|
Call for Papers
Topics for Consideration
Papers and presentations are sought on topics related to, but not limited to, the following:
- DoD and Service Experimentation Plans/Campaigns and Results
- Designing Experimentation with Modeling and Simulation
- Distributed Testing and Experimentation
- Methodologies for Experimentation vs Test
- Implications of Using Conceptual, Developmental, and Operational Prototypes
- Instrumentation and Target Requirements for Game Changing Technologies
- Policy Recommendations (OSD, Services) to Accommodate Better Prototyping "Pass/Fail" Definitions
- Role of T&E in Experimentation and Across the Kill Chain
- T&E Capabilities for Directed Energy Systems
- Testing Game Changing Technologies Integrated with Current Warfighter Capabilities
- Impacts of OPSEC on Testing and Experimentation
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."
Recently in May 2019, the DoD Prototyping Guidebook was updated by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emerging Capability and Prototyping Office. The Guidebook shares the following:
"In its report, "Weapon Systems: Prototyping Has Benefited Acquisition Programs, but More Can Be Done to Support Innovation Initiatives" (GAO-17-309), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) states that DoD has become increasingly risk averse" and further asserts that risk aversion stifles innovation.
One way of mitigating this risk-averse culture is institutionalizing a new definition of what constitutes prototyping "success" and "failure." Quite simply, since at its core prototyping is meant to generate a data set to inform a future decision, a prototyping project "succeeds" if it provides that data set—even if the prototype itself does not work.
Likewise, a prototyping project that does not generate a data set to inform a future decision "fails." Perspectives of "success" and "failure" in prototyping should have less to do with the prototype itself and more to do with the data that the prototyping project generates.
In most cases, the most important step in the prototyping process is evaluating the prototype. In fact, prototypes are often built specifically for the evaluation activity, and will be discarded after the evaluation. Evaluations should be designed and conducted in a way that addresses the purpose of the prototyping project. Evaluations typically come in three forms: demonstrations, experimentation, and red teaming.
Our Joint Conference leverages that 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.
- How are we incorporating new ideas about prototyping and experimentation "success" and "failure" into test planning, execution, and analysis?
- How is testing in support of experimentation different than traditional T&E? How is it the same?
- 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 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.
Submission Instructions
| Important Dates for Presenters |
11 December 2020
- Abstracts due
- 18 December 2020
- Authors notified of acceptance
- 22 January 2021
- Presentations due with release forms
- 1 February 2021
- Papers due with release forms
- 1-4 February 2021
- Joint Conference on T&E Support to
Prototyping and Experimentation
|
|
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 an open, public release level, Limited Distribution C/D, as well as Classified Secret.
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
The abstract deadline has passed.
Questions about abstracts may be directed to whenderson@aegistg.com,
the Technical Conference Chair.
Authors will be notified on or before 18 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 abstract ID assigned
to 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 or classified presentations no later than 15 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 1 February 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 SUBMISSIONS
Instructions for submitting unclassified presentations and papers will be provided here soon.
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, limited distribution (C or D) presentations and papers or files which contain embedded videos, or are more than 5MB in size should
only be sent via DoD Safe. Government and CAC authenticated users can go directly to https://safe.apps.mil/ and
drop off files for Carolyn at graphic@deps.org. Using DoD Safe is preferable, however, if you need to
send a CD, please mail it to:
DEPS Graphics
7770 Jefferson St. NE
Suite 440
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Unclassified presentations must be received by 15 January 2020; papers by 1 February 2020.
Release Forms
Release forms are required for all papers and presentations submitted to
the 2021 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: 30 January 2021
| 
