Session F4: PANEL: Field Testing of PNT Technologies

RETURN TO SESSION LIST

Date: Monday, June 3, 2024
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Ballroom B

Session Chair:

Dr. Jimmie Davis The MITRE Corporation

This panel will focus on three stages of field testing PNT technologies: pre-planning, operations, and post-test activities. The discussion will center on the current state of US DoD PNT field testing, including best practices and lessons learned for range and test site selection and coordination, multiorganizational collaboration, challenges and opportunities of international partnerships, writing of test plans, obtaining frequency clearances, range safety, leading a large team, achieving operational security, the use of modeling and laboratory testing to down-scope and reduce risk, data analysis approaches and tools, data collection/storage/reuse, and post-test analysis and out-briefings/after action reports.

Panel Members 

	Ms. Amanda Humphrey, Joint Navigation Warfare Center
	Ms. Geneva Quinn, 746th Test Squadron, NAVWAR Test Management Element Chief
	Mr. Joshua Messner, OSD DOT&E, Operational Test and Evaluation Target Management Initiative (Office of the Secretary of Defense - Director Operational Test & Evaluation)
	Ms. Karen Van Dyke, US DOT, Director, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing at U.S. Department of Transportation OST-R

RETURN TO SESSION LIST