing for Sustainability and Life Cycle Costing
Chair: MG James Myles, USA, Commanding General ATEC
Panelist:

• RDML William McCarthy, USN, Commander OPTEVFOR
• Mr. Jerry Kitchen, Commander AFOTEC

Session C
Chair: Dr. Mark Kiemele

Statistically-Based Test Optimization Strategies

• Dr. Neal Mackertich, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems

Report from the NDIA Industrial Committee on Operational Test & Evaluation (ICOTE)

• Mr. Larry Graviss, Vice President, Jacobs Technology, Inc.

Session D
Concurrent Focus Sessions
Planning & Implementing Systems Engineering/T&E to Address Sustainability25

• FS D1.1 T&E for Verifying Technology Development and Maturation
  
  • Mr. Chris DiPetto, Deputy Director for DT&E, OUSD (AT&L)/SSE
• FS D1.2 Early Application of Computer Program Systems Integration, Test and Performance Measurement
  
  • Mr. Thomas Sobieralski, CSC
• FS D1.3 Using Technology Readiness Assessments (TRA's) to Assess the Maturity of Life Cycle Related Technologies
  
  • Dr. Jay Mandelbaum, IDA
• FS D1.4 Results of FY 2006 Test Resources Management Center Range Encroachment Survey Provided to the August 2006 TRMC Infrastructure Review
  
  • Mr. William Egan, IDA
• FS D1.5 Test and Training Enabling Architecture, Use to Prototype Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC)
  
  • Mr. Richard Lockhart, Defense Test Resource Management Center
• FS D1.6 TRACER: A Tradespace Analysis Framework
  
  • Mr. Gerry Belcher, LMI

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership & Realistic Estimates of Reliability

• FS D2.1 Low Cost Epoch-by-Epoch Network Centric Positioning Unit (ENPU) for FCS Testing
  
  • Dr. Jeffrey Fayman, Geodetics, Inc. and Dr. Lydia Bock, Geodetics, Inc.
• FS D2.2 Testing of the GPS SAASM End-to-End Functionality on Operational Weapon Systems Without the Availability of Signal in Space
  
  • Mr. Jim Killian, 46 Test Squadron, Holloman AFB
• FS D2.4 A Successfully Implemented Coordinated Subsystem Reliability Growth Planning Approach
  
  • Mr. Louis Chenard, Bombardier & Mr. Paul Ellner, AMSAA
• FS D2.5 Understanding the Combined Influence on Ownership Cost of Reliability, Maintainability, Component Packaging, Commonality, and Process Performance
  
  • Dr. James A. Forbes, LMI
• FS D2.6 Using Mission Essential Task Lists as a Basis for Mission-Based Operational Test Planning
  
  • Mr. James Carpenter, AVW Technologies

Test Technology

• FS D3.1 Hazard Assessment of the SM-3 Block IA Missile
  
  • Mr. William Houchins, NSWC Dahlgren
• FS D3.2 The Four Element Framework: An Integrated Test & Evaluation Strategy
  
  • Mr. Christopher Wilcox, ATEC, APG
• FS D3.3 Operability Testing for High Availability Systems
  
  • Mr. Edward Beck, CSC
• FS D3.5 746 Test Squadron Testing of the Latest Embedded GPS/INS (EGI) Hybrid Navigation System for the F-16 Fighting Falcon
  
  • Mr. Jim Killian, 46 Test Squadron, Holloman AFB
• FS D3.6 Qualification Testing of the EFSS 120mm Mortar Ammunition
  
  • Mr. Patrick Freemyers, NSWC Dahlgren
• FS D3.7 Operational Analysis of Modern Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) to Enhance System Sustainability
  
  • Dr. Don Gaver, NPS

 

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Session E
Chair: Mr. William Yeakel

Advancing Survivability

• Mr. Regis Luther, Armor Holdings

A Concept for Suitability Assessment in Capabilities-Based T&E

• Dr. Vincent P. Roske, Institute for Defense Analyses

Session F
Chair: Mr. Dick Dickson

Development, Test & Evaluation of Unmanned Ground Vehicles/Robots

• VADM Joseph Dyer, USN (Ret), President and General Manager, iRobot Corporation

Industry Panel

• Sustainability KPP: Industry Weighs in on Bidding for It and Building for It - Mr. Steve Zink, (For Mr. John Stoddart)

Past, Present & Future Trends in RM&A

• Mr. Ron Mutzelburg, Vice President, Boeing Phantom Works, DC

Session G
Chair: Mr. Jack Sheehan

Coping with Reliability, Sustainability and Life Cycle Costs at DHS

• Dr. George Zarur, Science Advisor, Science and Technology, DHS

DT&E Panel: Systems Engineering and DT&E for System Sustainability
Chair: Col Richard Stuckey, USAF, Principal Assistant Deputy Director for DT&E, OUSD (AT&L)/SSE
Panelist:

• Dr. David Jerome, Deputy Director of Air, Space and Information Operations, AF Materiel Command
• Mr. Ray Lytle, Director, Life Cycle Engineering, Raytheon Missile Systems
• Mr. Brian Simmons, Director, US Army Evaluation Center, Army Test & Evaluation Command

Session H
Concurrent Focus Sessions
Test Methodology

• FS H4.1 Revisiting Quantitative Methods for Evaluating Training Programs for Systems Undergoing OT
  
  • Dr. Christopher Hekimian, SAIC
• FS H4.2 Producing Anywhere, Anytime Test, Evaluation and Diagnostics Capable Products to Eliminate the T&E Logistic Burden
  
  • Mr. Ryan Kinney, Agilent Technologies
• FS H4.3 Ship Suitability Testing - Preparing for the Future
  
  • Mr. Steve Fisher, NAVAIR, Patuxent River
• FS H4.4 Innovative Techniques to Solve Measurement and Detection Problems
  
  • Dr. Michael Slocum, Air Academy Associates

Test Planning

• FS H5.1 A Continuum of Testing for Military Systems
  
  • Dr. Patricia Jacobs, NPS
• FS H5.2 CTEC (Collaborative Test & Evaluation Capability) and the Event Streaming Media System
  
  • Mr. Reid Johnson, NUWC Keyport
• FS H5.4 Estimating Durations and Trials to Success in Test Trial Programs
  
  • Dr. Danny Hughes, LMI

Technology to Reduce Life Cycle Cost

• FS H6.1 T&E of Electromagnetic Railguns
  
  • Mr. Thomas Boucher, NSWC Dahlgren
• FS H6.2 Cost Efficient Risk Management Through Integrated T&E Throughout the Systems Engineering Life-Cycle
  
  • Mr. Joseph Tribble, AVW Technologies
• FS H6.3 Sustainment of the Deployed Navy Munitions Inventory Through Continuous Quality Evaluation Test & Evaluation
  
  • Mr. Jeffrey Johnson, Navy Indianhead

Session I
Chair: Mr. Jack Sheehan

Suitability - At What Cost?

• Dr. Paul Alfieri, DAU

Service T&E Executives Speak
Chair: Mr. Walt Hollis, Former DUSA/OR
Panelist:

• Mr. David Hamilton, Deputy Director, AF/TE
• Mr. Steven Whitehead, OPTEVFOR

The Costs of Unsuitability and Benefits of Building in Reliability, Availability and Maintainability

• Mr. Brian Simmons, Army DTC

Session J
Chair: Mr. William Yeakel

Reliability-Based Design, Development and Sustainment

• Dr. Anne Hillegas, Applied Research Associates

Synthesis Panel**: Actions and Conference Takeaways
Chair: Dr. Ernest Seglie, Science Advisor, DOT&E
Panelist:

• Mr. Tom Wissink
• Ms. Diana Echols, Director of Customer Service Technology, Bell Helicopter Textron
• NOTE: **The discussion of this panel on the overall thrust of the Conference will serve as the basis of a White Paper and an overview article to be published in NDIA's National Defense Magazine.