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A Joint DEPS - ITEA Event
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In January 2018, ITEA and DEPS combined two long running events and focused the Joint theme on how test and evaluation could or should be involved in the DoD trend to focus significant energy on prototyping and experimentation. This focus was encouraged in an August 2017 DoD "Report to Congress Restructuring the Department of Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Organization and Chief Management Officer Organization" that stated the:
"Department (of Defense) must increasingly leverage prototyping, experimentation and other developmental activities to retire technical risk before either weighing down the research and engineering phase with costly procurement decisions or weighing down a procurement program with costly technical risk."
Key plenary speakers, panel discussions, and technical sessions were a part of the program to identify challenges, solutions, innovations and a future state; all contributing to moving us closer to creation of an infrastructure and principles, conducive to testing and training in a more operationally realistic environment.
Conference Highlights
- Esteemed Plenary Speakers (Jan. 16/ 17)
- Mr. James Faist, Director of Defense Research and Engineering for Advanced Capabilities, Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering (Confirmed)
- Dr. David A. Horner, Director, Information Technology Laboratory, Engineer Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers (Confirmed)
- Dr. Kelly Hammett, Director, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory (Confirmed)
- Industry Panel on "Prototyping and Experimentation... and What Comes Next" with Dr. David Stoudt- Moderator- Booz Allen Hamilton (Confirmed)
- Mr. Michael T. McCarthy- Deputy Chief of Staff, US Army, Capabilities Integration Center (Confirmed)
- Dr. Michael Jirjis, Chief, Directed Energy Experimentation, Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office (Confirmed)
- Colonel Douglas P. Wickert, Chief, Policy, Programs and Resources Headquarters, Air Force Test and Evaluation (Confirmed)
- Dr. Michael W. Zmuda, Director, Strategic Plans, Analysis and Investments (G 5/9) White Sands Missile Range (Confirmed)
- Breakout Technical Sessions discussed
- Prototyping Efforts and Experimentation Plans
- Experimentation/Test Results
- Instrumentation and Measurement Capabilities
- Space Prototyping and Experimentation
- Public and Limited Distribution sessions
- Exhibits
- Professional Development Short Courses and Tutorials
- T&E of HEL Systems
- T&E of HPM Systems
- Design of Tests for Transitioning DE Weapon Systems to Acquisition Programs for Warfighter Fielding (formerly known as DE Design of Tests)
- Section 804
- Predicting and Validating Prototype Performance
- STEAMhack Challenge featured
- Albuquerque High School
- West Mesa High School
- Technology Leadership High School
- AIMS High School
- Cien Aquas International Middle School
- Van Buren Middle School
- Bosque Middle School
- The ASK Academy Middle School
The 2019 Joint Conference on T&E Support to Prototyping and Experimentation was held on 15-17 January 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the
Hotel Albuquerque. It was jointly sponsored by
the Directed Energy Professional Society and the International Test & Evaluation Association.
Proceedings of the Conference will be published. See our
Online Store for proceedings of some previous DE T&E Conferences.
| Preliminary Agenda Overview |
Tuesday,15 January
- 0800 - Short courses
- 1300 - Short courses
- Wednesday, 16 January
- 0800 - Keynote and plenary speakers
- 1300 - Technical track sessions
- 1730 - Reception with exhibitors
- Thursday, 17 January
- 0800 - Keynote and plenary speakers
- 1300 - Technical track sessions
- 1700 - Conference adjourned
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Breakout Sessions
Focus areas for technical breakout sessions included these topics:
- DoD and Service Experimentation Plans/Campaigns and Results
- Methodologies for Experimentation vs Test Conceptual, Developmental, and Operational prototypes
- Implications of Using Conceptual, Developmental, and Operational Prototypes
- Role of T&E in Experimentation and Across the Kill Chain
- T&E Capabilities for DE Systems
- Instrumentation and Target Requirements for Game Changing Technologies
- Testing Game Changing Technologies Integrated with Current Warfighter Capabilities
- Distributed Testing and Experimentation
- Designing Experimentation with Modeling and Simulation
Last updated: 29 January 2019
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