Timothy E. Menke, Technical Director, SIMAF, Wright-Patterson AFB

Dr. Wesley N. Colley, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis at the University of Alabama

Dr. James Solderitsch, Technical Architect, Applied Research for Computing Enterprise Services (ARCES) Project at Villanova University

Dr. Subhabrata “Bapi” Sen, Principal System Engineer, Networking and Communications, DSCI 

Dr. Vijay Gehlot, Assistant Professor, Villanova University, Department of Computing Sciences, and CEET Research Associate

Robert Heilman, Program Manager, Interoperability Test and Evaluation Capability Program and the Netcentric Test & Evaluation Science and Technology Program

Walter Lucchesi, Branch Chief, Architecture and M&S, SEAMS CERDEC, S&TC Directorate

Kimberly L. Kendall, DAF, Program Manager, Air Force Modeling and Simulation Training Toolkit Program, 753d ELSG/NEM Electronic Systems Center

Keith E. Seaman, is a Senior Adviser, Command and Control Modeling and Simulation, Office of the Chief of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer, Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.  In this position, he serves as the Air Force’s authority in the areas of modeling and simulation for command and control, mission planning, distributed mission operations and multidisciplinary technology integration to rapidly respond to priority combat capability requirements.  He provides modeling and simulation advice and policies to support warfighter readiness, accelerated acquisition and emerging warfighter capabilities.

Mr. Seaman entered federal civil service in 1985 as an intelligence officer under the Air Reserve Technician Program.  For four years he served as the 507th Tactical Fighter Wing’s Director of Intelligence and Fighter Weapons and Tactics, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, where he integrated fighter operations and intelligence in a Red Flag-like operation at the local level.  In 1989 he reported to the Pentagon, serving as the primary representative for the Chief of Staff for Intelligence on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty task force, working with the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency to validate treaty verification monitoring and budget recommendations.

Prior to his assuming his current position, Mr. Seaman served in a variety of positions at U.S. Transportation Command, Scott AFB, Illinois.  As Production Manager for the Joint Intelligence Center, he led the stand-up of the center and the initial product line to support the warfighter.  He was then selected as Director of Concepts and Technology, standing up the command’s Transportation Technology Research and Development Program and establishing the first multi-million dollar research and development budget for a combatant command.  He also served as the Director of Operations Integration, where he led the command’s effort into a net-centric commander’s dashboard for transportation, enhancing the warfighter’s view into the transportation battlespace and radically changing the way operational command and control was executed.  He was appointed to Senior Level Career Service in 2005. Mr. Seaman retired from the Air Force after 27 years of service.

Mr. Seaman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management (financial), Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, and a Master’s degree in Middle East Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, a Master’s degree in National Resource Strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., and numerous other academic achievements.  He also has been recognized for his distinguished service by many organizations within the Armed Services, government, and by private organizations.

Topic/Theme
Dynamic Environments of the Future

Abstract
Mr. Seaman will present a briefing that touches on numerous aspects of the Air Force Modeling and Simulation (M&S) community. He will start by describing how Air Force M&S efforts fit within overall Air Force mission priorities. He will then transition into a discussion of how M&S is being used to train airmen currently and how it will evolve to train them in the future. Finally, a discussion focusing on emerging technologies and the challenges currently facing the Air Force M&S community will round out his presentation.

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Henry M. Beebe

Mr. Hank Beebe is the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Technical Director for the Program Executive Office (PEO) Command and Control (C2) Programs. The PEO-C2C portfolio includes the Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC), pre-Major Automated Information System (MAIS) effort, the Global Command and Control System-Joint (GCCS-J)
and its associated Common Operating Environment (COE), the Global Combat Support System, and Combatant Collaborative Force Analysis and Sustainment and Transportation (CFAST).

PEO-C2C is at the forefront of DoD’s efforts to collaboratively develop and deliver net-centric capabilities for our joint and coalition forces in a rapid, distributed, and cost-effective manner. Mr. Beebe provides technical, programmatic, and strategic planning recommendations that will enable DISA to achieve the net-centric C2 capability solution set for DoD command and control extending across the national, strategic, operational and tactical warfighting levels.

Mr. Beebe joined DISA in May 2007, following 25 years in industry, at TRW (now Northrop Grumman) and AT&T. He was program manager and business executive for complex, software-intensive systems supporting the Department of Defense and Federal civilian agencies.

At TRW, Mr. Beebe led the Army WWMCCS (AWIS) program, the Navy OSIS Baseline Upgrade (OBU) program, the Census 2000 Operations (DCSC) program, and Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) programs. For AT&T, Mr. Beebe was Vice President for Professional Services and led the GSA Networx (FTS 2001 follow-on) program.

Prior to joining TRW, Beebe served more than 22 years as a non-commissioned and commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. His assignments primarily were developing advanced concepts and IT systems for the tactical intelligence community. Mr. Beebe served in Vietnam from 1968-69.

Mr. Beebe’s honors and awards include:
– Military Awards: Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal
– 2001 Acquisition Award for Business Solutions in the Public Interest (as part of Census Bureau team), Council on Excellence in Government
– TRW Chairman’s Award for Innovation, 2001

Mr. Beebe is a native of Brooklyn, NY. He attended Brooklyn College and the University of Maryland, majoring in history.

Topic/Theme
Net-Enabled Command Capability Linking Command & Control for the Future

Abstract
The Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC) is the DoD's principal C2 capability that will be accessible in a net-centric environment and focused on providing the commander with the data and information needed to make timely, effective, and informed decisions. This briefing will illustrate how the joint environment needs to shift focus from a network-centric to a knowledge-centric approach to warfare to include a high-level overview of the program's goals, status, and the way ahead.

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Timothy Menke

Mr. Menke is the technical director in the Simulation and Analysis Facility (SIMAF) located at Wright Patterson AFB.  SIMAF, a facility within the Modeling and Simulation division within the Capabilities Planning and Integration Directorate (ASC/XRA), is supporting the development of a number of programs utilizing Live-Virtual-Constructive simulation for capability-based assessment.  Mr. Menke graduated from the University of Kansas with a BSAE in 1985, attended Officer Training School, and was assigned to the Aeronautical System Centers at WPAFB.  In 1990, Tim joined the federal civilian service working in the Air Force Research Laboratories and completed his Master's from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1992.  Mr. Menke completed his Juris Doctorate in Law from Capital Law School in 1998. 

Topic/Theme
Real World Applications of M&S for Net-centric Validation

Abstract
The SIMAF has been at the forefront of testing net-centricity using Modeling and Simulation (M&S).  Mr. Menke will discuss the challenges, findings, and successes experienced by the SIMAF based upon real-world applications of M&S for net-centric validation.

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Dr. Wesley N. Colley

Dr. Colley received his Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University in 1998. During his graduate work, Dr. Colley focused on gravitational lensing and cosmology. His team at Princeton monitored the brightness fluctuations of particular lensed-quasar system that allowed them to settle a decades-old controversy over the implied value of the Hubble Constant, which sets the size scale for the Universe. He used Hubble Space Telescope imaging of a gravitationally lensed-cluster system, to measure the mass of the very distant cluster of galaxies, and exploit the lens's magnification to realize Einstein’s dream of a "gravitational telescope" in which the gravity of a foreground celestial body forms enhances our view of very distant background objects.

Dr. Colley spent 1998–2000 as a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He continued his work in gravitational lensing, focusing on very rapid brightness fluctuations in a quasar lens system that would indicate the presence of planetary mass dark matter in the lens galaxy. Detection of such fluctuations, however, required dedicated monitoring around the clock during two campaigns of 10 days each. Colley and a colleague, therefore, formed a collaboration of 13 observatories around the world, including sites in Korea, Ukraine, Israel, Spain, Mexico, Canada and Arizona. Colley developed a highly automated software system to process the thousands of images collected, and achieved 1% precision in the quasar brightness measurements with continuous hourly sampling. The effort produced the first-ever sub-day time-delay for a lens system. The resulting refinement allowed Colley to discover a very rapid fluctuation in a previous dataset that suggests the presence of an earth-mass object in the lens galaxy (which is halfway across the Universe); this is possibly a detection of an extra-galactic planet.

Dr. Colley then moved to the Space Control Group of M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory as a technical research staff member. His research focused on the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS). This system would field a constellation of low-earth orbit mid-infrared satellites that would observe a missile from the end of the boost phase throughout the mid-course, including deployment of re-entry vehicles and decoys. The system would determine orbits for each object (r.v. or decoy) for hand-off to ground-based radar and interceptors. Dr. Colley's work focused on inter-platform object identification to build a unified target object map, for handoff to ground radar and interceptor systems.

Dr. Colley returned to astrophysics as a lecturer at the University of Virginia, where he continued his work on gravitational lensing by developing models to help understand the rapid brightness fluctuations mentioned above, and by developing dramatically faster simulations of gravitational lensing that could test these models against observation. He also quantified the shapes of large-scale structures seen in the cosmic microwave background as seen by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (showing consistency with the Inflationary prediction of Gaussian random-phase quantum fluctuations).

Colley first became involved in formal modeling and simulation (M&S) at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University. There he worked under Homeland Security funding to model mass casualty events in urban environments. A massively parallel agent architecture was used to estimate the load on medical infrastructure during the aftermath of such an event. In separate work, he helped develop a formal validation methodology for large operational training simulations under Naval Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force (ComOpTEvFor). Colley traveled to Camp Smith in Hawaii, and Eglin Air Force Base with students to test the method in support of the Terminal Fury ’05 exercise.

The Center for Modeling, Simulation and Analysis at the University of Alabama in Huntsville came on line in 2005. Colley joined the new team and began work immediately with NASA to enhance Marshall Space Flight Center’s M&S capabilities in support of systems engineering for the upcoming lunar missions. Colley is currently working with students to federate current stand-alone tools at MSFC into a large distributed simulation that includes high-fidelity propulsion, aerodynamics, electrical and structural models, as well as high-end visualization tools and virtual environments. Under the Army’s Aviation and Missile Command, Colley has used discrete event simulation techniques to develop custom software that will help optimize inventory stocking strategies for aviation parts in Southeast Asia. He will shortly begin work with the Naval Air Warfare Center on validation methodologies for Netcentric Warfare Test and Evaluation tools.

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Topic/Theme
Validation of Netcentric Warfare Simulations

Abstract
Dr. Colley will address the special challenges Net-centric Warfare presents in validation. Net-centric Warfare systems are, by definition, new in that they have not been extensively tested on the battlefield. As such, the common validation approach of qualitative "face validation" by battlefield-experienced subject matter experts (SME) is simply not available.

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Dr. James Solderitsch

Dr. James Solderitsch has over twenty years experience in the research, design, development, and training of software systems production with a recent emphasis on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Government Systems Interoperability and E-Business applications. Dr. Solderitsch is a Technical Architect at Gestalt, LLC where he has served as technical lead on a number of commercial and government system development activities. His most recent engagement was with the ARCES (Applied Research for Computing Enterprise Services) Program where he served as Research Director and Lead Developer of several models of enterprise architectures emphasizing SOA principles.

Topic/Theme
Modeling Service Oriented Architectures in a Command and Control Application Context

Abstract
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) hold promise for use in Command and Control (C2) application domains and contexts, but this promise remains essentially un-tested and unvalidated. This un-tested and largely un-realized promise is particularly true in the context of systems on the Edge where system connectivity is problematic. Gestalt and Villanova University worked together on the Applied Research for Computing Enterprise Services (ARCES) Program under sponsorship of the Air Force Electronic Systems Group (ELSG/KI) at Hanscom Air Force Base. ARCES has spent significant effort in trying to understand aspects and features of both SOAs and their applications to C2. As part of this effort, ARCES developed executable models to help evaluate SOA-based approaches and architectures. This presentation outlines ARCES' findings to-date, introduces several SOA models, outlines how these models are verified and validated, and shows the direct application of these models to investigating the utility and practicality of SOA solutions to C2 problems.

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Dr. Subhabrata "Bapi" Sen

Dr. Subhabrata "Bapi" Sen is currently the Principal System Engineer of the networking and communications division at DSCI and is responsible for the architecture and implementation of DSCI's network simulation systems. Dr. Sen is currently leading the architecture and development of a software system to emulate a network of dissimilar wireless networks in a run-time environment. This work is being performed to provide the capability to validate and analyze network performance in a hierarchical network of dissimilar wireless networks to include tactical MANETs.

Before joining DSCI, Dr. Sen worked for the Nextel/Sprint in the wireless data services planning group. Prior to Nextel, he worked for Bell Laboratories - initially at AT&T and later at Lucent Technologies in the Wireless Networks Data TDMA/UMTS/GSM group. His research interests include the areas of wireless networking, simulation and stochastic model building. Dr. Sen received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds over 13 publications (including a book on his research interests) and 2 patents in these fields. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and former Area Governor of Toastmasters International.

Topic/Theme: 
Simulating Netcentric Systems in a Run-Time Environment

Abstract
Dr. Sen will discuss the implementation of a system of system tool as a large scale simulation using high fidelity small scale OPNET models as it relates to emulating a MANET. He will also discuss integrating and utilizing Network In The Loop (NITL) simulation in the Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) domains, utilizing a packet based large scale real-time simulation approach for run-time network simulation. He will also talk to DSCI's RMSim, an in-development simulation tool which accommodates additional networking properties such as cross layer signaling.

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Dr. Vijay Gehlot

Dr. Vijay Gehlot is an assistant professor in the department of Computing Sciences at Villanova University. He received his PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. His published work has addressed both theoretical and practical aspects of Petri Nets. His current research focus is applications of Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) in modeling and analysis of systems. He has been the Lead Modeler on Villanova's Applied Research for Computing Enterprise Services (ARCES) Project, together with Gestalt LLC, under a contract with the USAF. The ARCES project involves Colored Petri Nets based modeling, simulation and performance analysis of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) for defense applications.

Topic/Theme
Systems Modeling and Analysis Using Colored Petri Nets

Abstract
Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) is a graph-based modeling language suitable for modeling distributed, concurrent, deterministic and nondeterministic systems with synchronous and asynchronous communication. One attraction of CPNs is that the basic vocabulary is small which renders them very flexible in terms of application domains for modeling. CPNs have been used to model and analyze a variety of military systems, including hardware, software, communication protocols, distributed and resource constrained systems, as well as workflow processes. CPNs provide several analysis methods, including simulation and state space analysis. This talk will introduce the audience to the basics of CPNs as well as CPN Tools, a software tool for creating, editing, simulating and analyzing CPN models. We will illustrate the key ideas by means of practical examples.

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Robert Heilman

Mr. Heilman is employed with the Naval Air Systems Command, Point Mugu, California. He is currently a Project Director with the NAVAIR Test & Evaluation Directorate.

Mr. Heilman has over 20 years of experience in senior engineering and project leadership positions in the field of Test, Evaluation and Experimentation to include:

– Weapons Integration, Flight Testing, and Systems Test & Evaluation of numerous tactical aircraft
– The development and operation of Hypersonic Missile Targets
– And most recently the development of next generation testing and experimentation capabilities for Joint C4ISR System Interoperability and Netcentric Systems.

Mr. Heilman is currently performing technical and project leadership roles in joint investment projects developing Net Centric Warfare test, training and experimentation capabilities for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Forces Command and Navy Ranges.

Current responsibilities include:
– Executing Agent of the T&E Science & Technology Netcentric Systems Test Focus Area
– Project Director of the InterTEC Project
– The Navy’s C4ISR Reliance Lead
– Vice President of the Channel Islands ITEA Chapter

Mr. Heilman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. He has attained the highest level of Government professional certification in both Systems Engineering and Program Management.

Topic/Theme
Challenges & Opportunities for M&S in Netcentric Systems Testing

Abstract
Network Centric Operations presents the potential for unprecedented advances in combat effectiveness within a netted, joint battlespace. As with any time of technological advancement, a period of transition occurs in which the community employing the technology must adapt quickly and dramatically to optimize application of the technology. This is especially true with information and network technology due to the inherent nature for exponential increases in capacity and performance. Apply these trends to the science of warfare, and you get a glimpse into the seismic shift that Net-Centric Operations brings to the battlespace. Driving this shift is the need to replicate, measure and assess the highly complex System-of-Systems environment associated with Netcentric operations. Adequate replication of the environment cannot be achieved without the seamless blending of M&S with virtual and live systems to create the needed synthetic Net-Centric test environments.

This presentation will initially establish the framework for the discussion by summarizing a test & evaluation view of Network Centric Operations, and then examine the application of M&S in Net-Centric testing. The discussion will include the following topics:
– Explore the influence of Net-Centricity in warfare
– Address the advantages and potential risks of Network Centric Operations
– Define the organization of the Net-Centric Systems Testing Mission Space
– Describe the emerging approaches to Net-Centric System Testing
– Illustrate selected Net-Centric Systems Test use cases
– Examine the role of M&S in Net-Centric testing
– Describe where M&S fits within a distributed Live-Virtual-Constructive environment
– Present on the challenges facing M&S in Net-Centric testing
– Close with a discussion on the opportunities that lie within the fertile grounds of
the evolving discipline of Net-Centric Test & Evaluation

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Kimberly L. Kendall

Ms. Kendall has sixteen years of expertise in the Information Technology area in government and commercial industry. She is currently assigned to the 753D Electronic Systems Group, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, as Program Manager for the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Training Toolkit. She delivers enhanced M&S capability and supports over 11 Joint, Coalition, and Air Force mission rehearsals and training events for over 17,000 warfighters. Ms. Kendall previously worked for Fidelity Investments asDirector, Database Administration. She was responsible for strategic direction in storage and database management across 4 product groups with a total infrastructure operating budget in excess of $200M. Prior to joining Fidelity in 1999, she taught database administration for Oracle Corporation. As an active Air Force reservist, Lieutenant Colonel Kim Kendall is the senior Individual Mobilization Assistant (IMA) to the Commander of the 653D Electronic Systems Group, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. She assists in leading over 750 people in the design, development, production & deployment of $18B worth of AF Networks and Integration Systems. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the State University of New York.

Topic/Theme
Facing Today’s Challenges with Air Power Simulation

Abstract
Ms. Kendall is the program manager for the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Training Toolkit (AFMSTT), the Air Force’s authorized simulation system for training the joint command and control warfighter in air power planning and execution. AFMSTT is also responsible for validating and testing Air Force Command and Control systems. Ms. Kendall will discuss the successes, challenges and evolution of serving the acquisition, training and testing communities with authoritative and interactive simulation capability.

Walter Lucchesi

Walter Lucchesi is the chief of Architecture and Modeling & Simulation (AMS) branch in the Army's Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) at Ft Monmouth, New Jersey. He has over 25 years of System Engineering and AMS experience. He initiated, led and applied numerous R&D initiatives in the areas of Standardization, Interoperability, Testing & Prognostics, Modeling & Simulation, Software & System Architecture Engineering, and other related advanced engineering disciplines for the Department of Defense. Specific M&S related projects include: V&V and IV&V for numerous M&S programs ( i.e. WIN-T, FCS MSMO, JTRS JPEO, etc…), development (and life cycle) of M&S (i.e. design thru L/V/C) of systems (i.e. waveforms, systems, SoS, large scale & real-time experimentation, emulation, etc…), the R&D of AMS ( i.e. Urban, HIWL, communication effects, integrated architectures, etc…) and the application of M&S engineering for architectural & SoS analysis.

Mr. Lucchesi received his BSEE from Pratt Institute, a MCS from Farleigh Dickerson University and advanced engineering post graduate certificates in Wireless Communications, Satellite Communications and Information Networks from Steven's Institute of Technology and System Engineer for Software Intensive Application in Resource Constrained Systems from George Mason University. Recently he received an Engineer Degree from Steven's Institute of Technology and is currently a PhD candidate at NSU researching advanced AMS concepts.

Mr. Lucchesi is an adjunct professor in System Engineer at Steven's Institute of Technology with an emphasis on architecting enterprise solutions. He is a member of the Center for Network Science and Application (CNSA) Advisory Board at Princeton University and an active member of several engineering organizations.

Topic/Theme
Architecture and M&S Challenges, Lessons Learned and an Integrated Engineering Approach for Achieving Net Centricity.

Abstract
Mr. Lucchesi will discuss an integrated engineering approach which supports the design, development, evolution and analysis of systems in a complex dynamic environment. The presentation highlights the synergism and relationships between multiple engineering disciplines: architecture, modeling & simulation, and decision support technology. These concepts enhance system engineering by using a rigorous methodology to validate solutions as the DoD migrates to a net centric environment and lead to improved war fighter operational capability. Proven state-of-the-art engineering tools and on-going R&D will also be discussed. The presentation concludes with lessons learned from the successful application of these concepts to real-world engineering challenges.

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