Meeting Speaker: Dr. Beth Wilson, NDIA: A Place for Systems Engineers to Move the Needle
Albuquerque , USA
Applied Technology Associates (ATA) at 1300 Britt Street, SE
Abstract: The presentation will summarize some of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering Division (SED) activities that Dr. Beth Wilson is involved in. She is the co-chair for the Developmental Test and Evaluation Committee and the Systems Security Engineering Committee. She is active in the Modeling and Simulation, Architecture, and Systems of Systems Committees and has championed joint projects between committees and with INCOSE. NDIA SED meets 5 times a year to discuss systems engineering topics and trends of interest to the DoD Acquisition community. NDIA SED holds an annual conference that has been identified as a critical venue for systems engineering. This conference was one of the few to be held when sequestration caused all the other NDIA conferences to be cancelled. In between meetings, the committees work projects that move the needle in the way we design and deliver our systems. Among the projects Dr. Wilson will summarize are "Erasing the Line with Title 10: Best Practices in Integrated Testing," "Test and Evaluation Issues for Systems of Systems (SoS): Creating Sleep Aids for Those Sleepless Nights," "Test Perspectives for Architecture," "Partnering for Success: The Chief Developmental Tester and Industry Test Lead," "Reference Architectures for Model Based Distributed Integration and Test," and "Cyber Testing Guidelines Recommendations."
Bio: Dr. Beth Wilson is a Senior Principal Engineering Fellow who earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. Since joining Raytheon in 1983, she has worked as a design engineer, program manager, research scientist, functional manager, and test director on sonar, satellite, and radar programs. She is currently the Mission Systems Integration Technology Area Lead for IDS, responsible for the technology investments related to modeling and simulation, model based engineering, and product line architectures. She is working strategic initiatives across the company in multi-discipline agile techniques and systems security engineering. She is the NDIA Developmental Test and Evaluation committee chair, and co-chair for the INCOSE and NDIA System Security Engineering committees. Previous assignments have included a character-building deployment to Shemya, Alaska as the Test Director for the Cobra Dane Upgrade. Beth is a Raytheon Certified Architect, INCOSE Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP), and a Raytheon Certified Six Sigma Expert.