Hans Miller, Col USAF (ret), is a Chief Engineer for Research and Advanced Capabilities department at the MITRE Corporation. He retired with over 25 years of experience in combat operations, experimental flight test, international partnering, command and control, policy, and strategic planning of defense weapon systems. His last assignment was as Division Chief of the Policy, Programs and Resources Division, Headquarters Air Force Test and Evaluation Directorate at the Pentagon. He led a team responsible for Test and Evaluation policy throughout the Air Force, coordination with OSD and Joint Service counterparts, and staff oversight across the spectrum of all Air Force acquisition programs. Prior to that assignment, he was the Commander of the 96th Test Group, Holloman AFB, NM. The 96th Test Group conducted avionics and weapon systems flight tests, inertial navigation and Global Positioning System tests, high-speed test track operations and radar cross section tests necessary to keep joint weapon systems ready for war. Hans Miller was commissioned as a graduate of the USAF Academy. He has served as an operational and experimental flight test pilot in the B-1B and as an F-16 chase pilot. He flew combat missions in the B-1B in Operation Allied Force and Operation Enduring Freedom. He served as an Exercise Planning Officer at the NATO Joint Warfare Center, Stavanger, Norway. Col (ret) Miller was the Squadron Commander of the Global Power Bomber Combined Test Force coordinating ground and flight test activities on the B-1, B-2 and B-52. He served as the Director, Comparative Technology Office, within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He managed the Department’s Foreign Comparative Testing, and Rapid Innovation Fund programs. Hans Miller is a Command Pilot with over 2100 hours in 35 different aircraft types. He is a Department of Defense Acquisition Corps member and holds Level 3 certification in Test and Evaluation. He is a graduate of the USAF Weapons School, USAF Test Pilot School, Air Command and Staff College and Air War College. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a master’s degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering from Stanford University.

The future viability of DoD’s range enterprise depends on addressing dramatic changes in technology, rapid advances in adversary military capabilities, and the evolving approach the United States will take to closing kill chains in a Joint All Domain Operations environment. This recognition led DoD’s former Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E), the Honorable Robert Behler, to request that the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine examine the physical and technical suitability of DoD’s ranges and infrastructure through 2035. The first half of this presentation will cover the highlights and key recommendations of this study, to include the need to create the “TestDevOps” digital infrastructure for future operational test and seamless range enterprise interoperability. The second half of this presentation looks at the legacy frameworks for the relationships of physical and virtual test capabilities, and how those frameworks are becoming outdated. This briefing explores proposals on how the interaction of operations, physical test capabilities, and virtual test capabilities need to evolve to support new paradigms of the rapidly evolving technologies and changing nature of multi-domain operations.

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