Registration is invite only.
The United States (US) Department of Defense (DoD) and its supporting industry, research, and academia partners have proposed using Digital Engineering (DE) methods and tools to update traditional systems engineering (SE) and test and evaluation (T&E) practices to improve acquisition outcomes and accelerate traditional processes.
One critical element of the T&E process is the development of the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), in which the program office, systems engineers, and testers come together to document an adequate test and evaluation strategy that spans major program milestones. DE provides opportunities to enhance the TEMP by directly incorporating data and models into the process of documenting the test strategy and program.
A new core element of the TEMP is the Integrated Decision Support Key (IDSK) and Evaluation Matrix family of related tables (e.g., requirements, evaluation measures and metrics, key program decisions, test events, etc.). The IDSK derives acquisition decisions from the developmental and operational test-based evaluations; the Evaluation Matrix links high level system performance metrics to their supporting test data.
This hybrid event will explore Digital Engineering, TEMPs, IDSKs to identify best practices, new methods and tools, and build consensus on where digital transformation will have the largest impact on T&E processes and documentation.
Workshop Objectives: Gather the T&E community from across the DoD, industry, and academia to discuss current state of capabilities, research gaps, and synergies, and develop a common vision for digitally transforming T&E practices. Presentations will include demonstrations of tools and practices.
Topics of Interest:
- IDSK examples for T&E Across the Acquisition Life-cycle
- Approaches to Model-Based IDSK
- Best Practices in Digital Transformation
- Linkages between legacy system performance, modeling, performance assessment, and decision-support data/information
- IDSK application across the Acquisition Lifecyle and integration of Digital Twins
Sponsored by the US DoD Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) | Hosted by the University of Southern California in collaboration with Virginia Tech and John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Technical Contact:
Geoffrey B. Kerr, Senior Research Associate, Systems and Digital Engineering, Virginia Tech National Security Institute
For assistance with registration, contact:
Tara Kelly, Research Project Manager, Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)/ Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC)
