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26th Annual Systems & Mission Engineering Conference

"Forging a New Era: Digital Transformation and the DoD"

16 - 19 October 2023

Norfolk, VA

Agenda

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

System Security Engineering

1555138 - Program Protection and Secure Cyber Resilient Engineering Initiatives, Melinda Reed, SES, Director, System Security, OUSD (R&E)
1541309 - Secure Cyber Resilient Design Guidance, Dr. Mark Winstead, Chief Engineer, System Security, The MITRE Corporation
and Mr. Michael McEvilley, Principal Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation

Mission Engineering / System of Systems

1560075 - Mission Engineering (Panel),
Moderator: Dr. Judith Dahmann, Technical Fellow, The MITRE Corporation
Panel:
Elmer Roman, SES, Director, Mission Integration, OUSD Research and Engineering, Mission Capabilities
and Dr. Todd Sriver, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Strategic, Space, and Intelligence Portfolio Management, OUSD Acquisition and Sustainment
and Matthew Fulchino, Corporate Executive Director of Mission Analysis, Raytheon Technologies
and David Toth, NAVSEA Mission Engineering Lead, NUWC Newport Digital Engineering Lead, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport

ADAPT

1559130 - Effective Use of Kanban and Agile Tools to MBSE Programs, Michael Shearin, Assoc. Branch Head, MBSE, GTRI
1552604 - The Three Ways and The Phoenix Project, Robin Yeman, PhD Candidate, SEI Carnegie Mellon
none - Accelerating Value Delivery in Highly Complex Domains, Kelli Houston, Lockheed Martin Associate Fellow | SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) | Software Engineer Senior Staff – Enterprise Agile Transformation, Lockheed Martin, Missiles and Fire Control

Digital Engineering Environment

1559951 - Systems Engineering Modernization Roadmap (Status Update), Nadine Geier, Director, Systems Engineering, SE&A, OUSD (R&E)
and Dr. Kelly Alexander, SE Modernization Chief Engineer
1544272 - Aerospace Digital Engineering Ecosystem: Architecture and Implementation, Dr. Erin Ryan, Senior Project Engineer, Aerospace Corporation

Specialty Engineering & Safety Environmental Engineering

1560060 - A Hallmark of Mission Resilience: Sustainability in the Acquisition Process, David Asiello, Director, Sustainment & Acquisition (ODASD (E&ER))
1548651 - Sustainability Analysis in the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, Emma Williams, Safety and Environmental Engineering (SEE), Noblis
1555504 - The NDCEE Program Focuses on Developing Innovative Technologies to Address Energy and Environmental Challenges in the DoD, Leading to Successful Initiatives, Clayton Ferguson, Program Manager, US Army Environmental Command
1559945 - DoD Joint System Safety Standards Working Group Status and Implementing Civilian Harm Mitigation Response Action Plan Elements into MIL-STD-882E, Lori Hales, Lead Application Engineer, Ansys, Inc., Booz Allen Hamilton

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

System Security Engineering

1554849 - Program Protection Plan Outline and Guidance Update Overview, Melinda Reed, SES, Director, System Security, OUSD (R&E)
and Burhan Adam, Director, Policy, Guidance, and Standards, OSD(R&E)
1555255 - Trustworthiness and Assurance, Dr. Mark Winstead, Chief Engineer, System Security, The MITRE Corporation
1556542 - Critical Program Information Identification Alignment, Randy Woods, Director, SSE and AT, OUSD (R&E)
1555151 - Secure Cyber Resilient Engineering (SCRE) Practice, Melinda Reed, SES Director, System Security, OUSD (R&E)
and Dr. Mark Winstead, Chief Engineer, System Security, The MITRE Corporation
1551667 - Building Mission Assurance with Trusted Suppliers, David Chesebrough, Vice President, Government, Defined Business Solutions
1551679 - Trusted Suppliers on Assured Microelectronics (Panel),
Panel:
David Chesebrough, Vice President, Government, Defined Business Solutions
and Sam Hernandez, Trusted Foundry CTO, IBM
and John Monk, Director – Micro Systems Technology Center, Northrop Grumman
and Catherine Ortiz, CEO, Defined Business Solutions
1562513 - Securing Your Eggs in Multiple Baskets – Using MBSE to Assure a Resilient and Secure Supply Chain, Matthew Hause, Principal, Systems Strategy Innovation (SSI)

Mission Engineering / System of Systems

1556323 - Defining Portfolios in the Department of Defense: Linking Portfolios to Strategy and Mission Analysis, John Park, USMC Combat Development & Integration
1559566 - Connecting Mission Engineering, System of Systems, Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation, Anthony Pratley, CHENG Mission Data Integration, OUSD (R&E)
1551931 - Structuring Strategy to Enable Mission Engineering, John Park, USMC Combat Development & Integration
1556157 - Emerging Complexity Impacts on Systems & Mission Engineering, David Chesebrough, Vice President, Government, Defined Business Solutions
1560767 - Snip-It Plug-in – An Approach for System of Systems Modeling Reuse, Valentina Waters, Systems Engineer, MBSE, MITRE Corporation
and Christina Thompson, Lead Systems Engineer, MITRE
1572502 - Enhancing United States Space Force Interoperability via Mission Life Extension, Capt Jocelle Rudico, USSF, Chief, Launch Operations and Innovation, USSF/AATS Engineering
15660666 - Implementing the Digital Transformation Trifecta in Air Force Research Lab's 711 Human Performance Wing with the Digital Fusion Cell to Make it Simple, Mark Derriso, Chief Engineer, AFRL 711 Human Performance Wing
and Erick Richardson, Digital Engineering Subject Matter Expert, AFRL 711 Human Performance Wing
1560086 - Shared Modeling Framework – An Approach for System of Systems Modeling Reuse, Dr. Michael Pennock, Principal Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
1557547 - Considerations for Designing a Mission Engineering Study, Dr. Michael Pennock, Principal Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation

Test & Evaluation

1555281 - Transforming and Scaling DoD Test and Evaluation Strategies, Guidance, Policies and Processes for Artificial Intelligence Systems Applications (Panel),
Setting the Stage, Kevin Switick, CEO, Avian LLC Introducer
Panel #1: T&E for AI: Policy, Plans, and Strategies for Change
Dr. Kristen Alexander, OSD Operational Test and Evaluation
and Carol Pomales, Principle Systems Engineering/T&E Group Leader, MITRE
and Jonathan Elliot, Director of AI Assessment and Assurance, OSD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)
and David Beyrodt, Director – Test Design, Operational Test and Evaluation Force
1558418 - Director Operational Test and Evaluation Initiatives for Adequate Test and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Enabled Systems, Dr. Kristen Alexander, Chief Learning and Artificial Intelligence Officer, OSD/DOT&E
1559340 - Data-Driven Test and Evaluation, Dr. Steven Dam, President and COO, SPEC Innovations

Digital Engineering Environment

1545314 - Implementing AI in Ontology Development for Digital Thread Integration Solution, Nicole Manno, Digital Engineer, ManTech International
1559358 - Aligning Digital Engineering and Modeling & Simulation at Office of the Secretary of Defense, Daniel Hettema, Director of Digital Engineering, Modeling & Simulation, SE&A, OUSD (R&E)
1551954 - A Usability Framework for Digital Engineering Software, Allen Dukes, Computer Scientist, Air Force Institute of Technology
1552546 - Evaluating Cybersecurity Tools for Use in an Early STPA-Sec Methodology as Recommended by the DAU Cybersecurity Best Practices Guidebook for Major Acquisitions, Daniel Newport, Branch Chief, Cyber Technology Development (CTD), Grounds Systems Cyber Engineering (GSCE), Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC)

Physics-Based Modeling and Simulation

1558556 - Building an in-house MBSE training and education program, Justin Blevins, Chief Digital Engineer, SAIC
1558563 - Digital Engineering's Inflection Point: Are We Plumbers or are we Pros?, Justin Blevins, Chief Digital Engineer, SAIC
1559412 - Interactive and Innovative Training with MBSE,
Dr. Steven Dam, President and COO, SPEC Innovations
and Michael Jordan, Systems Engineer, SPEC Innovations
1538459 - Future Consideration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Systems Engineering Design,
Ariel Mordoch
and Andrew Gabel, Systems Engineer, The Boeing Company
1543107 - Understanding Modeling and Simulation Workflows for Digital Engineering Transformation, Risa Gorospe, Senior Systems Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
1548934 - Approaches for Collaborative Modeling in Cross Company Environments, Amanda Weissman, Software/System Architecture Manager, Lockheed Martin
1559511 - Interactive Use of HoloLens Augmented Reality for MBSE, Amir Abrari, System Engineer, SPEC Innovations
1524804 - Digital Engineering: Systems Model Exchange Framework, Jeff Pilato, Chief Strategy Officer, Sodius Corp
1538396 - Unleashing the Power of MBSE Model Library Deployments with Cutting-Edge Methods and Strategic Considerations, Andrew Gabel, Systems Engineer, The Boeing Company
and Ariel Mordoch
1556574 - It's So Meta!: Modeling Models in a Model Based Style Guide Development, Heidi Jugovic, Chief Digital Engineer, SAIC

Specialty Engineering & Safety Environmental Engineering

1551665 - Beyond Traditional Methods: Why Model-Based Systems Engineering is a Game-Changer for Safety Analysis, Kate Kovalovsky, Director of MBSE Services, Strategic Technology Consulting
1554710 - Model-Based Systems Engineering for Iterative MIL-STD-882E Autonomous Ground Vehicle Safety Programs, Frank Fratrik, Vice President, Edge Case Research
1546505 - Determining Safety Risks for Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) Enabled Systems, Christopher Green, General Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division
1548860 - Reducing the Impact of Corrosion on the Force, Chris DeLuca, Director, Specialty Engineering, SE&A, OUSD (R&E)
and Robert A. Herron, Director, Corrosion Policy and Oversight, Office of DASD Materiel Readiness, OUSD (A&S)
1571915 - PFAS - Current Regulatory Environment for Aerospace and Defense Products, Timothy Sheehan, Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Technologies
1559583 - Getting Fall Protection Right: Shaping Requirements and Design to Decrease Lifecycle Cost and Increase Readiness, Shawn Smith, Director Industrial Health & Occupational Health, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Navy, EI&E
1561848 - An Evaluation of the Relationship between Firefighter Blood PFAS Levels, Age, and Sex in FY20-21, Dr. James Smith, Toxicologist, Defense Center for Public Health – Portsmouth
and Dr. Amy DeLong, Toxicologist, Industrial Hygiene Department, Navy & Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command

Architecture / MOSA

1562000 - Systems Engineering Gold: Digital Acquisition, IV&V, and Space Capability Development Use Cases, Jo Ann Vassallo, Deputy SE&I Chief Engineer, ManTech International, USSF/AATS Engineering SE&I
and John Wong, Deputy Director of Engineering, USSF/AATS Engineering
1554101 - A Reference Architecture for Digital Engineering Environments Supporting Digital Threads and Digital Twins, Dr. James Coolahan, Chief Technology Officer, Coolahan Associates, LLC

Thursday, October 19, 2023

System Security Engineering

1559127 - System Security Software Assurance Roadmap Update, Bradley Lanford, Senior Software Engineer, OUSD (R&E) / SAIC
1531371 - Systems Engineering Challenges for Integrating Software Assurance into Defense Systems Viewed Through the Prism of Future Systems, Dr. Kenneth Nidiffer, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University
1553891 - Joint Federated Assurance Center, Brian Nowotny, Director, JFAC, OUSD (R&E)
1559405 - Industry Lessons Learned from Software Supply Chain Security Implementation w/Focus on SSDF, (Panel)
Panel:
Kirk Rasmussen, Technical Fellow Cybersecurity, Collins Aerospace
and Richard Massey, Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing
and Ronda Hennig, Senior Fellow, Chief Technologist, L3 Harris Technologies
and Fred Jones, Senior Technical Fellow, Raytheon Technology Research Center
1559086 - DoD Software Modernization and the Program Protection Plan, Bradley Lanford, Senior Software Engineer, OUSD (R&E) / SAIC
1554750 - Training the DoD Acquisition Workforce in Secure Cyber Resilient Engineering: A Storyboard Approach Being Integrated into the Defense Acquisition University Credential Program, Paul McMahon, Contractor Support, OUSD (R&E)
1555155 - Fundamentals of Cross Domain Solutions in the DoD, Singithi De Silva, Cybersecurity Engineer, OUSD (R&E)
and Burhan Adam, Director, Policy, Guidance, and
1554085 - Metrics-based Software Vulnerability Discovery Model to Support Cybersecurity Test & Evaluation, Lance Fiondella, Professor/Research Scientist, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth/US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center

Mission Engineering / System of Systems

1572965 - DoD Mission Engineering Guide 2.0 – Evolving the State of Practice in Defense Mission Engineering, John Quackenbush, Director of Operations for MI Technical Director, OUSD (R&E)
1542832 - Welding Together the US DOD's and the US Contractor, Mack McKinney, President, The Center for Project Leadership
1559890 - The Role of Digital Engineering Environments (DEE) in Delivering Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) - enabling System of Systems, (Panel)
Panel:
Steven Geary, Chief Engineer, Integrated Defense Solutions, BAE Systems
and Donavan Taylor, BAE Systems
and Dr. John Braswell, President/CEO, Crossflow Technologies
and Dr. Eric Sholes, ESEP Systems Engineer, Crossflow Technologies

Architecture / MOSA

1556698 - Program MOSA Transformation Information Needs and Metrics, Stephen Henry, Consultant
1556664 - MOSA Implementation Challenges and Opportunities, Robert Scheurer, Systems Engineer, The Boeing Company
1560578 - An Architectural Approach to Interdicting Cybersecurity Threats, Michael Vinarcik, Chief Digital Engineer, SAIC
1558220 - Model-Based Acquisition (MBAcq) User Group: Uniting Government and Industry through Collaborative Standardization, Laura Hart, NDIA Systems Engineering Division Vice Chair | Engineering Research Engineer, Lockheed Martin
1559201 - Assured Armaments Reference Architecture (AARA), Michael Brattoli, Assured Armaments Reference Architecture (AARA) Lead, DEVCOM Armaments Center
1560612 - A Tale of Two OSAs: Integration of the DEWS Reference Architecture into the SOSA Technical Standard, Dr. Steve Davidson, Chief Scientist for Systems Architecture, MITRE Corporation
1522971 - Linking UAF and SysML Models: Achieving Alignment between Enterprise and System Architectures, Dr. James Martin, System Architect, Aerospace Corporation

Digital Engineering Environment

1560199 - SAIC's Game Changing Digital Engineering Ecosystem – ReadyOne, Joseph Sopczynski, Product Owner, SAIC
1561251 - In Pursuit of a Digital Twin, John McCrea, Lead Engineer, MMIII Flight Destruct System, Beast Code
1527466 - Accelerating Digital Transformation using a Longitudinal Assessment Survey of Strategic Adoption Conditions (LASSAC), Joseph Campagna, Associate Director, Systems Engineering, RTX | PhD Candidate, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
1559101 - Digital Engineering: Practical Considerations for Implementation across the System Lifecycle, Darryl Howell, Sr. Systems Engineer, PCG
1556591 - SysML v2 Transition Guide,
Daniel Hettema, Director of Digital Engineering, Modeling & Simulation, SE&A, OUSD (R&E)
and Frank Salvatore, Senior Systems Engineer (Contractor Support), Digital Engineering, Modeling & Simulation, SE&A, OUSD (R&E)
and Emily Bak, Systems Engineer (Contractor Support), Digital Engineering, Modeling & Simulation, SE&A, OUSD (R&E)
1547577 - Proposed New Continuing Education and Development Plan for USAF Acquisition Engineers, Richard Sugarman, Department Head, Air Force Insitute of Technology

Physics-Based Modeling and Simulation

1558396 - An Assessment Framework for the Maturity of Simulation-Based Verification, Ben Stirgwolt, Director of MBSE, Belcan
1561342 - Model Based Functional Development and Verification of a Digital Beam Forming Antenna for a UAV Application, Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Fellow, Ansys
1556469 - Digital Transformation in Program Office Environment, Maj William Deavor, USSF, Digital Engineering Futures Lead, USSF/AATS Engineering
and Giorgio Gaputan, Deputy SE&I Digital Engineering Lead, ManTech International, USSF/AATS Engineering SE&I
and Madison Galvin, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation,USSF/AATS
1559528 - The Air Force Sustainment Center's Digital Engineering / Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Framework for the Additive Manufacturing Digital Thread,
Roger Jones, Air Force Sustainment Center Technical Director, USAF AFSC/EN
and Matthew Hockenbrock, USAF AFSC/EN
1549529 - FireSat Case Study: Effectively Bridging MBSE and MBD,
Richard Chipman, Master Solution Architect, Digital Engineering Center of Excellence, Leidos Innovations Center Center (LInC), Dynetics, a Leidos Company
and Kirsten McCane, Defense Industry Segment Manager, MathWorks
1560665 - The Emerging Air Vehicle Government Reference Architecture, Keith Siders, Engineer, AFLCMC/EZSI
1554864 - Transforming Perimeter Cybersecurity to a Zero Trust Strategy Using Model Based System Engineering (MBSE), Patrick Meharg, Chief Architect - Model Based System Engineering
1545892 - Identification and Mitigation of Security Classification Marking Challenges and Risks for Descriptive Models, Ryan Noguchi, Director, Space Architecture Department, Aerospace Corporation
1560710 - Comparing Model Based Systems Engineering with Digital Engineering in Other Domains, Charles Stirk, Senior Research Engineer, GTRI

Specialty Engineering & Safety Environmental Engineering

1553746 - Translating HSI Research into Policy and Guidance: Successes and Challenges Across the Services, Eric Engel, Human Systems Integration Lead, SAF/AQRE
none - Defense Contractors Utilization Hazardous of Materials Management Program (HMMP) to Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Risk Assessment and Reporting, Samantha Clay, Senior Principal System Safety Engineer, Raytheon
1556555 - How to Exploit DevSecOps Pipeline of Pipelines Data for Program Management, William Nichols, MTS, Carnegie Mellon University/Software Engineering Institute

ADAPT

1542797 - Systems Engineering Agility – Eight Strategic Aspects, Rick Dove, Independent
1546525 - The Need for New Agile Roles and Responsibilities in Government, Cynthia Ferreira, Federal Strategic Advisor, Scaled Agile, Inc.
1546531 - Agile Acquisition of SAFe Services for Government, Cynthia Ferreira, Federal Strategic Advisor, Scaled Agile, Inc.
1551886 - How Agile Enables FOSS Usage and Modernization, Kurt Mohr, Director, Intelligence & Space Common Engineering, Raytheon
1556340 - Tracking Performance in a DoD Agile/DevSecOps Environment, Dr. Mike Orosz, Research Associate Professor & Research Director, Decision Systems, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
1560557 - Agile System Engineering Planning and Integration of Design Reviews, Paul Zajac, Fellow, Lockheed Martin
1560950 - Agile Systems Engineering Planning and Integration of Design Reviews - Reference Example, Paul Zajac, Fellow, Lockheed Martin

Integrated Program Management

1552618 - How To Assess and Progress Your Digital Engineering Maturity, Toni Nolder, Digital Communication Satellite System Engineer, The Aerospace Corporation

Test & Evaluation

1561004 - Adopting a New Perspective on Test and Evaluation to Accelerate Digital Acquisitions, Amanda Tierney, Senior Acquisition Integration Engineer, Air Force Test Center
1556600 - Digital Engineering Enabled Automated Dashboards and Reports for Test Planning and Test Execution, Dr. Daniel Scoggin, Chief Systems Engineer, SAIC

Architecture & Mission Engineering

1559610 - Digital Mission Architectures - Challenges and Opportunities for Mission Engineering and Integration, Jaime Bestard, Chief Engineer, Digital Mission Architecture, OUSD (R&E)