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                                               "Trends in the Acquisition and Program Management of Services in DoD"

                                                                                                   April 17, 2007
                                                                All Speakers Invited unless otherwise indicated

0630 – 0730 EDST Industry Display Set-Up
0730 – 0830 EDST Registration and Continental Breakfast
0830 - 0840 EDST Opening Comments and Recognition of Corporate Sponsors
0840 – 0845 EDST Welcome
Mr. Frank Anderson, Jr., DAU President
0845 – 0930 EDST Keynote David Ahern, Director for Portfolio Systems Acquisition, Office of
the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

“Bringing Discipline to Acquisition of Services”
    
0930 – 1045 EDST

SAE/CAE Panel on Acquisition of Services.
Moderator:  Richard (Dick) Ginman, Deputy Director, Defense Procurement &
Acquisition Policy (DPAP)

  • MG (P) Jeffrey A. Sorenson, Deputy for Acquisition and Systems Management to
    the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)
  • Chuck Riechers , Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition
  • Michael F. Jaggard, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
    Acquisition Management
1045 – 1100 EDST Break/Visit Industry Displays
1100 – 1200 EDST

Industry Panel of Acquisition of Services
Moderator: Stan Soloway, President Professional Services Council

  • IAP World Systems (David Swindle, Pres)
  • SI International Corp. (Brad Antle, Pres & CEO)
  • EMI Services (David Miller, Founder & Owner)
  • Raytheon Technical Services (Lee Cooper, VP, Business Development)
1200 – 1300 EDST  Lunch
1300 – 1430 EDST

Parallel Tracks (Howell Auditorium and Packard Center)

1.  Track 1 -- Building the Foundation for Success: Making Performance-Based
Acquisition Work
2.  Track 2 -- Success Stories: Lessons Learned from Recent
Service Acquisitions

* See footnotes for more info on tracks.
 

1430 – 1500 EDST Break
1500 – 1545 EDST Mr. David Walker, Comptroller General. 
“A GAO Perspective on DoD's Acquisition of Services”
1545 - 1700 EDST

Congressional Panel on Acquisition of Services
 Moderator:  Jon Etherton
 

  • Andrew Hunter, HASC Staff (Invited)
  • Peter Levine, SASC Staff (Invited)
  • Cathy Garman, HASC Staff (Invited)
  • Mark Stephenson, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Staff (Invited)
1700 - 1715 EDST DAUAA Business Meeting
1715– 1825 EDST Reception at Ft Belvoir Officers Club
Sponsored by DAUAA
1825 – 2020 EDST Banquet Agenda 
1830-1930  Dinner Service
1930-2000  Dinner Speaker - BGen Michael Brogan, USMC, CG, MarCorSysCom
2000-2010  Acker Award Presentation to Hon Kenneth J. Krieg, USD, AT&L
2010-2020  Remarks by Acker Award Winner

                       
20202100 EDST DAUAA Hall of Fame Induction
Mr. Anderson will Officiate
   
   
* Track 1
 

Building the Foundation for Success: Making Performance Based Acquisition Work
This track deals with two of the building blocks of successful acquisition of services: Performance Based Acquisition and Enterprise Spend Management/Strategic Sourcing. The first part of this track is a tutorial by Shaw Cohe, Senior Principal for Defense, Acquisition Solutions, Inc. on the basics of Performance-Based Acquisition, best practices, "lessons learned in the trenches," and how to make it work as a practitioner.  

The second part is a panel discussion moderated by Bob Reisner, Senior Principal for Strategic Sourcing, Acquisition Solutions and including John Anderson, Vice President, A.T. Kearney; Raj Sharma, CEO, Censio; and other leading industry executives to discuss Enterprise Spend Management/Strategic Sourcing commercial best practices and lessons learned. (Howell Auditorium)

   
* Track 2

Success Stories: Lessons Learned from Recent Service Acquisitions
Discussion will focus on examples of organizations that successfully implemented performance based acquisitions.  On the panel are Mr. Mike Button, Senior Director for Infrastructure Support for CSC; Mr. David Miller, President EMI Services; CAPT Paul M. Bland USN (Ret) , Lockheed Martin; and Mr. Phil Salmeri, President M&M H Design.  Discussion focuses on the prior state, solutions implemented and will attempt to identify common conditions or organization attributes that contributed to successful implementation. 
(Packard Conference Center)

 

 

 

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