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Chapter: Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1." National Research Council. 2015. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21752.
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Workshop Presentations and Participants

SESSION 1
NOVEMBER 4-5, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C.

Air Force Sponsor Perspectives

David Walker (SES), Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Science, Technology, and Engineering)

Expeditionary Combat Support System

Jeff Stanley (SES), Deputy Director, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Requirements Directorate, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command

Air Force Initiatives

Bud Boulter, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Science, Technology, and Engineering)

David Crawford, Principal Engineer, MITRE

T-X

Kevin Buckley (SES), Program Executive Officer

Col Peter Eide, Program Manager

Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Initiatives

Col Michael Meyer, Deputy Director for Engineering

Long-range Standoff Replacement

Ken Lockwood, Director of Engineering, Strategic Systems Division (AFLCMC/EBB)

Family of Advanced Beyond-Line-of-Sight Terminals

Thomas Kobylarz, Chief Engineer

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NOTE: The committee members (Appendix A) participated in all sessions of the workshop.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1." National Research Council. 2015. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21752.
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JSTARS Recapitalization

David Genovese, Director of Engineering, JSTARS Recap Program, Airworthiness Designated Technical Authority (AFLCMC/HBR)

Air Force Initiatives and Perspectives

HON William LaPlante, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)

OSD Initiatives and Perspectives

HON Katrina McFarland, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition)

Mr. Naim Awwad, Space and Missile Systems Center, Directorate of Engineering

Ms. Cynthia L. Schurr, SAF/AQRE

SESSION 2
DECEMBER 17-18, 2014
DAyTON, OHIO

AFMC and AFLCMC Initiatives and Perspectives

Susan Thornton (SES), Director of Engineering and Technical Management, Air Force Materiel Command

Jorge Gonzales, (SES), Engineering and Technical Management/Services Directorate, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center

AFMC Initiatives and Perspectives

Steven Zamparelli (SES) (AFMC/PK), Director of Contracting

Tom Robinson (SES) (AFLCMC/PK)

Tom Doyon (SES), Director of AFMC Law Office

Tanker Directorate (AFLCMC/WK)

Brig Gen Duke Richardson

Fighter-Bomber Directorate (AFLCMC/WW)

Col Robert Strasser, System Program Manager, B-2 Division

ISR and SOF Directorate (AFLCMC/WI)

Doug Atkinson, Chief Engineer, AFLCMC/WI

Dave Schairbaum, System Program Director, Combat Rescue Helicopter

AFLCMC Initiatives and Perspectives

Lt Gen John Thompson, Commander, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center

DCGS (AFLCMC/HB)

Col Raymond Wier, Chief, C2ISR Division

Dr. David E. Walker (SES), Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology, and Engineering, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Washington, D.C.

Col Chris Coombs, KC-46 System Program Manager, USAF

Col Douglas S. Martin, Reserve Adviser, DAS ST&E, SAF/AQR

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1." National Research Council. 2015. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21752.
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Col Mike Meyer, Deputy Director, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/EN-EZ

Col Chip Mosle, Chief, KC-46 Development and Production, USAF

Maj Brian Scozzaro, Tanker Directorate Executive Officer, USAF

Cap Jennifer Condon-Pracht, Chief, Tanker Program Execution Group, USAF

Mr. Naim Awwad, Systems Engineering, SMC/EN

Mr. Joe Baker, KC-46 Development Chief Engineer, USAF

Dr. Kenneth Barker, Senior Leader. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/EN-EZ

Mr. Luke Burke, Director of Engineering, USAF

Mr. Chris Fall, National Security and International Affairs, White House OSTP

Ms. Mary Beth Kundert, Chief, Configuration Management, USAF

Mr. Don Thompson, Deputy Air Force Program Executive Officer for Tankers, USAF

Mr. Larry Rogers, KC-46 Chief Engineer, USAF

Mr. Duane L. Sevey, AFLCMC/WIH, Combat Rescue Helicopter

Mr. John Slye, Tanker Directorate Chief Engineering, USAF

Mr. Bert Turner, Deputy, KC-46 System Program Manager, USAF

Philomena M. Zimmerman, Deputy Director, Engineering Tools and Environments, OSD (AT&L)/OASD (R&E)/ODASD (SE)

SESSION 3
JANUARy 20-22, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.

AEGIS

RADM Kathleen Paige (USN, Ret.), Former Director, AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense

Don Mitchell, Member of the Principal Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

F-35

Lorraine Martin, F-35 Executive Vice President and General Manager, Lockheed Martin

National Reconnaissance Office

Tina Harrington, Director, SIGINT Directorate

Professional Services Council

HON Stan Soloway, President and Chief Executive Officer

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1." National Research Council. 2015. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21752.
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Joint Light Tactical Vehicle

COL John Cavedo, Jr., Program Manager, Combat Support and Combat Service Support, U.S. Army

Combat and Mission Support

Robert Clarke, Deputy Program Executive Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)

Launch Test Range System

Col Janet Grondin, Chief, Range and Network Division (SMC/RN), Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center

Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) Advanced Extremely-High Frequency

John Morris, Chief Engineer, MILSTATCOM Systems Directorate, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center

F-35

Lt Gen Christopher Bogdan, U.S. Air Force, Program Executive Officer

Ohio Replacement

RADM Dave Johnson, PEO Submarines

Strategic Systems Programs

VADM Terry Benedict, Director

Air Force Life Cycle Management Center

Lt Gen John Thompson, Commander

Dr. David E. Walker (SES), Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology, and Engineering, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Washington, D.C.

Lt Col David Buchanan, Executive Officer, F-35 Joint Program Office

Capt Adam Brown, Executive Officer to Director, SIGINT Systems Acquisition, National Reconnaissance Office

Mr. Naim Awwad, Systems Engineering, SMC/EN

Mr. Kevin Keck, AZS Division Chief, USAF

Ms. Lynn Eviston, Director, Plans and Programs Directorate, USAF

Mr. Brian Laird, Chief Engineer, Launch Test Range System (SMC/RNSE), USAF

Mr. Peter Manternach, Deputy Chief Engineer, Joint Program Office, Joint Light Tactical Vehicles

1st Lt Rachel Milliron, Aide-de-Camp to the AFLCMC Commander, USAF

Mr. Rocky Reiners, SAF/AQR

Ms. Cindy Schurr, SAF/AQR

Lt Col Mike Taraborelli, Chief, Range Modernization Branch (SMC/RNG), USAF

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1." National Research Council. 2015. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21752.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1." National Research Council. 2015. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21752.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1." National Research Council. 2015. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21752.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Presentations and Participants1." National Research Council. 2015. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21752.
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The U.S. Air Force has experienced many acquisition program failures - cost overruns, schedule delays, system performance problems, and sustainability concerns - over program lifetimes. A key contributing factor is the lack of sufficient technical knowledge within the Air Force concerning the systems being acquired to ensure success.

To examine this issue, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition requested that the Air Force Studies Board of the National Research Council undertake a workshop to identify the essential elements of the technical baseline - data and information to establish, trade-off, verify, change, accept, and sustain functional capabilities, design characteristics, affordability, schedule, and quantified performance parameters at the chosen level of the system hierarchy - that would benefit from realignment under Air Force or government ownership, and the value to the Air Force of regaining ownership under its design capture process of the future. Over the course of three workshops from November 2014 through January 2015, presenters and participants identified the barriers that must be addressed for the Air Force to regain technical baseline control to include workforce, policy and process, funding, culture, contracts, and other factors and provided a terms of reference for a possible follow-on study to explore the issues and make recommendations required to implement and institutionalize the technical baseline concept. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force summarizes the presentations and discussion of the three workshops.

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