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Call for Papers
Topics for Consideration
- 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
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."
This acquisition approach is now commonly referred to as Section 804 – Rapid Acquisition. As outlined in an implementation memorandum from the Honorable Ellen M. Lord, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Section 804 provides that Middle Tier Acquisition programs are not subject to the Joint Capabilities Integration Development System (JCIDS) manual nor DoD Directive 5000.01,
"The Defense Acquisition System."
One of the primary examples of this fast-moving experimentation paradigm is the Air Force's Light Attack Experiment which has gone from first experiment to draft request for proposal for two competing aircraft in 12 months. An interview at Defense News TV of Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force discusses the Light Attack Experiment and "middle-tier" rapid procurement.
Lt. Gen Paul Ostrowski, Principal Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology has described how the Army is establishing their Futures Command in Austin Texas to build on three pillars. According to the Army News Service, "Ostrowski described the third pillar of Combat Systems as taking what has been learned from Futures and Concepts and turning that into experimentation, prototyping and capabilities that can be tested by Soldiers who give their feedback." Click here to read more.
These are but two examples of significant prototyping and experimentation ongoing within the Department of Defense. Our Joint Conference leverages that emerging DoD vision and the recent significant increases in prototyping and experimentation efforts to explore the role of T&E in "prototyping, experimentation and other developmental activities." This Conference will discuss the practical implications of T&E support to getting "game changing" technologies to the Warfighter. The partnership with DEPS allows for high energy laser and high-power microwave experimentation to be an integral component of our technical program.
- What are the roles of DoD T&E organizations and the Major Range and Test Facility Bases (MRTFBs) in designing, planning, executing, and supporting these activities?
- Given that each Service has already embarked on significant prototype development and experimentation campaigns, with execution timelines that span years not decades, how do the Service and DoD T&E communities respond to rapidly emerging needs for instrumentation, infrastructure, and test methodologies to support these campaigns?
- How is testing in support of experimentation different than traditional T&E? How is it the same?
- How is testing is support of experimentation affected by the use of conceptual, developmental, and operational prototypes?
Key plenary speakers, panel discussions, and technical sessions will be 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. Come Join Us!
Note that all persons wishing to present at the Joint Conference on T&E Support to
Prototyping and Experimentation will be required to submit an abstract.
(See Submission Instructions section below.) Important dates for presenters are listed in the table below.
| Important Dates for Presenters |
21 November 2018
- Abstracts due but see below
- 5 December 2018
- Authors notified of acceptance
- 4 January 2019
- Presentations due with release forms
- 11 January 2019
- Papers due with release forms
- 15-17 January 2019
- Joint Conference on T&E Support to
Prototyping and Experimentation
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Submission Instructions
General information on the submission of abstracts, presentations, papers and release forms is provided here. Specific
information on sending presentations and papers will be provided below soon. Presentations and papers will be considered
for acceptance at open, public release level and at Distribution Limitation D.
Note that it is the responsibility of the lead author to obtain all approvals and releases for
submitted abstracts, presentations, and papers. All submitted materials including unclassified presentations
must be appropriately marked for any distribution restrictions.
Additionally, please identify the presenter (if different from the lead author) and update contact information.
Abstracts
All persons wishing to present at the 2019 Joint Conference on T&E Support to
Prototyping and Experimentation must submit an abstract for consideration. Abstracts must be
unclassified and are due on or before 21 November 2018. Abstracts are to be
submitted online by completing this form.
Authors will be notified on or before 5 December of acceptance of their paper for presentation and/or publication.
Authors may choose whether to release either the title or the abstract online.
Those who do not yet have public release approval are encouraged to submit the abstract before the deadline and select the
appropriate options on the submission form to keep the details off the Website listing. Authors may also make arrangements
to submit classified or limited distribution material. To do so, authors should submit a place-holder title and abstract
through the online submission form and follow the instructions there that are suitable for their material.
Please contact webmaster@deps.org with any technical issues regarding
abstract submission. Subject matter questions regarding abstracts should be directed to a member of
the
conference technical committee.
Note: While an automated email is sent confirming receipt of your abstract, some military
domains may block delivery of such an email. If you do not receive email confirmation, you may check this
online listing of submitted abstracts. This listing is dynamically generated based on
abstracts received at the time the page is displayed and author permission (granted when submitted). If the title of your
abstract is contained in this listing, it has been received by DEPS.
Presentations and Papers
In order to assemble the presentations for the symposium in a timely manner, authors will be
required to submit the sponsoring Program Office approved versions of unclassified presentations no later than 4 January. Any
presentation received after this date is subject to not being presented at the discretion
of the technical committee.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers as well as presentations. Submitted papers may, upon author
approval, be forwarded for consideration by editors of the Journal of Directed Energy,
a peer-reviewed publication.
Papers are will be due on or before 11 January and should be submitted in either Microsoft
Word format, which is preferred, or Adobe Acrobat format (pdf file). Specific format
instructions can be found on the following link: Journal Author
Instructions with the following exceptions: no page limit, single space paragraphs, double space between paragraphs
and integrated figures and tables. Include full information (including address, phone,
fax, and email) for corresponding author. It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that
the paper has not been published, nor under consideration, elsewhere
Note that all submitted materials, including unclassified presentations, must be appropriately marked for security classification as well as identification of any distribution restrictions.
Unclassified, public release (Distribution A) presentations and papers that are less than 5MB in size can be
sent electronically to Carolyn Bowman at graphic@deps.org.
Unclassified presentations
and papers that are Distribution C or D, contain embedded videos, or are more than 5MB in size can be mailed on a CD
to the following address or uploaded to a secure file transfer site such as AMRDEC.
DEPS Graphics
695 Conway Ave.
Las Cruces, NM 88005
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Unclassified presentations must be received by 4 January 2019; papers by 11 January 2019.
Release Forms
Release forms are required for all papers and presentations submitted to
the 2019 Joint Conference on T&E Support to Prototyping and Experimentation. These PDF forms can be completed electronically and emailed to graphic@deps.org or faxed to the number on the form. It is the responsibility of the lead author to obtain all approvals and releases for submitted presentations and papers. Submission instructions are provided on the form itself. Forms are due at the same time
as the corresponding presentation/paper.
Note that poster papers are considered presentations and the presentation release form should be used in those cases.
Presentation Release Form
Paper Release Form
Last updated: 9 January 2019
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