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More than 300 military, civilian, industry, and academia representatives convened in Port Hueneme, Calif., Aug. 21-22 to rapidly advance the role of in-service engineering agents (ISEA), driving readiness to America’s Navy.
Known as ISEA of the Future, the inaugural event launches a series of opportunities for subject matter experts from across the nation to collaborate and innovate in the areas of sustainment engineering, logistics, and test and evaluation.
The first day keynote speaker for the event Aug. 21, Paul Mann, Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division Technical Director, emphasized the important responsibility and opportunity for the team of teams to deliver affordable lethality and readiness to the fleet.
“Our warfare center enterprise team executes the ISEA responsibility,” said Mann. “We collaborate with developers, acquisition professionals and subject matter experts to ensure readiness for weapons and combat systems for the sailors at sea.”
In addition, the warfare centers are responsible for driving the future of fleet maintenance. Mann’s vision for ISEA of the Future adopts research, development and application of advanced technology to enable optimized lifecycle sustainment and iterative improvements of surface ships and combat and weapons systems deployed to the fleet.
“Innovation and the future of ISEA is not one dimensional,” he explained. “Everything is on the table that drives readiness for the fleet. We wanted to get you all here to think and be provocative and accelerate towards Navy priorities. We are growing. We are becoming more capable. We are modernizing the ships we have and demanding they perform better and last longer. This forum is all about outcomes and effects.”
To ignite the ISEA of the Future campaign, emergent science and technology is being explored, including predictive analysis, augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, deep and machine learning, neural networks, autonomous and unmanned systems, and data-driven analytics. Technical rigor will not be compromised, but virtually everything the warfare centers do in the ISEA role will be different.
During the two-day summit, experts from each topic expounded on their team’s accomplishments, allowing for cross-sharing of information and the opportunity to leverage, and avoid duplication of, current efforts.
“Speed and velocity matter as our adversaries are doing the same," said Mann. "We must accelerate the pace at which we field lethality to the fleet. We will immediately execute our strategic vision for the Navy of the future that provides advanced in-service engineering capability and enhanced fleet readiness, preparing to be ready to fight today.”
ISEA of the Future is a priority campaign with the second event scheduled for November 2018. According to Mann, these Future ISEA forums will drive change and continue until institutional agility is cultural.
“Effort is interesting, results are germane,” he said. “We must produce tangible outcomes for the fleet.”
| Date Taken: | 08.22.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 08.22.2018 16:58 |
| Story ID: | 289885 |
| Location: | PORT HUENEME, CALIFORNIA, US |
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