23rd Test and Training Instrumentation Workshop

Shaping the Future of T&E

May 14-16, 2019 – Las Vegas, NV

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PRE-WORKSHOP TUTORIALS

Accelerating the Analysis of Test Data Using Effective and Efficient Experimentation – Mark J. Kiemele, PhD, Air Academy Associates

Basics of Aircraft Instrumentation Systems – Mr. Bruce Johnson, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD)

Introduction to Agile Test and Evaluation – Ms. Jennifer Rekas, The MITRE Corporation

iNET Telemetry Networks – Mr. Thomas Grace NAVAIR; and, Mr. Ben Abbott, SwRI

IRIG 106-17 Chapter 7 Packet Telemetry Downlink Basis and Implementation Fundamentals – Mr. Johnny Pappas, Zodiac Data Systems, Inc.

Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) 4G Cellular Technology: Network Architecture, Physical Layer Structure and Procedures, and Signaling Aspects – Achilles Kogiantis, PhD; and Kiran Rege, PhD, Perspecta Labs

Real World Telemetry over IP – Mr. Gary Thom, Delta Information Systems

The TENA and JMETC Solution for Distributed Test and Training – Mr. Gene Hudgins, KBR

Troubleshooting Ethernet Data with Wireshark – Mr. Paul Ferrill, ATAC Corporation

Video and Video Compression – Mr. Gary Thom, Delta Information Systems

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PLENARY SESSIONS

Test and Evaluation for the Modern Battle Space – Brigadier General Christopher P. Azzano, Commander, Air Force Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base

U.S. Air Force Warfare Center’s Vice Commander Shares Insights on T&E Engagement – Brigadier General David W. Snoddy, Vice Commander, Air Force Warfare Center, Nellis AFB

An Innovation Movement – Brigadier General E. John Teichert – Commander, 412th Test Wing, Edwards AFB

Technologies Enabling AMT Operations in Non-Traditional Bands Panel
Moderator: Mr. Thomas O’Brien – Test Resource Management Center

Panelists:

• Mr. Kevin Cook – Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
• Mr. Tony Triolo – Perspecta Labs
• Mr. Mark Wigent – Laulima Systems LLC

Shaping the Future – Ensuring Relevance to the Future Fight Through Innovation, Governance, and Culture Change Panel
Moderator: Mr. Chris Klug – 412th Operations Group, Technical Advisor

Panelists:

• Brigadier General E. John Teichert – Commander, 412th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base
• Col. Scott Cain – Commander, Arnold Engineering Development Complex
• Jason Korman, CEO – Gapingvoid Culture Design Group
• Brian “Beam” Maue, PhD – CEO, AFWERX

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TECHNICAL TRACK SESSIONS

Airborne Instrumentation Track
Track Chairs: Joe Dale – 812 AITS, Edwards AFB; Al Berard, 96 RANSS, Eglin AFB; Bruce Johnson, NAS Patuxent River; and, Chris Stewart, 896 Test Support Squadron, Eglin AFB

• All-weather Strain Gage Protection Test Results – Sidney Jones, NAVAIR
• Airworthiness Assessment for Contractor Owned Contractor Operated Instrumentation Systems – Abigail (Abbe’) Reuter, Airworthiness Director of Engineering/Delegated Technical Authority, Air Force Test Center
• Building Multi-Vendor T&E Systems in iNET – Jakub Moskal & Mitch Kokar, VIStology, Inc.; Austin Whittington & Ben Abbott, SwRI; and, Jon Morgan, JT4, LLC, Edwards AFB
• Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Wireless Systems to Test the Feasibility of Wireless Instrumentation – Hai Le, 812 AITS, Edwards AFB
• Determination of Attitude in MANPAD Type Missiles – Al Berard, 96 RANSS, Eglin AFB
• Distributed Acquisition Wireless Network (DAWN) – Robert Bieze, JT4 LLC, Edwards AFB
• Energy Harvesting Transducers – Al Berard, 96 RANSS, Eglin AFB
• F-15 EPAWSS Real Time Network Data Filtering – Al Berard, 96 RANSS, Eglin AFB
• F-35 Quick Response Instrumentation Package – Jeffery Hite, 812 AITS
• Quick reaction Air To Air Flight Termination System – Al Berard, 96 RANSS, Eglin AFB
• SkyTherm – Russell S. Bauldree, 96 Test Wing; Samir Ibrahim, 96 Range Group; and, Philip Richmond, 782 Test Squadron, Eglin AFB
• Succession Planning for Airborne Instrumentation – Brian Keating, Aircraft Instrumentation Division (AIR 5.2.9), NAS Patuxent River
• Technical Training for Airborne Instrumentation Engineering – Chris Stewart & Bruce Lowmiller, 896 Test Support Squadron
• Using Batteries to Power Data Systems and Sensors – Jim Alich, 812 AITS, Edwards AFB
• Wireless Control and Status of High Speed Camera Pod – Ben Baird, 896 TSS, Eglin AFB

Cyber Track
Track Chairs: Anthony Rubino, 412 RANS, Edwards AFB; and, Harry Cooper, JT4

• A Vendor Perspective in Support of Cybersecurity of Information Systems – Jeff Rusincovitch, Safran Aerosystems Data Systems
• Accreditation of Instrumentation Systems and a Few Ways Vendors Can Help – Todd Jacob, 812 AITS, Edwards AFB
• Airborne Instrumentation Cyber Table Top Lessons Learned – Paul Waters, PhD, 412 Test Wing, Edwards AFB
• Cyber Career Training Path and Way Forward – Marc Holley, 412 RANS Security Operations Center
• Cyber Policies, Procedures and Documents (PPD) – Todd Jacob, 812 AITS, Edwards AFB
• Cyber Tabletop (CTT) Processes – Megan Fisher, JT4 LLC/ATAC, 812th AITS, Edwards AFB
• Defensive Cyber Operations Testing During Systems Development – Georgianna K. Shea, PhD, The MITRE Corporation
• Getting Inside the Cyber OODA Loop: Agile T&E Support in Cyberspace – Jason Schalow, 412th CS, Edwards AFB
• Navigating Airborne Instrumentation Systems Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements – Bruce Johnson, AVMI, NAS Patuxent River
• RCC Cybersecurity Group – Threats Vulnerabilities and Mitigations – Paul Waters, PhD, 412 Test Wing, Edwards AFB
• Risk Management Framework (RMF) for Airborne Test Instrumentation Updates – Robert Hill, 896 TSS, Eglin AFB

Data Analytics Track
Track Chair: Daniel Osborne, 412 TW, Edwards AFB

• AFB 412 Test Wing Data Analysis via Open Source Tools – Phillip Rogers, 412 Test Wing, Edwards AFB
• Data Center of Tomorrow – Michael Elliott, 812 AITS, Edwards AFB
• Developing Orange Flag Evaluation Data Analysis Tools: Lessons Learned – Christopher Klug, 412 Operations Group, Edwards AFB
• DoD Artificial Intelligence Strategy Overview – Jeffrey Corn, 812 TSS, Edwards AFB
• DoD Cloud Strategy Overview – Jeffrey Corn, 812 TSS, Edwards AFB
• Knowledge Management and the Big Data Evaluation Revolution with the F-35 – William Williams, Test Resource Management Center (TRMC)
• KM/RAPIDS: ETL/Data Ingest – Matt Smith, Dell EMC

Mission Control Track
Track Chairs: Bill Rauch, 412 RANS, Edwards AFB; Bruce Lipe, NASA Armstrong; Thomas Grace, AVMI NAS Patuxent River; and,
Tim Chalfant, Colsa

• Command and control (C2) of Serial Streaming TM (SST): Open Issues for Achieving Interoperability II – Ron Pozmantier, 412 TENG/ENI
• DNA of a Network Flight Recorder – Mark Wigent, Laulima Systems
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Tracking Test Aircraft Using C-Band TM Signals – Joseph Martin, Air Vehicle Modification Instrumentation, NAVAIR
• Growing Distributed Test Support – Thomas Kegel, 412th RANS, Edwards AFB
• Non-Blocking Ruggedized Ethernet Switch (NRES) for Airborne Applications – Ali Namazi, PhD; and, Chujen Lin, PhD, IAI
• Progress in the Migration of Flight Test Analysis Routines to Python – John C. Bretz, Symvionics, Inc
• Real-time Test Article Telemetry Frequency Agility: Problems and Issues Forum – Tim Chalfant, Colsa Corporation
• Using GPS Receiver 1PPS Output to Verify Time Stamp Accuracy and Measure Propagation Delay – Kevin Knudtson, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
• Using TmNS Based Systems on the Range – Thomas Grace, AVMI, NAS Patuxent River
• Video Performance in a Virtualized Environment – Alan Anderson, 412th RANS, Edwards AFB
• Virtual Architecture 101 – Sean Conway & Alan Anderson, 412th RANS, Edwards AFB
• Virtualization Success: RAPIDS – Michael Lockard & Christopher Moyer, DELL EMC
• Vision and Challenges of a Networked Telemetry Environment – Paul Waters, PhD, 412 Test Wing, Edwards AFB

RF Telemetry Track
Track Chair: Thomas O’Brien, Test Resource Management Center (TRMC); and, Benjamin Tomlinson, 812 AITS, Edwards AFB

• Broadband Conformal C-Band Antenna Project – Max Apalboym, Airborne Instrumentation Systems Division, NAS PAX River
• Cellular Range Telemetry Network: Field Test Results Overview – Eric Beck, Shobha Erramilli, William H.Johnson, Achilles Kogiantis, Jenny Maung, Kiran Rege, Anthony Triolo, Jeffrey Young, Perspecta Labs
• Cellular Test Range Telemetry Enhancements with the Introduction of 5G technology – Achilles Kogiantis, Kiran Rege, Anthony
  Triolo, Perspecta Labs
• Challenges in Implementing Telemetry over LTE – Mark Radke & Tom Young, T&E S&T – Spectrum Efficient Technology, Edwards AFB, CA
• Conformal L,S,and C-Band Antennas – Tariq A. Mujahed, Toyon Research Corporation
• Electromagnetic Spectrum Reallocation – Guenever Aldrich, Spectrum Reallocation Office, Department of the Navy
• Enhancements to Channel Model Tool Based on Bidirectional Analytic Ray Tracing and Radiative Transfer (CBAR) – Satya Ponnaluri, PhD, IAI
• Latest Development Status on the Commercial Derivative Aircraft Based Instrumentation Telemetry System (CBITS) Program – Scott Kujiraoka, GBL Systems; J. Kyle Roudebush, Jose Hernandez and Kenneth Sanchez, NAVAIR-Point Mugu; Michael Pace, Raytheon Albuquerque
• Spectrum needs Estimation Using Differet Methods – Michael Painter, P.E.; Kannan Swaminathan, P.E.; Kalyan Vadakkeveedu, Satheesh Ramachandran, PhD, Knowledge Based Systems, Inc.; and, Charles H. Jones, PhD, C. H. Jones Consulting, LLC
• Spectrum Usage Measurement System (SUMS) – Mark Wigent, Laulima Systems
• Steered Conformal Array for the Rotating Airframe Missile – Kevin Cook, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Range Instrumentation Track
Track Chairs: Arlene McKee, 96 RNCS, Eglin AFB; Alvia Sandberg, Redstone Test Center; and, Brian Duhart, 412 Test Wing, Edwards AFB

• Benefits of Modernized GNSS in T&E – Nick Cooper and Dave Stephens, QinetiQ UK
• CRIIS Status and Progress – Dennis Quirao, CRIIS Program Office, Eglin AFB
• Emerging Technologies Combined Test Force: Future Range Capabilities – Maj Kyle Bergren, ET CTF, Edwards AFB
• Gulf Range TSPI Instrumentation System (GRITS) – Alfredo Berard, 96 RANSS, 96 TW, Eglin AFB
• Integrating CRIIS with External Systems: Lessons Learned – Robert Wolterman, Collins Aerospace
• JAMI and TENA: A Fusion of GPS and IP – Alvia Sandberg, Missile and Sensors Test Directorate, US Army Redstone Test Center
• Missile Application Condensed Message Discussion Forum – Alvia Sandberg, Missile and Sensors Test Directorate, US Army Redstone Test Center
• TENA/JMETC Solutions for Distributed Test and Training – Gene Hudgins, TENA / JMETC Office, TRMC
• Tri-Service T&E Range Integration and Certification Challenges for the “Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System” (CRIIS) Hardware/Software Suite – Dick Dickson, Dynetics, Tri-Service GPS Sustainment Management Office
• Tri-Service Transition and Preparation for the “Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System” (CRIIS) Sustainment Activities – Dick Dickson, Dynetics, Tri-Service GPS Sustainment Management Office Tri-Service GPS Sustainment Management Office

Test Support Track
Track Chairs: Randy Doring, JT4; John “JB” Esch A, Plant 42, Palmdale CA; and, David “Jesdter” Smith, 412 Test Wing, Edwards AFB

• A Conceptual Framework for Flight Test Management Utilizing Agile Development and Project Management Concepts – Craig Hatcher, 412 Test Wing, Edwards AFB
• Applying Theory of Constraints and Critical Chain Project Management Principles to Aircraft Modifications – April Fowler, 896th Test Support Squadron & Michael Polucha, 896th Test Support Squadron, Eglin AFB
• Controlling Work in Progress (WIP): The Multi-Project Portfolio Scheduling Process – Archie Clark, Project Management Branch, 412 TW/TMGG
• Designing Cultures to Steer Innovation – Jason Korman, Gapingvoid Culture Design Group
• Production Facilities for RDT&E Special Session – AF Industrial Properties: Supporting Warfighters of Today and Tomorrow – John “JB” Esch A, Plant 42, Palmdale CA
• Rapid Acquisition Methods – Jacob C.K. Arola, Engineering Support Branch, Directorate of Contracting, Air Force Test Center (AFTC), Edwards AFB
• Weaponizing Air Force History and Archives – Stephanie M. Smith, PhD, History Office, Edwards AFB