EMERGING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Mr. Brian Weiss Michael L. Curry - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TECHNOLOGY for RAPID ACQUISITION AND TEST

• Mr. Brian Weiss

Michael L. Curry Brian A. Weiss Stephen Balakirsky Miles Thompson Jeffrey Schleher Dan M. Davis

EMERGING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING

Intelligent Test & Evaluation (T&E) Infrastructure

Michael L. Curry

ITEA Technology Review, July 20th 2011 The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc Cambridge Massachusetts

Test & Evaluation Challenge

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Critical information is accumulated during each test and reapplied during subsequent tests

Enabling Rapid T&E

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Information from prior tests is used to streamline the Test & Evaluation process for new tests

Test and Evaluation Process

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Infrastructure integrates T&E activities and provides a foundation for data-driven decision-making

The Role of Infrastructure

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Access to Information Report Generation Interoperability Automated Analysis Tools

Implementation Strategy

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Enabling Technologies

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Access to Information

• Provenance
• Full Context Search
• Latent Semantic Indexing

Reporting Generation

• Query Technologies
• Workflow Management
• Meta-data Tagging

Interoperability

• Speech & Text Recognition
• Information Security Technologies
• Database Technologies

Automated Analysis Tools

• Feature Extraction
• Data Mining
• Visual Analytics

Focuses on information required to …

Design and execute test activities Analyze test data Generate reports

Leverages existing & emerging technologies to …

Collect, organize, and manage test-related information Search, process, and analyze test-related information Generate and disseminate test reports

Intelligent T&E Infrastructure

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Realization of an intelligent T&E infrastructure depends on the selection, implementation, & integration

• f technologies consistent with an end-to-end T&E strategy

INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING

Questions

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