2026 FORGE Tech Tracks Friday
Choose your track. Change rooms. Follow the topics that interest you.
Friday, Nov 6
Tracks 5-8
| Times | Track 5 – Modeling & Simulation
Room Name Chair: Andy Cunningham, QinetiQ |
Track 6 – Test Planning
Room Name Chair: Arman Hokalemian, IW Labs |
Track 7 – Testing AI
Room Name Chair: Rebecca “Bex” White, Dstl |
Track 8 – Applied Test
Room Name Chair: Joji Joseph, GTRI |
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| 8:00 – 8:30 | Implementing Model Validation Levels (MVLs) to Accelerate Aircraft Certification w/ Ansys
Matt Adams, Henrique Correa, Ansys, part of Synopsys |
Mission Need to Decision Advantage: AI-Enabled Mission Engineering, Digital Engineering, and Test & Evaluation
Dr. Suzanne Beers, Celeris Systems, Inc |
Agentic AI in Cyber T&E: Closing the Machine-Tempo Survivability
Captain Sean Authelet (USMC), Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) |
A Synchronized, Spatially Co-Registered Multispectral Scene Projector for Multiband Seeker Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing: A Single-Panel Quantum-Dot-on-MicroLED Approach
Yajie Dong and Manuel A. Triana, QLEDCures LLC |
| 8:35 – 9:05 | Beyond the Digital Twin: Turning Reality into Test Evidence
Yaniv Minkov, Rami Rokach , Einav Kiperman, Yinon Atzmon, Reyymark |
Forging Human Readiness into Operational Advantage: Applying HRLs in Test and Evaluation and Design of Experiments
Judi See, Sandia National Lab |
Testing AI-Enabled Systems: Lessons Learned from Cognitive Electronic Warfare
Dr. Sandeep K Patel, KBR |
Modernizing End-to-End Weapon System Evaluation Through a Distributed Live-Virtual-Constructive Test Environment
Reed, William A, 96 Test Systems Squadron |
| 9:10 – 9:40 | A Model-Based Systems Engineering Framework for the Test and Evaluation of Human-Autonomy Teams
Dr. Sandy Patel and Amanda Lee, KBR |
Modernizing GEOINT Conformance Testing: JITC’s Data-Driven Approach to Continuous Test and Evaluation
Russell Balderston, JITC GEOINT Test Officer |
Testing at the Speed of Change: Forging Operational Advantage through Continuous T&E
John E. Robert, Douglas C. Schmidt, Nickolas Guertin, Carnegie Mellon SEI |
Adapting 5G OCUDU
Achilles Kogiantis, Joshua Morman, Altio Labs |