Main Conference Day Two - Wednesday, March 31, 2010

7:00 Registration And Coffee

8:00 IDGA Welcome Remarks

8:05 Chairperson's Opening Remarks

8:15 Challenges And Approaches In Today's Defense Acquisition Environment

Opening Keynote

  • Today's environment and shaping factors
  • Recent acquisition policy updates
  • How new policies are driving approaches on acquisition strategies

James B. Lackey
Deputy Assistant Commander for Acquisition
Naval Air Systems Command

9:05 Advances In Propulsion For Future Air Force Capabilities

Morning Keynote

  • New technology in turbine engines, power and alternative fuels
  • Battery and fuel cells for UAVs
  • Advancements in hypersonic capability

Douglas L. Bowers
Director, Propulsion Directorate
Air Force Research Lab

10:00 Networking Break In Expo Hall

10:50 Aviation Training & Transformation

  • Tactical combat training
  • Computer based training systems
  • Aviation simulators

Captain Darryl Long
Program Manager, PMA 205
NAVAIR

11:40 Plenary Panel: Future Outlook For Military Aviation

  • Strategic direction of the aviation community
  • What's on tap for military air assets?
  • Next generation UAS technology
COL Robert J. Sova
TRADOC Capability Manager for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence 		Dennis Lindell
Program Manager
Joint Aircraft Survivability Program 		Roy Rogers
Vice President
L-3 Geneva Aerospace

12:15 Lunch In Expo Hall

Track A: Maintenance Repair & Overhaul
Maintaining the Fleet		 Track B: Performance Based Logistics
Performing Award Winning PBL

1:20 Kiowa Warrior Program Update

  • Current fleet status
  • Near term fleet improvements and upgrades
  • Long term upgrades

Lieutenant Colonel Scott Rauer
Product Manager, Kiowa Warrior Program Executive Office
Aviation

1:20 Award Winning Performance Based Logistics In Aviation Common Support Equipment

  • PBL development, implementation and execution to improve warfighter support
  • Fault diagnosis and repair of avionic systems – current and future state
  • Achieving successful public-private partnership

Captain Mike Belcher
Program Manager
Aviation Support Equipment (PMA 260) NAVAIR

2:10 Reliability Center Maintenance

  • Strategies for identifying top degraders for weapons systems
  • Best practices to identify failure modes
  • How to appropriately mitigate challenges to optimize cost, performance & maintenance

Jason Lawler
Engineer, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research
Development and Engineering Center

2:10 Role Of PBL And Readiness

  • Importance of PBL as a supply chain mechanism
  • Appropriate planning for PBLs
  • Maintenance and lessons learned

2:55 Networking Break In Expo Hall

3:40 End Of Main Conference

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