Conference Day One: Wednesday, June 24, 2009

8:30 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:45 Test & Evaluation In Support Of A Transforming Army

• Update on current role of T&E to support an Army at war
• Changes needed to support the force in the “new normalcy”
• Strategic plan in meeting the challenges of T&E

Brian M. Simmons
Director
Army Evaluation Center

9:30 Developmental Test & Evaluation

• Organizational overview
• DT&E mission and issues
• Future vision for addressing DT&E challenges

Darlene Mosser-Kerner
Assistant DD, DT&E Policy and Guidance
OUSD (AT&L)/Systems & Software Engineering

10:45 Navy Test & Evaluation Roadmap

• Addressing key issues within the Navy’s T&E process
• Current challenges and vision for future T&E

Captain Lee Schonenberg, USN
Deputy Director, Test & Evaluation
Office of Naval Research

11:30 DHS Counter-MANPADS Program

• Leveraging DoD assets for test and evaluation
• Current program status and future opportunities

Kerry Wilson
Program Manager, Counter-MANPADS
Department of Homeland Security

1:15 Marine Corps Update: Meeting The Challenges Of OT&E

• Update on Marine Corps T&E initiatives
• Discussing lessons learned
• Vision for the future, best serving the warfighter

Colonel David Reeves, USMC
Director
Marine Corps Operational Test & Evaluation Activity

2:00 Army Early T&E Involvement

• Overview of accelerated COTS acquisitions
• Emerging capability requirements
• COTS evaluation process and results

Larry Leiby
Special Assistant for Policy and Education, Test and Evaluation Office
Deputy Under Secretary of the Army

3:15 Combinatorial Methods For Cyber Security Testing

Complex software failures often occur only under rare conditions. This is especially true in cyber security testing. For example, a buffer overflow may be detected only when a packet has a negative length offset, and a certain combination of flags have been set. This talk explains applications of combinatorial methods to cyber security testing. Practical examples from ongoing work will be discussed, including access control testing and buffer overflow detection.

What will be covered:

• Advantages and disadvantages of combinatorial testing
• Costs and volume of tests required
• Unique considerations for security topics such as access control testing

How attendees will benefit:

• Understand how combinatorial testing compares with other methods popular for cyber security, such as fuzz testing, and the advantages and disadvantages of each
• Learn how to determine the most cost-effective mode of combinatorial testing
• Open source tools for combinatorial testing

Session Leader:

Rick Kuhn
Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Computer Security Division

4:45 End Of Day One

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