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. 28/ 29)
- Breakout Technical Sessions
- Public Release, Limited Distribution and Classified sessions
- Exhibits
- Professional Development Short Courses
- T&E of HEL Systems
- T&E of HPM Systems
- Design of Tests for Transitioning DE Weapon Systems to Acquisition Programs for Warfighter Fielding
- Introduction to the DoD T&E Process
- Combat Systems Engineering of DEWs
- STEAMhack Challenge featuring
- 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 2020 Joint Conference on T&E Support to Prototyping and Experimentation was held on 27-30 January 2020 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.
Program and Agenda
| Preliminary Agenda Overview |
Monday, 27 January
- 0800 - Short courses
- 1300 - Short courses
- Tuesday, 28 January
- 0800 - Keynote and plenary speakers
- 1300 - Technical track sessions
- 1730 - Reception with exhibitors
- Wednesday, 29 January
- 0800 - Keynote and plenary speakers
- 1300 - Technical track sessions
- Thursday, 30 January
- 0800 - Classified technical sessions
- 1300 - Classified sessions continue
- 1700 - Conference adjourns
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An overview of the agenda is provided in the table to the right, and the final conference agenda is available here in PDF format.
Focus areas for technical breakout sessions included these topics:
- DoD and Service Experimentation Plans/Campaigns and Results
- Methodologies for Experimentation vs Test
- Implications of Using Conceptual, Developmental, and Operational Prototypes
- Role of T&E in Experimentation Across the Kill Chain
- T&E Capabilities for Directed Energy 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
- Policy Recommendations (OSD, Services) to Accommodate Better Prototyping "Pass/Fail" Definitions
Last updated: 18 February 2019
