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We encourage you to make travel arrangements in order to participate both days. This symposium is an opportunity to interact with colleagues from all services and engage in dialogue on current Acquisition issues in a collaborative setting.
Sponsors: Acquisition Research Program, Graduate School of Business & Public Policy and Naval Postgraduate School
Synopsis: This symposium serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars and practitioners of public sector acquisition. It showcases acquisition research carried out under the Naval Postgraduate School’s Acquisition Research Program. It also features papers and presentations on recently completed and on-going projects conducted by researchers from universities and institutions from around the world, as well as remarks by a distinguished slate of guest speakers and panelists.
Keynote Speakers:
The Honorable Robert O. Work – Under Secretary of the Navy
Lieutenant General Thomas J. Owen, US Air Force – Commander, Aeronautical Systems Center
Confirmed Panelists Include:
Mr. David J. Berteau – Senior Adviser and Director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Mr. John Birkler – Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation
Dr. Kevin Burgess – Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Defence Acquisition, Cranfield University
Rear Admiral Jerry K. Burroughs, US Navy – Program Executive Officer, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
Mr. Richard L. Coleman, CAPT, USN (ret) – Program Manager, TASC, Inc
Rear Admiral Kathleen M. Dussault, US Navy – Director, Supply, Ordnance and Logistics Operations Division
Ms. Lorna B. Estep – Executive Director, Air Force Global Logistics Support Center, Air Force Materiel Command
Mr. Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr., Lt. Gen., USAF (ret.) – President, National Defense Industrial Association
Mr. Robert Flowe – Software Engineering and Systems Assurance, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Technology)
Captain Brian Gannon, US Navy – Program Manager, Naval Open Architecture, PEO IWS
Dr. Jacques S. Gansler – Director, Center for Public Policy & Private Enterprise, School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland; former Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)
Mr. James Gill – Technical Advisor to the Director of Contracting, Space & Missile Systems Center
Colonel Raymond Jones, US Army – Program Manager, Airborne, Maritime and Fixed Station, Joint Tactical Radio System
Dr. Steven J. Kelman – Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mr. Louis A. Kratz – Vice President and Managing Director, Focused Logistics, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Rear Admiral William E. Landay, III, US Navy – Program Executive Officer SHIPS
Rear Admiral David H. Lewis, US Navy – Vice Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command
Dr. Michael McGrath – Vice President, Systems & Operations Analysis, Analytic Services Inc.
Dr. David Moore – Director, Centre for Defence Acquisition, Cranfield University
Mr. Charlie Nemfakos – Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation
Dr. Daniel A. Nussbaum – Naval Postgraduate School, former Director, Naval Center for Cost Analysis
Mr. Jeffrey Olinger – Senior Technical Advisor, Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
Mr. Jeffrey P. Parsons – Executive Director, Army Contracting Command, US Army Material Command
Mr. J. David Patterson – Executive Director, National Defense Business Institute, The University of Tennessee
Mr. Reuben S. Pitts III – President, Lyceum Consulting, LLC
Mr. Michael Schwind – Vice President, Maritime Solutions Sector, Siemens, Product Lifecycle Management Software
Mr. Keith E. Seaman – Acting Director, Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive
Dr. James Simpson – Dean, College of Business Administration, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Mr. Jimmy D. Smith – Director, Advanced Water Sensors, PEO Integrated Warfare Systems
Dr. Nancy L. Spruill – Director, Acquisition Resources & Analysis, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics)
Mr. Michael J. Sullivan – Director, Acquisition & Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office
Mr. James E. Thomsen – Principal Civilian Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development & Acquisition)
Dr. Robert H. Trice – Senior Vice President, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Mr. Timothy J. Troske – Division Technical Director, Port Hueneme Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Mr. Lenn Vincent, RADM, USN (ret.) – Industry Chair, Defense Acquisition University; former Commander, Defense Contract Management Command and Commandant of Defense Systems Management College
Mr. James Wolfe – Head, Strategic and Weapon Control Systems Dept, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren
Mr. Joseph L. Yakovac, Jr., LTG, USA, (ret.) – Naval Postgraduate School; former Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology)
Location:
Embassy Suites Hotel Monterey Bay - Seaside
1441 Canyon Del Rey
Seaside, California 93955
(831) 393-1115
(800) 559-4308 Reservations Toll Free
www.embassymonterey.com
Format: The symposium is organized into both plenary and concurrent panels in several tracks. Each concurrent panel features three research papers.
Symposium Panels Include:
- National Security Acquisition Challenges
- Assessment & Oversight of Major Defense Acquisition Programs
- Cost Analysis Support to Acquisition
- Integrated Testing for Business Systems
- Acquisition Reform: Beyond Marginal Adjustments
- Applying Contemporary Economic Theory to Defense Acquisition Decision Making
- Software Control & Development for DoD Weapons Systems
- Economic Impacts of the Defense Industrial Base
- Aligning Requirements with the Defense Acquisition Process
- Satisfying Requirements While Achieving Life-Cycle Cost Goals
- Cost Containment in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment
- Software Testing in an Open Architecture Environment
- Bid Protests: Considerations for Prevention and Resolution
- Software Acquisition Strategies and Challenges
- Considerations for Managing Service Oriented Architecture Projects
- Program Management & Contracting in a Performance Based Environment
- System Engineering for Project Success
- System-of-Systems Design & Development
- Managing Services Procurement in DoD
- Innovations in DoD Acquisition Policy
- Globalization: Cooperation & Competition in the Defense Industry
- Using Knowledge Value Analysis and Real Options Analysis to Improve DoD Acquisition Planning and Management
- Considerations for Developing and Nurturing the Future Acquisition Workforce
- Acquisition Management in a System-of-Systems World