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Tutorials Tutorial I Application of the Capability Test Methodology to the Design of a Live, Virtual, and Constructive Environment for Testing in a Joint Mission Environment Who Should Attend? A must attend session for anyone interested in learning how to use a capabilities-based approach for designing a live, virtual, and constructive distributed environment (LVC-DE) to enable successful testing in a joint mission environment. With the advent of the "Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap" this presentation has applicability to the testing, acquisition, warfighting, and training communities. If you are interested in the testing in a joint environment initiative this tutorial is for you. It will be of special interest to all capability/program managers, requirements managers, test managers, test and evaluation professionals, test team members and acquisition professionals. Overview: This tutorial provides test organizations, system program offices, contractors, and anyone involved in test and evaluation, acquisition, and test environment design with an overview of fundamental concepts, processes, models, and tools to enable engineering of a complex and composable LVC-DE. Through an operational use case, this session will demonstrate how the Capability Test Methodology (CTM) can be applied using its Joint Mission Environment Foundation Model (JFM) to quickly plan, build, and execute tests of systems of systems (SoS) in a joint mission environment while optimizing resources and schedule. A brief description of the CTM will be provided. The JFM, a systems engineering design template, will be introduced as a guide for development and reuse of LVC-DE components with the goal of effecting sufficient SoS testing in a verified, validated, and realistic joint mission environment for test. This tutorial will provide information necessary for the successful design and execution of SoS and joint capabilities tests. Instructors: Cost: $200 Dress: Casual Attire Educational Information: One Continuous Learning Point (CLP) will be given for each hour of instruction. A certificate will be provided upon completion of the course. This course is open to government and industry personnel. Presented from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Max Lorenzo, Technical Director, JTEM Dan Grenier, Systems Engineer, JTEM Tutorial II Understanding Statistical Concepts in Design of Experiments (DOE) Tutorials Who Should Attend? This course is intended for Evaluators, Testers, Program Managers, and anyone with responsibility for designing tests or understanding test data. It is a basic course and not intended for statisticians or those already familiar with DOE concepts. Overview: This tutorial provides a broad level presentation on the use of Design of Experiments in test planning. DOE is used to gather defensible data using fewer tests, saving the customer both time and money in the acquisition process. This tutorial will introduce experimental design concepts namely, factorial designs, fractional factorials, and similar methodologies. Other statistical concepts such as confidence, confounding, and interactions will be explained as experimental design is being presented. At the conclusion of the tutorial, you should understand the concepts and processes enough to be able to communicate effectively and even create the most basic of experimental designs. Instructor: Cost: $200 Dress: Casual Attire Educational Information: One Continuous Learning Point (CLP) will be given for each hour of instruction. A certificate will be provided upon completion of the course. This course is open to government and industry personnel. Presented from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Dr. Ken Gritton, West Desert Test Center, Dugway Proving Ground Scott Hunter, West Desert Test Center, Dugway Proving Ground Tutorial III Integration of Modeling and Simulation into Hardware-in-the-Loop T&E Environments Who Should Attend? Technical Program Managers, Systems Engineers and M&S/Software Engineers would benefit from this Tutorial. It is geared to provide insight into the Systems Engineering process and concerns associated with integrating a Modeling and Simulation technology with the stimulation and control of real-time hardware components. Overview: This tutorial will provide attendees an overview of the Systems Engineering processes and techniques required to integrate Virtual and Constructive Models in a Hardware-in-the-Loop test Tutorials environment. This tutorial covers all elements from development of performance parameters through conceptual and detailed design to integration into the T&E environments. The tutorial will discuss technology approaches, such as the use of Reflected Shared Memory, integration of TENA/DIS/HLA simulation environments, and other system level interface techniques. This tutorial culminates with a case study exercise that allows participants to better understand the design and integration process. Instructor: Cost: $200 Dress: Casual Attire Educational Information: One Continuous Learning Point (CLP) will be given for each hour of instruction. A certificate will be provided upon completion of the course. This course is open to government and industry personnel. Presented from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Dr. Mark Brown, Scientific Research Corporation Dr. Stephen Jones, Scientific Research Corporation Tutorial IV Introduction to Concepts for Analyzing System and System of Systems Performance in Complex Environments Who Should Attend? Test and evaluation professionals, test managers, test team members, acquisition professionals, and capability/program managers will benefit from this presentation. If you are interested in testing in a joint environment, how to test future joint capabilities, systems, and systems of systems (SoS), and the complexity this all brings to the test and evaluation community, this tutorial is for you. Overview: This tutorial will introduce an evaluation strategy and examine a measures framework method that can be used to evaluate joint capability joint mission effectiveness and SoS performance using a Joint Fires mission area use case. A brief description of the Capability Test Methodology (CTM) will be provided. This “how-to” approach will demonstrate the application of a consistent approach to assessing joint capability performance at a complex SoS level in a joint mission environment. Additionally, the use of tailored visualization, modeling, analysis, and simulation techniques will be introduced that enable assessment of capability/system/SoS performance and joint mission effectiveness, refinement of joint capability test designs, and capability assessments pertaining to SoS attributes, joint tasks, and joint mission desired effects. If you desire a robust understanding of how to successfully test and evaluate joint capabilities in a complex joint mission environment this session is for you. Instructors: Tim Beach, Chief Analysis and Methods &Processes Development Division Dr. David Dryer, JTEM Systems Engineer Branch Chief Tutorials Cost: $200 Dress: Casual Attire Educational Information: One Continuous Learning Point (CLP) will be given for each hour of instruction. A certificate will be provided upon completion of the course. This course is open to government and industry personnel. Presented from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Tutorial V A Tutorial on Aircraft Nondestructive Testing and Validation Who Should Attend? This course is geared toward anyone who is responsible to design testing of materials or want to learn more about nondestructive testing methods. Overview: For nearly 20 years, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has sponsored nondestructive testing (NDT) research as part of its overall Aging Aircraft Research Program. This tutorial shall provide an overview of the NDT methods traditionally used to ensure the structural integrity of the civil aircraft fleet. Advanced and emerging NDT methods, including those employing remote sensing and having implications toward structural health monitoring (SHM), shall also be discussed. For each technology, the governing physical principles, general operation, and target applications shall be described with reference to examples from the FAA program. Attendees will also learn about a unique facility called the Airworthiness Assurance Nondestructive Inspection (NDI) Validation Center (AANC) that is operated for the FAA by Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM. The AANC was established in 1991 for the sole purpose of validating improved aircraft maintenance, inspection, and repair technologies. A discussion on how the AANC validates new inspection methods and facilitates their tech transfer to industry shall also be provided. Instructors: Dave Galella, Inspection Systems R&D Manager, Federal Aviation Administration Dave Eisenmann, Assistant Scientist, Iowa State University Dr. Dennis Roach, Distinguished Staff Member, Sandia National Laboratory Mike Bode, Senior Staff Member, Sandia National Laboratory Cost: $200 Dress: Casual Attire Educational Information: One Continuous Learning Point (CLP) will be given for each hour of instruction. A certificate will be provided upon completion of the course. This course is open to government and industry personnel. Tutorials Presented from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Tutorial VI TENA and JMETC: Enabling Distributed Testing and Training Who Should Attend? A must attend session for any Program Manager, Systems Engineer, Test and Evaluation Professional, and Acquisition Professional that wish to gain knowledge of TENA and JMETC. Overview: The Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA), developed as a CTEIP project to promote range interoperability and range asset reuse, is being used by the Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) to enable distributed testing. JMETC is a distributed live, virtual, and constructive testing capability with intent to support the acquisition community during program development, testing, interoperability certification, and demonstration of customer-specific NetReady Key Performance Parameter requirements. JMETC provides connectivity to the Services’ distributed test capabilities and simulations, as well as industry test resources. Using TENA, JMETC has completed initial demonstrations, including Air Combat, Land Combat, and Information Operations range integration. Also, JMETC has supported the USAF Integrated Collaborative Environment summer 2007 distributed testing event, Integral Fire 2007, a distributed test event involving all the military services and the U.S. Joint Forces Command and the Interoperability Test and Evaluation Capability (InterTEC) test event, which significantly furthers the InterTEC goal of providing the capability to construct, control, instrument, capture data from, and analyze a joint C4ISR net centric test environment. Currently, JMETC is preparing for distributed tests with Joint Battlespace Dynamic Deconfliction for Future Combat System, Single Integrated Air Picture which will provide a single, shareable graphic depiction of the battlespace and CVN-21 which is designing the aircraft carrier of the 21st century. This overview will address these distributed tests events as well as the TENA/JMETC’s architecture, products, connectivity solutions, and on-going activities. Instructors: George Rumford, Lead Systems Engineer, JMETC Gene Hudgins, Lead TENA User Support Fee: $200.00 per person (includes break) Dress: Casual Attire Educational Information: One Continuous Learning Point (CLP) will be given for each hour of instruction. A certificate will be provided upon completion of the course. This course is open to government and industry personnel. Presented from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm