8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

8:10 PEO STRI Keynote: Modeling And Simulation’s Leading Edge: US Army PEO STRI

• Current programs and future road map
• Human-social-cultural behavior representations
• Challenges to overcome for changing warfighter landscape

Colonel Ken Wheeler, USA
Deputy PEO, Command Group, Program Executive Office for Simulation
Training, & Instrumentation

8:50 NORTHCOM Keynote: Homeland Defense And Disaster Response Training Architectures

• Live, virtual and constructive federation for air defense
• Missile defense modeling and simulation
• Disaster response national simulation environment

Lorrie Kummerfeldt
Modeling and Simulation Branch Chief
US Northern Command

10:15 Complexity Of Simulating The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS)

• The BMDS
• Simulating complexities
• Way ahead for MDA modeling and simulation

Scott Alexander
Director for Modeling & Simulation
Missile Defense Agency

10:55 Advanced Computing And Simulation For National Nuclear Security At Los Alamos

• Simulation capabilities required to maintain a safe, secure, and reliable stockpile
• Dramatically transformed computational science arena, including Roadrunner computer
• Applying ASC simulation tools and resources to a broader scope of national nuclear security needs, including nuclear forensic analysis and the consequences of urban events for emergency response planning, as examples

Cheryl Wampler
Program Director, Advanced Simulation and Computing
Los Alamos National Laboratory

1:00 Human Performance, Training, And Medical Modeling And Simulation For Defense

• Ensuring relevant and quality efforts capable of satisfying defense needs
• How Human Performance, Training, and Medical Modeling and Simulation helps ensure the long-term strategic direction of DoD programs and maintain the dominance of the US military in human centric domains, critical to US national security

Captain Dylan Schmorrow, MSC, USN
Acting Director, BioSystems, Research Directorate, Office of the Director
Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E)

1:40 Modeling & Simulation In DHS Coast Guard

• M&S entities and tools in DHS and the Coast Guard
• Examples of M&S in homeland security
• DHS needs and direction

Commander Matt McGlynn, USCG
Program Coordinator, CG Modeling and Simulation
US Coast Guard

3:05 Virtual Humans: Current Capabilities, Lessons Learned, And Future Prospects

• What can be done now with virtual human technology
• Lessons that we have learned in building virtual humans
• Capabilities that we can expect to see in the not too distant future

William Swartout
Director of Technology
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

3:45 Advances In Modeling And Simulation For CBRNE Terrorism Risk Analysis

• Terrorism risk analysis and challenges to conventional methods and models
• Using game theory, Bayesian, and attacker-defender models to improve upon classic probabilistic risk analysis applied in the terrorism construct
• New techniques in visualization and latest information on warfighter simulation
• M&S standards development at VMASC

Dr. Barry C. Ezell
Research Associate Professor
Virginia Modeling, Analysis