John Wiley Named ITEA Conference Chair; Dot Buckanin, Technical Co-chair
By Holly Baker
The International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) has named John Wiley, Technical Center Technical Strategies and Integration Manager, the chair for its 2008 annual symposium. Wiley serves on ITEA’s Board of Directors as a government non-Department of Defense (DOD) member.
ITEA is the leading association for professionals in the field of test and evaluation, with more than 2100 individual and 84 corporate members, worldwide. The non-profit educational organization was founded in 1980 to further the advancement and exchange of technical information in the test and evaluation arena. Its membership has predominantly encompassed the DOD, since it began.
The ITEA Board has targeted its efforts on growing and expanding the scope of its membership in recent years. The 2008 symposium will present a forum and program that attracts a more global test and evaluation community, embracing the transportation and aviation industries, academia and government. Dot Buckanin, Technical Center Special Assistant to the Director, has been selected technical co-chair of the symposium. She will focus on achieving this global perspective, as the symposium program develops.
FAA leadership in the ITEA symposium has important implications for introducing new aviation technologies to an international audience, and reinforcing the paramount importance of advancing the Next Generation Air Transportation System – NextGen.
The symposium will take place the week of November 10, 2008 in Atlantic City and will be co-hosted by the South Jersey and Francis Scott Key ITEA Chapters. This is a season of “firsts” for both ITEA and the FAA – the first FAA chair, the first FAA ITEA-affiliated chapter as conference co-host, and the first time Atlantic City will host this prestigious symposium.
Wiley has more than 30 years of technical experience in the aviation industry, 21 of those years in management. He previously served as Director of the Technical Center’s Office of Integrated Engineering Services. Also, he served on the FAA Air Traffic Organization’s Transition Team in Washington, D.C., where he provided strategy and direction in defining, communicating and implementing a broad spectrum of new agency management initiatives. Wiley is an active member of the Rowan University Electrical and Computer Engineering Industrial Advisory Board and the Air Traffic Control Association. He is a former president of the ITEA South Jersey Chapter.
Additional information on ITEA and on-line membership applications can be found at http://www.itea.org/
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