Jamie Dodson, U.S. Army Security
Presentation Topic:
 • Introduction to the Army Research and Technical Protection Center (ARTPC) & Program Protection

Speaker: Jamie Dodson

Brief Directions: Heading west on University Blvd; turn left on Wynn Dr; turn right on Corporate Dr and the SAIC building is the first one story building on the left. Enter Building B and escort will take you to the Millennium Room.

Dr. Christian Smart, Greater Alabama Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis (SCEA) Chapter President, SAIC Cost Analyst
Presentation Topics:
 • Introduction to the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis
 • Overview of Cost Risk and Its Importance In Estimating
 • Upcoming Seminar on Cost Risk

Speaker: Dr. Christian Smart

Dr. Christian Smart is currently employed as a senior cost analyst with Science Applications International Corporation. He has several years experience in cost modeling and parametric estimating. He is a member of both the Society for Cost Estimating and Analysis (SCEA) and the International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA). Dr. Smart currently serves as President of the Greater North Alabama Chapter of SCEA. He was awarded best paper in the applications track at the 2004 ISPA conference for "Process-Based Modeling".

Dr. Smart earned his bachelors degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Jacksonville State University, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Speaker: Paul Garvey

Topic: Cost Risk Analysis

The Greater Alabama Chapter of the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis (SCEA) and the Huntsville Regional Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) are hosting a one-day seminar for both members and non-members on the subject of Cost Risk Analysis. Paul Garvey, one of the leading experts in the field, is teaching the seminar.

March 2005 Chapter Meeting:
Morris J. “Mo” Brooks, Jr.,
Candidate for Alabama Lt. Governor
Topic: State Policy Issues
• Fiscal affairs: revenues, taxes, expenditures
• Legislative ethics and conflicts of interest: impact on public
  policy, expenditures of monies, and need for reform
• Free enterprise system/capitalistic economy: need for
  protection from socialists and other fools
  (of which there are many in public office),
• Evolving Theme: illegal immigrant impact on Alabama
  economy, blue collar unemployment, crime, health care costs

Speaker: Mo Brooks (Introduction)

The Von Braun Center hosts premiere Huntsville Technical Conferences and Educational Events.
See http://www.teamsweek.org or Overview for details.

Von Braun Center

Potential agenda items include:

• Participation in the DOE SIG
• Officer responsibilities
• TEAMS participation (next year)
• Passing on announcements/eNotes from HQ to members
• Networking improvements
• Training and conference announcements
• 2005 chapter goals and plans
• Newsletter
• Other issues.

Green Hills Grille

Same room used for the 3/17 meeting
(to the left of the entrance)

Chris Paredis, Assistant Professor
The G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
813 Ferst Drive, MARC Rm. 256
Atlanta, Ga 30332-0405
Tel: (404) 894-5613    Fax: (404) 894-9342
E-mail: chris.paredis@me.gatech.edu
Website: http://www.srl.gatech.edu/Members/cparedis
Assistant: Stephanie Wheeler, (404) 894-0413

Richard Gallman, Defense Acquisition University
Topics:
• Overview of DAU and DAU South Region
• Education & Training Opportunities Available from DAU
• Education & Training of Interest to SE Professionals
• Additional Support Activities at DAU South

Speaker: Richard Gallman
(Speaker Bio)

Dr. Richard D. Stutzke, SAIC

Presentation Topic:
• Decision Analysis Techniques in Software Development

Speaker: Dick Stutzke

Speaker Bio

Dr. Richard D. Stutzke has more than 40 years experience with software development and project management in the military and industry, including scientific, embedded real time, and commercial systems. He joined SAIC in 1977. He has authored more than fifty papers and articles on software estimation and management, including articles for SAIC's Project Management Quarterly Bulletin, CrossTalk - the Journal of Defense Software Engineering, and four IEEE book chapters dealing with estimation and project management. In 1989, he formed Science Applications International Corporation's Corporate Software Process Group and led it for its first two years.

He is the principal author of SAIC's two courses on software estimating. He was an instructor for SAIC's Fixed Price Project Management course for four years. For the past 15 years, he has focused on defining integrated processes for developing software-intensive systems and managing their development and operation.

http://www.stevens.edu/cser/
Contains conference papers ordered by delivery date

William F. Waite,
President, The AEgis Technologies Group
Presentation Topic:
Modeling and Simulation in Support of Systems Engineering

Need, Opportunity, and Implementation -

• Terms of reference
• M&S in context of the SE life-cycle
• M&S technical considerations
• Enterprise and business practice
• Use cases
• Opportunity enablement

Location: Green Hills Grille

Speaker: William F. Waite
Speaker Bio:

As President and co-founder of The AEgis Technologies Group, Bill Waite directs its staff in delivering a wide variety of modeling and simulation (M&S) products and services. Mr. Waite has more than 30 years of professional hands-on experience in all phases of the M&S life cycle and is currently active in the evolution of the M&S profession, industry, and marketplace.

Location: Green Hills Grille

Ron Kohl,
President, R.J .Kohl and Associates
Presentation Topic: Risk Management

Location: Teledyne Brown

Engineering Training Room - The TBE Training Room is in Building A, on TBE's main campus, right off Sparkman (going South) onto Lakeside Drive, first left off Lakeside Dr to TBE's Main Entrance, across from UAH. Click here for map.

Speaker: Ron Kohl
Speaker Bio (Click here for full bio.)

Ron Kohl has been involved in the large systems development and integration business for 29 yrs. Ron was a part of the IBM team that developed and maintained the Space Shuttle Flight Software as well as supporting the Space Station (Freedom) Data Management System. Ron has also worked for the Lockheed Martin Federal Systems HQ Tech Staff and was the Chief Systems Engineer for the Titan Co’s Civil Government Systems’ NASA projects.

Ron’s areas of technical interest and activity include risk management, COTS Based systems, process engineering & improvement, measurements, and system/enterprise architecting. Ron is a member of the AIAA, IEEE and INCOSE and is the former chair of the AIAA Software Systems Technical Committee. Ron is also a member of the GEIA’s G-47 (Systems Engineering) Technical Committee. Ron is now President of “R. J. Kohl and Associates”, offering a full range of systems engineering and technical project management services.

Potential agenda items open for suggestions from the INCOSE officers.
Contact Jerry Wocken at wocken@yahoo.com or gerald.f.wocken@boeing.com.

Location: Green Hills Grille

Dale Thomas
Space Transportation Systems Engineering & Integration Manager
NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Presentation Topic: Standard NASA-wide systems engineering (SE) process “engine”

Location: Green Hills Grille

Speaker: Dale Thomas
Speaker Bio

Dale is responsible for Systems Engineering & Integration for all programs and projects managed by the MSFC Space Transportation Programs & Projects Office (STPPO). He has also served as UAH Associate Adjunct Professor since 1991.

Odis Nickoles
Director of Concurrent Engineering, PEO Army Aviation
U.S. Army Acquisition Corps, Huntsville, AL
Presentation Topic: Systems of Systems - Feedback from Industry

Location: Teledyne Brown

Speaker: Odis Nickoles

Speaker Bio

Mr. W. Odis Nickoles, Director of Concurrent Engineering, PEO Aviation, has worked in the areas of systems engineering and program management for over twenty years. He has worked in all life cycle phases including the development, qualification (including airworthiness), procurement, deployment, and sustainment. He is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps, and is Acquisition Corps Level III Certified in Program Management and Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering.

He has worked as an Air Force communications technician, designed shipboard systems for the Aegis Guided Missile Cruiser and Amphibious Assault ships, worked with night sights and target acquisition systems for armored vehicles, was the Configuration Manager for the UH-60 BLACK HAWK helicopter and the A2C2S. Mr. Nickoles has a First Class Radio Telephone License, a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama and an MS in Materiel Acquisition Management from Florida Institute of Technology.

Location: Holiday Inn Research Park,
Huntsville, Alabama (http://www.hihuntsville.com)

Willie Fitzpatrick, Jr., PhD
Chief, Aviation Division
U.S. Army, Software Engineering Directorate, Huntsville, AL
Presentation Topic: A Software Technology Readiness Assessment Process for Minimizing System Acquisition Risk

Joint Meeting with IEEE Section and AUVSI Pathfinder Chapter

Location: Green Hills Grille

Speaker: Willie Fitzpatrick
Speaker Bio

Dr. Fitzpatrick has over 30 years experience in the software/systems engineering area. His experience includes development and assessment of automatic control systems, systems engineering, and software engineering on various aviation and missile systems. He is currently Chief of the Aviation Division, in the Software Engineering Directorate of the US Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command's Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center.

Holiday Officer's Meeting

Location: Tokyo Restaurant

Aaron Mosher, The Boeing Company

Presentation Topic:

If you plan to attend, please e-mail Ricky.Leonard@amrdec.army.mil (preferably) or telephone Rick at (256) 876-4714 by noon Wednesday (18 January) to facilitate Chapter meal planning.

Speaker: Aaron Mosher

Speaker Bio

Head west on University Blvd; turn left on Wynn Dr; turn right on Corporate Dr and the SAIC building is the first one story building on the left. Enter Building B and we will escort you to the Millennium Room.

Thomas Satterley, Robust Decisions,Inc.

Presentation Topic:

Location: SAIC Millennium Room

Speaker: Thomas Satterley

Speaker Bio

Dr. Jim Snider , University of Alabama Huntsville

Presentation Topic:

Short Officer's Meeting immediately after the presentation.

Speaker: Dr. Jim Snider
Speaker Bio

Senator Tom Butler, State of Alabama

Presentation Topic:

Speaker: Senator Tom Butler, Bio

Senator Butler, born April 9, 1944, in Huntsville, Alabama, is serving his third term in the Senate after serving from 1982-1994 in the House of Representatives. He received his degrees from the University of Alabama and Auburn University. Senator Butler and his wife, Karen, are the parents of two children: Robin and Jill. He is a Pharmacist/Health Underwriter, Baptist, Democrat, and is a member of the Optimist, the Alabama Pharmaceutical Association, and the North Alabama Health Underwriters Association. Senator Butler enjoys golf, hiking, and white water rafting.

Committees:

Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry; Banking and Insurance; Finance and Taxation Education; Governmental Affairs; Rules; Small Business and Economic Development.

David Gunther, U.S. Army

Presentation Topic:

Speaker: David Gunther, Bio
David W. Gunther is the System of Systems Modeling & Simulations lead for the PM Future Combat Systems in the Logistics Directorate. He has also worked as a systems/production engineer for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS), the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 and the Utility (Black Hawk) Helicopter programs at the U.S. Aviation and Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center at AMCOM. His experience includes having been Course Director for two Defense Acquisition University courses and currently is the lead instructor for eight courses at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in the areas of systems engineering, modeling and simulation, acquisition, risk management, functional analysis, verification, validation and accreditation.

Dr. Dale Thomas, NASA

Presentation Topic:

Short Officer's Meeting immediately after the presentation.

Speaker: Dr. Dale Thomas, Bio

Lawrence Dale Thomas is director of the Systems Management Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Dale Thomas began his NASA career at the Marshall Center in 1983 as an aerospace engineer in the Systems Analysis and Integration Laboratory. He has held increasingly challenging positions during his career at Marshall and within NASA, including manager of the International Space Station Vehicle Analysis and Integration Team at Johnson Space Center in Houston; technical assistant to the director of the Marshall Center Systems Analysis and Integration Laboratory; chief of the Marshall Systems Test Division; and manager of the Marshall Systems Engineering Office.

A 1977 graduate of Albertville High School in Albertville, Ala., Thomas received his bachelor's degree in systems engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1981, and later a doctorate in industrial engineering in 1988. He earned a master's degree in industrial and systems engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., in 1983.

Thomas and his wife, the former Susan Coburn of Huntsville, also a Marshall Center employee, have one daughter.

July 2006 Officers' Meeting

Location: SAIC Millennium Room

Dr. William A. Craig,
U.S. Army Software Engineering Directorate (SED)

Presentation Topic:

Joint Meeting with IEEE Section

Short Officer's Meeting immediately after the presentation.

Speaker: Bill Craig, Bio
From 1988 until now, Bill Craig is Director of the U.S. Army Missile Command (now Aviation and Missile Command) Life Cycle Software Engineering Center (RDEC Software Engineering Directorate - SED).

During his tenure, the SED has established a world-class systems Interoperability Facility and capability . The SED progressed to a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) CMM Level IV maturity capability.

Roy Malone, Director,
Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) Directorate, NASA

Speaker: Roy Malone, Bio

Ken Fernandez
VP33 Exploration Systems Development Office
Topic: Commonality in Robotics Development for Military and Space Exploration

Joint Meeting with IEEE Section

Presentation Bio and Abstract

INCOSE Region V Chapter Officers' meeting

December 2006 Officers' Meeting

Title: An Alternative Approach to Improvement of Neural Network Performance

Speaker: Dr. Alan L. Breitler, President, EagleRidge Technologies,
Professor, University of Maryland and Florida Institute of Technology

Huntsville IEEE Computer Society (http://ewh.ieee.org/r3/huntsville/cs/), IEEE Controls Systems Society, and Huntsville Regional Chapter of INCOSE (http://www.incose.org/huntsville) invite you to a research seminar, hosted on the UAH Campus. INCOSE will provide a light meal at the beginning of the event at no charge.

Time & Place: 1/16/2007 (Tuesday), 5:30-7:30 p.m., Olin B. King Technology Hall, Technology Drive, UAH in Classroom S105 (map)

Confirmation: Please email Bob Robinson at robert.a.robinson5@ieee.org if you plan to attend so that we can estimate attendance.

Speaker: Dr. Alan L. Breitler, Abstract and Bio

Jack Macris, Resident Administrator, Acting Site Director,
Florida Institute of Technology

Jack Macris, Resident Administrator for the Florida Institute of Technology will be speaking on the graduate programs available locally and through the distance learning program.

Florida Institute of Technology is ranked among the top public and private national universities according to America's Best Colleges 2000 College Guide published by U.S. News and World Report.

The Redstone Graduate Center has provided graduate education in business and management to individuals in the Huntsville area since 1976. The center offers both graduate degree and professional development programs. Live classes are offered evenings and weekends to allow working professionals an opportunity to maintain professional and technical competence while earning a graduate degree or certificate without career interruption. Distance learning courses are offered via the Internet for those who cannot attend live classes. The programs are available to all who meet the admission requirements of the university.

Because of the moderate size of the student body, class size is relatively small. Students at Florida Tech are treated as individuals, not merely numbers. Each incoming student is assigned a graduate advisor to assist the student in formulating a graduate program plan to meet the individual needs of each student.

Each graduate degree program may be completed in two years or less. However, you may work to complete your degree program at your own pace. The majority of students at the center usually enroll for one course per semester, but enroll for two or more courses when their schedules permit.

The instructors at the center are working professionals with hands-on experience in the discipline in which they teach. All of the instructors have a terminal degree (Ph.D. or equivalent).

The graduate center is conveniently located in Building 5304 on Redstone Arsenal. Programs are open to all in the Huntsville area who met admission requirements of the university.

Short Officer's Meeting immediately after the presentation.

Speaker: Jack Macris, FIT MS in CIS Brochure

Accreditation and Memberships

Florida Institute of Technology is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the Associate of Science, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Master of Science Education, Education Specialist, Master of Business Administration, Doctor of Psychology, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is a member of the Council on Post-Secondary Accreditation, an organization that includes all the regional accrediting commissions on higher education in the United States.

The university is approved by the Office of Education of the U.S. Department of Education.

The university is a member of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, the American Council on Education, the College Entrance Examination Board, and the Southeastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering (SECME).

The university is approved by the State of Alabama Department of Education.

The School of Extended Graduate Studies is a member of Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

Additional information about Florida Tech may be found in several reference works including: Accredited Institutions of Higher Education (American Council on Education), Competitive Colleges (Peterson's Guides), Florida Educational Directory (Department of Education, State of Florida) and America's Best Colleges (U.S. News and World Report), Best Buys in College Education (Barrons).

Florida Institute of Technology does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, handicap, age, national or ethnic origin in admission of students, administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, employment and policies and athletic, or other university-sponsored programs or activities.

2007 SE³ Conference

Southeastern Systems and Software Engineering Conference

Netcentricity: Systems and Software for the Real World

http://www.se3conference.com/

Von Braun Center

Huntsville, Alabama

March 12 – 15, 2007

Conference Poster

MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2007

1:00 – 5:00            CMMI – Moving Ahead
                                Presenters: Mike Phillips, SEI; Sandra Cepada, CSSA
This CMMI seminar/workshop will include discussions of the changes involved in the upgrade from CMMI 1.1 to the CMMI 1.2 Product Suite, the current status of CMMI and SCAMPI, and future plans that the Software Engineering Institute has for the CMMI Product Suite, including some discussion of planned constellations for Services and Acquisition. Lessons learned by both small and large organizations from adopting CMMI and going through SCAMPI A appraisals will also be shared. This seminar will provide engineers, managers, and process improvement professionals with practical information related to applying the CMMI model in their organizations, and preparing for SCAMPI appraisals. 

                                Evolutions and Revolutions:
                               A look at Telecommunications in the
                                Past, Present, and Future
                                Presenters: Kevin Schneider, Adtran; Mark Spencer, Digium
This seminar will include a brief look at the history of telecommunications, noting disruptive technologies and regulatory events.  Emphasis will be on speculative future trends in telecommunications.  You will also be exposed to the role that open source can play in building your telecommunications infrastructure.  Learn how open source and public domain technology can be implemented to create your telecommunications solution in an economical way.
                               

Tuesday Morning

Net-Centric Now

Tuesday Afternoon

Challenges Architecting Net-Centric Systems & Software

Wednesday Morning

Net-Centricity: Securing Systems & Information

Wednesday Afternoon

System & Software Assurance

THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2007

8:00 – 12:00          Software & Systems Challenges for Space Exploration
                                Presenters: Bob Savley, NASA – JSC; Mike Hinchey, NASA – GSFC; Mike Lowry, NASA - JPL
The exploration of space is now a world wide effort, possessing many dimensions such as; returning humans to the moon, sending robotic vehicles to very inhospitable places such as Venus or Europa, and pushing commercial, defense, and even academic self-build space systems to new limits.  What are the major software engineering barriers or challenges that lie ahead in each area?  Are there any shared problems and common solutions?  How do we make mission software more reusable, cheaper, and most of all, more reliable?

                                Securing Your Systems from the Ground Up – Software, Hardware, Networks
                                Presenter: SA Hale, Teledyne Solutions
In this seminar, you will learn the benefits of incorporating security into the Software lifecycle. The risk of software compromise during the development process is inversely proportional to the level of security embedded in the software development process. Secure software is the output when adequate security protection is planned and implemented during the software lifecycle.  In addition, you will learn how to use TSI’s Security Audit and Penetration Testing Application (SA/PTA), to conduct various NetCentric system security activities.  SA/PTA puts 4GB of accessible materials at the Security Engineer's finger tips; over 24,000 files in 1,700 folders organized around checklists, databases, references, and tools.

1:00 – 5:00            Meeting New Challenges in Acquisition
                                Chair: Ceci Albert, Acquisition Support Program, SEI
                                Co-Chair: Scott Reed, SEI
                                Presenters: Suzanne Garcia, Jim Smith, Bob Ferguson, Jack Van Kirk, SEI                         
This Workshop will explore the challenges of Systems of Systems Acquisition with regard to what the Request For Proposal should consider, developing the necessary measurement indicators for project management, and the consideration for those processes that will improve the Project Manager's capability for interoperable acquisition.

Eric Honour, President, Honourcode, Inc.

Mr. Eric Honour is an internationally recognized practitioner, researcher, consultant and trainer in complex systems development, process improvement, systems engineering, and software techniques and tools.

Experience

Over 37 years experience in the development and operation of complex systems. Provides successful leadership of Honourcode consulting, course delivery, and research work.

Speaker: Eric Honour, Tutorial Flyer

Mr. Eric Honour has been in international leadership of the engineering of systems for over a decade, part of a 36-year career of complex systems development and operation.  His energetic and informative presentation style actively involves class participants.  He was the founding Chair of the INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) Technical Board in 1994, was elected to INCOSE President for 1997, and continued as Director of the Systems Engineering Center of Excellence (SECOE).  He was selected in 2000 for Who’s Who in Science and Technology and in 2004 as an INCOSE Founder.  He is on the editorial board for Systems Engineering.  He has been a systems engineer, engineering manager, and program manager at Harris Information Systems, E-Systems Melpar, and Singer Link, preceded by nine years as a US Naval Officer flying P-3 aircraft.  He has led or contributed to the development of 17 major systems, including the Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation systems, the Battle Group Passive Horizon Extension System, the National Crime Information Center 2000, and the DDC1200 Digital Zone Control system for heating and air conditioning.  Mr. Honour now heads Honourcode, Inc., a consulting firm offering effective methods in the development of system products.  Mr. Honour has a BSSE (Systems Engineering) from the US Naval Academy and MSEE from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense (JIAMD) Summit

In coordination with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD AT&L), the Tennessee Valley Chapters of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Women in Defense (WID), and the Huntsville Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA), INCOSE is proud to announce INCOSE Region V Huntsville Chapter sponsorship of the Second Annual Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense (JIAMD) Summit.

These Summits are supported by the Director, Defense Systems, OUSD (AT&L), Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC-IMD), Deputy Director, Force Protection (JCS J8), the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and Redstone Arsenal, America's Joint Center of Excellence for Rockets and Missiles.

Draft Brochure

JIAMD Notebook

Don Reifer,
President, Reifer Consultants, Inc.
Topic: The Ten Top Risks in Net-Centric Systems

Donald J. Reifer is one of the leading figures in the fields of software
engineering and management. He served as Director of the Software
Initiatives Office, Chief of the AJPO, and Chief of the Software Reuse
Initiative as an IPA with DISA from 1993 to 1995. He is the recipient of
the Secretary of Defense’s Medal for Outstanding Public Service and
many other awards.

Presentation Bio and Abstract

INCOSE Region V Chapter Officers' meeting

March 2007 Officers' Meeting

Dr. Trent Montgomery,
Dean of Engineering and Technology, Alabama A&M University
Topic: The School of Engineering and Technology and our Future

Dr. V. Trent Montgomery is Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology.  In this position, he is responsible for effective operations of the School which includes enhancing the quality of curricula, facilities, students, and professors; enrollment management; research policies and acquisitions; and acquiring additional resources to carry out the functions listed above.  Dr. Montgomery has over 30 years of engineering education, practice and administration.  His areas of specialty include computer architecture, embedded systems, and non-linear electronics.  

The School is composed of civil, electrical and mechanical engineering programs, electrical and mechanical engineering technology programs, computer science, and industrial technology.  The total enrollment is 1096 undergraduate and graduate students.  There are 47 faculty members and 12 staff members.  With an annual average production of 60 undergraduates, the School is currently ranked 15th in the Nation in its production of African American engineers.   

The faculty of the School performs research in artificial color filtering, signal processing, pattern recognition, target recognition, MEMS sensors, nano-materials, electronic characterization of materials, coating materials, parallel processing, modeling and simulation, prognostics/diagnostic systems, composite materials, and MEMS devices use for construction materials.  To further support researchers, the school has developed a class-1000 micro-electronics fabrication laboratory, a failure Analysis, Characterization and Testing (FACT) laboratory, a multi-processor laboratory, and a construction materials testing laboratory.  The School is in the process of developing a supersonic wind tunnel to support the propulsion option within Mechanical Engineering.  In addition, the faculty has access to the Alabama Supercomputer Network.  

Prior to coming to Alabama A&M University, Dr. Montgomery acquired over 20 years of experience at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he served as Dean of the College of Engineering, as well as professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a registered professional engineer and previously worked for AT&T Bell Labs and IBM.  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. 

Presentation:
The School of Engineering and Technology and our Future

Bio

Major General (Retired) John W. Holly, President, Managing Director, and Board member of Analytical Services, Inc.
Topic: Complex System Management

With sales of $45 million in 2005, ASI is a woman-owned, small, disadvantaged business providing management and technical solutions in the aerospace and defense marketplace. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, ASI employs over 350 people across the United States, supporting customers around the world. Mr. Holly joined ASI in March 2006 and is responsible for the company's day-to-day operations and actively guiding ASI's long-term strategic vision and growth plans in both the space and defense marketplace. Prior to joining ASI, he was the senior vice president and general manager of the Federal Solutions business unit at Intergraph Corporation, a leading global provider of spatial information management software, security and life-cycle management solutions.

During a distinguished military career that spanned over three decades, he became a national authority on missiles and missile defense systems having served at every level of program management in the Department of Defense. His last assignment was Deputy Director of the Missile Defense Agency. His most significant achievement while on active duty was leading the construction, testing, and deployment of a missile defense system to defend the United States against attacks by long-range ballistic missiles. Additionally, he managed the Army's $3B portfolio of tactical missiles. His operational assignments include experience as both a commander and staff officer in a variety of operational units from platoon through Corps levels.

At the U.S. Military Academy, he was both an Instructor and Assistant Professor of Engineering. In addition to his professional and military accomplishments, Mr. Holly holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy and a Master's in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Location: SAIC Millennium Room,
Corporate Drive, Map

Presentation:
Complex System Management

Bio

Dr. Christian Smart,
Technical Manager, MCR, LLC

Topic: The Portfolio Effect Reconsidered

It has recently been argued that funding for multiple missions benefits from a portfolio effect - that is, that the various risks of cost overruns for individual missions is less when considered as a group. This is based on modern financial theory that was originally developed by Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz. The result of this diversification, in theory, should allow NASA the ability to fund individual missions at, for example, the 61st percentile, while achieving an overall confidence that is much higher, such as the 80th percentile.

However, this convenient and elegant theory ignores the high frequency of large cost overruns. According to a recent cost growth study by NASA Headquarters, 12% of recent NASA projects have experienced cost growth in excess of 100%. This is because reality has "fat tails" that cannot be adequately modeled by the commonly used normal and lognormal distributions. The gap between theory and reality is demonstrated, and potential methods for handling this gap are discussed.

Location: SAIC Millennium Room,
Corporate Drive, Map

Presentation:
The Portfolio Effect Reconsidered

Bio

William (Bill) F. Sowder,
Technologies Group Director,
Teledyne Brown Engineering in Huntsville, Alabama

Topic: SUPERSYSTEMS

What might appear to be an empty space as we are taught to believe, is actually a seething ferment of virtual particles. Vacuum is not inert and featureless but alive with throbbing energy and vitality. A real particle such as an electron from classical physics must always be viewed against this background of this frenetic activity. When an electron moves through space it is actually swimming in a sea of virtual particles of many varieties.

The dynamics of these interactions constitutes "Supersystems" that will become frontiers for future explorations. It is time for us to seek the "Energy in the Vacuum". Mr. Sowder has over 50 years in the field of Ballistic Missile Defense. He retired from Boeing where he was the Test Director for the NMD/GMD Program. He was the Test and Evaluation IPT Lead that staffed, designed, and implemented the system-of-system flight and ground test activities. Bill has participated in the early BMD efforts from Nike Zeus, Nike-X, SAFEGUARD, Site Defense, LOAD, SDI, GPALS, to the recent GMD deployment. Bill graduated from Ohio State in 1954 with a Bachelor in Aeronautical Engineering, and from UAH in System Engineering in 1976.

Location: SAIC Millennium Room,
Corporate Drive, Map

Presentation:
SUPERSYSTEMS

Bio

Mr. Don Jarman, Deputy Director
Center for Strategic Studies
Teledyne Brown Engineering
Huntsville, Alabama

Topic: The New Joint Procurement Paradigm

Military Transformation to Jointness dictates - in order to fight ‘jointly’ you must learn to ‘procure’ jointly, ‘develop’ jointly and ‘test’ jointly.
Joint procurement has been a challenge with traditional military entities in charge of their own budgets and procurements. The closest we have come is the MDA ‘capabilities-based acquisition program’, and it took a new ‘agency’ to accomplish this.

We cannot afford a new agency every time we need to bring Services, Developers and Warfighters together.  Therefore, future joint system-of-system procurements will need a new professional adjunct to the System Engineering profession.  That new construct is called the ‘Mission Engineer’.

This Mission Engineer construct will be the single most important procurement paradigm shift since introduction of the Systems Engineering Process in the 1940’s.

Location: Teledyne Brown Engineering,
Map

Presentation:
The New Joint Procurement Paradigm

Bio

Mr. Emile N. Daniel,

Assistant Vice President of Technology,

War Fighting Systems Chief Architect-Future Combat Systems,

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Huntsville, AL

Please join us for the next Huntsville Regional Chapter INCOSE meeting on October 18th, where Emile N. Daniel, Assistant Vice President of Technology, War Fighting Systems Chief Architect-Future Combat Systems, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Huntsville, Al, will speak on "Architecture". What is Systems Architecture and why is it important? Architecture is the general abstraction of systems behavior and is essential to system solution, design, and validation. Working within an architecture framework standardizes the architecture/design approach and is mandated on most Federal programs.

Mr. Daniel has over 20 years in the field of Electronics, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, and Architecture. He is a prior service member of the US Army and has spent the last 12+ years with SAIC working on a wide-range of technical programs with the Federal Government.

Emile has participated in programs with the Department of Justice (DOJ); architecting criminal justice information systems for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and the the Department of Defense (DoD); working several systems engineering tasks for the military healthcare systems and architecting defense systems such as Soldier Systems, Unattended Munitions, and other Unmanned platforms for the Army Future Combat Systems (FCS).

Emile holds two Bachelor of Science Degrees in Management of Information Systems and Professional Management, as well as an Associate of Science Degree, in Electronics Engineering.

Location: SAIC Patriot Room,
6725 Odyssey Drive, Map

Presentation:
Architecture

Larry came to Huntsville in 2001 as a helicopter engineer for the Aviation Engineering Directorate.  His AED assignments include airworthiness engineer for Chinook and Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Foreign Military Sales Manager, and Systems Engineering Manager.  He contributed to success of the Joint Shipboard Interoperability Program, the Army’s first Aircraft Shoot Down Assessment Team, and the Joint IPT for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. 

At post-graduate school, Larry studied helicopter ballistic damage and developed repair solutions using composite material and room-temperature-curing adhesive systems.  Prior to joining the AMRDEC team, Larry served in the Navy in various military and civilian capacities, including: Annapolis graduate, junior officer at the Pentagon, flight school student, helicopter engineer, Air Force liaison engineer, program engineer, modeling & simulation standards developer, and training systems manager.  He also served as lead software development engineer on a Joint Simulation System program.
 
From 1998 to 2000, Larry served as the Director for Security, Space and Facilities, US District Court, Middle District of Florida.  In this capacity, he oversaw 5 simultaneous projects ranging from renovation to prospectus construction of courthouses. 

Larry is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional by the International Council on Systems Engineering.  He supports INCOSE at both the local chapter and HQ levels.

Location: SAIC Patriot Room,
6725 Odyssey Drive, Map

Presentation: Vision and direction of the Hunstville Regional Chapter of INCOSE

Location: SAIC, 6723 Odyssey Dr., Building II , Huntsville, AL, 35806, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (Gemini Conference Room).

To get to the Gemini Conference Room, enter via Main Lobby, 6723 Odyssey Drive, Building 2 (which is to the left of original SAIC Bldg) Huntsville Al. 35806. After signing in at the Reception desk, go around the left of the elevators and straight ahead into the Gemini Conference Room.

Mr. Chris DeRock will lead a - planning session in support of our upcoming CSEP-certification tutorial. CSEP stands for Certified Systems Engineering Professional - INCOSE's badge of fundamental credibility in the systems engineering profession (notice attached).  Learn the tricks of conducting an effective tutorial.  Experience the synergy of planning a meaningful event.  Share your energy and improve our chapter.

Chris DeRock is one of our newest chapter officers.  As Treasurer, Chris has the important role of helping us manage our resources.  A key part of resource management is resource generation.  We are pleased that Chris has volunteered to lead this year's effort to hold a resource-generating tutorial.

In his day job, Mr. DeRock serves as a systems engineer for The Boeing Company.  In 2007, Chris transitioned from working on flight software for the space shuttle to working on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense Program.  Previous experience includes eight years as a US Army soldier and work as a student engineer building satellites for the Colorado Space Grant Consortium.  Mr. DeRock received an M.E. in systems engineering and a graduate certificate in project management from Steven's Institute of Technology, along with a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Location: Jacobs Conference Center, Map

Presentation: Conducting a Tutorial Planning Session (for upcoming CSEP tutorial)

The International Council on Systems Engineering established its Professional Certification Program in March 2004 to provide a formal method for recognizing the knowledge and experience of systems engineers. The title of the baseline recognition of personal certification is "Certified Systems Engineering Professional, (CSEP)."  Certification is a formal process whereby a community of performing skilled representatives, such as INCOSE, recognizes that a person has achieved competency in certain skills. Certification differs from licensing in that licenses are permissions granted by a government entity for a person to practice within its regulatory boundaries. Certification also differs from a "certificate" that documents the successful completion of a training or education program

Location: Teledyne Brown Cafeteria, 300 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL

Presentation: INCOSE Certification Prep for Systems Engineering Professionals

Presenter Bio:

Becky Reed is the President and CEO of Reed Integration, Inc., an 8(a), Woman-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business based in Virginia, and is one of the first 42 people in the world to achieve the credential of INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP).

An Aerospace Engineering graduate of the University of Alabama, Ms. Reed is a nationally recognized authority on systems engineering and risk management and their applications in government and commercial markets. Her career includes leadership roles in establishing and managing systems engineering and risk management processes for aerospace, information technology, nuclear energy, and ecological science programs. Through Reed Integration, Inc. (RII), Ms. Reed has supplied technical and management consulting services including “turn-key” setup and implementation of systems engineering processes for government clients.  Ms. Reed also provides customized technical training to government and commercial clients across the United States and offers public courses on various systems engineering, project management, and leadership topics. In association with Old Dominion University (ODU), her company continues to provide the very successful Professional Certificate in Systems Engineering to clients such as the US Navy/SPAWAR, Northrop Grumman Ships, and Northrop Grumman IT. Launch of the Professional Certificate in Project Management was completed in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia in October 2007 and the Professional Certificate in Program Management is scheduled to begin in April 2008 at Northrop Grumman. Graduates of each of these programs are eligible for up to six graduate level credits toward a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University.

A former President of the Huntsville, Alabama, chapter of INCOSE, Ms. Reed has also served as Director of Programs for the Hampton Roads Area Chapter of INCOSE in 2004, Vice-President in 2005, and President of the chapter in 2006. She received the Outstanding Service Award from INCOSE at the 2007 International Symposium for her work with the Huntsville, Alabama, and Hampton Roads Area Chapters and is currently a Region V Representative on the INCOSE Member Board. 

Ms. Reed is also the Past-President of the Peninsula Engineers Council and is a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and the Project Management Institute (PMI).  In December 2007, she received the “2007 Women in Business Achievement” award presented by INSIDE Business in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

Location: Jacobs Conference Center, Map

Presentation: Lead Systems Integrator Approach to Government Contracting

We are holding our meeting at the Jacobs Conference Center, 1500 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 100, Chandra Conference Room. (see map linked above).

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