agenda
Last Updated: November 2, 2011
| Day 1/October 24/Monday | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome
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| 8:45 a.m. | Global Supply Chain Optimization: A Case Study 2011 presented a number of natural and political crises that dealt a blow to global supply chains -- from semiconductors to flat glass. In this case study from outside the aerospace and defense industry, we’ll hear about integration, mitigating risk and moving past a North America-centric model. Just as important, the case study will provide lessons learned -- how to leap past some of the problems and issues to a higher level of integration and performance.
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| 10:00 a.m. | Leaders Identify Top Supply Chain Issues of 2012 Supply chain may be one of the top career growth areas in aerospace and defense, but it also is a label applied to better than 80% of any program’s problems and a shared services entity responsible for assuring strategic fit and alliance of the far-flung chain. And the issues just keep coming. They range from getting the performance metrics right to assessing whether just-in-time supply strategies may have been taken just a bit too far. This panel of top tier leaders will discuss issues and challenges, and lessons they are learning to improve performance across the A&D sector.
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| 11:30 a.m. | Luncheon Sponsored by Arizona Commerce Authority |
| 1:00 p.m. | Suppliers Look at Driving Improved Quality, Performance While the top tier companies consistently look at how to gauge supplier quality and how to assure a transparent system to identify potential problems and risk, tier 2 and 3 suppliers have a fairly good sense of what is working from their perspective -- and what is not. Leaders from second and third-tier companies offer their own guidance as to how best to drive improvement throughout the supply chain.
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| 2:00 | Break |
| 2:15 p.m. | Lessons Learned: Global, Complex Teams and Supplier Relationships The leadership processes required to steer and guide performance in 2012 is vastly different than what was required just five years ago. Cutting cost while assuring quality and safety, simplifying the complex, and learning to interpret broad-scale events and their impact on execution. The supply chain leader of today must have a new set of competencies designed to assure the virtual team leans forward, delivering strategic quality to the overall performance of a company and its discrete program teams. Here are just a few of the hard-learned lessons of the past 18 months from the people who have lived them.
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| Day 2/October 25/Tuesday | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome
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| 8:45 a.m. | Feedback from Supply Chain Survey
Feedback from Supply Chain and Program Management Roundtables
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| 9:15 a.m | Investing in the Future: The Space Approach to R&D While the general public and industry clamor for a well-articulated mission for NASA, the agency is moving forward on creating the next vehicle to get us to the International Space Station and beyond. Our speaker will provide insight into the internal and external competitions already under way, and where NASA will be placing emphasis during the coming 18 months.
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| 9:45 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:00 a.m. | The Defense and Space Question: Can A&D Afford Not to Lead? During times of economic distress, political leaders become increasingly weary of war and impatient with the time required to bring new technologies into the fore. During the 2011 Aviation Week Executive Summit, industry leaders indicated the need to demonstrate a 10X change in affordability, reduce the time to bring technologies to market, and assure a healthy future based on “building things.” Join us for an open exchange of ideas led by some of the industry’s top space, defense and research leaders.
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| 11:00 a.m. | Lessons Learned in Program Leadership Whether it’s a sub-system or major platform, programs are finding ways to wipe action items off the offending and never-ending risk chart. In this session, we’ll hear from masters on how they are resolving the thorniest of issues and if they were to begin again today, what they might do differently.
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| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:15 p.m. | Program Volatility and Issues Two of the industry’s top experts take a close look at what is projected for the defense and space sectors in the coming 18 months in terms of milestones, challenges, the real meaning of affordability and -- most important -- risk and opportunity for the near-term.
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| 2:15 p.m. | Break |
| 2:30 p.m. | Systems Engineering: Program Performance Imperative Systems engineering is the overarching term for everything to how electro-mechanical systems integrate to how the entire supply chain engages around requirements decomposition through specifications. What is common across these definitions is the need to improve systems engineering to achieve major gains in program performance and affordability. In this session, speakers will examine
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| 3:45 p.m. | Adjourn |
| 7:00 p.m. | Program Excellence Awards Dinner |
| Day 3/October 26/Wednesday | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome
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| 8:45 a.m. | Investing in the Future: DoD Sets Strategy for Research & Engineering Initiatives As part of the process to ensure investment in capabilities for the future, the Defense Dept. has established a set of Priority Steering Committees and rapid-response initiatives. This session will provide an update on the priority steering committees and high value, high demand initiatives that represent opportunity for the future.
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| 9:15 a.m. | Top Issues Facing the Top Programs -- Preserving Industry Rotorwing Capability In the midst of budget cuts, it's becoming apparent that the industry and government will have to work closely to maintain capability in some critical areas. From ground vehicles to rotorwing aircraft, teams are moving forward initiatives to maintain strength in technologies and produce-ability.
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| 10:00 a.m. | Top Issues Facing the Top Programs - Remotely Piloted Vehicles Over the past decade, UAVs have dominated the discussion about new programs. Now, as funding challenges and highly volatile security environments continue to be a trademark of operations, the programs have gained increasing importance. Several of the industry leaders in what are now being called RPVs will share the challenges and issues being faced in the 18 months.
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| 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Top Issues Facing the Top Programs - Apache Development While the military is working a strategy for the future of rotorcraft , the Apache continues to spiral in new technologies to keep this program at the forefront of the warfighting arsenal.
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| 11:30 a.m. | Top Issues Facing the Top Programs - The Data Dilemma Assuring the integrity, security and usability of data has become a broad-sweeping requirement for the nation’s defense and space programs. And it represents one of the most difficult acquisition issues facing the industry - what should be given away, how do we truly secure our systems and infrastructure, and most importantly how do we mine the mountains of data to assure swift and sure decision-making?
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| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Top Issues Facing the Top Programs – How We’ll Get to Space From commercial satellites to defense to space exploration, getting to and beyond low earth orbit efficiently, at scale and at affordable cost is an absolute requirement. We’ll hear from three different organizations who are working the effort.
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| 2:30 p.m. | Close |
