Office of the Secretary of Defense
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`The Honorable Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt
`Director, Operational Test and Evaluation
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`Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt was sworn in as Director, Operational Test and Evaluation
`(DOT&E)on April 8, 2024. A Presidential appointee confirmed by the United
`States Senate, he serves as the senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense on
`operational andlive fire test and evaluation of Department of Defense weapon
`systems. DOT&Eprovides direct and independent reporting to Congress to give
`them unbiased, unvarnished assessments of system performance.
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`Prior to DOT&E, Dr. Schmidt served as the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of
`Engineering in Computer Science, the Associate Chair of Computer Science, and a
`Senior Researcherat the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt
`University. He wasalso a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute at
`Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as the Chief Technology Officer from
`2010 to 2012.
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`From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Schmidt was a memberof the Air Force Scientific Advisory
`Board, where he servedas vice chair of studies on cybersituational awareness for Air
`Force mission operations and on sustaining hardware and software for U.S. aircraft.
`Healso served on the advisory board for the joint Army/Navy Future Airborne
`Capability Environmentinitiative. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Schmidt served as a
`program managerin the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
`Information Exploitation Office (IXO) and Information Technology Office (ITO).
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`Dr. Schmidt is an internationally renowned and widely cited researcher whose work
`focuses on patterns, optimization techniques, and empirical analyses of object-
`oriented and component-based frameworks and model-driven engineering tools that
`facilitate the developmentofdistributed real-time and embedded (DRE) middleware
`frameworks and mobile cloud computing applications on parallel platforms running
`over wireless/wired networks and embedded system interconnects. His recent research
`focused on prompt engineering techniques and patterns that enhance the accuracy and
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`expressivenessof large language models and generative augmentedintelligence
`platforms.
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`He has published 10+ books and over 700 papersin top technical journals,
`conferences, and books covering a range oftopics, including high-performance
`communication software systems, parallel processing for high-speed networking
`protocols, and DRE middleware with Common Object Request Broker Architecture
`(CORBA), Real-time Java, object-oriented patterns for concurrent and distributed
`systems, concurrent and networked software for mobile devices, and model-driven
`engineering tools.
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`Dr. Schmidt served as the co-chair for the Software Design and Productivity (SDP)
`Coordinating Group of the Federal Government’s multi-agency Information
`Technology (IT) Research and Development Program, the collaborative IT research
`effort of the major Federal science and technology agencies. The SDP Coordinating
`Group formulates the multi-agency research agenda in fundamental software design.
`Dr. Schmidt also served as the Deputy Director of the DARPA ITO,where he helped
`to set the national IT research and development agenda and managethe autonomous
`systems, network-centric command andcontrol systems, distributed real-time and
`embedded systems, and augmented cognition.
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`In addition to his academic research, teaching, and governmentservice, Dr. Schmidt
`has three decades of experience developing DRE middleware, model-driven
`engineering tools, and mobile cloud computing apps. He has led the development of
`the ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE), whichis a set of widely used,
`freely available object-oriented frameworks that contain a rich set of components that
`implement patterns for mission-critical DRE systems.
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`Dr. Schmidt recetved Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in Sociology from
`the College of William and Mary and Master of Science and Doctorate degrees
`in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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