CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE

Members, it has been quite a busy and productive year. This is our second last journal for 2024 with the last being after the annual conference in Huntsville Alabama in November. This journal focuses on the engagement at the Defense and Aerospace Test and Analysis Workshop (DATAWorks) in April of this year and the power of engagement between government, academia and industry. Your association is committed to supporting these events and to grow the body of knowledge around test and evaluation. Dataworks 2024 is the ninth annual workshop with 225 in person and the third hybrid and over 75 virtual attendees covering a diverse range of topics from Cyber and artificial intelligence to mission engineering and digital testing. This wide range of topics in a single forum provides a venue for discussion and helps ITEA focus on priorities. Many thanks to Dr. John Haman and Dr. Kumer Das as guest editors for this edition as well as Dr. Keith Joiner our ITEA journal editor. These forums and the others conducted by your association provide collaboration nationally and internationally and are invaluable to growing the workforce and expanding the knowledge of our members. So, I ask only one thing of you as a member; engage, volunteer and contribute through your writings or presenting your experience and one of the many test and evaluation forums throughout the year. See you in Huntsville in November to round out what is shaping up to be a big year for ITEA.