17^th ITEA Engineering Workshop
System of Systems in a 3^rd Offset Environment

and

Directed Energy T&E Workshop

January 24 – Pre-Workshop Tutorials
January 25-26 – Workshop Plenary and Technical Sessions

Wyndham Hotel ~ El Paso Airport, TX
The 22^nd Workshop Hosted by the ITEA White Sands Chapter

TECHNICAL TRACK SESSIONS

3^rd Offset

Track Chair – Steve Aragon, ATAMIR

• Automated distributed operations reducing risk and cost of SOS testing: Enabling advanced test capabilities for the 3^rdoffset – Timothy E. Kirchner, nou Systems Inc. (nSI)
• El Paso Healthcare Atlas: A Modern Analytic Ecosystem (“Big Data is Big Data”) – Leopold Gemoets, DSc
• Maximizing the Utility of Data and Emerging Technology with System of Systems and Big Data Analytics – Claudia Rose, BBII Enterprises
• Requirements Driven Test Design: Quickly Aligning to the 3^rd Offset Strategy – Melanie DiAntonio, Air Academy Associates

Advanced Instrumentation Systems Technology – Part 1

Track Chair – David Soules, PhD, TRAX International

• Assessment of Network Vulnerabilities Using Virtual and Constructive Simulations  – Jayashree Harikumar, and Roger Hartley, Physical Science Laboratory; George Moreno Pineda, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
• Exploring Engineered Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems – Bonnie Johnson, Naval Postgraduate School
• Modeling and Simulating Static Antenna Arrays – Juan Guadiana, Rigil Corp
• Modeling Type Uncertainty Reduction Achieved by a Suite of Sensors – James Davidson, and Alex Pogel, PSL, NMSU; Lon Anderson, ARL, WSMR

Advanced Instrumentation Systems Technology – Part 2

Track Chair – Armando Juarez, TRAX International

• NCWTEE, Netcentric warfare test and evaluation Environment Update – Jason Lucas
• Range Interface Unit– Ron Peterson, TRAX International LLC
• Streamlining LVC Integration Using the TENA Adapter Framework  – Ryan Norman, TRMC
• TENA for Telemetry Applications – Gene Hudgins, TENA / JMETC

C4I Software Intensive Systems

Track Chair – Scott Morris, TRAX International

• Automated Validation of T&E Instrumentation Systems  – Austin Whittington, and Ben Abbott, Southwest Research Institute
• Synthetic Battlefield Emission System Update – Scott Hawkins, General Dynamics MS
• Utilizing Network Emulation to Provide Cost Effective Large Scale System of Systems T&E– Noah Weston, US ARMY CERDEC; Kirk Chang, Vencore Labs; Pritesh Patel, Ad hoc Research Associates
• Voluminous Data Challenges and Solutions for System of Systems T&E – Noah Weston, US ARMY CERDEC; Kirk Chang, Vencore Labs; Pritesh Patel, Ad hoc Research Associates

Directed Energy Test and Evaluation (Limited Distribution Sessions)

Track Chair – Edward Trzcienski, The AEgis Technologies Group

• Advances in Direct Irradiance Measurement and Calibration Techniques – James Luke, Aegis Technologies Group
• Assessing the trade space for techniques, analysis, collection, and standards, for High
• Atmospheric Characterization for Accurate Performance Prediction – Steve Hammel, SPAWAR Systems Center
• Energy Laser Sensors (TACoSHELS): Doctoral Dissertation Topic – Major James Bowers, AFIT
• Flight Diagnostics Developed for AFRL’s Demonstration Laser Weapon System (DLWS) – Robert Ulibarri, AFRL/RDLE
• High Energy Laser Near Term Test and Evaluation Solutions – David Ward, SemQuest
• High Energy Laser Weapon Performance Measurement – Chuck LaMar, US Army
• Metrology and Calibration (METCAL) for DE T&E – Subrata Sanyal, NSWC Corona
• Solid State Laser Testbed Scoring System – Daniel Duffin, Radiance Technologies
• SSLT Peak Irradiance Measurement Techniques – Chuck LaMar, US Army
• The High Energy Laser (HEL) Target Reflected Energy Measurement (TREM) System – Semih Kumru, AFRL 711 HPW

Range Systems

Track Chair – David Soules, PhD, TRAX International

• Adaptive Passive Long-Range Horizontal Imaging for Desert Testing – David Tofsted, Army Research Lab, and John Blowers, TRAX International
• Migrating Towards a Modern IP Tracking Interface  – Sean Campbell and Pierre Bastie, Zodiac Data Systems
• Mission Planning Execution Toolset – James Northrup, TRAX International
• White Sands Missile Range Radio Spectrum Enterprise Testbed: A Spectrum Allocation Solution Proposal – Juan Gonzales, Pablo Rangel, and Virgilio Gonzales, The University of Texas at El Paso

Unmanned & Autonomous Systems Test

Track Chair – Pete Christensen, National Cyber Range

• Introduction to WSMR DOME  – Benito Ramos, and Jesus Nevarez, WSMR
• LVC Enabled Testbed for Autonomous Aircraft Systems – Angus McLean, PhD, Jonathon Skarphol, Jaclyn Hoke, Josh Bertram, and Scott Rediger, Rockwell Collins
• Planning Tool to Evaluate Range Safety and Discern Emergent Behavior for Autonomous Systems – Jayashree Harikumar and Raymond Bernstein, Physical Science Laboratory
• Test and Evaluation of Autonomous Systems: Challenges and Opportunities of Evaluating Trust – Peter Crump and Don Strausberger, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Wide Area Instrumentation

Track Chair – Geoffrey W.  Wilson, TRMC

• Conducting Joint, Inter-Organizational and Multi-National (JIM) Training, Testing and Experimentation in a LVC Distributed Environment  – Colonel (USA, Ret) Michael R. Gonzales, TRAX International/Three Towers Strategic Consulting
• Should we continue to rely on the “String of Pearls” – Ashton Burke, OSD AT&L, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)
• Telemetry System Modernization – Zoe Espinoza, White Sands Missile Range
• White Sands Missile Range Flight Termination System Modernization – Shawna Pfeiffer, TRAX International