DAQ 2016 - Development, Affordability and Qualification of Complex Systems

The Redstone Chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS) is sponsoring a Technical Specialists' Meeting on the Development, Affordability and Qualification of Complex Systems. This event will be held at The University of Alabama in Huntsville on 9-11 February, 2016. The Specialists’ Meeting will investigate new standards, processes, methods and tools relevant to the qualification and fielding of complex systems applicable to future vertical lift. Leading experts from the government, academia, and industry will discuss the challenges of developing and qualifying affordable and safe complex systems.
Abstracts are to be submitted to complexabstract-AT-ahsredstone.org no later than 31 August 2015. It is strongly encouraged that abstracts be submitted in a .pdf format and not be any larger than 2MB. They should be approximately 1,000 words, present the status of the background data to be used, summarize figures and illustrations to be used (with samples), and include a summary of important conclusions. Finished or draft version, papers will not be accepted. This Technical Specialists' Meeting offers an opportunity to present and discuss advances in every area of vertical flight technology with a focus on affordably and safely developing highly integrated subsystems into a highly reconfigurable piloted, optionally piloted or unmanned vertical lift platform. Current topics of particular interest include but are not limited to the following thematic areas:
Multi-core or advanced processor airworthiness standards and tools for evaluating these systems
Standards for structural integrity specifications including qualification standards and tools for adaptive or health monitoring systems
Proposed methods for addressing the identification and elimination of safety/human factors issues early in design
Advances in the maturity of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools for use throughout the life-cycle including methods of validating MBSE models and tools for airworthiness qualification
New and innovative tools to synergize airworthiness/acquisition processes to reduce the likelihood and significance of cost overruns in future major development programs