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2012-05-12

Acquisition Research: Creating Synergy for

Informed Change, Wednesday Schedule, May

16, 2012

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

http://hdl.handle.net/10945/51473

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NPS Acquisition Research Program Attn: James B. Greene, RADM, USN (Ret.) Acquisition Chair Graduate School of Business & Public Policy Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943-5103

Tel: (831) 656-2092 Fax: (831) 656-2253 E-mail: jbgreene@nps.edu www.acquisitionresearch.net

Conference Website: www.researchsymposium.org

ACQ!)ISITION RESEARCH: CREATING SYNERGY FOR INFORMED CHANGE

gTH ANNUAL ACQUISITION RESEARCH

SYMPOSIUM

WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE

MAY 16, 2012

6:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

Welcome: Dr. Keith F. Snider, 8:00 am Associate Professor, Graduate

School of Business and Public Policy

8:10 am Plenary Panel 1. Defense Affordability

Chair: Dr. Jacques S. Gansler, Director, Center for Public Policy & Private Enterprise, University of Maryland

Dr. Nancy Spruill, Director, Acquisition Resources & Analysis , Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics

Mrs. Eleanor R. Spector, Vice President, Prime Contract Management, Fluor Government Group

Mrs. Katrina McFarland, President, Defense Acquisition University

9:45am Break

Introduction: Daniel T. Oliver, 10:00 am VADM, USN (Ret.), President, Naval

Postgraduate School

Keynote: The Honorable Frank

10:10 am Kendall Ill, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics

11:00 am Break

Concurrent Panel Sessions Begin

Acquisition

Chair: Joseph L. Yakovac Jr., L TG, USA (Ret.), Senior Lecturer, NPS

System Definition­Enabled Acquisition-A Concept for Defining Requirements for Applying Mode/­Based Systems Engineering to the Acquisition of DoD Complex Systems

Paul Montgomery, Ron Carlson & John Quartuccio . NPS

Development and Extension of a Deterministic System of Systems Performance Prediction Methodology for an Acknowledged System of Systems

Richard Volkert, Carly Jackson. SSC-Pacific, Jerrell Stracener, & Junfang Yu , Southern Methodist Ur11v.

Multi-Objective Optimization of System Capability Satisficing in Defense Acquisition

Brian Sauser & Jose Ramirez­Marquez, Stevens Institute

Lunch

Acquisition Programs

Chair: Dr. Jomana Amara, Associate Professor. NPS

Data-Driven Monetization of Acquisition Risk

Katherine Morse & David Drake, ' The John Hopkins Ur11versity

Capability and Development Risk , Management in System-of-Systems Architectures: A j Portfolio Approach

1 to Decision-Making

Muharrem Mane . Navindran · Davendral1ngam l& Daniel Delaurentis, j Purdue University

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Addressing Risk in. the Acquisition Lifecyc/e With Enterprise Simulation

Doug Bodner, Georgia Tech

Chair: Elliott Branch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Acquisition & Procurement), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development & Acquisition)

Discussant: Lenn Vincent, RADM, USN (Ret.), Industry Chair, DAU

Contracting as a Science

David Lamm, NPS

The Case to Widen Defence Acquisition Research Paradigms

Kevin Burgess & David Moore, Cranfield University

Concurrent Panel Sessions Continue

Opportunities Within the DoD

Chair: Dr. Timothy Reed, Principal Director, Beyond Optimal Strategic Solutions

Too Big Not to Bundle? Examining Drivers for Consolidation of Navy Contracts

Max Kidalov, NPS

Improving the SBA 's Methodology for Setting Small Business Size Thresholds

Nancy Young Moore, Amy Cox, Lloyd Dixon, Clifford Grammich & Judith Mele, RAND

1:45 pm

3:15 pm

Panel 8. Assessing Defense Industry Health in a Constrained Fiscal and Global Context

Chair: James E. Thomsen, Principal Civilian Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development & Acquisition)

An Aerospace and Defense Industry Market Index for 1950-2012 and the Connection With Defense Spending

Robert Bruce Williamson, University of Tennessee

The Impact of Macroeconomic Forces and Changing Trade Winds on the Global Defense Industrial Base

Nayantara Hensel, National Defense University

Global Aerospace Industries: Rapid Changes Ahead? (Abridged)

Raymond Franck, Ira Lewis, NPS; & Bernard Udis, UC­Boulder

3:30 pm

5:00 pm

Panel 10. Acquisition Strategies for Software-Intensive Systems

Chair: Pat Sullivan, Executive Director, Program Executive Officer, Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence

Cross-Program Weapons System Software Acquisition Can Save Billions

Rick Brennan, Operational Systems Inc.

An Innovative Approach to Lower the Risk of Software Intensive Development Programs

Jeff Dunlap, BAE Systems

Software Strategy for the Defense Enterprise

John Robert, Software Engineering Institute

Panel 11. Getting 'the Front End Right in Major Defense Acquisition Programs

Chair: Lorna B. l Estep, Deputy Director of Logistics, Air Fo'rce Materiel Command

Discussant: Katherine Schinasi, Independent r

Consultant, former' Managing Director, U.S. Government Accountability Office

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Basis for a Rational Defense: Acquiring the Right Capability

J. David '. Patterson, University of Tennessee

Analysis of Alternatives: Keys to Success :1

John F. Schank, RAND ,

Panel 12. Revitalizing the Ship Design and Shipbuilding Process

Chair: Robert "Bob" G. Keane Jr., President, Ship Design USA Inc.

International Naval Technology Transfer: Lessons Learned from the Spanish and Chilean Shipbuilding Experience

Larrie Ferreiro, DAU

Total Ship Design Process Modeling

David Helgerson, CSC Advanced Marine Center; Seth Cooper, Gilbert Goddin, Daniel Billinglsey, Gene Allen & Sean Gallagher

Revitalization of Naval Surface Warfare Center: Excellence in Early Stage Combat System Engineering

Terence Sheehan, Mark Williams & Ashby Hall, NSWC Dahlgren

Monterey Social & Student Research Poster Show

Panel 13. Risk and Reward in Defense Contracting

Chair: The Honorable Brian Miller, Inspector General, U.S. General Services Administration

The Excessive Profits of Defense Contractors: Evidence and Determinants

Chong Wang & Joseph San Miguel, NPS

Fixed-Price Development Contracts: A Historical Perspective

William Lucyshyn, Jacques Gansler, & Jihaun Lu, University of Maryland

A Quantitative Risk Analysis of Deficient Contractor Business Systems

William Fast, NPS

SAVE THE DATE: 15-16 MAY 2013 1 oth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium