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Trusted Artificial Intelligence Systems Engineering Challenge

2024-09-30 – The Trusted AI Challenge for Armaments SE is a novel approach to improving the performance of AI-enabled systems. Rather than focusing on improving AI models,…
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Characterization of Potting Materials in Military Environments

2024-09-20 – Reliability expectations in mission-critical applications necessitate the understanding of survivability, failure mechanisms, and efficacy of supplemental restraints such as potting materials in mitigating the propensity…
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WRT-1043: DAU Digital Engineering Simulation Option Year 2

2024-05-24 – Digital transformation is fundamentally changing the way acquisition and engineering are performed across a wide range of government agencies, industries, and academia. Digital transformation is…
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AI4SE & SE4AI Workshop 2025

Sep 17-18, 2025 Washington, DC
The Systems Engineering Research Center and Army DEVCOM Armaments Center Systems Engineering Directorate will co-host the sixth annual AI4SE & SE4AI Research and Application Workshop. The theme for this year's gathering at The George Washington University will explore a theme of “Systems Engineering AI that Works: Assuring Transformative Capabilities and Enabling a Digital Transformation.”

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SERC Updates – April 2025

Apr 30, 2025 – News from SERC and AIRC for the systems engineering and acquisition communities, DoD sponsors, and…
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SERC Adds Dr. Valerie Sitterle as Deputy CTO

Apr 29, 2025 – Longtime SERC researcher Dr. Valerie Sitterle will expand her role as the network’s first Deputy…
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SERC UPDATES – February 2025

Feb 26, 2025 – SERC Updates provides a bi-monthly highlight of research projects from across the SERC network of…
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Freeman of the SERC Research Council Leads Generative AI Webinar

Jan 17, 2025 – Representing SERC and Virginia Tech, Dr. Laura Freeman moderated an expert panel to discuss generative…
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