Minutes for AIAA TCM Meeting
SEI, 4401 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA
May 7-8, 2013
Hosts: Tom Goudreau/Paul Collopy
TCM Attendees: Thomas Beutner, Carol Cash, Paul Collopy, John Dowdle, David Elrod, Wilson Felder,
Raymond Flores, Sivaram Gogineni, Thomas Irvine, Paul Nielson, Richard Raiford, Robert Schafrik
Non-TCM Attendees: Sonja Leftwich (LM host)
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The meeting began at approximately 7:45AM with preliminary remarks by Paul Nielson regarding use of
the SEI facility. Introductions of the attendees followed, prior to the first presentation by Professor
Janet Kolodner, which was entitled "The Potential of Learning Technologies & Imagining the Future of
Education".
Professor Kolodner, who is currently “on loan” at the NSF from Georgia Tech, gave a spirited
presentation with numerous examples of the application of technology that has the potential to
stimulate accelerated and deeper learning, principally amongst adolescents. She engaged members of
the TCM in conversation of various aspects regarding the learning process with adolescents prior to
focusing on her NSF program, “Cyberlearning: Transforming Education”. During this part of the
discussion, she advocated bringing a stronger technology component into the classroom, some with
very advanced concepts, with the goal of teaching students to be learners, to be inquisitive, and to
experience both success and failure as part of the learning process. Examples provided included
geogames, biosourcing, data sharing, idea evolution, remote online labs, virtual worlds, teaching writing
and augmentation with peer review, and analytics for adaptive teaching.
Professor Kolodner’s presentation concluded at approximately 9:00AM.
At 9:00AM Tom Irvine presented the Chairman’s Report and Review of Subcommittee Membership. He
noted that the Chair, Andy Amram, has recently changed positions within the Aerospace Corporation,
and now has less flexibility regarding her support of the TCM. It is expected that Andy will convert from
active status to alumnus. Consequently, Tom, the TCM Co-Chair, will be functioning in the capacity of
Chair, time and travel constraints permitting. The discussion of Andy’s situation resulted in a more
detailed discussion of travel limitations, and the notion that some organizations have limitations for
travel for single-purpose activities, and that for some members combining multiple business objectives
into a single trip is required for travel approval.
Tom proceeded to discuss the TCM charter and the TCM organization chart. The discussion of the
organization chart brought out the following points:
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We need to establish a liaison back to AIAA Corporate Membership through Merrie Scott
We need members to support the Program Committee
Paul Collopy volunteered to co-chair the Operations Committee
The primary role of the Conference Committee is to support Complex Aerospace Systems
Exchange (CASE)
There was a discussion of the Special Projects Committee, its role in writing position papers, etc.
It was pointed out that the TCM is part of the Engineering and Technology Management
Technical Group, along with several other TCs. These TCs have become increasingly active.
We discussed CASE at some length, discussed the fact that the word “innovation” is becoming overused,
and Rich Raiford queried whether the TCM should do something as a committee regarding innovation
(e.g., management has a role to play in terms of creating top cover so that new ideas can survive
challenge).
At 9:40AM, Tom Irvine presented the action item list; there was minimal discussion of the specific AIs.
At 10:00AM, three guests arrived as follows:
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Mike Romanowski, OSTP
Allen Li, House S&T Committee
J.T. Jezierski, House S&T Committee
Their biographies are provided at end of the minutes. Following introductions, the guests spoke
individually in the order referenced above. Since some of the speakers specifically asked that their
comments were “off the record”, no specific are provided in these minutes. General topics included:
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Technology development and transition
NextGen Air Transportation System
Unmanned Aircraft
Interagency coordination
Partnerships between R&D organizations, the government and industry
Cost pressures and the need for efficiency
The “brain drain”
Following the guests’ departure, at 11:15AM we returned to the discussion of CASE lead by Tom Irvine.
A brief summary of the history behind CASE was provided, following a discussion of the plans for this
August. It was pointed out that CASE was set up to address industry needs relative to Systems
Engineering and Program Management. The targeted audience includes Program Managers and Chief
Engineers from major programs, and the goals are to make CASE a learning experience and a networking
opportunity for these types of engineers. There are three tracks (Project Management, Test and
Evaluation, and Engineering), and the conference runs for 2 ½ days. Moving forward for the next CASE
Executive Workshop in August, we need:
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Read ahead material (case studies)
Identified speakers
Organized break-out sessions
We discussed the status of read-ahead material, which is being prepared by Wilson Felder. He expects
to have it ready early for attendee read ahead. John Dowdle put forward Steve DiTullio of Draper
Laboratory as a speaker, who can provide a system of systems view of the Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile
system.
Following this discussion, members had lunch and then proceeded with the afternoon’s agenda.
At approximately 1:00PM Tom Irvine continued the discussion of the CASE Executive Workshop.
The format will be a panel discussion followed by breakout into three groups, corresponding to the
three tracks (engineering, program management, evaluation). Each of the breakout groups will require
a skilled facilitator (perhaps the track chair, such as Anna McGowan) and a scribe. The scribe will
document the discussion, and provide the write-ups to the CASE attendees the next day, preferably
through electronic media such as email. The discussion write-ups should serve as a point of reference
throughout the CASE event.
Tom Irvine, Tom Beutner, and Wilson Felder anticipate attending the workshop.
We discussed participation at CASE itself. The event needs more participation from the propulsion
community and more attendees from DARPA. Specific potential attendees are Iris Curtis, Harry Berman,
Owen Brown, Paul Weinraub, Barry Boehm, Earl Wyatt, and perhaps some folks from SEI. The planning
committee should invite Steve Walker to speak at CASE.
Carol Cash agreed to ask the planning committee for the Joint Propulsion Conference to pursue colocating CASE with JPC in 2014.
Following the discussion of CASE, Wilson Felder presented the Membership Committee Report.
Two members of the TCM are still at AIAA Senior Member grade. These members should be nominated
for Associate Fellow. There was no specific discussion of nominations for Fellow.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
TCM Attendees: Thomas Beutner, Paul Collopy, John Dowdle, David Elrod, Wilson Felder, Raymond
Flores, Thomas Irvine, Paul Nielson, Robert Schafrik
Non-TCM Attendees: Sonja Leftwich (LM host)
The focus of discussions on the second day of the TCM meeting was cyber-security and related issues.
The meeting began at 8:10AM, with remarks by Paul Collopy, followed by introductions of the members
to the first guest, Charlie Croom. Charlie is Vice President of Cyber Security at Lockheed Martin. We
had a very interesting and engaged discussion regarding cyber-security. It was agreed that his remarks
were off the record.
At 9:45AM, Nader Mehravari of SEI presented a discussion entitled “Mission Assurance through Active
Resilience Management”. He talked about the connection between an organization’s mission, critical
assets, and an operation resilience approach that enables the organization to manage risk of mission
failure through protection and sustainment of critical assets.
The last discussion of the day began at 10:35AM, with Ted Baker, Program Director in NSF’s Division of
Computer and Network Systems, providing an extemporaneous discussion of cyber-physical systems
related work under his guidance at NSF.
Following Professor Baker’s discussion, the TCM adjourned at approximately 12:00PM.
Action Items Summary
During discussion of TCM Mission and Organization Chart, the following AIs arose:
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The TCM organization chart needs to be updated
The TCM needs to establish a liaison back to AIAA Corporate Membership through Merrie Scott
The TCM needs members to support the Program Committee
Rich Raiford queried whether the TCM should do something as a committee regarding innovation (e.g.,
management has a role to play in terms of creating top cover so that new ideas can survive challenge).
During the discussion regarding CASE, Carol Cash agreed to ask the planning committee for the Joint
Propulsion Conference to pursue co-locating CASE with JPC in 2014.
During the Membership Report discussion, it was noted that two TCM members are AIAA Senior
Members; it was suggested that these two members be nominated for Associate Fellow status.
Agenda for AIAA TCM Meeting
Lockheed Martin/NSF
Arlington, VA
May 7th & 8th, 2013
Host(s): Tom Goudreau (Paul Collopy, understudy)
Dress: Business Casual
Monday, May 6th
Hotel:
Westin Arlington Gateway, 801 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203 Phone: 703-717-6200
Hotel Reservations: 888-627-7076
Govt. Per Diem rate is $224 per night.
Afternoon
Arrive at Hotel
1800
Social Hour: The Front Page, 4201 Wilson Blvd, (703) 248-9990
1900
Dinner: Ted’s Montana Grill, 4300 Wilson Blvd, (703) 741-0661
Tuesday, May 7th
Meeting location: SEI, Room 1006 (Tenth Floor), 4401 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA
0730
Arrival at Meeting Location
0745
Announcements and Introductions (Collopy)
0800
Executive Welcome and Overview of NSF Cyberlearning Program
Janet Kolodner
0845
Chairman’s Report and Review of Subcommittee Membership (Irvine)
0915
Review of Action Items from Previous Meeting (Dowdle)
0930
Break
1000
Legislative and Policy Roundtable:
Mike Romanowski, OSTP
J. T. Jezierski, House Science and Technology Committee
Allen Li, House Science and Technology Committee
1100
Committee Business and Subcommittee Reports
1100
Operations (Dowdle)
1115
Programs (Felder)
1130
Conferences (Beutner)
1145
Awards (Beskar)
1200
Working Lunch
1300
Committee Business Meeting, continued
1300
Membership (Goudreau)
1315
Special Projects (Gogineni)
1330
Alumni (Deepak)
1300
Break
1400
Focus discussion: CASE Executive Workshop (Irvine/Felder/Collopy)
1630
Adjourn
1730
AIAA Fellows Dinner
1830
Informal TC Dinner for those not attending the Fellows Dinner
Wednesday, May 8th
0730
Arrival at Meeting Location
0800
Cybersecurity special topic introduction (Paul Collopy)
0815
Charlie Croom, Lockheed-Martin
0900
Curt Aubley, Lockheed-Martin
0945
Nader Mehravari, SEI CERT
1030
Ted Baker, NSF
1115
Wrap-up/ planning
1200
Adjourn, afternoon free to prepare for evening event
1830
AIAA Gala (Reception)
1930
Gala Dinner
Speaker Biographies
Janet Kolodner
Janet L. Kolodner is Regents' Professor in the College of Computing at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, co-founder and former Executive Officer of
the International Society of the Learning Sciences, and Founding and
Emerita Editor in Chief of The Journal of the Learning Sciences She is
currently on loan to the National Science Foundation, heading up (with Lee
Zia) the new program called Cyberlearning: Transforming Education. Janet
earned her doctorate in Computer Science from Yale and is a noted expert in
cognitive science, case-based reasoning, design and learning.
Charlie Croom
Charles "Charlie" Croom joined Lockheed Martin Information Systems &
Global Services as Vice President of Cyber Security Solutions in October of
2008. In this capacity, he shapes the corporation’s cyber security strategy
with insight from his 35 years of distinguished service, leadership, and
technology experience from the U.S. Air Force. Croom co-chaired a National
Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee Task Force on
“Strengthening Government and Private Sector Collaboration” which issued
a May 2009 report recommending that the President direct the
establishment of a Joint Coordinating Center. Croom retired as a U.S. Air
Force Lieutenant General, Director of the Defense Information Systems
Agency (DISA), and the Commander of the Joint Task Force for Global
Network Operations in September 2008. While at DISA, he led a worldwide organization of more than
6,600 military and civilian personnel to serve the information technology and telecommunications needs
of the President, Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, combatant commanders, and other
Department of Defense stakeholders.
A graduate of Rutgers University’s ROTC program, Croom entered the Air Force in 1973. His career
spanned four commands to include: major command, numbered air force, Air Staff, defense agency,
Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and unified command levels. He holds bachelors’ degrees
in both Economics and Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, a master’s degree in Management
and Business Administration from Webster College, and Distinguished graduate degrees from both
Squadron Officer School, and Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base. Additionally, he
has completed Executive Development programs at Harvard University, Cornell University, and the
National War College.
Curt Aubley
Curt Aubley is vice president & chief technology officer of Cyber Security &
NexGen Innovations for Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global
Services (LM IS&GS). He is also the president of Open Data Center Alliance.
LM IS&GS currently employs more than 46,000 professionals delivering
solutions and services in more than 1,000 locations across the globe with
revenues of more than $10 billion annually. In this capacity, Mr. Aubley is
responsible for leading the creation of next generation cyber security, cloud
computing, mission-focused IT Innovations, service management, and
integrated solutions, across LM IS&GS lines of business for federal
customers. Aubley leads Lockheed Martin’s NexGen Cyber Innovation and
Technology Center R&D / Innovation, partner management, and vendor
technology evaluation group, which investigates new customer-focused innovations. Aubley has led the
creation of solution architectures using agile software development, system engineering techniques &
ITIL operational processes for key new business captures and programs including: DHS, FAA, USAF, US
Army, JPL, and NASA. Aubley is the recipient of three prestigious Lockheed Martin Nova Awards, LM
IS&GS Eagle, and three President Awards.
Nader Mehravari
Dr. Nader Mehravari is with the CERT® Program at the Software Engineering
Institute (SEI), a unit of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. His
current areas of interest and research include operational resilience,
protection and sustainment of critical infrastructure, preparedness planning,
and associated risk management principles and practices. Nader was with
Lockheed Martin from 1992 through 2011. In his most recent assignment, he
was the Director for Business Resiliency. In this capacity, he led and oversaw
all preparedness planning and associated governance and compliance
activities. He was responsible for building and leading Lockheed Martin's
resiliency program where he successfully implemented a modern, integrated,
risk management based approach to disaster recovery, business continuity,
pandemic planning, crisis management, emergency management, and
workforce continuity for all of Lockheed Martin. Prior to Lockheed Martin, Nader was a distinguished
member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was involved with the design,
development, and performance analysis of new telecommunications systems. Nader received his MS
and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and his BS in Electrical Engineering from
George Washington University. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Departments of Electrical and
Computer Engineering of Cornell University and Syracuse University. He also currently serves as the
chair of the Advisory Council for Cornell University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Ted Baker
Dr. Baker retired from the Florida State University in December 2011. He
is currently employed as a Research Professor at the Florida Institute of
Technology, from which is assigned to work as a Program Director in the
Division of Computer and Network Systems at the National Science
Foundation under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. Dr. Baker's
recent primary research interests are the analysis of real-time scheduling
algorithms for multi-processors, and incorporating device drivers into
real-time schedulability analysis. Professor Baker's first research was in
theoretical computer science. His best known work is this area is related
to the P=?NP question and polynomial-time relative computability. He
has also published research in pattern matching and parsing algorithms,
compilation techniques, and in real-time programming languages, scheduling and operating systems.
Starting in 1979, Professor Baker became involved with the development of the the Ada programming
language. A group he organized at FSU (including Professor Riccardi) produced one of the first validated
Ada cross-compilers for embedded systems. After the completion of the FSU/AFATL Ada compiler
project, Professor Baker concentrated on problems connected with using Ada in real-time embedded
computing applications, focusing on the Ada runtime environment, and how to produce systems that
verifiably meet hard timing constraints. This work was supported by contracts from several sources,
including the Boeing Companies, the U.S. Army (Fort Monmouth), and U.S. Navy (ONR, NRL/STARSFoundations, NCSC). It has involved design, implementation, and testing of a series of runtime systems
that are suitable for use in multiprocessor shared-memory environment, as well as the FSU Pthreads
library.
In 1991, as Domain Expert for the real-time systems and systems programming for the Ada9X MappingRevision Team, Professor Baker played a significant role in drafting the real-time systems and systems
programming sections of the Ada 95 reference manual, which was adopted in 1995 as the international
standard for the Ada programming language.
Concurrent with his work on Ada, Professor Baker has done research on real-time scheduling, worstcase execution time prediction, and concurrency control. Some of this work was done in collaboration
with graduate students. His contributions in this area include the Stack Resource Protocol (SRP),
algorithms for scheduling sporadic and aperiodic tasks in a deadline scheduling environment, and
techniques for analyzing the feasibility and schedulability of arbitrary sporadic task systems on
multiprocessor platforms. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Baker served as Chair of the Department of Computer
Science at Florida State University. Under his leadership, the department implemented what may be the
first ABET-accredited distance learning degree program in Computer Science, approximately doubled in
faculty size, and more than doubled its external research funding. A part of this growth initiative was
development of a research group and graduate educational program in information assurance, including
computer security and cryptography. For this development, the department was recognized in 2000 as a
Center of Educational Excellence in Information Assurance.
Dr. Michael Romanowski
Dr. Michael Romanowski is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Science
and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President. He was formerly
the Director of FAA's NextGen Integration and Implementation office. His
office ensures the application, planning, programming and budgeting of
FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) portfolio and
manages its integration and execution across all FAA lines of business. His
office is also responsible for FAA's NextGen-related engagement with
industry stakeholders.
Before joining the FAA, he served as Vice President of Civil Aviation at the
Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), where he headed all its activities
on aviation issues and policy, including the areas of research and
development, aviation infrastructure, and safety and security. He also
served as the Director of Product Safety, Certification and Airworthiness at Sikorsky Aircraft with
responsibilities spanning Sikorsky's entire product line. Before joining Sikorsky, he held a similar role at
Pratt & Whitney where his responsibilities covered all of Pratt & Whitney's large commercial engines. He
has broad experience in research, development, validation and fleet operations of jet engines.
Dr. Romanowski received his Ph.D. in Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity from Duke University.
He also holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Renssalaer Polytechnic
Institute and a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University.
J.T. Jezierski
J.T. Jezierski is a member of the House Science and Technology
Committee Staff. Formerly, he was Chief of Legislative affairs for the Mitt
Romney campaign. Previously, he was Deputy chief of staff to Rep.
Steven Palazzo (MS) from July 2011, and Legislative director to Rep. David
McKinley (WV), 2011 and Rep. Pete Olson (TX), from 2009-10. Before
joining Rep. Olson’s staff, he served as an account executive at DCI Group
starting in 2008. He was Director of elected offical outreach on the
Romney for President campaign from June 2007 to Feb. 2008. He served
as Deputy chief of staff and White House liaison at NASA from 2003 to
2007. Deputy Associate Director in the Office of Presidential Personnel at
the White House, 2001-03. Publications director at the Institute for
American Values. Researcher at the RNC. He holds an M.P.P. from Regent University; and a B.A. degree
from Wheeling Jesuit University, 1977.
Allen Li
Allen serves as Professional Staff on the Space Subcommittee. He joined
the Subcommittee in January 2008 after retiring from the Government
Accountability Office (GAO) in May 2007. As Director of GAO’s
Acquisition and Sourcing Management Team, Allen led GAO’s work at the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and reviewed
numerous defense acquisition programs. He also served as the Team’s
Director for Operations, managing day-to-day activities of a
geographically dispersed group. During his career at GAO, Allen also
served as Associate Director in GAO’s Energy, Resources, and Science
Issue Area; and Associate Director of the Transportation Issue Area,
where he specialized in aviation safety and air traffic control
modernization. During his tenure at GAO, he testified numerous times before Senate and House
Committee and Subcommittees on civil and military issues such as the International Space Station and
the F-22. Allen was selected for GAO’s Senior Executive Service in 1993. He holds a B.S. degree in
Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and is a senior member of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.