2023 BEYA (2711) General Dynamics Leading Technologies: Calling All Innovators! Presented by General Dynamics

Internal/External Crowd sourcing At GDMS, our customers rely on us to provide innovative solutions to their toughest problems. With related challenges evolving at lightning speed, we need to fully leverage our talented workforce to address them — faster and more capably than our competitors. The GDMS Internal Challenge aims to do just that by making our top business challenges visible to all employees, so those with the right skill and drive can step up to tackle them, in collaboration with our top technical leaders. When our internal activities are not good enough, GDMS takes the appropriate External Challenge measures to connect with external organizations that provide solutions to important challenges we face with an unrivaled network of expert problem solvers. These actions reach experts both from within our industry, but more importantly experts from outside of our industry that can offer diverse perspectives and fresh insight. With these activities and solutions provided, GDMS can incorporate and expand its cutting-edge technologies and products and extend them to their customers. After this seminar, the participants will be motivated to: Find innovative ways to solve tough problems in technology. Collaborate with top technical leaders in the industry. Engage top performers in cutting edge research activities.   Virtual Systems Integration & Test Learning Objective: How to effectively conduct Virtual Systems Integration &Test Sometimes necessity can lead to innovation. With recent COVID-19 restrictions that affected travel and lab participation for our customers, GDMS engineers found smart ways to continue to meet and exceed customer needs through Virtual Systems Integration & Test. This session will go over the techniques used to conduct successful VSI&T. After this seminar, the participants will have knowledge of: Key components of VSI&T. Presentation/electronic records. Parallel testing tracks. Minimizing testing errors. Speakers: Shawn Roberts, Senior Principal Software Engineer, General Dynamics Ali Abubakar, Deputy Program Manager Engineering, General Dynamics