Conference Day One: Tuesday, April 28, 2009

8:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:10 KEYNOTE: Emerging Trends In Engineering For A Systems Of Systems Environment

• Accounting for the human aspect
• Designing systems for uncertainty

Patrick Hale
President
International Council on Systems Engineering

8:50 Making Information Visible, Accessible, And Understandable: Meta- Data And Registries

• How Metadata Contributes To The Mandates Of Improved Discovery, Accessibility, And Understandability
• Improve Precision Search For Specific Queries
• Identification Of Security Classifications/controls

Clay Robinson
Associate Director, Office of Information Policy
DoD CIO

10:15 Building Secure Systems Using Model-Based Engineering And Architectural Models

• Developing secure architectures of critical systems using model-based development
• Validating MILS requirements based on an architectural specification
• Conducting security impact and trade-off analyses against other quality attributes such as performance

Dr. Jörgen Hansson
Senior Member of Technical Staff Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

10:55 Which Is Easier: Building Cities Or Systems?

• The Importance Of Coordination Between Architects And Contractors
• Leveraging The Enterprise Architecture For A Variety Of Engineering Projects
• Avoiding Serious Delays And Budget Shortfalls

Dennis Broderick
Executive Vice President
EM&I

1:00 Why A Systems Of Systems Approach Supported By Sound Engineering Is Critical To Supporting The Warfighters

• Warfighters’ use of programs such as Command Post of the Future (CPOF) and Combined Information Data Exchange (CIDNE) in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Warfighters find or contract for at least passable IT tools that fit into their systems of systems approach
• How a system of systems approach is or can be aligned with Joint Warfare

Bruce Haberkamp
IT Specialist, Army Data Transformation Division
CIO/G-6

1:40 Engineering Systems Of Systems: An Integration Perspective

• Tailoring the Systems Engineering Process
• Technical Considerations in System- and Family-of-Systems Engineering
• Distributing Functionality across Systems
• Leveraging Commonality
• Life-cycle Affordability
• Development for System Certification

Dr. Emmett Maddry
Dahlgren Laboratory Chief
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

2:50 CASE STUDY: Architecture Implications For Systems That Span Multiple Enterprises

• Interoperability and use of standards take architectures where they are today
• Innovation strategies and diffusion for designing systems of systems Requirements and transposable solutions
• Using tomorrow's systems to meet today's emergent needs

Martin Moebus
Head, Development Systems Division
Naval Undersea Warfare Center

3:30 Complex Adaptive Systems Engineering (CASE)

• Principles for operating in difficult government acquisition environments
• Eight activities for improving the practice of systems engineering
• Examples drawn from particular domains, e.g., air traffic management

Brian E. White, Ph.D
Director, Systems Engineering Process Office
The MITRE Corporation

4:10 Systems Engineering Cost Estimation

• A predictive cost model for complex systems
• Methodology for capturing complexity and cost drivers of systems and SoS
• Calibration and tailoring of industry-validated model to specific needs of organizations

Dr. Ricardo Valerdi
Research Associate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4:50 End Of Day One

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