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.
Program Details are Subject to Change
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
| 1:00pm – 9:00pm | Hotel Check-in, Presenters & Participants Arrive |
| 4:00pm – 7:00pm | Symposium Pre-Registration and Managers Social for Embassy Suites guests |
| 6:00pm – 9:00pm | Dinner on your own |
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
| 6:00am – 8:00am | Registration - Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30am – 10:30am | Panel 1 - Plenary Panel - National Security Acquisition Agenda for the New Administration |
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Chair: Dr. Jacques S. Gansler, Director, Center for Public Policy & Private Enterprise, Discussants: Lieutenant General Ross Thompson III, US Army, Military Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology) Dr. Nancy Spruill, Director, Acquisition Resources & Analysis, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) Ms. Susan L. Cote, Vice President, Corporate Contracts, Pricing & Supply Chain, Northrop Grumman Corporation |
| 10:45am – 12:15pm |
Panel 2 - Advances in Resource Decision-Making
Chair: Joseph L. Yakovac, Jr., Discussant: Paul L. Francis, Managing Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office The Economic Evaluation of Alternatives (EEoA): Rethinking the application of Cost-effectiveness Analysis, Multi-criteria Decision-making (MCDM) and the Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) in Defense Procurement Francois Melese, Naval Programmatic Complexity & Interdependence: New Predictive Indicators of Development Resource Demand Robert Flowe, Software Engineering and Systems Assurance, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition & Technology) |
Panel 3 - Acquisition Management of Systems of Systems
Discussant: Colonel Raymond D. Jones, U.S. Army, Program Manager, Airborne, Maritime and Fixed Station, Joint Tactical Radio System Acquisition Management for Systems-of-Systems: Exploratory Model Development and Experimentation Daniel DeLaurentis and Muharrem Mane, Purdue University Acquisition of Capabilities through Systems-of-Systems: Case Studies and Lessons from Naval Aviation Michael Pryce, Manchester Business School |
Panel 4 - Search and Storage Techniques for Enabling Software Reuse
Chair: Carl R. Siel, Jr., Chief Engineer of the Navy; Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development & Acquisition) Ontology-based Solutions for Software Reuse Jean Johnson and Curtis Blais, Naval ReSEARCH 2: Building the Requirements Search Engine Craig Martell, Paige Adams, Grant Gehrke, Ralucca Gera, Marco Draeger, and Kevin Squire, Naval |
| 12:15pm – 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm – 3:00pm |
Panel 5 - Assessing System Maturity
Using A System Maturity Index to Monitor and Evaluate the Development of Systems Brian Sauser, Romulo Magnaye and Jose Ramirez-Marquez, Stevens Institute of Technology Dynamic Multipoint Optimization Application to Corporate Portfolio Management Robert Cuellar, DoD, and Brian Sauser, Stevens Institute of Technology Implementation of a Methodology Supporting a Comprehensive System-of-systems Maturity Analysis for Use by the Littoral Combat Ship Mission Module Program Eric Forbes, Richard Volkert, Peter Gentile and Ken Michaud, Northrop Grumman Corporation |
Panel 6 - Resourcing Strategies in System Life Cycle Management
Discussant: Stan Soloway, President, Professional Services Council; former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition Reform) Achieving Performance-based Lifecycle Management Louis Kratz and Bradd Buckingham, Lockheed Martin Corporation The Logistics Support Resource Strategy Map: A Design and Assessment Tool John Dillard, Naval Postgraduate School, and David Ford, Texas A&M University |
Panel 7 - Testing Considerations for Reuse of Weapons System Components
Chair: William M. Johnson, Principal, WMJ Associates LLC Discussant: Mark Wessman, CAPT, US Navy (ret.), President, Wessman Consultancy Group, Inc. How to Check If It Is Safe Not To Retest a Component Valdis Berzins, and Paul Dailey, Naval Mathematical Modeling for Optimal System Testing under Fixed-cost Constraint Karl Pfeiffer, Valery Kanevsky and Thomas Housel, Naval |
| 3:00pm – 3:15pm | Break |
| 3:15pm – 5:00pm |
Panel 21 - Trends in Contracting Workforce Dynamics
Chair: Jeffrey P. Parsons, Executive Director, Army Contracting Managing the Services Supply Chain in the Department of Defense: An Empirical Study of Current Management Practices Aruna Apte, Uday Apte and Rene Rendon, Naval Contract Management Process Maturity: Analysis of Recent Organizational Assessments Rene Rendon, Naval Army Contracting Command Demographics |
Panel 9 - Acquisition Challenges in the United Kingdom
Panelists: Stuart Young, Centre for Defence Acquisition, Cranfield University Pete Ito, Centre for Defence Acquisition, Cranfield University Innovative UK Approaches to Acquisition Management David Moore, Stuart Young and Pete Ito, Centre for Defence Acquisition, Cranfield University |
Panel 10 - Implementing Open Architecture in Weapons System Development
Chair: William P. Bray, Director, Integrated Combat Systems, PEO Integrated Warfare Systems Mike Green, Naval Postgraduate School
Thomas Alspaugh, Hazeline Asuncion and Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine |
| 5:00pm – 6:30pm | Monterey Social - Student Research Poster Show |
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Join us for the flavors of Monterey. Featuring local delights from the sea and land, micro brews and select wines from the Bernadus Winery of Carmel Valley, California. At this event you will have the opportunity to see posters of Graduate Student Research conducted through the Acquisition Research Program.
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| 6:30pm – 9:00pm | Dinner on your own |
Thursday, May 14, 2009
| 7:00am – 8:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am – 9:30am | Plenary Panel – Perspectives on Defense Acquisition & Procurement Policy in Transition |
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Chair: Dr. Douglas A. Brook, Director, Center for Defense Management Research, Naval Postgraduate School; former Acting Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) An Examination of the Institutional Factors that Result in Cost Growth in Defense Acquisition Mr. Philip J. Candreva , Senior Lecturer of Budgeting, Naval Postgraduate School An Assessment of DOD's Acquisition Outcomes, Initiatives for Change, and Future Challenges Mr. Michael J. Sullivan, Director, Acquisition & Sourcing Management, Government Accountability Office "When Instructions Provide Too Much Flexibility, Establish Rules" Mr. J. David Patterson, Executive Director, National Defense Business Institute, University of Tennessee; former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller |
| 9:30am – 9:40am | Break |
| 9:40am – 11:10am |
Panel 11 - Lead Systems Integrators: Challenges and Prospects
Discussant: Lenn Vincent, RADM, USN, (ret.), Industry Chair, Defense Acquisition University The Role of Lead System Integrator Jacques Gansler, William Lucyshyn and Adam Spiers, University of Maryland Organizing for a Complex World: The Way Ahead David J. Berteau, Senior Adviser and Director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
Panel 12 - Utilization of Award Fees, Incentives and Other Transaction Authority in DoD Contracting
Effect of Information and Decision-making on DoD Performance Incentives and Award Fees Gregory Hildebrandt, Naval Postgraduate School Incentive Arrangements for Space Acquisitions James Gill, Space & Missile Systems Center Injecting New Ideas and New Approaches in Defense Systems: Are “Other Transactions” an Answer Richard Dunn, University of Maryland |
Panel 13 - Policy, Governance and Performance Management in a Service Oriented Architecture Environment
Chair: Christopher A. Miller, Program Executive Officer, Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I)
Discussant: Michael B. Dettman, PEO C4I Associate Technical Director, Policy & Guidance, SPAWAR SSC Pacific Engineering Outcome-driven Provider Performance under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty Kevin Buck and Diane Hanf, The MITRE Corporation Aligning Acquisition Practice with Netcentricity Policy Lloyd Brodsky, CSC |
| 11:10am – 11:20am | Break |
| 11:20am – 12:50pm |
Panel 14 - Tools for Acquisition Program Design
Discussant: Keith E. Seaman, Director, Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive Acquisition Strategies to Deal with Uncertainty Renee Stevens, Margaret King and Marc Halley, The MITRE Corporation Simulation-based Decision Support for Acquisition Policy and Process Design: The Effect of System and Enterprise Characteristics on Acquisition Outcomes Doug Bodner, Robert Smith and Bill Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Panel 15 - Costing Dimensions of Defense Acquisition Programs
Chair: Daniel Nussbaum, Discussant: Richard L. Coleman, CAPT, USN (ret), Director, Cost and Improved Methodology for Developing Cost Uncertainty Models for Naval Vessels Cinda Brown, Class Squadron, LSD/LPD-17 Transactions Cost from a Program Manager's Perspective Diana Angelis, John Dillard, Raymond Franck and Francois Melese, Naval |
Panel 16 - Implementing an Open Architecture Strategy at the Program Management Level
Discussant: James Wolfe, Head, Strategic and Weapon Control Systems Dept, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Facilitating Decision-making, Re-use and Collaboration: A Knowledge Management Approach to Acquisition Program Self-awareness John Robey and Chris Odell, Naval Postgraduate School Effective Programmatic Software Safety Strategy for US Navy Gun System Acquisition Programs MAJ Joey Rivera, US Army, US Pacific Command, J63, Luqi, and Valdis Berzins, Naval Postgraduate School |
| 12:50pm – 1:50pm | Lunch |
| 1:50pm – 3:20pm |
Panel 17 - The Evolving International Industrial Base
Chair: Pierre A. Chao, Managing Partner, Renaissance Strategic Advisors Discussant: John Birkler, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation The Role of Trans-Atlantic Defense Alliances in a Globalizing World Nayantara Hensel, Naval New Patterns of Collaboration and Rivalry in the Raymond Franck and Ira Lewis, Naval |
Panel 18 - Bid Protests: Causes, Trends, and Containment Strategies
Discussant: David M. Van Slyke, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Syracuse University Bid Protests: Analyzing Recent Trends William Lucyshyn, Jacques Gansler and Michael Arendt, University of Maryland Innovations in Defense Acquisition: Asymmetric Information and Mechanism Design William Gates and Peter Coughlin, Naval Postgraduate School |
Panel 19 - Evolutionary Acquisition of Software Intensive Systems
Application of Real Option Theory to Software-Intensive System Acquisition Capt. Albert Olagbemiro, US Air Force (Reserve), Man-Tak Shing and Johnathan Mun, Naval Postgraduate School Modeling Open Architecture and Evolutionary Acquisition: Implementation Lessons from the ARCI Program for the Rapid Capability Insertion Process David Ford, Texas A&M University and John Dillard, Naval Postgraduate School Supply Chain Planning with Incremental Development, Modular Design and Evolutionary Updates Marie Bussiere, Betty Jester and Manbir Sodhi, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport Division |
| 3:20pm – 3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30pm – 5:00pm | Panel 22 - Assessing Collaborative Capacity and Collaborating in the Acquisition Domain |
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Discussant: Michael Schwind, Vice President, Maritime Solutions Sector, Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software UK Defence Acquisition Process for NEC: Transaction Governance within an Integrated Project Team Ermias Kebede, Eunic Maytorena, David Lowe and Graham Winch, Manchester Business School The Theory and Measurement of Interorganizational Collaborative Capacity in the Acquisition and Contracting Context Erik Jansen, Susan Hocevar, Rene Rendon and Gail Thomas, Naval Postgraduate School |
| 5:00pm – 6:30pm | Closing Social and Student Research Poster Show |
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Join us for our closing social. Featuring Graduate Student Research conducted through the Acquisition Research Program.
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