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3rd Annual Acquisition
Research Symposium
Held: May 17-18, 2006
Monterey, California
Sponsored by: Acquisition Research Program, Graduate School
of Business & Public Policy and Naval Postgraduate School
Keynote Speaker:
The Honorable Kenneth J. Krieg – Under Secretary of Defense
(Acquisition, Technology and Logistics)
Panelists included:
Shay D. Assad – Director, Defense Procurement and
Acquisition Policy
Rear Admiral Martin Brown, US Navy – Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Acquisition)
Pierre Chao – Senior Fellow and Director of Defense Industrial Initiatives, Center
for Strategic and International Studies.
Lorna B. Estep – Deputy Director for Supply,
Directorate of Logistics and Sustainment, Headquarters Air Force Materiel
Command
Alan Estevez – Assistant Deputy Under Secretary
of Defense (Supply Chain Integration)
Dr. Jacques S. Gansler – former Under Secretary of Defense
for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; presently Vice President for
Research, Director of Center for Public Policy & Private Enterprise, School
of Public Policy at the University of Maryland
Rear Admiral Charles
S. Hamilton II, US Navy – Program Executive Officer Ships
Dr. Steven J. Kelman – former Administrator of the
Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the U.S. Office of Management and
Budget; presently Professor of Public
Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Dr. Michael F. McGrath – Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Navy (Research, Development, Test and Evaluation)
Kenneth E.
Miller
– Special Assistant for
Acquisition Governance and Transparency to the Secretary of the Air Force
Sue C.
Payton
– Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Advanced Systems & Concepts)
Reuben S.
Pitts III. – Major
Program Manager Integrated Combat Systems, PEO IWS
Captain
James Shannon – Program Manager,
Naval Open Architecture, PEO IWS 7.0
Nancy
Spruill
– Director, Acquisition Resources and Analysis, Office of the Under Secretary
of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Stan Z.
Soloway – President, Professional Services Council and former Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition Reform)
Rear
Admiral Lenn Vincent, US Navy (ret.) – former Commander, Defense Contract Management
Command and Commandant of Defense Systems Management College; presently
Industry Chair, Defense Acquisition University
Charlie E.
Williams, Jr. – Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Contracting)
Lieutenant
General Joseph L. Yakovac, Jr., US Army
– Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Acquisition, Logistics & Technology
Symposium
Location: Embassy Suites Hotel
Monterey Bay
– Seaside
Synopsis:
This symposium provided a forum for presentation and promotion of
acquisition research carried out under the Naval Postgraduate
School’s Acquisition
Research Program. Established in 2002,
this program provides leadership in innovation, creative problem solving and an
on-going dialogue, contributing to the evolution of Department of Defense (DOD)
acquisition strategies. Objectives of
the NPS Acquisition Research Program include:
- Establishing acquisition research as an integral part of
policy-making for Department of Defense officials.
- Creating a stream of relevant information concerning the
performance of DOD acquisition policies with viable recommendations for continuous
process improvement.
- Preparing the workforce to participate in the continued
evolution of the defense acquisition process.
- Collaboration among universities, think tanks, industry and
Government in acquisition research.
Format:
The symposium was organized into both plenary and concurrent panels in
several tracks. Topics included:
- Acquisition
Reform
- Enhancing
Collaborative Capacity
- RFID in
Defense Supply Chain
- Enhancing
Collaborative Capacity
- Perspectives
in Program Management
- Budgeting for Defense Acquisition Requirements
- Transformation
- Making Logistics Support Choices for Weapon Systems
- Issues in Acquisition and Public Policy
- Open
Systems Approach in Weapon System Acquisitions
- Service
Contracting
- Shaping the S&T Base
- Earned Value Management
- Real Options Analysis
- Initiatives in Procurement and Acquisition
- Contractors Supporting Military Operations
- Strategic Sourcing
- Alternative Methods for Financing Defense Acquisition
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