Conference Day 2: Wednesday, September 16, 2009

7:15 Registration And Coffee

8:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:10 Business Transformation in the Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer

  • The role of the DCMO
  • DCMO business transformation objectives
  • Current initiatives

Dennis Wisnosky
Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer, Business Mission Area
Department of Defense

8:50 From Concept To Warfighter – Integrating The Process

  • Identifying key gaps and redundancies in the process
  • Eliminating excess paperwork and red tape
  • Pushing past roadblocks: unnecessarily lengthy fiscal schedules and grating time constraints
  • Results that a streamlined process can offer

Jaymie Durnan
Deputy Director, Joint Advanced Concepts
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD AT&L)

9:30 Networking Break

10:00 DAU Assets to Support Services Acquisition

  • Services Acquisition Workshops and Training
  • Services Acquisition Mall
  • Contracting Officer's Representative Certification Program

Leslie Deneault
Performance Learning Director
Defense Acquisition University

10:40 Changing Demands Within Missile Defense

  • Managing expectations by providing insight
  • Future growth and direction of development
  • Meeting small business requirements

Katrina McFarland
Director of Acquisition
Missile Defense Agency

11:20 Meeting And Influencing Acquisition Needs Through Adequate Communication

  • Helping shape acquisition standards of program specific acquisition standards
  • Communicating transparency between all sides
  • Working with small businesses to meet the needs

Lee Cooper
Vice President
Raytheon Technical Services Company

12:00 Luncheon for Delegates and Speakers

1:20 Achieving Efficiencies In Procurement Of Training Devices And Services In Support Of Our Warfighters

  • Rapid response to warfighter training requirements
  • Consolidated product line management

LTC Aaron Brown
USA, Product Manager, Combat Training Instrumentation Systems
U.S. Army PEO STRI

2:00 Army - True Interoperability Through Manned/Unmanned Teaming (MUM)

  • Industry partnerships and collaboration
  • Interoperability profiles
  • MUM - bringing it all together

LTC Jennifer Jensen
USA, Product Manager, Common Systems Integration
PM UAS

2:40 Applying Quantitative Approaches To Acquisition

  • Examining how quantitative techniques were applied to the acquisition of supercomputers
  • Exploring more than one method
  • Analysis of applicable impacts

Cray Henry
Director, High Performance Computing Modernization Program
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Science & Technology) (DUSD[S&T])

3:20 Networking Break

3:50 End Of Main Conference