20th System-of-Systems Engineering Workshop Proceedings (2016)

Reducing Risk in 2020

C. David Brown, Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) Director, Test Resource Management Center (TRMC)
5^th Generation Fighter Operational Test Risk Management – Major General Matthew Molloy, Commander, Air Force Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC)Brigadier General Timothy R. Coffin, Commanding General – White Sands Missile Range, United States Army Test & Evaluation Command (ATEC)
Mr. Paul Mann, Executive Director, U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC)
Brigade Modernization Command Overview Brief – Brigadier General Terrence J. McKenrick, Commander, Brigade Modernization Command, Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC), Fort Bliss, TX
Operational Testing for System of Systems in Defense Acquisition Programs – Catherine Warner, Ph.D. – Science Advisor for the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
Colonel Terrece B. Harris, Director, Capability Package Directorate, Systems of Systems Engineering and Integration Directorate (SoSE&I), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army of Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA/ALT)
Congressional Test & Evaluation Update – Mr. Steve Traver, Legislative Fellow, Office of Representative Steve Pearce (NM-02)

- Moderator – Mr. Ryan Norman, TRMC Big Data and Knowledge Management Initiative Lead
- The Future of Big Data (good, bad, or ugly?) – Mark Kiemele, Ph.D., President and Co-Founder Air Academy Associates
- Role of Big Data Analytics in large scale DoD Acquisition Systems – Mr. Tracy Mullendore, Chief, Data Management Division, West Desert Test Center
- A Big Data Consumer’s Perspective – Ms. Karen O’Brien, Chief Evaluator, Center for Reliability Growth, US Army Evaluation Center
- Contextual Analyses of Unstructured Collections to Capture Eventual and Conceptual Lineage – Mahmud Shahriar Hossain, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

- Moderator – Mr. Chip Ferguson, Deputy Director, Interoperability and Cyber Test Capability, Test Resource Management Center (TRMC). Program Manager for the Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC)Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Grimes, Commander, 46 Test Squadron, Eglin AFB, FL
- Mr. Ben Wilson, Test Resources Management Center
- Michael Lilienthal, Ph.D., Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), JMETC
- Mr. Walt March, United States Air Force Simulation and Analysis Facility (SIMAF)

- Moderator – Mr. Peter H. Christensen, OSD, AT&L, TRMC, Director, National Cyber Range
- Mr. Anthony Castañares, CCNP, CISSP, CISA,CISM,CEH,CEPT – Computer Scientist, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

Bronze Level Sponsors

Track A – Systems Engineering

CHAIR – Mr. Kevin Knudsen, The Boeing Company

Integrating ‘OT’ into Contracting V&V with Mission Based Testing – David Allsop, The Boeing Company
Autonomy, Validation, Introspection and Assessment (AVIA) – Miles Thompson, GTRI
Protecting Data – Lidia Zamarron, UTEP
Test Design Optimization in Systems Engineering – Mark Kimele Ph.D., Air Academy Associates
Additive Manufacturing (AM): Identify dimensioning instrumentation and control tools to make in-process measurement possible – Raul Ruiz, UTEP
An Approach for Developing a Knowledge and Analytics-Based Framework and Model to Forecast Program Schedule Performance – Kevin Knudsen, Stevens Institute of Technology

Track B – Big Data

CHAIR – Shawn Smith, PhD, Engility Corporation

The Big Deal About Big Data and Security Intelligence – Mark Kimele Ph.D., Air Academy Associates
Introduction to Synthetic Battlefield Emitter System (SBES) – Michael Osborn, TSMO, The BOEING Company
Fault-Free Software – Tony Pizarello, Ph.D., OntoPilot LLC
Role of Big Data Analytics in large scale DoD Acquisition Systems – Tracy Mullendore, Chief, Data Management Division, West Desert Test Center

Track C – Distributed Testing/ Net-Centricity / Interoperability

CHAIR – Mr. Scott Morris, TRAX International

Track D – Manufacturing

CHAIR – Eric Smith, Ph.D. – University of Texas at El Paso

Development of Nano-Porous Polymeric Metallic Super Oxides for Dual Function Carbon Absorbing Material and Oxygen Producing Material – Angelo Karavolos, MS., UTEP; and, Jean Jacques Favier, Ph.D. – International Space University
Evaluating Lean Manufacturing Teaching via hands-on and computer aided Simulation – Juan Saavedra, Aditya Akundi, & Eric P. Smith, Ph.D., UTEP