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, Talonwise, Inc. 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. Chris Orlowski - Associate Director of Land Systems, Anduril |
| 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 |
Invited Speaker: Adaptive Lethality - Harnessing AI, MBSE, and Modular Architectures to Outpace Evolving Threats Katie Fisher - Chief Engineer, STC an Arcfield Company |
| 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 Mark Pettrota - 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 |
Collaboration That Works: Accelerating Digital Enterprise Adoption Jon Riely - Chief Digitalization Officer National Center For Manufacturuing Sciences |
| 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 |