Joe Gregory

Assistant Research Professor, University of Arizona
“Panel: Digitally Transforming the Test and Evaluation Landscape”

Speaker Bio: 

Dr. Joe Gregory is an assistant research professor in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona. His research interests include digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, and semantic technologies. His current research focuses on the development of the Digital Engineering Factory, and the development of ontologies to support digital systems engineering. He is the co-chair of the Digital Engineering Information Exchange (DEIX) Ontology Working Group.

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.