Kenneth Senechal

Senior Technical Advisor, KBR, Supporting the Test Resource Management Center
“Panel: Digitally Transforming the Test and Evaluation Landscape”

Session Recording: Link

Speaker Bio: 

Mr. Senechal has 30 years of experience in DoD acquisition as both a member of industry and the govt. While spending most of his career in T&E, he has had tours in program management and systems engineering. He is a graduate of the US Naval Test Pilot School and a NAVAIR Associate Fellow.

For the last decade, Mr. Senechal has been on the front line of transforming how the DoW does acquisition by leading transformation efforts at NAVAIR, Dept of Navy, and ultimately OSW levels. He is currently supporting the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Test Resource Management Office as they stand up the DoW-wide digital engineering infrastructure capability, methodologies, and practices to support acquisition programs.

Abstract: 

Since the publication of the United States Department of Defense Digital Engineering (DE) Strategy in 2018 the Department, the services, and the supporting industrial base have been working to integrate digital engineering tooling that capture the designs of the complex weapon systems that the uniformed and civilian workforce depend upon to serve the nation. Innovation of digital engineering methods have advanced rapidly for system design, hardware and software design, modeling and simulation, and ultimately test and evaluation to ensure that systems are delivered rapidly with the most advanced capability. To no great surprise parallel development has led to a diverse set of products, data structures, and methods that don’t necessarily integrate. In an effort to maximize efficiency a team form Developmental Test, Evaluation, and Accreditation, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, and university researchers from the Acquisition Innovation Research Center joined forces to mature tools and methods in support of advancing Test and Evaluation which will work seamlessly together to help ensure the realization of the DE Strategy. A panel of experts/practitioners from these organizations will host a panel discussion describing their work, the results, the benefits, and some of the struggles that they have faced in pursuit of the Department’s objectives.