8:30 am

Welcome

8:40 am

Budget Update/Better Business 2.0

Between Better Buying Power and changes to FAR12 contracting, QDR and budget planning -- what are the overall objectives and how can the Defense enterprise inject speed, smart buying, and innovation into a system that seems to grow more complex at every turn?

9:30 am

Break

9:45 am

The Innovation Challenge

While budgets reshape and draw down, the challenge is establishing what is most needed to keep technology moving across the space and defense sector. In this session we’ll hear what the future could and should look, what’s helping and just as important – what is not.

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

So How Real Is It

An A&D Programs Conference tradition, we’ll call upon some of the top analysts who follow our industry to get their take on the reality versus the hype.

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

Industrial Base – Will It Survive?

This in-depth look examines where the pain is highest, where the balance of commercial/defense is offsetting loss, and where loss of unique capabilities threatens future plans. Will commercial companies continue to take risk with government agencies? We’ll also look at where opportunity is taking hold – the all new, the big, and the bold.

1:45 pm

Small Companies To Watch

Technologies and processes from small companies stretch across multiple industries. Here are some of those that Aviation Week identified in a recent research effort, and we’ll work to see how many can weather the aerospace and defense storm.

2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Navigating through Sequestration

No challenge has been greater for government contractors than dealing with budget uncertainties and the prospect of massive change in contracts and requirements. Many companies “baked in” plans to deal with the worst-case scenario, while those with more flexibility had alternative plans in place. In this session we’ll hear how organizations of varying size dealt with and still are dealing with critical budget changes.

• Phil Dunford, COO, Boeing Military Aircraft
• Robert Haag, VP/GM Communication and Navigation Products, Rockwell Collins
• Mike Madsen, President, Honeywell Defense & Space

4:00 pm

End of Day One

8:30 am

Welcome

8:40 am

Program Leadership – Future State

9:15 am

Getting it Right: Apply Speed and Agility to Change Course

Panelists to be chosen from 2013 Program Excellence nominations and announced September 1st.

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Program Review: Manned Flight

12:00 pm

Program Review: Cyber Security

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Program Review: Space Exploration

2:00 pm

Program Review: Unmanned Flight  

2:30 pm

Engineering the Future

Findings of the Aviation Week/ICF I survey on engineering capability and capacity

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Resolving the System Integration Tempest

Panelists will be selected from the 2013 Program Excellence Nominations and will be announced September 1st.

3:45 pm

The Talent Crunch

Advisory Board members will provide an overview of Aviation Week’s Workforce Study – the talent, challenges, and issues we face in meeting program requirements.

4:15 pm

They are Our Future

A group of young professionals will share what they believe to be the challenges, the successes, and the concerns of the future.

5:00 pm

End of Conference

6:00 pm

Program Excellence Reception (separate registration required)

7:00 pm

Program Excellence Banquet (separate registration required)

9:00 pm

End of Event