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This talk will provide the following perspectives to H-CPS: trends and capabilities of future CPS, drawing upon lessons learnt from previous technological shifts; a complexity analysis of CPS, used to highlight bottlenecks in current (systems) engineering practices; and directions towards trustworthy and circular CPS.
Automated driving and edge computing will be taken as technological case studies for illustrative purposes.

Recently US Defense has started to apply systems engineering concepts and practices to missions in what is being termed ‘Mission Engineering” - the deliberate planning, analyzing, organizing, and integrating of current and emerging operational and system capabilities to achieve desired mission effects. In this presentation Dr. Dahmann will discuss the motivation for employing systems approaches to mission capabilities as an extension and a broader context for application of systems of systems engineering.

This presentation discusses how R&E is addressing the NDAA FY2017 Sec 855 Mission Integration Management (MIM). This will include an overview of Mission Engineering (ME), the technical component of MIM, and current engineering efforts in support of the Joint Staff and modernization priorities.

This Talk discusses how digital transformation is hard enough without systematic resistance from the very enterprise you are trying to transform. Transformation means change and change is hard.

Climate change, NetZero energy, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are all game changers for infrastructure providers. This Talk discusses that to build smarter, more sustainable, and resilient infrastructure, cities will need to reimage infrastructure services they provide, and arrange deeply interconnected technological, social and environmental systems to do so. Infrastructure 4.0 is comprised, not just of physical assets and digital twins, but an interconnected web of social, institutional, and ecological systems. New, complex forms of socio-technological systems are emerging that require a synthesis across traditional disciplines of engineering, information technology, environmental science, and policy.

This Talk examines the progression of health systems from individual diagnostic and treatment devices to connected systems and solutions. The transformation of health care delivery has changed the needs and key performance indicators that clinicians and hospital leaders use to measure success. To succeed with healthcare innovation today, new technologies must come with new business models and outcome-based incentives, aligned across all stakeholders; with collaboration based on shared objectives and risks.

In this talk we will discuss the demand for testing events, the Scientific Test and Analysis Techniques process (since STAT is mandated in DoD policy anyway), and what test planning may look like in a digital engineering environment. Examples of efficient and effective test planning will also be discussed, both those that were conducted during development and those developed post deployment.

This Talk with Dr. Yevgeniya “Jane” Pinelis, Chief, Test, Evaluation, and Assessment, DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) is the second of the 3-part "Test and Evaluation" series, curated and moderated by Dr. Laura Freeman, SERC Research Council Member, Director of the Hume Center’s Intelligent Systems Lab and Assistant Dean for Research in the College of Science, and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech.