NDIA 2016 Human Systems Conference

The 2016 NDIA Human Systems Conference, scheduled for February 9-10, 2016, will engage leaders in government, academia, and industry to explore how the Human Systems community can quantify the effect of HSI throughout the personnel and system development lifecycles. We invite your submissions that focus on this year’s theme:
“Valuing Human Systems R&D: Enhancing Capabilities, Reducing Cost.”

The 2016 HSD Conference offers a dynamic exchange of technical information and dialogue among government, industry, and academic leaders from the Human Systems community who are interested in advancing the field through education, consultation, future research, and collaboration opportunities. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter endorsed
the value of this partnership, noting “our strength (DoD) also comes from the longstanding link between the technology community and the government.”

Emerging technologies in domains like Cyber, C4ISR, and Autonomy provide revolutionary capabilities to outthink our adversaries. At the same time, these technologies challenge our Service Members and Military Leaders to efficiently make sense of, and act on, the many and varied sources of information they provide. Given these challenges, the HSI community
strives to influence decisions regarding the operational effectiveness, acquisition, deployment and sustainment of these capabilities in order to optimize readiness and reduce cost at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. As Human Systems
professionals, we recognize that Human Systems Research and Development offers many advantages by focusing design on exploiting strengths of humans and systems to optimize operational effectiveness across diverse domains including defense, homeland security, medical, and cyber. To extend this understanding beyond the HSI community to those in the acquisition, deployment and sustainment communities, we must develop metrics and methods to quantify the value of HSI to succeed in addressing the many and varied challenges raised by today – and tomorrow’s – technical advances.