August 18-21, 2015 ~ Crystal Gateway Marriott ~ Arlington, VA

ONLINE PROCEEDINGS and PRESENTATIONS

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AND SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

• C. David Brown, Ph.D. – Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Developmental Test and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
• Steve Hutchison, Ph.D.  – Director, (Acting) Capability Development Support Group, Homeland Security Science & Technology

• State of the Association: ITEA Annual Meeting – Mr. Chas McKee, ITEA President
• The Accuracy of Independent Estimates of the Procurement Costs of Major Systems (IDA Paper P-3989) – David L. McNicol, Ph.D., Project Leader, Cost Analysis and Research Division, Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA)
• Mr. Dai Morris – Head of Capability (Weapons, Evaluation and Capability Assurance), UK MOD
• Mr. Steve Traver, Legislative Fellow, Office of Representative Steve Pearce (NM-02) 

SPECIAL PANELS

Commercial Space Panel

Moderator: Mr. Wilson Felder (Past Director, FAA OT&E) – Stevens Institute of Technology

Ms. Patricia Hynes – Director, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, and NASA Experimental Program for Competitive Research, and Mr. Eric Stallmer – President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation

DT Panel

Moderator: Brian Hall, Ph.D., SES – Principal Deputy Director, Developmental Test and Evaluation, OUSD-AT&L

Mr. Kevin Knudsen – Systems Test Enterprise Capability Leader, Boeing Test and Evaluation
Mr. John Paulson – Senior Director, Engineering & Project Management, General Dynamics Land Systems

International T&E Panel

Moderator: Dai Morris, Ph.D. – Head of Capability (Weapons, Evaluation and Capability Assurance), UK MOD

Keith Joiner, Ph.D. – Australia MOD
RADM Ketil Olsen – Norway MOD

OTA Commanders Panel

Moderator: Catherine Warner, Ph.D. – Science Advisor, DOT&E

Mr. David Jimenez – Executive Technical Director and Deputy to the Commander, ATEC 

TECHNICAL TRACK SESSIONS

Cyber Security and Interoperability T&E: New and Proven Methods

1st Chair: Chip Ferguson, JMETC/TRMC
Track 2nd Chair: Neyer Torrico, SRC

• A Mission Based Approach for Analyzing the Risk of Cyber Vulnerabilities – Paola Pringle, NAVAIR PMA-290, and Mike Lilienthal, Ph.D., EWA
• Cyber Test, Analysis and Simulation Environment (TASE) – Rich Wride, 46th TS, and Donn Puckle, Army Proving Ground
• Cybersecurity Test and Evaluation and the National Cyber Range – Lizann Messerschmidt and Pete Christensen, NCR
• Detect, Respond, and Recover: The Most Critical Challenge to Cybersecurity T&E – John Schab, CISSP, GSEC, GCED, Security+, Systems Engineering Lead, MITRE Corporation
• Enabling Common Cyberspace Operations (ECCO): Testing the Air Force’s next Generation Cyber Ops Platform – MAJ Mike “Thumper” Christensen, Det 2 46 TS/CC
• Expanding Network Testing with Virtual Cyber Ranges – MG Stuart Dyer, (USA, Ret.), SVP, TeleniX Corp
• Knowledge Management and Big Data in T&E – Ryan Norman, TRMC
• Multi-Level Security for Distributed Test – Chad Spittle, Rockwell Collins
• Shifting Further Left! An Approach to Testing Interoperability and Cyber Security during Developmental Planning – Edward M. Kraft, Ph.D., US Air Force Test Center

Emerging T&E Technology and T&E S&T

1st Chair: Mark Brown, Ph.D., SRC
2nd Chair: Thomas O’Brien, General Infomatics, Inc.

• An Automated Approach for Test and Evaluation of Portable Radiation Devices – Bryan W Gerber, Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Clemson University’s New Innovation Center Features 21st Century Educational Advancements – Charles K. Watt, Ph.D., Watt Family Innovation Center, and Dennis L. Lester. Ph.D., Clemson University
• Cooper-Harper and other Ordinal Categorical Data Analysis Using Ridits – Arnon Hurwitz, Ph.D., US AIR FORCE
• New Science and Technology to Support Here and Now “Big Data” – Gil Torres, Pt Mugu
• Rapid Data Analyzer for Net-Centric System Test (RDAN) – Andrew Shaffer, APL Penn State
• UAS Signature and Lethality Modeling Methodologies – Dustin Clark, Brent Deerman, and Kelsey Tamez, US Army AMRDEC
• Signature Based Photogrammetric Target Extraction Algorithm for Size & Orientation Variant Targets – Kofi Nyarko, Ph.D., Morgan State University
• Surrogate Missiles for OAR Testing of Aircraft Survivability Equipment – Richard Robinson, AEgis Technologies Group, Inc.
• Utilization of Modern Image Processing Techniques to Perform Real-Time Test Evaluation – Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero and Andrew Shaeffer, The Applied Research Laboratory At Pennsylvania State University

FAA Test and Evaluation Practices or Non-DOD T&E

1st Chair: Wilson Felder, Stevens Institute of Technology
2nd Chair: Bruce Einfalt, APL Penn State

• Advancing Test Capabilities at NASA Wind Tunnels – James Bell, NASA Ames Research Center
• Applying Agile to SE: Incremental Automated Test Capability of the Multi-spectral Targeting System Platforms – Joshua Strain and Amar Modi, Raytheon
• Continuous system monitoring as a test tool in the National Airspace System – Bruce Normann and Christopher Giusti, CSSI
• Embedded Testing of Air Traffic Control Software – Jeff Square, EXB
• Incremental Flight Testing of Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) Prototype for Commercial Space Transportation Applications – Nick Demidovich, FAA OCS
• Strategy for Delivering National Airspace System Capabilities: T&E Perspective – Joe Burns, Wanda Lopez-Labarbera, Harry Bilicki, Howard Shectman, and Mike Ogundoju, FAA Test Standards
• The Challenge of Operational Messaging in LVC test for the AATM Domain – Terry Layton, The Boeing Company
• The FAA UAS test sites: current operations and future challenges – Frank Serna and Troy Jones, Draper Laboratory 

Operation Test and Evaluation TTP’s or Operational T&E

1st Chair: Phil Hallenbeck, Mitre/OTC
2nd Chair: Pete Crump, Georgia Tech Research Institute

• Electronic Warfare Test and Evaluation University – Martin Welch, 412th Electronic Warfare Group
• Enhanced Combat Helmet – Rym Ferahtia, Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation (MCOTEA)
• Evaluating Capability: The Importance of Mission Context in DT&E – Rick Thomas and Bill Swank, OSD/AT&L Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, DT&E
• How to Use Firepower of Blue and Red Weapons in an Operational Test? – Stan Nair, Ph.D., US Army Evaluation Center
• Mission Effectiveness of C4ISR Systems in NIE – Jason Gonzales and Jung Oh, Institute for Defense Analyses, MITRE Corporation
• Mission Effectiveness Methodology in Operational Testing – Kristen L. Lambrecht, Ph.D., and Bruce A. Simpson, Institute for Defense Analyses
• Slogan-Based T&E: Words Have Meaning – Christopher M. Wilcox, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command
• The TMAC Story: Maturing New Fast-Mover Instrumentation Through its Own Mission Capabilities – John C. Herder, Rockwell Collins

T&E Tools and Methodologies to Support Testing of Complex Systems

1st Chair: Kevin Knudsen, The BOEING Company
2nd Chair: Mark London, GWU

• Australia’s First Official use of U.S. Design of Experiments: User Trials to Determine Best Enhanced Steyr Rifle Configuration – Keith F. Joiner, Ph.D., University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Academy, Mark Kiemele, Ph.D., Air Academy Associates, and LTCOL Mark McAuliffe, Australian Defence Test and Evaluation Office
• Changing the Focus of DT&E – William Eischens, MTSI
• Comprehensive Analysis: When to Automate in a Fiscally Constrained Environment – Amar Modi and Joshua Strain, Raytheon
• How New Test and Evaluation Policy is being used to De-risk Project Approvals through Preview T&E – Keith F. Joiner, Ph.D., University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Academy
• Stochastically Calculating the Producer and Consumer Risk for the Reliability of a System of Systems – Daniel Owens, Ph.D., US Army Evaluation Center
• The Case for Automating System Level Radar Verification Testing – Edward Dou, Mark Fish, and Christian Reascos, Raytheon

Pre-Symposium TUTORIALS

• Introduction to Cybersecurity Test and Evaluation – Pete Christensen, TRMC/NCR, and Lizann Messerschmidt, Mitre.
• Testing …. 1, 2, 3 – Matt Reynolds, Test and Evaluation Program Management
• Test and Evaluation of Cyber Systems – Fred Wright, Ph.D., Georgia Tech Research Institute