2026 FORGE Tech Tracks Wednesday
Choose your track. Change rooms. Follow the topics that interest you.
Wednesday, Nov 4
Tracks 1 – 4
| Time | Track 1 – AI Enablers for Rapid T&E
Room Name Chair: Catherine Tadlock, VA TECH, NSI |
Track 2 – Test Automation
Room Name Chair: Chhem “CYP” Young-Pen, NIWC |
Track 3 – Test Instrumentation
Room Name Chair: Tom Young, TRMC |
Track 4 – Digital Engineering
Room Name Chair: Julie Ashton, QinetiQ |
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| 1:50 – 2:20 | Agentic AI for Mission Assurance: Automating Digital Integration and Test from Requirements to Verification
Dr. Policarpio Soberanis, AGI |
Test Automation Framework
Larry O. Harris, NIWC Pacific |
Cat A Ground test to Cat A Mishap: Lessons Learned from a Unanticipated Failure
Dr. Donald “Bucket” Costello, University of Maryland MATRIX Lab |
From Digital Silos to Digital Threads: Enabling Interoperable Digital Engineering for Test & Evaluation
Aaron Ashley, PeopleTec |
| 2:25 – 2:55 | Edge AI In Test Instrumentation with ATARI
Michael M. Delaney Jr, P.E., 812th AITS/ENIE |
Accelerated Testing Through the NAVWAR Test Automation Framework
Bill Huggins, PAE Mission Systems |
Addressing challenges in T&E using phased arrays
Satya Ponnaluri, AeroVironment |
From Digital Evidence to Fielded Capability: A Physical Evidence Insertion Framework for Faster, More Affordable T&E
Greg Brown, Emerson Test & Measurement (NI) |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Neuromorphic Aircraft Stores-Centric Expendable and returnable Networked Technology (ASCENT)
Dr. Malcolm Tutty, UNSW |
Upgrading Existing Test Frameworks through AI-Assisted Development
Richard J Harris, NIWC Atlantic |
Mission Information Distribution and Processing System (MIDAPS)
Mark Wigent, Laulima Systems |
The Digital Engineering Environment Maturity Model (DEE-MM) A Dual-Axis Framework for Aerospace and Defense
Dr. Policarpio Soberanis, AGI |