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Farid Mamaghani, Conference Chair, SEDRIS
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Farid Mamaghani welcomed the attendees, and provided
introductory and administrative remarks regarding several of the activities
on the conference agenda. He concluded his remarks by introducing the first
Plenary Session speaker, Colonel Kenneth Pieper, Deputy Director of the
Defense Modeling and Simulation Office.
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DMSO Welcome [no
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Colonel Kenneth Pieper, U.S. Army, Deputy
Director, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO)
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Colonel Pieper provided welcoming and introductory
remarks, and briefly addressed upcoming reorganizational changes within
the DMSO organization.
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2002 SEDRIS Outstanding Contributions
& Achievements Awards: Dr. Ralph Toms and Dr. Paul Birkel [in
absentia]
Farid Mamaghani, Conference Chair, SEDRIS
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Farid Mamaghani presented the 2002 SEDRIS Outstanding
Contributions and Achievements Awards to Dr. Ralph Toms and Dr. Paul Birkel.
See the award citations below.
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Birkel
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Keynote Speaker: Army Transformation
to the Objective Force - Role of M&S [no
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Walter Hollis, Deputy Under Secretary
of the Army (Operations Research), Office of the Under Secretary of the
Army
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Walt Hollis began by stating that he would be
speaking indirectly about the transformation of the Army. He proceeded
to discuss the history of how the Test Community became involved in the
business of Simulation, and how the Test Community sees itself growing
with Simulation as they approach the analysis and testing of the transformed
Army. Walt then described the history of the Test Community involvement
in the establishment of the Real-Time Casualty Assessment Technique, which
led to the development of the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System.
He also addressed validation, verification and accreditation. Walt concluded
his remarks by emphasizing how Simulation has become a large part of the
Test Community, so much so that the Army is beginning to make large committments
in new equipment resources, based largely on the results of Simulation.
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Walter Hollis
Office of the Under
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The
Role of the DSTL and Its Relevance to Simulation & Synthetic Environments
Neil Smith, Knowledge Integrator for Simulation
and Synthetic Environments, U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
(DSTL)
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Neil Smith bagan by providing background information
on the establishment of DSTL (formerly DERA). He proceeded to describe
DSTL characteristics and role as an integral part of the U.K. Ministry
of Defence (MoD). Neil then discussed DSTL organization and locations,
addressing the three domains of analysis and systems, science, and technology.
In his discussion of DSTL and the MoD, he addressed simulation and synthetic
environments. Neil also discussed research activities relevant to SEDRIS,
applications relevant to SEDRIS, and concluded by addressing programs considering
the use of SEDRIS.
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Neil Smith
DSTL
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Geospatial
Assurance - The Importance of Data Content Standards
Roberta Lenczowski, Technical Director,
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
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Roberta Lenczowski characterized NIMA as a national
intelligence and combat support agency, and described the NIMA mission.
She went on to define geospatial intelligence, and described NIMA's mission
challenges. Roberta addressed how NIMA assures geospatial intelligence,
and discussed how geospatial assurance aligns with information assurance.
She then discussed content services and SEDRIS. Roberta addressed mission
specific data and support, and the challenge of standards for data contents
and data content relationships. She described reusing data via an integrated
data management environment, and a commitment to providing what's needed.
Roberta concluded her presentation with a discussion of a national center
for geospatial intelligence standards, and a view to the future.
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Roberta Lenczowski
NIMA
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Some Problems Never Go Away
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Mike Grady, Vice President for Technology,
Engineering, & Quality and Chief Technology Officer, Northrop Grumman
Information Technology
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Mike Grady presented reflections on challenges
revolving around the Modeling and Simulation community. He observed that
throughout the evolution of the computer systems world, some problems that
at the time they're being articulated look like they're solvable in some
finite sense are still with us 30, 20, or 10 years later. Mike began with
a brief model of the evolution of computer systems over time, and then
provided examples we thought were solvable at the time, but are still with
us today. His evolution of computer systems began with the use of "numbers"
in the 1950s/60s, to which we added "format" to arrive at the
"data" of the 1960s/70s. The evolution continued by adding "relationships"
to the data to arrive at the "information" of the 1980s/90s.
To this information we then added "experience" to arrive at the
"knowledge" of the 2000s. Mike theorized that to this knowledge
we will add "values" to arrive at the "wisdom" of the
future. He observed that technology tends to be only one component of the
total solution to today's system problems. Mike indicated that solutions
typically nowadays stand on a tripod of technology, process and people,
which takes the socialization of cyberspace to an even greater extreme.
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Mike Grady
NGIT
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EPA Applications
for Modeling of the Natural Environment
Gary Foley, Director, National Exposure
Research Laboratory (NERL), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Gary Foley began by addressing what is meant
by multimedia modeling. He discussed that the EPA was there to explore
opportunities for research and modeling collaboration. Gary described who
is the EPA, addressing an organization chart, and focusing his discussion
on the National Exposure Research Laboratory. He discussed challenges in
integrated multimedia modeling, describing them as complex problems requiring
complex solutions. Gary addressed the establishment of a framework for
facilitating cooperation and coordination among participating agencies
on R&D of multimedia environmental models, software and related databases,
and development, enhancement, applications and assessments of multimedia
environmental models for human and environmental risk assessment, and provided
examples. He concluded his presentation with a discussion of potential
areas for collaboration.
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Gary Foley
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State of
SEDRIS
Paul Foley, Quantum Research International
/ DMSO
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Paul Foley began by discussing the SEDRIS project
perspectives, and what is SEDRIS. He described a growing team of national
and international associate developers and implementers. Paul addressed
the SEDRIS continuing strategies, and the ISO/IEC SEDRIS Standards progress
and other standards activities (JTA, COE, SISO, STANAGs, QSTAGs). He discussed
more challenges facing SEDRIS in the near-term. Paul concluded his presentation
with a summary of SEDRIS in Canada, identifying organizations and uses
having a Canadian flavor.
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