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 |
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) |
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 |