Date: May 10, 2011
Time: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Place: University of Alabama in Huntsville University Center Room 126
http://www.uah.edu/sitefeature/campusmap.php Marked building #7a on the map

Meeting Flyer

Speaker: Steven Mattern, Senior System Safety Engineer, Bastion Technologies

The discipline commonly referred to as “Software Safety Engineering” has been maturing within the systems and software engineering communities for the last 25 years.  Within the last five years, this maturation has resulted in a relatively standardized approach that, if successfully implemented, will meet the approval and acceptance of most government entities and the military services.  This presentation is a short synopsis of the two separate but complimentary processes that make up the software system safety process.  This presentation will describe these two processes and include the essential elements required to increase the likelihood of having a successful software safety engineering program.

RSVP not required but appreciated.  Please send to Jamie Davidson at james.d.davidson@boeing.com

Everyone is invited!

You can grab lunch at the Charger Café in the same building and bring it into the meeting.

Directions:

The meeting will be held in Room 126 of the University Center on the UAHuntsville Campus.  The University Center Building is located at the north end of the campus. Please park in the visitor parking lot in the front of this building in a “Visitor” space or in an unmarked space. Note: Vehicles with a UAH decal cannot park in a “Visitor” space.

Speaker Biography:

Mr. Mattern has accumulated a broad range of government, commercial and education-related experience in acquisition management and systems engineering on major system procurements. He possesses over 28 years of USAF active duty, DOD, and private sector experience on the development and test of high profile, safety-critical systems of national importance.

Mr. Mattern began his military career with the United States Air Force in September 1971 as an Airman, specializing in the installation, operations, and maintenance of HVAC equipment within military base facilities. He was honorably discharged in 1979 to attend the University of Wyoming through the USAF ROTC program where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant 1981. Throughout his commissioned career in the USAF, Steven chose to work as an Acquisition Specialist in the System Safety Engineering career field.

On active duty, he was assigned to work on many major acquisition programs to include, but not limited to, the Peacekeeper (Missile-X) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, Small ICBM, F-15E, C-17, X-30 National Aerospace Plane, and Air Force One Replacement for the President of the United States. He also was the Explosive Safety Officer that performed the Quantity Distance (QD) explosive testing for the basing of Peacekeeper missiles in Minuteman silos. During Steven’s commissioned career he was certified as a Level III Acquisition Professional in Program Management, and Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering of the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP).

In September 1994, Steven joined Science and Engineering Associates (later to become Apogen Technologies and then QinetiQ-North America) where he was specifically tasked to stand up and manage a systems engineering analysis directorate for the company that focused on both systems and software safety engineering.

Since 1994, Steven has secured and successfully executed contracts with government agencies, government prime contractors, and commercial companies on programs such as the Airborne Laser (ABL) Program, Crusader, Future Combat Systems, Ballistic Missile Defense, SH-2G(A) Helicopter, Standard Missiles 2-, -3, and -6, Wide Area Augmentation System, Shuttle Orbiter Cockpit Avionics Upgrade, SWY-3 Ship Self-Defense System, C-5 Avionics Modernization Program, and many others.

Mr. Mattern joined Bastion Technologies in June of 2010 and currently provides system safety and software safety engineering support to the US Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) Safety Office on unmanned air vehicle programs.

Steven holds a BS in Industrial/Electronic Technology from the University of Wyoming and a MA in Computer Resource Management from Webster University. He teaches two Continuing Engineering Education courses for the University of Cincinnati; System Safety Management and Software Safety Engineering. He is member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, a Fellow Member of the international System Safety Society, and a Lifetime Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.