02 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Danielle Julian ; Roger Smith
Simulation tools and techniques have been a part of acquiring medical knowledge and skills for over 4,000 years, with more scientific approaches em...
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02 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Dylan Schmorrow ; Randolph Jones PhD
There are increasing requirements for automated reasoning abilities across the broad spectrum of modeling and simulation, as well as in battlefield...
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02 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Joseph Beel ; Josh Turner ; Kurt Kollmnasberger
Cyber adversaries have a vast array or tools and a keen sense of when to use each one for maximum effect. You may not be able to stop all att...
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02 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
James Coolahan Ph.D. ; John Daly
This tutorial will describe the fundamental technologies, terms and concepts associated with Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and describe M&S...
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02 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Damon Curry ; Kurt Lessmann
The tutorial is intended for decision makers who have recently come in contact with distributed simulation and need a top-level understanding of Li...
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02 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Edward Powell
The Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) and the Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) program provide an advanced ...
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02 Dec 19
9:00 AM
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10:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Alethea Duhon ; Amy Peck ; Bob Kleinhample ; John Meyers ; Maria Gervais ; Mark Tanner ; Paul Thurkettle ; Tony Millican PhD, MBA
Come watch the Kick-Off to the Iron Dev Competition. Iron Dev teams will receive their challenge and secret ingredient for them to resp...
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02 Dec 19
12:45 PM
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2:15 PM
Speaker(s):
Mikel Petty Ph.D. ; Simone Youngblood
The process of validation is essential to the credible and reliable use of any simulation. Although Department of Defense policy and guidance incre...
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02 Dec 19
12:45 PM
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2:15 PM
Speaker(s):
Robert Lutz ; Robert Richbourg Ph.D.
Many in the political, industrial and defense communities are expecting current artificial intelligence technologies (deep learning and deep neural...
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02 Dec 19
12:45 PM
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2:15 PM
Speaker(s):
Christian Fitzpatrick ; Donald Brutzman PhD
The Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol is a well-established IEEE standard for packet-level exchange of state information between en...
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02 Dec 19
12:45 PM
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2:15 PM
Speaker(s):
Kenneth LeSueur ; Michael O'Connor
Integration and execution of large distributed Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) events consume substantial time and resources. While the und...
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02 Dec 19
12:45 PM
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2:15 PM
Speaker(s):
Kevin Hulme Ph.D., CMSP ; Sourabh Saptarshi
Additive modes of product manufacturing, more commonly referred to as 3D Printing (3DP), are substantially altering the manner in which we approach...
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02 Dec 19
12:45 PM
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2:15 PM
Speaker(s):
Charles Cohen ; Donald Lawson
Cybersecurity, it is everywhere we look in today’s world and when it comes to government systems it can seem like an extremely broad topic wh...
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02 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Chuck Otts ; Grimt Habtemariam ; William Louisell Ph.D.
Recent innovations within the networking industry are converging to greatly enhance the distributed simulation environment and set the foundation f...
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02 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Steven Gordon Ph.D.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is currently evaluating ways to accelerate acquisition and test and evaluation (T&E) in order to field more eff...
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02 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Bjorn Moller ; Robert Lutz
The High-Level Architecture (HLA) is the leading international standard for simulation interoperability. It originated in the defense co...
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02 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Joe Rohner ; Justin Neroda ; Kaye Darone
Following last year’s tutorial on Machines Crave Big Data that outlined Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, we continue ...
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02 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
Speaker(s):
S Numrich (Sue) Ph.D.
Those of us who work for the military in some capacity are well aware of the emphasis placed on lessons learned. There is great wisdom i...
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03 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
General Stephen Wilson ; Mark Matthews
Call to Order
Presentation of Colors
National Anthem
Invocation
OPENING REMARKS
Brian Holmes, 2019 Conference Chair
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Ge...
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03 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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12:00 PM
Speaker(s):
DeWolfe Miller, III USN ; Fred Drummond SES ; IIamrs Lejins NATO ; James Jacobson USAF ; James Robb USN (Ret.) ; Stephen Michael USA ; William Mullen USMC
Global forces continue to be challenged by erratic budgets and complex threats. Services continue to prepare for a wide array of missions that rang...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Chad Bates Ph.D. ; Clark Heidelbaugh ; Jim Ruth ; Mark Riecken ; Nathan Vey ; Tim Friest
The computer and internet revolutions of the twentieth century have quickly yielded the amorphous concept of “cyber” in the twenty-first century ac...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Robert Cox ; Scott Nix ; THOMAS KEHR
U.S. Army Training and Testing activities can look conflicting when viewed by the uninitiated observer, but deeper analysis reveals that these requ...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Greg Carrier ; James Benslay Jr. ; Rhea Pritchett ; W. Bogler
The U.S. military increasingly uses virtual environment training simulators which are demonstrating to be an effective complement, but not a replac...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Andrew Hampton Ph.D. ; Randolph Jones PhD ; Robert Sottilare ; Xiangen Hu
This event is intended to expose the I/ITSEC community to IEEE learning technology activities in the area of conceptual modeling of Adaptive Instru...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Bob Seltzer ; Frank Futcher ; Greg Dougherty ; John Meyers ; Sam "Chubs" Gray
The Department of the Navy (DON) recognizes it lacks the agility needed to assure relevancy in the modern era of technology and competition. &...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Anne Little Ph.D. ; Ella Phillips ; John Aughey ; Nathan Schurr ; Samantha Dubrow
Come and hear industry experts speak on topics such as education, design thinking, human- machine teaming and more. Have you ever sat through a lon...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Aaron Estes ; Kevin Hulme Ph.D., CMSP ; Mark Schiferle ; Rachel Su Ann Lim
In recent times, Game-based Learning (GBL) and “Gamification” serve as emergent mechanisms for modern-day Training. In accordance with Dale’s Cone...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Christina Padron ; Kelly Hale
Haptics, including touch, pressure, temperature, proprioceptive and kinesthetic, and vibratory sensors, can provide critical cues for successful ta...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Armand Heck ; David Nyikos ; Gerard Ryan ; Joseph Miranda District of Columbia ; Michael Todd ; Ryan Aerni New York ; Sean Bradley ; Troy Havener
This event will provide an opportunity for I/ITSEC participants to engage with Air Force leaders involved with shaping the implementation of techno...
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03 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Ivar Oswalt ; Tim Cooley Ph.D.
Machine learning (ML) is all around us. From virtual assistants to automated testing, it provides capabilities that we now depend upon. Yet, while ...
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03 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Speaker(s):
DEREK BRYAN ; Fuzzy Wells ; Jim Ruth ; Katherine Morse ; Sara Meyer
Cyberspace is a rapidly evolving and contested domain. As a result, government, industry, academia, and international organizations are continuous...
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03 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Jeanine Vlasblom
This paper describes the development and evaluation of a scan pattern monitoring system using augmented reality. The system enables instructors to ...
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03 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Grant Bailey ; Simon Skinner
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), along with many other defence organisations around the world including NATO, increasingly promotes the use of a v...
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03 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Amanda Bond ; Brian Stensrud ; Jennifer Phillips ; Natalie Steinhauser
Marine Corps formal schools are challenged to prepare Marines for increasingly complex and varied roles without a commensurate increase in instruct...
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03 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Crystal Maraj ; Dean Reed ; Jonathan Hurter ; Latika Eifert
The U.S. Army seeks to identify cost-effective methods to deliver training. Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are proposed to offer ...
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03 Dec 19
2:30 PM
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3:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Tom van den Berg ; Wim Huiskamp
NATO and nations have a common need for combined and joint collective tactical training to ensure mission readiness. There are however significant ...
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03 Dec 19
3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Alex Proaps ; James Bliss ; Sarah Leibner
Augmented reality application development faces the challenge of balancing key information visualization with users’ cognitive constraints. VR Reh...
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03 Dec 19
3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Margaret Merkle ; Tara Browne
The current MQ-9 Initial Qualification Training (IQT) curriculum uses a mix of classroom, simulator, and live-fly training instruction. The current...
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03 Dec 19
3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Jeff Weaver ; Steven Kropac
LGS Innovations and SCALABLE Network Technologies will introduce innovative new techniques for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) of 5G mobile networks ...
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03 Dec 19
3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
James Geddes ; Lawrence Elliott ; Nathan Vey ; Paul Tucker
The United States Army (USA) is developing and experimenting with concepts and force structures to conduct multi-domain operations (MDOs). The succ...
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03 Dec 19
3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Trey Hayden ; Yihua Liu
The Department of Defense (DoD) estimates it currently hosts approximately 70,000 hours of Adobe Flash-based course content. This presents a consi...
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03 Dec 19
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Andrew Fawkes ; Andy Smith ; Jean Marchal ; Lesley Jacobs ; Peter Onzenoort ; Wim Huiskamp
Battlelabs are used to provide insight in current and future
military operations and develop new systems and operational
concepts. The challenges...
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03 Dec 19
4:00 PM
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4:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Arthur Kenton ; BRIAN MILES ; Kathy Wilder ; Mark Abrams ; Thomas Creel
Gaming environments have achieved a remarkable level of realism in their simulation of urban environments that make a user feel as if they are a pa...
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03 Dec 19
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Hank Phillips Ph.D., MSC, USN ; Keith Brawner, ; Nelson Lerma
Has Big Data lived up to the hype? Behold a spirited debate unfold between data scientists from the Army and Navy training worlds about the trouble...
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03 Dec 19
4:00 PM
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4:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Brett Telford ; Eric Whittington
The United States (US) Department of Defense (DoD) has modeling and simulation (M&S) offices to manage M&S policies and coordinate complicated ente...
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03 Dec 19
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Paul Waugh SES ; Philip Carpenter USAF ; Tony DalSasso
This Special Event will provide the latest information from the Air Force regarding acquisition policy and upcoming training system acquisition act...
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03 Dec 19
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Ellen Purdy ; Fred Drummond SES ; Maria Gervais ; Sal D'Itri
In its National Security Strategy, the Trump administration identified the deployment of a secure 5th generation — 5G — wireless teleco...
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03 Dec 19
4:30 PM
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5:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Lillian Campbell-Wynn PhD
The Air Force Operational Training Infrastructure (OTI) 2035 Flight Plan established the Air Force vision for future training and how best to achie...
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03 Dec 19
4:30 PM
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5:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Abhishek Verma ; Triston Thorpe
Game developers have been leaders in utilizing the latest hardware technologies, including highly parallel computing using GPUs, physics processing...
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03 Dec 19
4:30 PM
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5:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Fredrik Heintz ; Johan Källström MSc
The creation of behavior models for computer generated forces (CGF) is a challenging and time-consuming task, which often requires expertise in pro...
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03 Dec 19
5:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Byron Harder Ph.D. ; Eric Whittington ; William Brobst
The Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) and Training and Education Command (TECOM) recognized the need to develop a detailed analytic methodology ...
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03 Dec 19
5:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Speaker(s):
Fritz Ray ; Jeanne Kitchens ; Wayne Gafford
Technical competencies focused on maintenance, operations, and troubleshooting tasks on engineered systems must be derived from trusted, authoritat...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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9:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Brooke Feinstein ; Kevin schmidt ; Marcia Grabowecky ; Paul Reber Ph.D.
Understanding a topographic map is a non-trivial cognitive and perceptual process that is a critical part of Land Navigation training for many mili...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Keith Brawner ; Richard Tong ; Roger Azevedo ; Winston Bennett
This event is intended to expose the I/ITSEC community to IEEE learning technology activities in the area of interoperability and reuse of Adaptive...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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9:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Hung Tran ; Nguyen Tran
Simulated real-world environments represent a powerful tool for learning and training. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) can participate with peopl...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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9:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Beth Atkinson ; Mitchell Tindall Ph.D.,
Previous research and development work by the Navy has focused on developing an industry standard for system generated performance measurement that...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Benjamin Nye ; Charlie A.I. ; Daniel Serfaty ; Robert Epstein USAF ; Sae Schatz ; Ulrik Christensen
Join us for a fireside chat debate where panelists (four humans and one artificially intelligent bot) are asked to imagine what learning will look ...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Corey Hemingway USA ; Donna Veil ; Marcus Varnadore USA ; Scott McLeod USA ; Tim Bishop
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulaiton, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) Training and Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS) u...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Daniel Maxwell Ph.D. ; Michael Mifsud ; Robert Siegfried ; Stuart Whitehead ; Tom Irwin SES ; William Forrest Crain Ph.D.
Our troops have more data available than ever before. Just think of the vast quantity of imagery, terrain data, and intelligence data — wheth...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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12:00 PM
Speaker(s):
David Spirk ; Randy Jackson ; Robert Karmazin ; Russell Voce USAF
This panel considers an array of emerging simulation technologies to increase cognition and reduce operational risk to special operations forces (S...
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04 Dec 19
8:30 AM
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9:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Gianluca De Novi Ph.D ; Harald Scheirich MSSC ; Jeffrey Beaubien ; Rodney Metoyer ; Timothy Kelliher
Unlike tactical simulators – which leverage open communication protocols such as High Level Architecture (HLA) or Distributed Interactive Simulatio...
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04 Dec 19
9:00 AM
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9:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Gene Lesinski ; Matthew Dabkowski ; Vikram Mittal
Simulation development has historically been a specialized skill performed by engineers with graduate-level training and industry experience. Howe...
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04 Dec 19
9:00 AM
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9:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Allison Hancock ; James Niehaus ; Jennifer Phillips ; Natalie Steinhauser
Adaptability is a critical skill necessary for current and future operating forces. In complex arenas where problems are shifting continually, adap...
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04 Dec 19
9:00 AM
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9:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Brandon Conover PhD ; Geoffrey Miller ; Jerry Heneghan ; Tyler Harris
This project was a demonstration of an augmented reality (AR) forward surgical care system. A sample of six persons, two each of Military physician...
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04 Dec 19
9:00 AM
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9:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Darren Wilson ; Jesse Flint
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) delivers solutions with innovative tools, technologies, and knowledg...
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04 Dec 19
9:00 AM
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9:30 AM
Speaker(s):
Brendan Macdonald ; Jacob Carr ; Jennica Bellanca ; Timothy Orr ; William Helfrich
Proximity detection systems (PDSs) on underground mobile haulage equipment are intended to protect mineworkers from striking, crushing and pinning ...
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04 Dec 19
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Jessica Cortez Ph.D. ; John Kegley ; Wink Bennett
One of the objectives of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Gaming Research Integration for Learning Lab® (GRILL®) is to leverage commercial model...
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04 Dec 19
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Jeffrey Beaubien ; Sterling Wiggins ; William DePriest
The “Zone of Proximal Development” (ZPD; Vygotsky, 1978) represents the difference between a learner’s current and potential levels of mastery. Whi...
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04 Dec 19
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Dave Fulker ; Robert McConachie ; Timothy Coley
The introduction of autonomous systems into safety-critical domains poses many challenges – from system safety assurance to public acceptance of th...
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04 Dec 19
9:30 AM
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10:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Alyssa Tanaka ; Glenn Taylor ; Jeffrey Craighead PhD
Military medical personnel are the first responders of the battlefield, where they are tasked with maintaining tactical objectives and making criti...
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04 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Anne Tall ; Cliff Zou ; Jun Wang
In today’s mobile-first, cloud-enabled world, where simulation-enabled training is designed for use anywhere and from multiple different types of d...
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04 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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12:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Arthur Graesser Ph.D. ; Avron Barr ; Dylan Schmorrow Ph.D. ; Michelle Barrett Ph.D. ; Shelly Blake-Plock
This event provides an intersection of a large professional
society (IEEE) and activities related to I/ITSEC professional
disciplines. The goal o...
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04 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Natalie Drzymala ; Steven Aude LTC USA (Ret.) ; Thomas Graves ; Tim Buehner
Contemporary warfighters operate in fast-paced and complex domains that, without assistance from automated technologies, would overwhelm their info...
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04 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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12:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Athan Katsandres ; Barb Buck ; Jim Gilkeson Ph.D. ; Jim Pharmer ; Naomi Boyer Ph.D. ; Winston “Wink” Bennett
Competency-based learning has been around for a while, yet is gaining traction in the commercial aviation world as the new preferred method for pil...
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04 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Kendy Vierling
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the national security community can be certain that the future will continue to increase in compl...
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04 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
Deborah Burgess ; Michael Proctor ; William Pike PhD
randomly assigned in a between-groups experimental design with control. Each cadet performed a medical evacuation order task under assigned experim...
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04 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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11:00 AM
Speaker(s):
David Noever ; Joseph Regian
While many of the most popular machine learning algorithms (like convolutional and recurrent neural networks) date back decades, their practical re...
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04 Dec 19
10:30 AM
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12:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Daniel Dwyer USN ; Don Gabrielson USN ; Edward Anderson USN ; James Robb USN (Ret.) ; Luke McCollum USN
Superior technology and training is critical to the United States Navy’s advantage over its potential adversaries. In this special event, Nav...
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