The Aerospace Testing Seminar (ATS) provides a forum to communicate and exchange knowledge about the improvement and implementation of aerospace testing technology that will benefit current and future space programs.

The ATS preseminar tutorial program will feature classroom-style presentations of interest to professionals at all levels of experience.


Celebrating Four Decades of the Aerospace Testing Seminar
The Aerospace Testing Seminar (ATS) is for engineers, managers, and leaders to share their experiences, discover new methods and procedures, and learn how others are coping with designing and implementing cost-effective and affordable test programs. The following sessions, preceded by a day of tutorials, are planned. The prestigious Otto Hamberg Award will be presented to the author(s) of the paper that best addresses this year’s theme, “The Challenge of Effective and Affordable Testing,” and exhibits technical excellence in paper content.

Session topics include:

    * Integrated Developmental and Operational Test and Evaluation
    * Testing Challenges for Space Exploration
    * Test and People Management
    * Test Effectiveness and Standards
    * Ground Segment Test
    * Strategies and Methodologies
    * Innovations in Test Facilities and Equipment
    * Instrumentation, Data Acquisition, and Evaluation
    * Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
    * Flight Software System Integration and Test
    * Interactive Technical Interchange
    * Pre-seminar Tutorials – Oct. 15, 2012

You are invited to submit an abstract of 200 words along with the following information:

• Author biography
• Author contact information (company affiliation, e-mail address, mailing address, phone, and fax number)
• Suggested session placement

The Abstract Submittal Form is available here.

Submit forms to: atsconference@aero.org by Jan. 16, 2012.

Joint sponsors: The Aerospace Corporation, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, and U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.

More information on the Aerospace Corporation can be found at www.aero.org.

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