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1: Improving the Quality of Test & Evaluation Talks under this theme may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: Design of Experiments, Integrated Testing, Sequential Testing, Model Based Systems Engineering, Digital Transformation | 2023 |
2: Sharing Analysis Tools, Methods, and Collaboration Strategies Talks under this theme may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: Bayesian Methods, Statistical Modeling, Data Visualization, Communication skills, Statistical Engineering | 2023 |
3: Advancing Test & Evaluation of Emerging and Prevalent Technologies Talks under this theme may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: Cybersecurity, Autonomy & Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Systems, Software Systems, Space Systems, Hypersonics, Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations | 2023 |
4: Solving Program Evaluation Challenges Talks under this theme may include (but are not limited to) the following topics: Sustainment, Data Management, Reproducible Research, Model and Simulation and Uncertainty Quantification, Reliability, Human System Interaction, DoD’s Five . . . | 2023 |
1: Design of Experiments The complexity of modern defense and aerospace systems, and the environment in which they operate, means that “live” testing is often expensive and time-consuming. Thus, test efficiency is key. Design of Experiments (DOE) techniques allow . . . | 2022 |
2: Test and Evaluation Methods for Emerging Technology The drive to develop new technologies is expanding to more actors with lower barriers of entry, and moving at accelerating speed. New threats to our systems will continue to emerge, especially in the cyber space, putting pressure on our . . . | 2022 |
3: Data Management and Reproducible Research The goal of data management is to make sure you get what you need from your data. Achieving this goal requires organizations and test programs to have a plan for acquiring, cleaning, analyzing, documenting, organizing, and archiving data. . . . | 2022 |
4: Analysis Tools and Techniques Testers should use robust analytical techniques to ensure that conclusions are defensible and glean maximum information from the data collected from the test design. Statistical analysis techniques allow system evaluators to make rigorous . . . | 2022 |
5: Special Topics Special topics sessions will include topics such as sustainment analyses and data visualization. Sustainment Analyses: Quantifying the benefits of specific “what if” scenarios are critical to making real-world evaluations and weapons system . . . | 2022 |
1: Modeling & Simulation The complexity of modern defense and aerospace systems, and the environment in which they operate, means that “live” testing is often expensive or even impossible. Thus, modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities are critical to fully . . . | 2021 |
2: Integrated Testing Integrated test and evaluation (IT&E) is a core practice the Test & Evaluation community can implement to aid the DoD in shifting the acquisition process left. However, its use across the community is uneven. Integrated testing . . . | 2021 |
3: Test & Evaluation Methods for Emerging Technology and Domains The drive to develop new technologies is relentless, expanding to more actors with lower barriers of entry, and moving at accelerating speed. New threats to our systems will continue to emerge, putting pressure on our operational T&E . . . | 2021 |
4: Modeling Human-System Interaction Mission outcomes are heavily determined by how effectively operators interact with systems under operational conditions as decided by their objective performance and their perceived performance. In order to effectively assess these systems, . . . | 2021 |
5: Special Topics Special topics sessions will include topics like Sustainment Analyses, Modeling Public Health Data, and Earth Science Problems | 2021 |
1: Progress and Challenges in Program Evaluation The Department of Defense (DoD) and NASA develop and acquire some of the world’s most sophisticated technological systems. In cooperation with these organizations, we face challenges in ensuring that these systems undergo testing and . . . | 2020 |
2: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence With the future of automation trending towards using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), we aim to provide resources, set precedent, and inspire innovation in these fields. Sessions with this theme will discuss how we . . . | 2020 |
3: Cybersecurity and Software Test & Evaluation The number of known cyber-attacks has been steadily increasing over the past ten years, exposing millions of data records. With the help of leading minds in the cyber field, we work to not only to discover new ways of identifying these . . . | 2020 |
4: Modeling the Human-System Interaction Mission outcomes are heavily determined by how effectively operators interact with systems under operational conditions as decided by their objective performance and their perceived performance. In order to effectively interpret these . . . | 2020 |
5: Science Applications of Test and Evaluation Scientists use a variety of tools to perform analyses within their areas of expertise. Our goal is to demonstrate knowledge of how to improve analyses that they already perform and to introduce new tools to increase analysis . . . | 2020 |
1: Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification These sessions will focus on model verification and validation including case study examples as well as the use of physics and computational based modeling and simulation to benefit system evaluation. | 2019 |
2: Data Integration and Sequential Testing These sessions will focus on integrating, to the extent possible all available information, including previous test outcomes, to sequentially update and refine future testing. | 2019 |
3: Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning These sessions will focus on introducing new tools for evaluating how operators interact with autonomous systems and demonstrate how members of the defense and aerospace communities have applied statistical approaches to evaluate autonomous . . . | 2019 |
4: Data Curation and Engineering These sessions will focus on best practices for storing, curating, cleaning and making data ready for analysis. | 2019 |
5: Improving System Cybersecurity These sessions will focus on methods for evaluating cyber survivability, specifically cyber-attack resiliency for weapon systems. | 2019 |
6: Human-System Integration These sessions demonstrate the importance of human-centered design in defense and aerospace systems and introduce the range of test design and statistical methods available for evaluating human-system integration. | 2019 |
1: Statistical Engineering for Defense and Aerospace | 2018 |
2: Statistical Engineering for Defense and Aerospace | 2018 |
3: Humans are Part of the System: Implications for Test Planning and Analysis | 2018 |
4: Rigorous Use of Modeling and Simulation | 2018 |
5: Statistical Engineering for Autonomous Systems | 2018 |
6: Data Science | 2018 |
1: Improving Computational Modeling: CFD Vision 2030 This session will focus on the statistics in improving existing and developing new computational modeling capabilities. | 2017 |
2: Experimental Design Methods for System Design and Characterization This session will focus on the value of a structured experimental design process in both the design and evaluation of systems. | 2017 |
3: Statistical Engineering for Defense and Aerospace This session will include cases studies that illustrate how straightforward statistical approaches linked together in the right way and targeted towards answering the right question can be useful in addressing the complex data and design . . . | 2017 |
4: Rigorous Use of Modeling and Simulation This session will focus on the use of physics and computational based modeling and simulation to benefit system evaluation and group/flight/live testing. | 2017 |
5: Improving System Reliability and Reliability Test Planning This session will focus on advanced techniques in testing long term system reliability. | 2017 |
6: Humans are Part of the System: Implications for test planning and analysis. This session will focus on the design and test methods for assessing the coupled interaction of the human and the system. | 2017 |
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