Naval Postgraduate School

Monterey, California

May 13, 2004

Thursday, May 13, 2004, LaNovia Room, Herrmann Hall.

7:00 – 8:00 a.m. Registration, Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. Welcome & Keynote

Keith F. Snider, Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School

RDML Patrick W. Dunne, Superintendent, Naval Postgraduate School

Douglas A. Brook, Dean, Graduate School of Business & Public Policy

Keynote Speaker: Jacques S. Gansler – former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; presently interim Dean and Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise in the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland.

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Issues in Acquisition Policies

Chair: RDML (sel.) Martin Brown – Deputy for Acquisition and Business Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition.

Discussant: Lawrence R. Jones – Wagner Professor of Public Management, Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School

Centralized Control of Defense Acquisition Programs: A Comparative Review of the Framework from 1987 – 2003

Presenter: John T. Dillard, Senior Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School

Using the Systems Engineering Process to Balance the Interdependence of Mission Capability, Operations and Support Costs, and System Utility Rates – What’s T&E’s Role?

Presenter: LTC Thom Crouch, Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 12:15 p.m. Total Ownership Costs: The Future

Chair: Robert W. Young – former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Cost and Economics

Discussant: David N. Burt – Director, Supply Chain Management Institute, University of San Diego

Total Ownership Cost (TOC) Considerations in Key Performance Parameters and Beyond

Presenter: Michael W. Boudreau, Senior Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School

Co-author: Brad R. Naegle, Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School

The Impact of Software Support on System Total Ownership Cost

Presenter: Brad R. Naegle, Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School

12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Performance Based Logistics: Contractor Performance Measurements

Chair: Lorna Estep – Deputy Director, Directorate of Logistics Readiness, Headquarters, Department of the Air Force.

Discussant: Steven J. Kelman  – former Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget; presently the Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Characteristics of Good Metrics for Performance Based Logistics (PBL)

Presenter: Kenneth Doerr, Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School

Co-authors: RADM Donald Eaton, USN (ret.), Senior Lecturer, Arthur Chair and Ira A. Lewis, Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School

Using Metrics to Measure Contractor’s Performance

Presenter: R. Marshall Engelbeck, Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School

2:30 – 2:45 p.m. Break

2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Government in the Market Place

Chair: David Drabkin – Associate Administrator, Office of Acquisition Policy, General Services Administration.

Discussant: G. Fredrick Thompson – Grace & Elmer Goudy Professor of Public Management & Policy Analysis, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University

The Privatization in Place of Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Indianapolis - A Case Study

Presenter: Jeffery Cuskey, Lecturer, Naval Postgraduate School

Co-authors: Luci Stephens and William Lucyshyn, University of Maryland

The Army’s Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) – an Outsourcing Case Study

Presenter: Robert Maly, University of Maryland

Co-authors: William Lucyshyn, University of Maryland and Keith F. Snider, Naval Postgraduate School

4:15 – 4:30 p.m. RADM James B. Greene, USN (ret.), Acquisition Chair, Sponsored Acquisition Research Program, Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School

Closing Social