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Hear October 19 – 21, 2009
updates from: Washington, D.C., Metro Area
• Rear Admiral Thomas J. Moore, USN,
Deputy Director, Fleet Readiness, U.S. Navy 5 reasons why
• Captain Steven Kochman, USN, Program you can’t afford to miss this event:
Manager, EA-6B and AEA Products, U.S. Navy
• Hear how the Joint Strike Fighter Program is developing a
• Captain Paul Siegrist, USN, Assistant sustainment solution for a joint and international environment
Program Manager, Unmanned Undersea
Vehicles, Naval Sea Systems Command
• Understand the evolving shift for the F-22 to lifecycle
sustainment
• Terrence May, Director, 330th Aircraft
Sustainment Group, U.S. Air Force
• Be aware of modernization and maintenance plans for
the C-130
• John Adams, Director, 580th Aircraft
Sustainment Group, U.S. Air Force
• Gain insight into how the future of aviation lies in large
part in unmanned aircraft – hear perspectives on sustaining
• Marie Greening, Executive Director, DCMA these systems
Aeronautical Systems Division
• Be alert to DCMA Aeronautical requirements and
• Robert Dolan, Program Manager, contractual shifts
Sustainment, Joint Strike Fighter
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have the unique opportunity to interact
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leaders with job functions such as:
• Program Manager
• Life Cycle Manager
• Senior Logistician
• Supply Chain Manager
• Program Analyst
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future.
panels comprised of military and
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your position and competitive delegates with decision-making power
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opportunities. Meet with key decis from military, government and defense
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Internal System Sustainment
Get up-close and personal with experts who know how your platform’s internal systems
operate. Learn in a classroom-style setting about the latest advancements and best practices
needed in order to create more efficient and cost effective sustainment processes for these
critical internal components. Sessions include need-to-know topics such as:
Focus Day
•
Data acquisition for your legacy aircraft systems Monday, October 19, 2009
•
Management DMSMS – Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages
New methods for reducing or eliminating redundant expenditures
Sustainment Focus Day
•
8:45am – 9:30am Registration and Coffee
9:30am – 11:30am Learn about new paradigms in flight data acquisition that will
improve training, reduce operational costs, and extend airframe life!
Data Acquisition on Aging/Legacy Aircraft
Challenges associated with the extension of an airframes operational life, increasing the •
Learn about new paradigms in flight data acquisition, processing, and analysis
efficiency of aircraft operations, and maintaining fleet readiness may often be reduced to •
Have an opportunity to see hands-on demonstrations of new data acquisition products
an absence of information regarding individual aircraft performance and fleet-level
metrics. Over the past several years, advancements in integrated circuitry (Micro What you will learn about:
ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), a new generation of digital signal processors, etc), •
Inertial based data acquisition – design constraints, installation constraints, and
image processing algorithms, and analytical software have made it possible to capture technology benefits
tremendous quantities of data from legacy light turbine and piston aircraft. More •
Image Processing – how image recording can prevent the need to interface with
importantly, these technologies have made it possible to acquire this information very analog instrumentation
inexpensively and with limited installation complexity (even on fully analog aircraft). •
Heading Acquisition – reliable approaches to heading acquisition in high RF or
magnetic environments
How you will benefit:
•
Learn about design approaches that enable flight recorder installation in small and Session Leader:
aging airframes David Batcheller, Director, Product Development, Appareo Systems
Internal System
11:30am – 1:30pm Lunch will be served Make the most of your COTS electronics hardware and systems
by pro-active procurement and lifecycle management tactics!
Managing Technology and Part Obsolescence
Today’s aerospace and defense systems depend on Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) •
Streamline the procurement systems for obsolescence systems
electronic hardware and software. Unfortunately, COTS components generally have •
Hear pro-active management approaches
procurement and support lifetimes that are far shorter than the field lives of the
systems they are used in. This workshop will discuss the management of What you will learn about:
obsolescence (also known as DMSMS - Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and •
Gain the tools and data you need to better manage your systems
Material Shortages) in systems. Reactive, pro-active and strategic obsolescence •
The role of evolving technology in the process
management approaches, tools and data will be discussed. •
The principles of DMSMS – Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages
How you will benefit: Session Leader:
•
Explore root causes behind the need for optimizing your COTS electronic Dr. Peter Sandborn, Professor, Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering
hardware and software systems (CALCE), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland
1:30pm – 3:30pm Reduce costs and eliminate unnecessary expenditures by
Reduce or Eliminate Expenditures taking accountability of your programs lifecycle!
– The GIDEP Perspective
The Government Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP) is a cooperative activity management issues
between government and industry participants seeking to reduce or eliminate •
Learn how to leverage your resources though a partnership with GIDEP
expenditures of resources by sharing technical information essential during research, •
Find out if you are eligible for this
design, development, production, and operational phases of the life cycle of systems,
facilities and equipment What you will learn about:
•
Reducing or eliminating your expenditures
This is a general overview of GIDEP. We will discuss the purpose of the program, •
Benefits of shared technical information for the operational phase of your systems
how it operates, and what it offers, as well as some detail on eligibility, and lifecycle
participation. GIDEP Data - We will discuss what is available, how to access it, and •
Case study success stories of past applications of this process
success stories detailing how others have found it beneficial.
Session Leader:
How you will benefit: Karen Jackson, Training Manager, Government Industry Data Exchange
•
Understand the importance of shared technical information to streamline lifecycle Program (GIDEP)
3:30pm – 5:30pm Apply macro-level simulation models to your lifecycle management process!
Making MRO Operations Leaner
Today’s extended enterprises and supply chains are becoming increasingly complex. How you will benefit:
As a result, managers of large projects and programs have to allocate a growing •
Save time and energy on needless supply chain management issues
portion of their time and energy to supply chain management (SCM) issues in •
Hear tactics for adapting your approach to respond to uncertainty
addition to normal organizational management functions. For military maintenance,
repair, and overhaul (MRO) activities, this becomes even more difficult as they try to What you will learn about:
transform themselves into Lean operations because 20%-60% of the work generated •
Better enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and material
is actually discovered during the activity. Today’s approaches to enterprise resource forecasting
planning (ERP), SCM, and material forecasting are simply not capable of handling a •
Leaner operations for MRO activities
great deal of uncertainty or changing events. On this effort, viaSim proposes to •
Building macro-level simulation models for complex supply chains
develop an agent-based supply chain simulation tool called SimBLOX that will allow
users to build macro-level simulation models of complex supply chains with simple Session Leader:
drag-drop-connect functionality. J.Chris White, Principle, viaSim
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Main Conference
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Wednesday, October 21, 2009
7:15 Registration and Coffee 7:30 Registration and Coffee
8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks 8:15 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
8:30 Future Developments for the Navy’s Aircraft Fleet 8:30 Joint Strike Fighter - Developing a Sustainment
Opening Keynote
F-35 Joint Strike
Readiness Solution in a Joint/International Environment
•
Achieving fleet readiness goals •
The evolution of the JSF Sustainment solution
•
Plans and forecasts for best use of resources •
Risk mitigation steps to increase success
•
Examining new contracts and opportunities •
Challenges of PBL implementation in a Joint and International
Rear Admiral Thomas J. Moore, USN, Deputy Director, Fleet environment
Readiness, U.S. Navy Robert Dolan, Program Manager, Sustainment, Joint Strike Fighter
9:10 Examining the A-10 Thunderbolt Life-Cycle Program 9:10 Logistics Information Services, Products, and Tools which
Support Contract Support Weapon System Acquisition and Sustainment
DLA Update
•
Improving the process with better communications
•
Striving to support data interoperability, integration, and integrity
A-10 Update
•
From engineering services to additional manufacturing
•
Challenges and takeaways in creating, managing and
•
Identifying next steps and acquisition needs dissemination of supply item identification
Bill Moorefield, A-10 Program Manager, Boeing
•
Meeting customer’s needs with program management support
Steve Waltman, Director, Aircraft Sustainment & William Strough, Director, Logistics Information
Maintenance, Maintenance, Modifications & Upgrades Management, Defense Logistics Agency DLA
Division, Boeing
9:50 Networking Break
10:00 Networking Break
10:35 Shifting the Focus to Sustainment for the F-22
F-22 Update
10:45 EA-6B and ALQ-99 Maintenance and Support
•
The business strategy behind this key aircraft
EA-6B & ALQ-99 Update
Challenges - Critical War Fighting Assets with
•
Balancing resources between modernization and lifecycle sustainment
Indeterminate Program End Dates Major General Dennis Haines, USAF (Ret), Vice President,
•
Tools to project fatigue life remaining in airframe to support F-22 Sustainment, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
extension of program service life
•
Attacking critical component issues with a multifaceted approach 11:15 Spectrum of C-130 Sustainment
C-130 Depot
•
Building support for lifecycle funding to ensure future readiness
•
Implementing high velocity maintenance for the C-130H at WR-ALC
Captain Steven Kochman, USN, Program Manager, EA-6B and
•
C-130J heavy maintenance planning
AEA Products, U.S. Navy
•
Modernizing the C-130 fleet for the future
Terrence May, Director, 330th Aircraft Sustainment Group,
11:25 DCMA’s Role in Aircraft Sustainment U.S. Air Force
•
Improving logistics services by meeting needs of warfighter
•
Finding more efficient control systems 11:55 LUNCH
Marie Greening, Executive Director, DCMA Aeronautical
Systems Division 1:10 Platform Dissection Panel: A Full Picture of Lifecycle
Aviation Sustainment
•
Defining your role, challenges and opportunities for investment
12:05 LUNCH •
Process improvements between divisions
•
Streamlining communications
1:20 Common Avionics Systems Development
*Email sherryl.jacobs@idga.org for an updated list of panelists
•
Programs roadmap
representing multiple sides of aircraft sustainment
•
Avionics Architecture Development
•
Software/hardware integration
1:50 Aviation Capabilities - Integrated System Team (ACIST)
•
Current success and program opportunities
"System Thinking Pays Off"
Colonel Randy Rotte, USA, Deputy Director, Aviation •
Reducing acquisition and sustainment cost through leveraging
Taskforce, Army G/3
proven hardware/software solutions
•
Government led systems integration - Ensuring
2.00 AMCOM Maintenance, Support and Modification cost/schedule/performance effective execution
•
Condition based sustainment support Berk (Chris) Hoover, PMA209 Strategic Planning-Aircraft
•
Creating a framework readiness Integration Lead, Air Combat Electronics (ACE) Program Office
•
Communicating lifecycle needs efficiently
Representative from AMCOM 2:30 Networking Break
2:40 Networking Break 3:00 Marine Aviation Training System (MATS)
•
Efforts to more efficiently manage, schedule, maintain, and
3:10 Sea Unmanned Systems Perspective and Structure operate aviation training systems and resources
UAS Update
•
Why the future of aviation is unmanned •
Synchronizing and streamlining across the service
•
Sustainment challenges and opportunities LtCol Luis E. Villalobos, USMC, Marine Corps Aviation Weapons
•
Identifying similarities and new opportunities for sustainment Systems Requirements APW-71, ATS, Training and Simulation
Captain Paul Siegrist, USN, Assistant Program Manager, LtCol David Owen, USMC, Deputy Program Manager/Marine
Unmanned Undersea Vehicles, Naval Sea Systems Command Corps Department Head for NAVAIR PMA-205MC
3:50 Taking Aircraft Availability to the Next Level 3:40 Updating Legacy Systems
•
How sustainment prepares for greater warfighter security •
Handling behind the scenes roadblocks
•
Role in shaping policy and reforming the future of sustainment •
Path toward modernization
Rob Weiss, Executive Vice President, Global Sustainment, John Adams, Director, 580th Aircraft Sustainment Group, U.S.
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Air Force
4:30 End of Day One 4:20 End of Main Conference
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