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Modeling, Simulation, Prototyping & Validation

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Location: Cornerstone I Room, 1st Floor

Sub-Committee

Dr. Mark Brudnak - U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)

Dr. Vamshi Korivi - U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Tim Lee - DCS Corporation

Dr. Matt Castanier - U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Arkady Grunin - U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Pete Rynes - ThermoAnalytics, Inc.

Bryan LaRose - U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Wes Colley - Torch Technologies

Sarah Hanania - U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Time Event
7:00 am

Registration

8:00 am

Opening of GVSETS and the Technical Sessions in Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Thom Green - GVSETS Chair

Valde Garcia - President, NDIA Michigan Chapter

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

8:20 am

The Benefits and Challenges to Leveraging Commercial Off-the-Shelf Solutions to Modernize the Force

Moderator: Tom Vern - Assistant Chief of Staff G5, Strategic Plans & Communications, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Pete Johnson - Vice President of Business Development for Integrated Vehicles, GM Defense

Mike Milner - Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, American Rheinmetall Vehicles (ARV)

Tim George - Vice President of Sales & Marketing, ND Defense LLC.

9:25 am

Best Paper Announcement

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Gregg Wildes - Business Development Manager, DornerWorks

9:30 am

Exhibitor Break

(10:05 - 5:00 pm - Attendess will split up between the 6 different sessions)
10:05 am

Welcome to the MSPV Tech Session

Pete Rynes - Vice President of Government Solutions, ThermoAnalytics, Inc.

10:10 am

Simulating Off-Road Autonomous Navigation: Fast Simulation of Vegetation Override

Dr. Christopher Goodin - Associate Research Professor, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University (CAVS, MSU)

Dr. Marc Moore - Graduate Research Assistant, CAVS, MSU

Dr. Christopher R. Hudson - Research Engineer, CAVS, MSU

Dr. Daniel Carruth - Associate Director, CAVS, MSU

Ethan Salmon - Engineer, CAVS, MSU

Michael Cole - Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar - Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Brittany English - Engineer, Dynetics

10:30 am

Augmenting Thermal and Infrared Signature Simulation Tool for use on Hybrid Electrified Ground Vehicles

Steven Patterson - Senior Engineer, ThermoAnalytics, Inc

Dr. Zachary Edel - Senior Engineer, ThermoAnalytics, Inc

Logan Canull - Thermal/CFD Engineer, ThermoAnalytics, Inc

Joshua Pryor - Senior Engineer, ThermoAnalytics, Inc

Pete Rynes - VP Government Solutions, ThermoAnalytics, Inc

Dr. Nathan Tison - General Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Korivi Vamshi - Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

10:50 am

Leveraging Spectral Unmixing for Improved Mobility in Vegetated Environments

Dr. Jordan Ewing - Computer Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar - Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Anush Kasaragod - PhD Student, Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi

Dr. Thomas Oommen - Chair and Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi

11:10 am

Methodology and Process for a Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MS&A) - Powered Analytical Wargame

Brandon Hurlburt - Synthetic Wargaming Branch Manager, DCS Corporation

Kindra Bane - Research Analyst , DCS Corporation

Steven Galloway - Chief Modeling and Simulation Office (SAF/SAM), AFRL/RSS SPDE

Daniel Thomson - Aerospace Systems Directorate; Turbine Engine Division, AFRL/RQT

Dr. Nicholas Hanlon - Aerospace Systems Directorate, MS&A Branch, AFRL, RQSA;

11:30 am

Using Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Vehicle Survivability Within a Virtual Simulation

Dr. Joseph O'Bruba - Data Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

11:50 am

Lunch

1:05 pm

Introduction to the MSPV Afternoon Session

Tim Lee - Vice President, Intelligent Systems Division, DCS Corporation

1:10 pm

ProjectGL: A Modular and Extensible Simulation Software Framework for Distributed, Real-Time Ground Vehicle Simulation

Christopher Mikulski - Branch Chief, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Thomas Stanko - Technical Specialist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Jonathan Joyce - Software Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

James Barry - Branch Manager, DCS Corporation

David Flores - Software Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Jason Hogan - Software Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

David Miller - Software Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

…See written paper for full list of authors

1:30 pm

Evaluating the Haptic Touchscreen Experience in VR

Fares Al-Shubeilat - Research Assistant, Oakland University

Solaf Athamnah - Research Assistant, Oakland University

Abdel Rahman AlJundi - Research Assistant, Oakland University

Dr. Mark Brudnak - Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Ryan Wood - Technical Specialist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Wing Yue Geoffrey Louie - Assistant Professor, Oakland University

Dr. Osamah Rawashdeh - Professor & Chair, Oakland University

1:50 pm

Impact of External Audio on Driving Task Performance in Simulated Under Armor Environments

Dr. Lauren Grant - Research Scientist, DCS Corporation

Sumit Shrestha - Data Scientist, DCS Corporation

Dr. Russell Cohen - Hoffing Research Scientist, US DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

2:10 pm

Posture Prediction Data Used for Manikin Placement in ground Vehicle Design

Gale Zielinski - Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Frank Huston II - Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Matthew Reed - Research Professor and Head Biosciences Group, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)

2:30 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Introduction to the MSPV Final Session

Bryan LaRose - Chief Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

3:20 pm

Fine-Tuning YOLOv8 for Accurate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection with Digital Twin Simulation

Dr. Felipe Mejia - Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Duality AI

Sunil Shah - Machine Learning/Geospatial Information System Engineer, Duality AI

Preston Young - Product Manager, US Army Program Executive Office (PEO) Ground Combat Systems (GCS)

Andrew Brunk - Chief Software Lead, US Army PEO GCS

3:40 pm

Developing Digital Twins at the Subsystem Level Using Heterogenous Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for Development and Testing of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) and Autonomous Ground Systems

Dr. Joseph Madak - Computer Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Kristen Van Emden - Supervisory General Engineer, Army Test Center (ATC)

Jared Strickland - IT Specialist, ATC

John Whitt - Modeling and Simulation Test Division Chief, ATC

Benjamin Flint - Computer Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center

Lein Ma - Simulation Team Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center

Dr. Joseph McDonnell - Principal Scientist/Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center

…See written paper for full list of authors

4:00 pm

A Framework for Refining Error Metrics in Surrogate Models for Engineering Applications

Evan Taylor - Graduate Research Assistant, Clemson University

Dr. Gregory Mocko - Associate Professor, Clemson University

Edward Louis - Graduate Research Assistant, Clemson University

4:20 pm

Validating Modular Applications in the FACE and GCIA Architectures

Dr. Michael Lingg - Principal Research Engineer, Array of Engineers

Howard Paul - Chief Operating Officer, Array of Engineers

Kyle Sullivan - Vice President of Software, Array of Engineers

William VanSolkema - Aerospace Engineer, Array of Engineers

4:40 pm

Using Vehicle Kinematics to Enhance Situational Awareness

Dr. Robert Pilgrim - Chief Technical Officer, Bevilacqua Research Corporation

Roy Brown - President/Chief Scientist, Bevilacqua Research Corporation

5:00 pm

MSPV Technical Session Conclusion

Dr. Vamshi Korivi - Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

5:15 pm

Networking Reception

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Digital Engineering / Systems Engineering

Digital Engineering / Systems Engineering

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Location: Cornerstone III/IV Room, 1st Floor

Sub-Committee

Bill Berklich - U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)

Troy Peterson - System Strategy, Inc.

Eric Alexander - STC an Arcfield Company

Steve Schultz - U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Cheryl Sutherland - U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Time Event
7:00 am

Registration

8:00 am

Opening of GVSETS and the Technical Sessions in Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Thom Green - GVSETS Chair

Valde Garcia - President, NDIA Michigan Chapter

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

8:20 am

The Benefits and Challenges to Leveraging Commercial Off-the-Shelf Solutions to Modernize the Force

Moderator: Tom Vern - Assistant Chief of Staff G5, Strategic Plans & Communications, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Pete Johnson - Vice President of Business Development for Integrated Vehicles, GM Defense

Mike Milner - Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, American Rheinmetall Vehicles (ARV)

Tim George - Vice President of Sales & Marketing, ND Defense LLC.

9:25 am

Best Paper Announcement

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Gregg Wildes - Business Development Manager, DornerWorks

9:30 am

Exhibitor Break

(10:05 - 5:00 pm - Attendess will split up between the 6 different sessions)
10:05 am

Welcome to the Digital Engineering / Systems Engineering (DE/SE) Tech Session

Bill Berklich - Technical Specialist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

10:10 am

Panel: "Adaptive Lethality: Leveraging AI-Driven Digital Engineering and Modular Architectures to Outpace Threat Evolution"

Moderator: Ken Letcher - Specialist Leader Deloitte Consulting

Mr. Joseph Templin - Project Officer Acquisition, Product Manager (PdM) XM30 Advanced Capabilities, Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems (PEO GCS)

(PENDING) LT COL Brady Juelson - Human Machine Interface (HMIF) LSI Program Manager, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Mrs. Kate Fisher - Chief Engineer, STC an Arcfield Company

TBD - Palantir

10:50 am

Utilizing AI to Overcome Barriers to MBSE Adoption

Jaskarandeep Multani - Software Engineer, GS Engineering

Carl Jolma - Systems Engineering Team Lead, GS Engineering

Paul Hoppe - Senior Systems Engineer, US Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center

Louis Berklich - Technical Specialist, US Army DEVCOM GVSC

11:10 am

SYSML V2 as an Enabler of MOSA Compatible Ground Vehicles

Charles Brechtel - Chief Technical Officer, SysGit

Steve Massey - Chief Operating Officer, SysGit

11:30 am

From Concept to Execution: An AI-Agentic Decision Intelligence Framework for Product Planning and Concept Development

Dr. Alper Murat - Chief Operating Officer, DAOSoft Corporation

Dr. Ratna Chinnam - Chief Executive Officer, DAOSoft Corporation

Dr. Satyendra Rana - Chief Technology Specialist, DAOSoft Corporation

Dr. Stephen Rapp - Technical Specialist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Kurt Hansen - Program Protection Lead, US Army DEVCOM GVSC

Todd Richman - Assistant Program Executive Officer, PEO Combat Support & Combat Service Support (CS&CSS)

James Bechtel - Lead Systems Engineer, Assistant PEO Systems Engineering & Integration, PEO GCS

11:50 am

Lunch

1:05 pm

Introduction to the DE/SE Afternoon Session

Troy Peterson - Vice President, System Strategy, Inc.

1:10 pm

Modelling And Understanding Large Scale Complex Systems

Lubna Khaled-Noveloso - General Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

1:30 pm

Military Battery Tester Development Using MBSE and Digital Twins

Roman Sandoval - Chief Executive Officer, Principal Investigator, Allosense, Inc.

1:50 pm

Leveraging Digital Twins for Army Vehicle Programs

Troy Gonzalez - Director of Digital Transformation, Booz Allen Hamilton

2:10 pm

Rapidly Evolving E/E Architectures for Ground Vehicles - Insights from the Commercial and Automotive Industries

Tony Anderson - Senior Product Engineer, Product and Process Tools, Vector North America

Scott Stevens - North American Product Line Director, Process Tools, Vector North America

Joerg Schaeffele - Senior Director Product Management, Vector Informatik

2:30 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Introduction to the DE/SE Final Session

Steve Schultz - Associate Director, Systems Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

3:20 pm

Model-Based Software Engineering and Test Case Reuse Across the V Cycle

Dr. Jordan McBain - Control Systems Architect, Pilot Systems International LLC

3:40 pm

Unified Engineering: Linking Systems and Software Engineers Via MBSE and SWE Tool Integration

Austin Austria - Lead Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Cezil Aratea - Lead Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Mike Enloe - Senior Lead Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

Terry Schoof - Chief Technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton

4:00 pm

Assessing Model-Based Design for Conformance to Acquisition Configuration Baselines

Zachary Alan Connor - Research Engineer I, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)

Sarah Scheithauer - Research Engineer II, GTRI

Rohith Koduru - Research Engineer II, GTRI

Tanner Nardone - Research Engineer I, GTRI

Patrick Lambert - Research Engineer II, GTRI

4:20 pm

Using Power BI to Visualize and Configure System Variants in Model-Based Product Line Engineering

Ryan Pykor - Senior Principal Model-Based Systems Engineer, Systems Engineering, STC an Arcfield Company

Jake Engle - Chief Engineer, MBSE/MBPLE, STC an Arcfield Company

4:40 pm

Post Quantum Cryptography on Intravehicular Networks

Seth Smith - Computer Engineering, Research Engineer, Intelligent Systems Division, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

Kyle Owens - Engineer, Intelligent Systems Division, SwRI

Katherine Kozan - Research Engineer, Intelligent Systems Division, SwRI

5:00 pm

DE/SE Technical Session Conclusion

Bill Berklich - Technical Specialist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

5:15 pm

Networking Reception

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Modular Open Systems Approach

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Location: Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Sub-Committee

Melissa Best -U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)

Dan Newport -U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Mag Athnasios -DCS Corporation

Alexander Karpinski -U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Time Event
7:00 am

Registration

8:00 am

Opening of GVSETS and the Technical Sessions in Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Thom Green - GVSETS Chair

Valde Garcia - President, NDIA Michigan Chapter

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

8:20 am

The Benefits and Challenges to Leveraging Commercial Off-the-Shelf Solutions to Modernize the Force

Moderator: Tom Vern - Assistant Chief of Staff G5, Strategic Plans & Communications, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Pete Johnson - Vice President of Business Development for Integrated Vehicles, GM Defense

Mike Milner - Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, American Rheinmetall Vehicles (ARV)

Tim George - Vice President of Sales & Marketing, ND Defense LLC.

9:25 am

Best Paper Announcement

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Gregg Wildes - Business Development Manager, DornerWorks

9:30 am

Exhibitor Break

(10:05 - 5:00 pm - Attendess will split up between the 6 different sessions)
10:05 am

Welcome to the MOSA Tech Session

Mag Athnasios Senior Systems Engineer, DCS Corporation

10:10 am

Analysis of Time-Sensitive Networks for Mission-Critical Systems

Dr. Stephen F. Bush - Senior Scientist, GE Aerospace

Dr. Abdul Jabbar - Principle Engineer, GE Aerospace

10:30 am

Examining Time Sensitive Networking in Ground Vehicle Architectures

Shane Sopel - Technical Specialist, Data Architecture, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Leonard Elliott - Technical Specialist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Erik Kinstler - Software Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Christina Salama - Computer Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

10:50 am

What’s the Protocol? Analyzing High Speed Protocols and the Effect of the Slip Ring

Heath Kouns - Principal Engineer, Moog Inc.

11:10 am

Development of an Innovative Multichannel Fiber Optic Rotary Joint Using Spatial Division Multiplexing

Ivan Ilan - Chief Electrical Engineer, Everaxis USA

David A. Occhipinti - Executive Director, Everaxis USA

Elliot Berard - Optical Research & Development (R&D) Manager, Everaxis Industries

Dr. Sebastien Larousse - R&D Manager, Everaxis Industries

Dr. Claire Autebert - Chief Optical Engineer, Cailabs

Tangi Le Guennic - Program Manager, Cailabs

Dr. Bertrand Denolle - Chief R&D Engineer, Cailabs

11:30 am

Sensor Latency Advantage in PCI Express Switched Fabrics

Jim Reardon - Chief Technical Officer, One Stop Systems (OSS)

11:50 am

Lunch

1:05 pm

Introduction to the MOSA Afternoon Session

Dan Newport - Branch Chief, Cyber Technology Development, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

1:10 pm

Featured Speaker: Uncovering Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Mission-Critical Systems via Symbolic Execution

Ulrich Lang - Chief Executive Officer, ObjectSecurity LLC

1:30 pm

Advancing Automotive Software Supply Chain Security: A Blockchain-Reproducible Build Approach

Iwinosa W. Aideyan - PhD Student, Clemson University

Dr. Mert Pesé - Professor, Clemson University

Dr. Richard Brooks - Assistant Professor, Clemson University

1:50 pm

Counterfeit FPGA Characterization and Detection with Soft Sensors and Machine Learning

Cody Crofford - Senior Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation

Whitney Batchelor - Director of Research, Graf Research Corporation

James Koiner - Senior Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation

Margaret Winslow - Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation

Mia Taylor - Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation

Kevin Paar - Senior Research Engineer, Graf Research Corporation

Dr. Scott Harper - Chief Technology Officer, Graf Research Corporation

2:10 pm

MOSA and Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE): Putting Reusable Safe and Secure Software Into Practice

Jay Thomas - Director, Field Engineering, LDRA Technology Inc.

Ehsan Salehi - Field Applications Engineer, LDRA Technology Inc.

Stephen Di Camillo - Technical Marketing and Business Development Manager, LDRA Technology Inc.

2:30 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Introduction to the MOSA Final Session

Mag Athnasios - Senior Systems Engineer, DCS Corporation

3:20 pm

A Comprehensive Modularity Framework for Military Ground Vehcile Architecture Models

Dr. Macam Dattathreya - Chief Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

3:40 pm

Assured Armaments Reference Architecture (AARA): Enabling a Modular Open Systems Approach for Lethality Systems

Jenelle Toppler - Assured Armaments Reference Architecture Project Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM Armaments Center (AC)

Michael Wright - Chief S&T Advisor, Fire Control Systems & Technology Directorate, U.S. Army DEVCOM AC

Adam Winters - Program Management Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM AC

4:00 pm

Enabling Operating System Portability with Virtual I/O

Nathan Studer - Technical Strategy Lead, DornerWorks

Gary Gilliland - Vice President of Marketing, DDC-I

Chris Guikema - Senior Engineer, DornerWorks

Eric Spidle - Embedded Systems Engineer, DornerWorks

Aaron Larson - Embedded RTOS Support Engineer, DDC-I

4:20 pm

Leveraging ISO 26262-2018 to support MIL-STD-882E Compliance

Dr. David LaRue - Senior Principal Engineer, FEV

Luis Edwin Rivera Ruiz - Senior Safety Engineer, FEV

4:40 pm

Software Application Overview: AI Object Detection Inference for Video

Nick Whitlock - Software Manager, EIZO Rugged Solutions

5:00 pm

MOSA Technical Session Conclusion

Melissa Best - Electrical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

5:15 pm

Networking Reception

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AAIR

Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (AAIR)

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Time Event
7:00 am

Registration

8:00 am

Opening of GVSETS and the Technical Sessions in Legacy Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Thom Green - GVSETS Chair

Valde Garcia - President, NDIA Michigan Chapter

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

8:20 am

The Benefits and Challenges to Leveraging Commercial Off-the-Shelf Solutions to Modernize the Force

Moderator: Tom Vern - Assistant Chief of Staff G5, Strategic Plans & Communications, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Pete Johnson - Vice President of Business Development for Integrated Vehicles, GM Defense

Mike Milner - Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, American Rheinmetall Vehicles (ARV)

Tim George - Vice President of Sales & Marketing, ND Defense LLC.

9:25 am

Best Paper Announcement

Dr. David Gorsich - Chief Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Gregg Wildes - Business Development Manager, DornerWorks

9:30 am

Exhibitor Break

(10:05 - 5:00 pm - Attendess will split up between the 6 different sessions)
10:05 am

Welcome to the AAIR Tech Session

Dr. Oleg Sapunkov - Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

10:10 am

Enhanced Object Matching and Identification for Multi-Robot Systems in Complex Environments

Taylor Brown - Research Assistant, Fayetteville State University

Grace Vincent - Research Assistant, North Carolina State University

Dr. Sambit Bhattacharya - Professor, Fayetteville State University

Dr. Kyle Nakamoto - Senior AI Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton

10:30 am

LIPO: Lidar Inertial Odometry for ICP Comparison

Darwin Mick - Doctoral Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Taylor Pool - Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Madankumar Sathenahally Nagaraju - Staff Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Dr. Michael Kaess - Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Dr. Howie Choset - Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Dr. Matthew Travers - Senior System Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

10:50 am

Uncrewed Aerial System Detection and Tracking with Event Cameras

Dr. David Anthony - Lead Engineer, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

David Chambers - Staff Engineer, SwRI

Jerry Towler - Program Director, SwRI

11:10 am

VORA™: Vision for Off-Road Autonomy

Meera Day Towler - Program Manager, SwRI

Harold Garza - Senior Research Engineer, SwRI

David Chambers - Staff Engineer, SwRI

11:30 am

Pre-Training Hyperspectral Image Encoder via Synthetic Data

Dr. Anthony Medellin - Doctoral Graduate, Texas A&M University

Dr. David Grabowsky - Electrical Engineer, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Dariusz Mikulski - Lead Research Scientist, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

Dr. Reza Langari - Professor, Texas A&M University

11:50 am

Lunch

1:05 pm

Introduction to the AAIR Afternoon Session

Dr. Oleg Sapunkov - Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

1:10 pm

Applying Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Software Production Factory to Accelerate Rapid Prototyping for Ground Vehicles

Kevin Griffin - Senior Systems Engineer, SAIC

Robert Kanon - Digital Engineering Chief, SAIC

Anthony Rinaldo - Systems Engineer, SAIC

Russel Kouba - Advanced Concepts Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

1:30 pm

Optimizing Firing Position Usage for Survivability and Effectiveness in Artillery Shoot-And-Scoot Tactics

Thomas Jonsson Damgaard - Software Engineer, Carmenta Geospatial Technologies Inc.

Dr. Mikael Rittri - Technical Expert, Carmenta Geospatial Technologies Inc.

1:50 pm

Planning for Employment of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS)

Michael Spratley - Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)

Andrew Schooley - Principal Research Engineer, GTRI

Trey Dickerhoff - Senior Research Engineer, GTRI

2:10 pm

Communication Network Construction Behaviors for Robotic Convoying

Charles Noren - Doctoral Student, Carnegie Mellon University

Sahil Chaudhary - Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University

Burhanuddin Shirose - Engineer, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Bhaskar Vundurthy - Project Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Matthew Travers - Senior Systems Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University

2:30 pm

Break

3:15 pm

Introduction to the AAIR Final Session

Dr. Oleg Sapunkov - Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

3:20 pm

Vision-Language-Action Models (Guest Talk)

Dr. Jonathon Smereka - Senior Technical Expert, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

3:40 pm

A Novel Orchestration Framework for Zero Trust Unmanned Vehicular Networks in ROS 2

Noah Tinker - Graduate Student, Clemson University

Julia Boone - Doctoral Student, Clemson University

Dr. Kuang-Ching Wang - Professor, Clemson University

4:00 pm

MOSA C2 for Autonomous Vehicles to Counter UAS, Swarm, and Ground-Based Robotic Threats

Jeremy Davidson - Systems Engineering Director, SAIC

Dr. Peter Drewes - Chief Technology Officer, SAIC

Roger Graham - Systems Engineer, SAIC

Eric Haider - Business Development, SAIC

Michael Phillips - Business Development Director, SAIC

4:20 pm

Ensuring Safe Control of Automated/Autonomous Ground Vehicles

Mark Underhill - Principal Engineer, Moog, Inc.

Rich Delecki - Business Development Manager, Moog, Inc.

Denis O'Sullivan - Senior Software Engineer, Moog, Inc.

4:40 pm

The SOTIF Meta-Algorithm: Quantitative Analyses of the Safety of AI

Michael Wagner - Chief Product Officer, Edge Case Research, Inc.

Noah Carlson - Senior System Safety Engineer, Edge Case Research, Inc.

Dr. Chris Dwyer - Senior Expert, Edge Case Research, Inc.

5:00 pm

AAIR Technical Session Conclusion

Dr. Oleg Sapunkov - Mechanical Engineer, Historian, U.S. Army DEVCOM GVSC

5:15 pm

Networking Reception