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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11575.
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APPENDIX D
Workshop Agenda and Attendees

AGENDA

Workshop on Testing for Dynamic Acquisition of Defense Systems

December 13-14, 2004

National Academy of Sciences Building

2100 C Street, NW

Washington, DC

Monday, December 13, 2004

Lecture Room

8:30 a.m.

Introduction and Overview

Vijay Nair (University of Michigan)

8:40

Setting the Stage: Definitions and Intentions

Michael W. Wynne (Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics)

9:00

Floor Discussion

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11575.
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9:10

The Role of Testing in the Proposed New Evolutionary Paradigm: DOT&E’s Perspective

Thomas P. Christie (Director, Operational Test and Evaluation)

9:30

Floor Discussion

9:40

Relevant Best Practices in Industry

GAO Studies on Commercial Approaches to Incremental Acquisition: What Works and What Doesn’t

Katherine Schinasi (Managing Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, GAO)

10:00

Break

10:15

Speakers from Industry:

Art Koehler and Charley Eberhard (Procter & Gamble)

10:35

Tim Davis (Ford Motor Company)

10:55

Stan Young (NISS)

11:15

David Kelly (Battelle)

11:35

Floor Discussion

11:45

Comments on Evolutionary Acquisition and Testing

Philip Coyle (Defense Consultant and Senior Advisor, Center for Defense Information)

12:05 p.m.

Floor Discussion

12:15

Lunch

1:15

Techniques for Test Design in the Context of Staged Acquisition

Steve Vardeman (Iowa State University)

1:35

Donald Gaver (NPS)

1:55

Jesse Poore (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)

2:15

Alyson Wilson (LANL)

2:35

Floor Discussion

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11575.
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2:45

Infrastructure Issues: Combining Information, Data Warehousing, and Summary of Previous Panel Recommendations

Steve Pollock (University of Michigan)

3:05

Floor Discussion

3:15

Break

3:30

Panel Presentation: Perspectives on Testing in Evolutionary Acquisition from the Service Test Agencies

Steven K. Whitehead* (Technical Director, OPTEVFOR)

3:40

Frank J. Apicella (Technical Director, AEC)

3:50

Doug Marlowe (Technical Director, AFOTEC)

4:00

Floor Discussion

4:10

Panel Discussion—Potential Recommendations and Further Activities

Ernest Seglie (DOT&E)

Seth Bonder (The Bonder Group)

Katherine Schinasi (GAO)

David Kelly (Batelle)

(Moderator: Vijay Nair)

4:50

Floor Discussion

5:15

Adjourn

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Room 250

9:00 a.m.

Participant Presentations and Structured Discussion

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00

Executive Session (closed)

4:00

Adjourn

*  

Could not attend.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11575.
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WORKSHOP ATTENDEES

Christine Anderson-Cooke, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Frank Apicella, Army Evaluation Command

Sheila Bahner, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Charles Bedard, Army Test and Evaluation Command

Don Berry, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Seth Bonder, The Bonder Group

Bruce Braun, National Research Council

Herman Chernoff, Harvard University

John Christie, Logistics Management Institute

Tom Christie, Office of the Secretary of Defense–Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate

Jerry Clark, Government Accountability Office

Mike Clarke, National Research Council

Michael Cohen, National Research Council

Philip Coyle, Center for Defense Information

Steve Daly, Office of the Secretary of Defense–Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate

Paul Davis, RAND

Tim Davis, Ford Motor Company

Charley Eberhard, Procter & Gamble

John Foulkes, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Arthur Fries, Institute for Defense Analyses

Don Gaver, Naval Postgraduate School

Lou Gordon, Susquehanna

Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

David Kelly, Battelle

Jerry Kitchen, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center

Art Koehler, Procter & Gamble

David Maddox, United States Army (ret)

Doug Marlowe, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center

Bill Meeker, Iowa St. University

Jim Morrison, Government Accountability Office

Vijay Nair, University of Michigan

Lloyd Pickering, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center

Tom Plewes, National Research Council

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11575.
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Steve Pollock, University of Michigan

Jesse Poore, University of Tennessee

Rick Sayre, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Operations Research

Katherine Schinasi, Government Accountability Office

Ernest Seglie, Office of the Secretary of Defense–Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate

Arun Seraphin, Senate Armored Services Committee

Michael Siri, National Research Council

Nancy Spruill, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Brian Taylor, Army Test and Evaluation Command

Steve Vardeman, Iowa State University

Alyson Wilson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Michael Wynne, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Stan Young, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Workshop Agenda and Attendees." National Research Council. 2006. Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11575.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) recently adopted evolutionary acquisition, a dynamic strategy for the development and acquisition of its defense systems. Evolutionary defense systems are planned, in advance, to be developed through several stages in a single procurement program. Each stage is planned to produce a viable system which could be fielded. The system requirements for each stage of development may be specified in advance of a given stage or may be decided at the outset of that stage's development. Due to the different stages that comprise an evolutionary system, there exists a need for careful reexamination of current testing and evaluation policies and processes, which were designed for single-stage developments.

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD-AT&L) and the Director of Operational Testing and Evaluation (DOT&E) asked the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies to examine the key issues and implications for defense testing from the introduction of evolutionary acquisition. The CNSTAT was charged with planning and conducting a workshop to study test strategies for the evolutionary acquisition. The committee reviewed defense materials defining evolutionary acquisition and interviewed test officials from the three major test service agencies to understand the current approaches used in testing systems procured through evolutionary acquisition. The committee also examined possible alternatives to identify problems in implementation.

At the workshop that took place on December 13-14, 2004, the committee tried to answer many questions including: What are the appropriate roles and objectives for testing in an evolutionary environment?, Can a systematic, disciplined process be developed for testing and evaluation in such a fluid and flexible environment?, and Is there adequate technical expertise within the acquisition community to fully exploit data gathered from previous stages to effectively combine information from various sources for test design and analysis?. Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment provides the conclusions and recommendations of the CNSTAT following the workshop and its other investigations.

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