Event
Engineered Resilient Systems: A US Department of Defence Science & Technology Priority Area
- Date
- 1/23/2012
- Location
- Babbio Center 122
Event Description
- RSVP by Friday, 1/19
- Monday, January 23, 2012, 4:30-5:30 pm
- Monday, January 23, 2012, 4:30-5:30 pm
- ONSITE: Babbio Auditorium 122
- Online via Defense Connect Online (DCO)*
* Online participants must download these
instructions to participate via Defense Connect Online
The former Secretary of Defense identified seven science and technology areas that his Department would prioritize for funding and attention. One of them has particular salience for the systems engineering community, Engineered Resilient Systems. Everyone can agree that US defense personnel and material need to be more adaptable and flexible on the battlefield. The question is how, especially in light of the new fiscal reality.
ERS is a portfolio of science and technology approaches that can be nurtured to achieve adaptive results all along the weapons system life cycle. At this early juncture, ERS is seeking new, good ideas to pursue and this session is a chance to ask questions about the area. A presentation on ERS is attached and will be a source of questions from the audience. In fact, the purpose of Dr. Neches’ time with us is to answer questions and briefly explore areas of mutual interest.
Robert Neches serves in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering (ODASD(SE)). He reports to the DASD and his Principal Deputy, and is responsible for fostering technology development enabling innovation in design and system engineering practices across the Department of Defense (DoD) and its industrial suppliers of products, systems and technologies.
Dr. Neches serves as the Priority Steering Council lead for Engineered Resilient Systems. As the ERS lead, Dr. Neches is responsible for coordinating all research and development investment planning related to this topic across the services and DARPA, as well as supporting the DASD(SE) and ASD(RE) in representing ERS within the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD). Dr. Neches is further responsible for coordination between the ODASD-SE and the Research Directorate of the OASD(RE) on research issues related to design and systems engineering. He serves as program manager for Systems 2020, an OSD program under ERS submitted in the President’s FY2012 Budget.
He is an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignee from the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. Dr. Neches received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego for a thesis on artificial intelligence and education. He holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University.
If you have questions you would like considered for Dr. Neches’ attention, please send them by the end of Friday, January 20th, 2012, to stan.rifkin@stevens.edu. Dr. Rifkin shall collect the questions and present them in advance to Dr. Neches so that he in turn can prepare responses. This question and answer session is being held live in the main auditorium at Babbio Hall, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. The session is being broadcast via the Defense Connect Online (DCO) system, which accommodates two-way interaction between the presenter and the audience members. Questions will also be accepted “on-line” during this Q&A period.