For
our Membership:
Today, I have some bad news and good news to tell you
about. First, it
is with a heavy heart that I have to report the death of
DAUAA Board
Member Dr. Christopher Roman on May 26, 2008. Chris spent
his childhood
as a member of an
Air Force
family, living abroad and at various AF
Bases in the US. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy,
Exeter, NH
in 1969 and received his Doctorate in Information and
Decision Systems from
George Washington University in 1991. He retired from
federal service in July 2006 as a Professor of Acquisition
Management at the
Defense Acquisition University, Ft. Belvoir, VA., yet
remained
as an
Alumni Association board member. Over the past 10
years, Chris did the detailed planning and organization for
the annual
Defense Acquisition University (DAU) Acquisition
Community Symposiums. In this effort, he quietly and
successfully organized symposiums
that provided significant training and education for the
acquisition workforce, while at the
same time positively impacting the reputation of DAU. He
never sought personal recognition, but was more interested
in being a good team mate. We are all the better for
knowing and working with Chris. His smile, knowledge, and
abilities will be sorely missed. A classroom is being named
in his memory at DAU.
On a lighter note, I'm pleased to announce a very successful
hot topic forum took place on 18 June attended by 80
acquisition professionals from government and industry. The
Hirsch
Center at DAU (Ft. Belvoir) was completely filled. The
presentation - Program/Portfolio
Management: Enabler for Success - was sponsored by the DAU
Alumni Association, their corporate associates, and the DAU
Acquisition Community Connection. The presenter
was Lt. Col. Fred Gregory,
USAF
of the Secretary of the AF acquisition staff. He discussed
how the Air Force (SAF/AQ) is implementing PRIMAVERA
PROSIGHT portfolio management
technology to increase visibility, decision making and risk
management of its systems acquisition process. The
presentation is available at
https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=218757&lang=en-US.
For more complete information on this topic, please contact
Lt. Col. Fred Gregory, USAF at
FrederickD.Gregory@pentagon.af.mil.
We are also pleased to announce that Mr. Pete Adolph,
Chairman of the recent
Defense Science Board (DSB)
Task Force,
will present - on
20 August - a briefing on a recent (May 2008) DSB
Study on Developmental Test and Evaluation. The
presentation will be held in the Hirsch Center on the DAU
Belvoir Campus and is part of our Hot Topic Forum Series.
Mr. Adolph, a former Director, Developmental Test and
Evaluation, will discuss actions
required to stem the tide of ".. a dramatic increase in the
number of systems not meeting suitability requirements"
during initial operational test and evaluation. His
presentation will address the steps necessary to correct
high suitability failure rates by insuring that programs
are formulated to execute a
viable
systems engineering strategy from the beginning,
including
a robust RAM program and early program testing, as an
integral part of design and development. Hope to see you
there.
That's all for now. Have a great summer.
Bill Bahnmaier,
President, DAUAA
About Bill Bahnmaier, DAUAA President:
Bill Bahnmaier is a retired Marine and a former (retired)
instructor at the Defense Acquisition University (DAU). In
his last tour of duty as a Marine he was a major system PM –
the Marine Corps Assault Amphibian. Since retirement,
Bahnmaier works as an official volunteer at DAU and also is
a part time consultant and instructor on defense acquisition
matters. He and his wife Peggy reside in Alexandria, VA.
They have 9 nephews and nieces and 15 great nephews and
nieces.
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