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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13291.
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Appendix A

Workshop Agenda

AGENDA

Day 1: Friday, January 15, 2010

8:30 am Introduction and Kickoff
Vijay Nair, University of Michigan (Committee Chair)
   
SESSION A: VIEWS FROM NONDEFENSE INDUSTRIES—PART I: SOFTWARE
Moderator: Alyson Wilson, Science and Technology Policy Institute, Institute for Defense Analyses (Panel Member)
   
  Speakers:
8:50 am Donald Bollinger, Software Engineering, Hewlett-Packard
9:30 am Sham Vaidya, Emerging Architecture and Technology, IBM
   
  Discussion:
10:10 am Steve J. Hutchison, test and evaluation executive, Defense Information Systems Agency
10:20 am Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Laboratories Research (Panel Member)
10:30 am Open Discussion
   
10:40 am Break
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13291.
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SESSION B: VIEWS FROM NONDEFENSE INDUSTRIES—PART II: HARDWARE
Moderator: John Christie, LMI (Panel Member)
  Speakers:
11:00 am Jeff Zyburt, independent consultant (formerly director of Testing, Chrysler)
11:40 am Salim Momin, independent consultant (formerly with Motorola/Freescale)
   
12:30 pm Lunch
   
  Discussion:
1:30 pm Dmitry Tananko, General Dynamics
1:40 pm; A. Blanton Godfrey, North Carolina State University (Panel Member)
1:50 pm Floor Discussion
   
SESSION C: EXPERIENCES IN DOD AND DEFENSE INDUSTRIES
Moderator:
Michael Cohen, CNSTAT (Panel Staff)
   
  Speakers:
2:00 pm Robin Pope, SAIC—The Future Combat System as a Case Study
2:50 pm Michael Cushing, ATEC
   
  Discussion:
3:30 pm Pete Adolph, retired (Panel Member)
3:40 pm Raj Kawlra, Chrysler (Panel Member)
3:50 pm Floor Discussion
   
4:00 pm Coffee
   
SESSION D: PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderator: John Rolph, University of Southern California (Panel Member)
   
4:15 pm Panelists:
William McCarthy, DOT&E (formerly OPTEVFOR) Steve Welby, director, Systems Engineering Chris DiPetto, acting director, Development Test Tom Christie, retired (Panel Member) Peter Cherry, SAIC (Panel Member)
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13291.
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5:05 pm Floor Discussion
   
5:30 pm Adjourn
   
       Day 2: Saturday, January 16, 2010
   
SESSION E: BRAINSTORMING SESSION
   
9:00 am How to Find Failures Early in Development
9:45 am How to Assess Technological Maturity
   
10:30 am Break
   
10:45 am How to Combine Information from Disparate Sources
11:30 am Challenges Facing DOD in Implementing Industrial Best Practices and Other Issues
   
12:00 pm Working Lunch
   
2:00 pm Adjourn
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During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods to improve the testing and development of defense systems. These studies were intended to provide advice to the Department of Defense (DOD), which sponsored these studies. The previous studies have been concerned with the role of statistical methods in testing and evaluation, reliability practices, software methods, combining information, and evolutionary acquisition.

Industrial Methods for the Effective Testing and Development of Defense Systems is the latest in a series of studies, and unlike earlier studies, this report identifies current engineering practices that have proved successful in industrial applications for system development and testing. This report explores how developmental and operational testing, modeling and simulation, and related techniques can improve the development and performance of defense systems, particularly techniques that have been shown to be effective in industrial applications and are likely to be useful in defense system development. In addition to the broad issues, the report identifies three specific topics for its focus: finding failure modes earlier, technology maturity, and use of all relevant information for operational assessments.

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