Managing the Competing Challenges of the Immediate Fight
Date : 12 Feb 2008 - 13 Feb 2008
Location : Washington, DC, United States
Venue : National Press Club
Organisation : AVIATION WEEK
Type event : Conference
Category : Aerospace, Aviation, Defence, Security
DT&R is the premier conference to address the impact of combat doctrines, requirements, funding, and program "winners and losers".
DT&R 2008: Managing the Competing Challenges of the Immediate Fight
Re-setting and growing Army and USMC to ensure both readiness and strategic reserve; and ensuring ability of USAF and Navy to deter & compel strategic competitors such as China.
Join us as DoD Leaders Define Tech Priorities & the Resources to Develop Them!
Key challenges include:
- Maximizing force protection & survivability in immediate combat operations
- Rebuilding readiness of Army, and secondarily USMC
- Strategy for re-setting both worn equipment & replacing combat losses
- Funding end-strength increase for Army, and secondarily USMC
- Ensuring Army readiness, end-strength, and combat capability, as Strategic Reserve to guard against potential future conflicts
- Growing USAF airborne, and Navy sea-based, capability to deter & compel future strategic competitors
A MUST ATTEND for:
- Defense industry product/business segment leaders
- Product/business segment staff members
- Business and technology development leaders
- Government relations leaders
Gain unique insights into how the U.S. Department of Defense and Congress plan to spend development & procurement dollars - the priorities, the refresh opportunities, and what programs move to the back burner in this process. Aviation Week's Defense Technology & Requirements Conference will be a first-look analysis of the 200 DoD program tradeoffs on current and future requirements.
USAF challenges include:
- Recapitalization of the aerial refueling tanker fleet to project power globally
- Decisions over upgrading versus fresh production of strategic airlift capability
- Technical & cost tradeoffs against schedule urgency in Combat-Search-and-Rescue mission
- Inherent-affordability concerns in parallel production of "fifth-generation" tactical aircraft
Navy challenges include:
- Credibility concerns among Congress from recent cost growth in Shipbuilding programs
- Outyear-budget risks from initiation of lead-ship production of multiple ship-classes simultaneously
- Potential risk of Nunn-McCurdy breaches in select aircraft programs
Army & USMC challenges include:
- Emergency adaptation of comprehensive Force Protection solutions, to react to "thinking enemy" in OIF
- Transition to next-generation "network" & C4ISR "enablers" during active war
- Clarifying immediate re-set & accelerated equipping of a growing force, versus longer-term recapitalization for full-spectrum capability
- Aggressively managing both risk-reduction & development schedule in anticipation of affordability "glass ceilings" in these manpower-intensive services
Speakers:
- Honorable Neil Abercrombie, United States House of Representatives
- VADM David Architzel, United States Navy
- William M. Balderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Air Programs
- Paul Bogosian, Program Executive Officer, Army Aviation
- Rear Admiral Stanley D. Bozin, Director, Officer Of Budget, Department of the Navy
- Brigadier General Michael M. Brogan,Commander, Marine Corps Systems Command
- Gen. Bruce Carlson, Commander, Air Force Materiel Command
- Major General Charles A. Cartwright, Program Manager, Future Combat Systems (FCS) Brigade Combat Team (BCT)
- General James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps
- LTG Raymond Johns, USAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans & Programs
- Congressional Rep. John Murtha, Chairman House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense
- MG Jeffrey Reimer, Air Force Program Executive Officer for the F-22 Program, USAF
- Lieutenant General Stephen M. Speakes, Deputy Chief of Staff, Unites States Army
- Major General Larry O. Spencer, Budget Deputy Assistant Secretary (SAF/FMB), US Air Force
- Congressman Gene Taylor, Chairman Seapower and Expeditionary Forces, House Armed Services Committee
- Michael W. Wynne, Secretary of the Air Force
Advisory board:
- Jimmie Adams, President, Washington Operations, L-3 Communications
- Jerry Agee, President, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
- Carole Rickard Hedden, Managing Editorial Director, AVIATION WEEK Strategic Media
- James McAleese, McAleese & Associates
- Anthony L. Velocci, Editor-in-Chief, AVIATION WEEK
More Information: http://www.asdevents.com/event.asp?ID=171
