A Joint DEPS - ITEA Event
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Conference Highlights
- Partial list of invited speakers
- Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)
- Major General Matthew Molloy, Commander, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
- Dr. Kelly Hammett, Director, Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy
- Mr. Steve Squires, Director, High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility
- Mr. Derrick Hinton, Acting Director, Test Resource Management Center
- Mr. Steve Traver, New Mexico Legislative Fellow
- Dr. Shawn Jordan, Professor at Arizona State University Fulton Schools of Engineering
- Breakout technical sessions
- Public and restricted sessions
- Exhibits
- Short Courses
- Introduction to DE T&E Process
- T&E of High Energy Laser Systems
- T&E of High Power Microwave Systems
- Co-located with ITEA Engineering Workshop
The 2018 Directed Energy Test & Evaluation Conference will be held on 16-18 January 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the
Sheraton Uptown Albuquerque Hotel. It is jointly sponsored by
the Directed Energy Professional Society and the International Test & Evaluation Association, and is co-located with the
ITEA Engineering Workshop.
Registrants for either conference may attend sessions of the other. However,
while some portions of the DE T&E Conference will be available to any registrant, other sessions will be
limited in participation. See the
Security Section.
Proceedings of the Conference will be published. See our
Online Store for proceedings of some previous DE T&E Conferences.
Program and Agenda
| Preliminary Agenda Overview |
Tuesday,16 January
- 0800 - Short courses
- 1300 - Short courses
- Wednesday, 17 January
- 0800 - Keynote and plenary speakers
- 1300 - Technical track sessions
- 1730 - Reception with exhibitors
- Thursday, 18 January
- 0800 - Keynote and plenary speaker
- 1030 - Panel: Prototyping to Develop Range Test Capabilities
- 1300 - Technical track sessions
- 1700 - Conference adjourns
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An overview of the preliminary agenda is provided in the figure.
The detailed agenda, including presentations within sessions,
is available here in PDF format.
One focus of the 2018 DE T&E Conference is to leverage the model of the DEPS DE Systems Symposium
(Monterey, California, 25-29 September 2017) and feature topics related to the T&E of the Symposium’s DoD systems of interest:
- GBAD- Marine Corps Ground Based Air Defense
- HADES - Air Force High-power Adaptive Directed Energy Weapon
- HELMTT- Army High Energy Laser Mobile Test Truck
- HIJENKS - Joint Navy-Air Force High Power Electromagnetic Non-Kinetic Strike
- LWSD - Navy Laser Weapon System Demonstrator
- SHiELD - Air Force Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator
In addition, focus areas for technical breakout sessions will include these topics:
- DE T&E instrumentation and facilities
- DE T&E planning and execution challenges
- DE T&E results
- DE S&T efforts in support of planned T&E efforts
Last updated: 9 January 2018
