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systems engineering
projects come
presents its 8th DoD Architectures training conference:
in on time and
on budget.
TM
System of Systems
Engineering Forum
April 27 – 29, 2009 | Washington, DC Area
Hear case studies, lessons learned, and
the way forward from:
Clay Robinson, Associate Director, Office of
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Information Policy, DoD CIO
Bruce Haberkamp, Information Technology Specialist,
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Army Architecture Integration Center, CIO/G-6
Patrick Hale, President, International Council on
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Systems Engineering
Brian E. White, Ph.D, Director, Systems Engineering
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Process Office, The MITRE Corporation
Collaborate with key system engineering
practitioners and gain valuable insight on:
Improving interoperability through innovative system design
•
and development processes
Best practices in system test and evaluation
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Modeling and analysis of complex systems of systems
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Creating systems that complement the “human factor”
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Who You Will Meet:
IDGA’s System of Systems
TM
Engineering Forum will bring
together the thought leaders and
decision makers responsible for
designing, constructing, and
System of Syst implementing the technology that
ems supports the warfighter. The
Engineering Foru
m following job titles are just a few of
the types of people you will meet:
Director, Systems Engineering
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Dear Colleague, Director, System of Systems
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Management
It is an honor to welcome you to Director, System Integration
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IDGA’s System of Systems Enginee
ring Forum which
serves to enhance the DoD Architect Chief Technology Officer
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ures Series. This new direction will
focus on research
and real world examples of succ Chief Information Officer
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essful system design, construction
, and
implementation. As the DoD has reco Chief Engineer
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gnized:
Chief Architect
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“With over $340B for RDT&E, proc
urement, and O&M in the FY 200
8 defense budget,
the potential impact of applying resu
lts-oriented systems and software
engineering
processes is tremendous.” About IDGA
Mr. Gordon M. Kranz, Director,
Systems and Software Enginee
ring, ODUSD, A&T The Institute for
(November 2008)
Defense & Government
Advancement (IDGA) is
This is your opportunity to hear and
discuss best practices of system a non-partisan information based
engineering in
the system of systems environment organization dedicated to the promotion
with leading research institutes,
industry
professionals, and military bran of innovative ideas in public service and
ches.
defense. We bring together speaker
panels comprised of military and
IDGA’s System of Systems Enginee
ring Forum will provide you with insig government professionals while attracting
hts and
information that will enhance your
ability to overcome some of the delegates with decision-making power
most challenging
aspects of building systems in a syste from military, government and defense
m of systems environment including
:
Navigating through the acquisition
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industries. For more information, please
environment
Designing systems that quickly adap
• call Sherryl at 416-597-4710.
t to changing requirements
Implementing systems that provide
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an immediate and long-lasting ben
efit to the
warfighter
Join our distinguished lineup of spea
kers as we tackle community-wide
Community members
issues in the
system engineering field. Don’t dela
y – register today by emailing
have divergent
sherryl.jacobs@idga.org or by
calling 1-416-597-4710 or by faxin
g the order form on
the back of the brochure to 416-598 perspectives on the nature
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of these types of systems
I look forward to meeting you in Was
hington in April! and their implications for
SE, and there is
Very Respectfully,
considerable research
under way in this area.
P.S. Be sure to register for
Consequently, the time is
the Testing and Evaluation
right to begin the process
Focus Day: April 27, 2009.
of capturing SoS SE
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experiences to shape
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guidance for the DoD SE
Program Director,
community.
IDGA’s System of Systems Enginee
ring Forum
– Kristen Baldwin, Deputy
Director, Software Engineering
and System Assurance,
OSD AT&L
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aluation Focus Day
Testing and Testing and Ev aluation
Focus Day Monday, April 27, 2009
This in-depth and interactive Focus Day will examine the best practices in the field of testing and evaluation of systems and software, including:
Rethinking testing methodology • Easily designing a project for evaluation • Testing and evaluating complex systems
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Registration & Coffee
Testing and Evaluation in an Innovative Army Program
8:30 am–10:30 am
Future Combat Systems: The Army's Transformation of Combat, Acquisition, and T&E
Future Combat Systems (FCS) is the Army's newest and largest acquisition acquisition initiatives.
program ever. The resulting materiel and operational organization and Understand and appreciate the challenges that the above initiatives
•
tactics will transform the future Nation's ground combat power. In addition, present, and learn how the FCS program is addressing these challenges.
the FCS program management is transforming the way the DoD develops How you will benefit:
and acquires systems today. The FCS program is using a Lead System Receive first hand insights into Future Combat Systems
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Intergrator management concept, rigorously applying systems engineering Gain insight into how to apply system engineering best practices
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techniques to the development of a highly complex system of systems, and
tightly integrating modeling and simulation and test and evaluation into all Session Leaders:
phases of the design and development as has never been done before. This C. David Brown, PhD, PE; Contract Engineer to the MITRE
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presentation will discuss the rationale for, and challenges presented by, all of Corporation and the Institute for Defense Analysis; Instructor in
the above initiatives. Systems Engineering and Project Management, Johns Hopkins
What will be covered: University, Whiting School of Engineering
Gain an overall understanding for the rationale and intent for the unique Stephen Kreider, Executive Director, Test Integration; Director,
• •
aspects of the Army's FCS program management, development, and Future Combat Systems Combined Test Organization, US Army
Easily Build and Evaluate Your Design
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Creating DoD Architectures with UPDM
Feeling like creating your DoDAF architecture takes longer than engineering Techniques for translating the architecture into an engineer’s language and
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your project? Creating DoDAF architectures is now dramatically faster! Learn capabilities
the new UPDM standard implementation of DoDAF: how it works, How you will benefit:
advantages, and how it can save time and money. You will be trained to Learn about the new DoDAF implementation standard: UPDM
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create all parts of the DoDAF architecture using a tool implementing the Understand how UPDM and UML tools can increase your productivity
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UPDM standard. The workshop includes how UPDM/DoDAF works, tool Learn about various ways to create complete & verifiable DoD
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overview, techniques, and procedures while enhancing your understanding architectures, including Activity-Based Modeling
of DoDAF with a simple example.
What will be covered: Session Leader:
Designing and evaluating the architecture before working on the system Daniel Brookshire, Chief Architect, No Magic, Inc.
• •
Lunch will be served
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Ev
Make Sure Your Systems Can Talk to Each Other
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Testing Integrated Software Components
One goal of integration testing for object-oriented software is to ensure graph
high object interoperability. This is especially difficult when software is Presenting an algorithm to generate test specifications as specific paths
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comprised of components developed by different vendors, with different through the directed graph.
languages, and the implementation sources are not all available. This How you will benefit:
workshop presents additional details about the testing tool that was built to It also presents empirical results from an automatic tool that was built to
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support this test method, including how several difficult problems were support this test method
solved, and adds new capabilities to help automate the transformation of The tool yields a data flow graph and executable test cases that
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test specifications into executable test cases. The result is a fresh approach adequately cover the graph according to classical graph coverage criteria
to automated testing. It follows accepted theoretical procedures while Learn how it supports specification-based testing and helps to bridge the
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operating directly on an object-oriented software specification. gap between theory and practice
What will be covered:
Methods for identifying the relevant actions of a test component to be Session Leader:
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integrated into the system Dr. James Offutt, Professor, Volegenau School of Information
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Transforming the finite state specification into a control and data flow Technology and Engineering, George Mason University
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Improve Your Testing Methods
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Combinatorial Methods in Software Testing and Modeling & Simulation
Many software failures occur only as the result of an interaction between How you will benefit:
multiple components. Testers often use pairwise testing – all pairs of Gain insight into why pairwise testing is not sufficient and how higher-
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parameter values – to detect such interactions, but empirical evidence shows strength combinatorial testing works
that some errors are triggered only by the interaction of three, four, or more Learn how to determine the most cost-effective mode of combinatorial
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parameters. These results have important implications for testing. If all faults testing for a project
in a system can be triggered by a combination of n or fewer parameters, Learn how to use these methods for more efficient modeling and
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then testing all n-way combinations of parameters can provide high simulation
confidence that nearly all faults have been discovered. This talk explains
practical approaches to combinatorial testing for high assurance software. Session Leaders:
What will be covered: D. Richard Kuhn, Computer Scientist, National Institute of
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Advantages and disadvantages of combinatorial testing Standards and Technology
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Costs and volume of tests required Raghu Kacker, Ph.D., National Institute of Standards and
• •
Application to modeling and simulation Technology
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Methods to automate checking correctness of output
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Main Conference
Day One: Tuesday,31, 2009 2009
Tuesday, March April 28, Day Two: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
7:15 Registration & Coffee 7:15 Registration & Coffee
8:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks 8:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
8:10 Emerging Trends in Engineering for a Systems of Systems 8:10 Making DOD Lessons Learned Come Alive and Be Practical
Environment • Describe the BPCh approach to practice recommendations for systems and
KEYNOTE
• Accounting for the human aspect
software programs, and acquaint listeners to the resources available at the site
Designing systems for uncertainty Share lessons learned in the process of building BPCh regarding effective
• •
Patrick Hale, President, International Council on Systems Engineering approaches to sharing knowledge across programs
• Report our findings regarding essential areas related to system engineering
8:50 Making Information Visible, Accessible, and Understandable: Meta- affecting program success
Data and Registries Dr. Forrest Shull, Division Director, Fraunhofer Center – Maryland
• How metadata contributes to the mandates of improved discovery,
accessibility, and understandability 8:50 Modeling and Analysis of Interoperability in Systems of Systems
• Improve precision search for specific queries
Environments
• Identification of security classifications/controls • Decision support in complex systems of systems environments
Clay Robinson, Associate Director, Office of Information Policy, DoD • Three tempos and the need for alignment
CIO • Type three agility – shifting from supply sided to demand driven business
models
9:30 NETWORKING BREAK William B. Anderson, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Research,
Technology, and System Solutions Program, Software Engineering
10:15 Building Secure Systems Using Model-Based Engineering and Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Architectural Models
• Developing secure architectures of critical systems using model-based 9:30 NETWORKING BREAK
development
• Validating MILS requirements based on an architectural specification 10:15 Constructing Change-Tolerant Systems Using Capability-Based Design
Conducting security impact and trade-off analyses against other quality Localizing and minimizing the impact of change in complex emergent systems
• •
attributes such as performance Designing for technology maturation and insertion over lengthy development
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Dr. Jörgen Hansson, Senior Member of Technical Staff Software life-cycles
Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Using capabilities as a basis for specifying system functionality and design
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Dr. James D. Arthur, Software Engineering Research Group, Computer
10:55 Which is Easier: Building Cities or Systems? Science Department, Virginia Tech University
• The importance of coordination between architects and contractors
• Leveraging the enterprise architecture for a variety of engineering projects
10:55 Towards Testable Architectures: A Model Driven Approach
• Avoiding serious delays and budget shortfalls • Disjointed artifacts breed ambiguity
Dennis Broderick, Executive Vice President, EM&I • Solving the ambiguity problem is a key step towards requirements engineering
and testable architectures
11:35 LUNCH Both functional and non-functional requirements need to be defined using a
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formal method, using a model driven approach
1:00 Why a Systems of Systems Approach Supported by Sound Testable architecture using a MDA approach provides a declarative description
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Engineering is Critical to Supporting the Warfighters of the components and their interactions
• Warfighters’ use of programs such as Command Post of the Future (CPOF)
Said Tabet, Consultant, No Magic, Inc.
and Combined Information Data Exchange (CIDNE) in Iraq and
Afghanistan 11:35 LUNCH
Warfighters find or contract for at least passable IT tools that fit into their
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systems of systems approach 1:00 Learning from Systems Engineering Success and Failure
How a system of systems approach is or can be aligned with Joint Warfare How systems learn ... after they are built
• •
Bruce Haberkamp, IT Specialist, Army Data Transformation Division, Integrating the social and behavioral factor(s)
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CIO/G-6 Expanding systems engineering to impact the enterprise
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Dr. Jon Beard, Lead Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
1:40 NSWC Dahlgren Division
CASE
• A best practices case study highlighting the work of NSWC, 1:40 NAVAIR’s Coast-to-Coast Support of the E-2C Hawkeye Using Distributed
STUDY
Dahlgren Division TSP
Dr. Emmett Maddry, Dahlgren Laboratory Chief, Naval Surface • An overview of NAVAIR and the E-2C
CASE
Warfare Center Dahlgren Division • Software engineering processing STUDY
• Delivering quality product on cost and on schedule
2:20 NETWORKING BREAK Jeffrey Schwalb, NAVAIR Associate Fellow, NAVAIR Process Resource
Team
2:50 Architecture Implications for Systems that Span Multiple Enterprises
• Interoperability and use of standards take architectures 2:20 NETWORKING BREAK
where they are today CASE
• Innovation strategies and diffusion for designing systems of 2:50 Lessons Learned From Integrating Security into the Development of the
STUDY
systems Requirements and transposable solutions Navy's First Netcentric Destroyer, the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000)
• Using tomorrow's systems to meet today's emergent needs • Building Security In vs. Bolting Security On: Lessons learned
CASE
Martin Moebus, Head, Development Systems Division, Naval from integrating a Security Requirements Traceability STUDY
Undersea Warfare Center Matrix (SRTM) into the system engineering process.
Building Security In across a System of Systems: Lessons learned from leading a
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3:30 Complex Adaptive Systems Engineering (CASE) Security Cross Product Team (CPT).
• Principles for operating in difficult government acquisition environments • Building Security In across Layers of Abstraction: Lessons learned from applying
• Eight activities for improving the practice of systems engineering Defense in Depth (DiD)
Examples drawn from particular domains, e.g., air traffic management Thomas Augustine, PMS 500 Security Architect, SPAWAR
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Brian E. White, Ph.D, Director, Systems Engineering Process Office, Systems Center Pacific (Code 53625)
The MITRE Corporation
3:30 A Fundamental Approach to Improving Software Quality
4:10 END OF DAY ONE Software as a product, and its relationship to quality management
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Applying best practices in software construction
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Cost/benefit analysis – is quality really free?
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Rick Spiewak, Lead Software Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
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See inside for best practices
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presents its 8th DoD Architectures training conference:
systems engineering
projects come
TM
in on time and
on budget.
System of Systems
Engineering Forum
April 27 – 29, 2009 | Washington, DC Area
Hear case studies, lessons learned, and the
way forward from:
Clay Robinson, Associate Director, Office of Information Policy,
•
DoD CIO
Bruce Haberkamp, Information Technology Specialist, Army
•
Architecture Integration Center, CIO/G-6
Patrick Hale, President, International Council on Systems Engineering
•
Brian E. White, Ph.D, Director, Systems Engineering Process Office,
•
The MITRE Corporation