AGENDA

Tuesday, April 28
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
PRE-WORKSHOP TUTORIALS
Florentine A 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Tutorial Chas McKee Fundamentals of T&E and CTEP Foundations
Florentine B 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Tutorial Rob Holland Basic Overview of Telemetry
Tuscany 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Tutorial Achilles Kogiantis 5G NR Specifications and T&E Aspects
Siena 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Tutorial David Hodack Basics of Aircraft Instrumentation Part I
Florentine A 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Tutorial Mark McWhorter Fundamentals of Aeronautical Telemetry Ground Stations.
Florentine B 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Tutorial Gene Hudgins TENA/JMETC Solutions for T&E&Training
Tuscany 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Tutorial Dan Green IRIG Chapter 7 Packet Telemetry Downlink Basis and Implementation Fundamentals
Siena 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Tutorial David Hodack Basics of Aircraft Instrumentation Part II
Florentine [EF] 8:00 AM -12:00 PM HOL Set up
Hands on Lab Exercise – OPEN (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM) [E/F]

Wednesday, April 29

8:30AM – 5:15 PM
Florentine A/B 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Opening Ceremony &
Welcome Messages		 Color Guard & National Anthem
ITEA
Mike Robson, Program Chair
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Keynote Speaker Thomas O’Brien, DOW, USW R&D, Test Resource Management Center
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Guest Speaker Bill Darden, Naval Air Warfare Center – Aircraft Division, Atlantic Test Range
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Guest Speaker Troy A. Asher, Acting Center Director, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center – invited
10:00 – 10:30  BREAK WITH  EXHIBITORS 30 Minutes [C/D]
TECHNICAL TRACKS
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
TRACK 1- Future Digital Processing including AI Techniques (Chair: Gene Hudgins, KBR/TRMC)
Florentine A 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Track Mark Wigent, Laulima Systems LLC MIDAPS – Capability realized through Bi-directional TM
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Track Alex Ortiz, Parriad Digital Demodulation using Digital Output
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Track Brian Mulford, CDSI Receiver-Demodulators and the Winds of Change
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Track Mark Hagiwara,  Aerospace Engineer, NASA Armstrong NASA’s Quantum Sensor with Artificial NV Diamond (QSAND) for Magnetic Anomaly Navigation (MAGNAV)
TRACK 2- Phased Array Tech-Applied to Current Test Requirements (Chair: Tommy Young, TRMC)
Florentine G 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Track Adam Hartman, AeroVironment (AV) AV-Multi-band, Multi-target Digital Antenna TM Tracker
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Track Anand Kelkar, CDSI Multi-band Antenna Tiles for Fixed and Transportable Ground Stations
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Track Anand Kelkar, CDSI Modular Antenna Systems for Airborne Telemetry Applications
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Track Mike Robsonn, Raven Defense To Be Announced
TRACK 3 -AI -Powering Revolutionary Change to DoW Systems (Chair: Mike Cook, Deputy Director, 412th Communications Squadron)
Siena 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Track James Charleston, Jr, USAF USMC, 812th AITS/ENIE Atari-Enabling AI at the Edge
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Track Jason Schalow, USAF, 412th Communications Squadron Beyond the Noise: AI-Powered Threat Detection
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Track Kevin Kerkvliet, Army Test and Evalution Command (ATEC) The Agentic Whitebox: A Novel Framework for Verifiable and Auditable AI-Assisted Test & Evaluation
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Track Steve Seiden, Acquired Data Solutions AI-Enabled Systems for Military Test & Evaluation
LUNCH
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Hands on Lab Exercise – OPEN (1:30 PM – 3:30 PM) [E/F]
TECHNICAL TRACKS
 1:30PM – 3:30 PM
TRACK 4- Phased Array:  Applications for Improved Capabilities (Chair: To Be Announced)
Florentine A 1:30PM – 2:00PM Track Mike Robson, Raven Defense ARMCHAIR OPERATORS: Operating BLOS Telemetry Missions From Home
2:00PM – 2:30PM Track Adam Hartman, Aero Vironment (AV) How Phased Array TM Antennas are Supporting Expansion of the Sea Ranges
2:30PM – 3:00PM Track Mike Robson, Raven Defense THE GHOST CRUISE: RAPTR’S Solo Ocean Crossing
3:00PM – 3:30PM Track Adam Hartman, Aero Vironment (AV) Phased Array Antennas Spanning Multiple UAV Platforms Empower SkyRange TM Gathering Operations
TRACK 5 – Telemetry Systems Breakthrough for the Test Environment (Chair: James (J.R.) Elder, Instrumentation, Aircraft Modifications, AFMC. 812 AITS / ENIM)
Firenza 1:30PM – 2:00PM Track To Be Announced, NASA Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS)
2:00PM – 2:30PM Track Rob Zeiglar, Peraton Labs Spectrum Sharing Technologies for 5G Coexistence
2:30PM – 3:00PM Track Achilles Kogiantis, Altio Labs Newe Concepts for 5G Range Implementation
3:00PM – 3:30PM Track Achilles Kogiantis, Altio Labs High efficiency Bi-Directional Amplifier for High PAPR 5G Wave Forms
TRACK 6 -Topics supporting T&E (Chair: James Alich, AFMC, 812 AITS / ENIM)
Siena 1:30PM – 2:00PM Track Michael Soltys-Kulinicz., Ph.D., GBL Systems Corp Taming the Beast: Secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation for T&E Report Automation in Classified Environments
2:00PM – 2:30PM Track To Be Announced, NASA T 34 Flight Test
2:30PM – 3:00PM Track Michael Soltys-Kulinicz., Ph.D., GBL Systems Corp Avoiding Vendor Lock in – AI Procurment for DOW
3:00PM – 3:30PM Track Jeff Kalibjian, Peraton Labs Leveraging Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to Mitigate Data Security Risks in Generative AI Models
3:30 – 3:45 – STRETCH WITH EXHIBITORS
Florentine A/B 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM Guest Speaker Thomas C. Dowd, Director, Ranges/Targets Operations, Instrumentation and Laboratories Group, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division  – invited
Florentine A/B 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM Panel – Plant 42
Awaiting abstract		 More Information coming soon
5:15 PM – 7:00 RECEPTION

Thursday, April 30

8:25AM – 4:15 PM
8:25 AM – 8:30 AM Welcome Mike Robson, Program Chair
8:30 AM – 9:10 AM Featured Speaker To Be Announced
9:15AM – 9:50 AM Featured Speaker Art Thompson, Vice President, Sage Cheshire
10:00 – 10:30  BREAK WITH THE EXHIBITORS  30 Minutes+ [Florentine C/D]
Hands on Lab Exercise – OPEN (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM)  [E/F]
Florentine A/B 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Special Session
RDT&E as Commercial Enterprise
Dr. David G. Smith, Chief Executive Officer of the Mojave Air and Space Port		 Aerial Sewell, Director of Operations, Mojave Air and Space Port Complexities and challenges associated with testing at public use airports
Brandon Venzer, System Administrator, Mojave Air and Space Port Implementation and deployment of new systems
Olivia May, Naval Test Pilot School Lead FTE on an instrumentation upgrade program for an L-39C
To Be Announced
Florentine A/B 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Speaker Dr. Zachary Krevor, President and CEO, STRATOLAUNCH
12:00 PM – 1:00PM LUNCH with Exhibitors – 1 HOUR [Florentine C/D]
Hands on Lab Exercise – OPEN (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM) [E/F]
TECHNICAL TRACKS
 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
TRACK 7- Leveraging 5G and Beyond for T&E (Chair: Christian Aguirre, USAF)
Firenza 1:30PM – 2:00PM Track Achille Kogiantis, Altio Labs From Spectrum Planning to Measurement: Building a Unified Analytics Portal for Test Range Spectrum Operations
2:00PM – 2:30PM Track Rob Zeigler, Peraton Labs Development for Flight Test Telemetry
2:30PM – 3:00PM Track Achilles Kogiantis, Altio Labs 5G Telemetry for the Holloman High Speed Test Track
3:00PM – 3:30PM Track Achilles Kogiantis, Altio Labs ARL 5G Network Implementation and Test Results for UAS Testing
TRACK 8- Advancements in Traditional Telemetry Systems (Chair: Virginia (Jenny) Green, KBR)
Siena 1:30PM – 2:00PM Track Benjamin Baird, 896th Test Support Squadron, Eglin AFB Wireless Airborne Instrumentation Flight Test Results
2:00PM – 2:30PM Track Dan Green, Safran DSI Adapting Telemetry and Recording Systems to new Advanced Air Mobility Platforms and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)​
2:30PM – 3:00PM Track Mark Wigent, Laulima Systems LLC The Use of TENA in a Network Centric Telemetry System
3:00PM – 3:30PM Track Mark Hagiwara,  Aerospace Engineer, NASA Armstrong Enhancing Parachutes by Instrumenting the Canopy EPIC – Enhancing Parachutes By Instrumenting the Canopy; Flexible Strain Sensing, Development Approach and Test
Florentine A/B 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM Speaker – Close out Thomas O’Brien, DOW, USW R&D, Test Resource Management Center
4:15 PM end