Accelerating the Pace of T&E Workshop

WHEN: May 20 – 21, 2025

WHERE: Portsmouth, United Kingdom

THEME: Delivering T&E to Support the Pace of Technology Change

OVERVIEW
In today’s world the pace of technological innovation is constantly increasing, driven by an increasingly global market, commercial drivers to remain competitive and key technological enablers. T&E is too often seen as a drag on this, slowing down the ability of organisations to get their products to market, reducing our militaries abilities to rapidly field new capabilities ahead of our adversaries, whilst still being critical to ensure products perform. How does T&E evolve, grabbing the opportunities these technologies provide to T&E, to ensure we can deliver the needs of our customers at a pace that they need. T&E organisations must adapt people, processes, tools, and policy. In addition, many of the systems to be tested, for example, autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, are part of a digital ecosystem and contain artificial intelligence elements. We must understand how to test at scale, how to assess data , how to adapt our organisations and processes to accommodate the inevitable incorporation (and sustainment) of machine learning test tools, and how to recruit, motivate, and retain a highly skilled workforce including scientists, engineers, technicians, and mechanics.

OUR AUDIENCE
We will balance senior leader presentations and panels with technical panels and tracks and poster sessions to attract exhibitors, sponsors, and senior industry participants, as well as a technical, early career, and student audience. We will capitalise on expertise from:

• Ministry of Defence
• International Governments
• Industry
• Regulators

CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS

Technical tracks and poster sessions will be unclassiﬁed and open to the general community. No restricted sessions, will be accepted. Abstracts must be strictly non-commercial in scope, pertinent to a technical topic, and no longer than 500 words. Best Paper and Student Best Paper awards will be presented for presenters having full papers.

Topics for Tracks and Posters
1. Maximising the value of data utilising AI and ML to deliver T&E at pace
2. Safety, Security, and Regulation as an enabler
3. Digital Engineering Practice
4. M&S – the opportunities it presents
5. Infrastructure Opportunities including physical test, deployable/mobile test and networks / computing

We welcome suggestions for other topics.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Abstracts are due March 14, 2025.

Please ensure your abstract is approved for public release and cleared through your organisation prior to submitting for consideration. Once your abstract has been accepted, you will be notified with further instructions.

Presenters are not exempt from registration and workshop fees. The primary presenter will receive a discounted rate, all other presenters/co-authors will register at the full rate.

We will only accept Online Submissions. [Coming Soon]

FULL PAPERS AND BEST PAPER AWARD

Full papers are optional but are not required. Full papers will be reviewed for publication in the ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation and will be automatically entered in competition for Best Paper and Student Best Paper awards. Journal guidelines and copyright release form are available https://www.itea.org/submissions/