Appendix E
Briefings to the Committee
JUNE 30, 2008
Lt. Gen. Charles E. Croom, Jr., DISA—Opening Remarks
Steven Hutchison, DISA—Charge from the Sponsor
Steven Hutchison, DISA—Testing and Evaluation for Information Technology
Martin Gross, DISA—View from the Component Acquisition Executive
Becky Harris, DISA—Net-Centric Enterprise Services
Dave Bennett, DISA—Program Executive Office for Command and Control Capabilities
Robert Gorman, Mark Orndorf, Luanne Overstreet, Jimaye Sones— DISA Panel
Dan Sturman, Google—Beta Testing of Google Services
Dave Aland, Wyle—Evaluating 1A, Measuring More Than Failure
Timothy J. Harp, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3ISR&IT Acq)
JULY 1, 2008
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ronald Kadish, Booz-Allen—Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment (DAPA) Study
William Johnson, Program Executive Office of Integrated Warfare Systems—ARCI-A Historical Perspective
AUGUST 12, 2008
Martin Gross, DISA Component Acquisition Executive (by telephone)
SEPTEMBER 11, 2008
Tony Montemarano, DISA Component Acquisition Executive—GIG Bandwidth Expansion and DOD Acquisition
John Garing, DISA Chief Information Officer
Randy Hite, Government Accountability Office—Overview of GAO’s Report on Global Combat Support System—Marine Corp
Nancy Spruill, OSD—Defense Acquisition from a Management Perspective
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
Martin Westphal and Alex Urrutia, Joint Force Command—Command and Control Capability Portfolio Management
Mike Krieger, Deputy CIO, United States Army
Robert Gorman, DISA General Counsel
Mark Drapeau, National Defense University
DECEMBER 8, 2008
Jacques Gansler, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics—DOD I.T. Acquisition
Steve Kelman, Former Director, Office of Federal Procurement Policy
John Goodenough, committee member—Site Visit Report
Bruce Amato, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Acquisition and Technology—DOD Software and Systemic Issues and Recommendations
David Wennergren, DOD Deputy Chief Information Officer
Stuart Starr, National Defense University—Actions to Enhance the Use of Commercial Information Technology in DOD Systems
Don Johnson, Defense Science Board—Challenges in Acquisition Technology
John Stenbit, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration
DECEMBER 9, 2008
Ron Jost, OSD—Network Centric Capability Portfolio
JANUARY 30, 2009
John Landon, Vice President-Missiles, Technology and Space Programs, Northrop Grumman (former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Information Technology Acquisition in OSD)
Priscilla Guthrie, Director of the Information Technology and Systems Division, Institute for Defense Analyses (former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of CIO)
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Keith Seaman, Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive— Tranformational Times: Facing the Challenges (teleconference)
Mike Dettman, U.S. Navy—PEO C4I Program
Dan Sturman, Google—Agile Development with Large Teams
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
Timothy J. Harp, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3ISR&IT Acq)—A New Model for IT Acquisition in DOD
