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Welcome to the Southern Maryland Chapter

Founded in February, 1998, the Southern Maryland Chapter follows the INCOSE International Mission, Vision and Goals. 

Additionally, we will:

  • Continue our outreach program to support systems engineering conferences and events at both the Regional and International levels of INCOSE
  • Continue to build partnerships with local professional associations offering unique and diverse systems engineering insights while complimenting their inherent interest areas

Contact us at southern-maryland@incose.net

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Chapter Events

2022 Ground System Architectures Workshop

2022 Ground System Architectures Workshop (Virtual)
Registration is  now OPEN

The 26th annual Ground System Architectures Workshop (GSAW) provides a forum for the world’s space related ground system experts to collaborate with other ground system users, developers, and researchers through tutorials, presentations, working groups, panel discussions, and technical exhibits. GSAW will be completely online.  For full GSAW schedule, click here.

Registration closes 12:00 p.m. PT Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Register now at 2022 GSAW or find more information at GSAW

We are thrilled to announce the following speakers and panelists at this year’s 26th Annual Ground System Architectures Workshop (GSAW)

Keynote Speakers

Monday, February 28, 2022

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Mark Brady

Kathryn Lueders

Jeffrey Manber

Dr. Mark Brady
Chief Data Officer
United States Space Force
(bio)

Ms. Kathryn Lueders
Associate Administrator
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
(bio)

 

Mr. Jeffrey Manber
President, International and Space Stations
Voyager Space
(bio)

Lunchtime Speaker

Monday, February 28, 2022

Sirisha Bandla

Ms. Sirisha Bandla
Vice President of Government Affairs And Research Operations

Virgin Galactic
(bio)

 

Panel Discussion on “Driving Innovation for Enterprise Integration”

Panelists :

- Dr. Roberta Ewart, Chief Scientist, Space Systems Command, SSC

- Ms. Vanessa Griffin, Director, Office of Systems Architecture & Advanced Planning, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

- Dr. Abraham Leigh USSF Senior Technical Advisor, MITRE

- Mr. Adam Loverro, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

- Mr. Mauro Pecchioli, Head of the Multi-Mission Infrastructure Programme, European Space Operations Centre, European Space Agency

- Dr. Neil Siegel, IBM Professor of Engineering Management and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Computer Science Practice, University of Southern California

Tutorials

Wednesday Morning Tutorials February 23, 2022
7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. (PT)
Tutorial A - Realizing Cloud-based Satellite Operations: Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Tutorial B - Enterprise Architecture Guide for the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)

Tutorial C - Agile Acquisition: Differences, Similarities, and How to Implement

Tutorial D - Mission Ops and Ground Systems 101: Why and How Your Ground System is Driven by Your Space Mission

Wednesday Afternoon Tutorials February 23, 2022

11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT)
Tutorial E - Cloud Native Architectures for GMSEC and EGS Microservices

Tutorial F - DevOps / DevSecOps

Tutorial G - Modern Data Engineering for a Data-Centric Ground Enterprise

Tutorial H - Introduction To Satellite Communications

Thursday Morning Tutorials February 24, 2022
7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. (PT)

Tutorial I - Software Defined Networking Leveraging Cloud Processing for Ground Satellite Operations

Tutorial J - CCSDS Course – Review of the International Standards for Space Communications

Tutorial L - Demystifying Machine and Deep Learning

Thursday Afternoon Tutorials February 24, 2022
11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (PT)
Tutorial M - A Machine Learning Solution for Satellite Health and Safety Monitoring

Tutorial N - Reducing the Software Risk in Space System Software

For additional details on tutorials please follow 2022 GSAW Tutorials!

Working Groups

Monday – February 28, 2022

9:00 AM-11:30 AM (PT)
Working Group A – Driving Innovation to Form An Enterprise

Working Group B – Integration and Test Approaches for Modern Ground Software Systems: What Works and What doesn’t at the Code, System, and System of System Levels

Working Group C – Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning for Space Ground Systems

Working Group D – Digital Standards Working Group

Tuesday – March 1, 2022 

9:00 AM-11:30 AM (PT)
Working Group E – Commercialization, Innovation, & Synergies: A Reimagined Approach to Communications and Navigation Enterprise Integration

Working Group F – Best Practices for Model Portfolio Management Workshop

Working Group G – Cloud Computing and Big Data Technologies for Ground Systems

Wednesday – March 2, 2022

11:00 AM-1:30 PM (PT)
Working Group H – Agile Innovation for Enterprise Integration

Working Group I – Leveraging New Space for Ground System Enterprise Evolution

Working Group J – Space Enterprise Integration to advance U.S. Leadership in Space: Strategic Framework and High-Profile Use Cases

Chapter News

SoMD Chapter (1st in-person meeting of the year)

Join Maple Café Friday 12th Feb at 8am US Pacific, 11am US East, 4pm UK, 5pm Europe)

Feb 23rd 6:45pm SoMD Chapter Speaker Meeting: Ken Ptack, ESEP

The Southern Maryland Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) began in February 1998.  The core group of organizers recognized the sizable Systems Engineering infrastructure  in the Patuxent River area created by the presence of the Naval Air Systems Command, the Naval Air Warfare Center (Aircraft Division and Field Activity at St. Indigos), the Naval Air Station, and a growing community of Industry partners.
Find out more by visiting the  Southern Maryland YAMMER  community today!

Yammer is INCOSE's social media platform for members. Use your INCOSE-issued Microsoft credential to login and join the conversation. INCOSE credentials are in the form of first.last@incose.net or first.last@incose.buzz.   

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