Conference Day Two: Wednesday, December 9, 2009

7:30 Registration And Coffee

8:00 Welcome And Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:15 Army-Marine Corps Logistics Interoperability Demonstration

  • Linking Army STAMIS to GCSS-MC to facilitate interoperability
  • Linking live platform information, via FBCB2 JCR, to Army STAMIS and
  • GCSS-MC
  • Enabling/supporting the development of joint net-centricity on the battlefield

Grady Embrey
AMLID Project Lead, Logistics Innovation Agency
US Army

8:55Providing Logistics Guidance And Technical Support To The U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) Units And Subordinate Commands - A Forecast From The G-4

MG Raymond Mason, USA
G-4 Deputy Chief of Staff
FORSCOM (Incoming)

9:35 Networking Break

10:20 US Army Vehicle Maintenance Training For The 21st Century

  • Current innovations in maintenance training; increasing the use of virtual training tools
  • The US Army Ordnance Mechanical Maintenance School's curriculum migration from task Based training to skills based training
  • Systems based training devices; reducing the wheeled vehicle footprint in the Ordnance Mechanical Maintenance School

COL Dan J. Reilly
USA, Commander, 61st Ordnance Brigade & Commandant
US Army Ordnance Mechanical Maintenance School

11:00 Maintaining And Expediting Equipment, Supplies, And Systems To Our Forces Around The World

  • Providing logistics and maintenance expertise to the Army
  • Ensuring logistically supportable equipment is produced and fielded
  • Reducing logistics footprint

Michael J Toal
Deputy Director Materiel System Directorate
Combined Arms Support Command

11:40 Lunch

1:00 Current Capabilities In Prognostics & Diagnostics

  • Prognosis of dynamic components
  • Novel algorithms for feature detection
  • Classic data fusion techniques for RUL estimation

Dr. Romeo del Rosario
Chief, Electronics Technology Branch; ATO Manager, Prognostics & Diagnostics
Army Research Laboratory

1:40 Advances In Gear Manufacturing And Repair

  • Recent developments in the manufacture and repair of vehicle transmission components
  • Enhancing the durability of these systems
  • Reducing the cost of ownership, over the life of the system.

Dr. Suren B. Rao
Senior Scientist and Head, Drivetrain Technology Center, Applied Research Laboratory
Penn State University

2:20 Networking Break

2:50 Improvements In Armor On Legacy Vehicle Platforms

  • Tile configuration and design limitation and capabilities
  • Testing conducted during the qualification phase
  • Mount and dismount on the vehicle and packing configurations to make it easier for the soldier in the field
  • The retrograde kit and return kit from the field after deployment

Khaled Y. Darwish
Vehicle Protection System - ARAT Team Leader

3:30 Implementation Of Best Maintenance Practices In The Development Of The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)

  • Commonality
  • Design for maintainability and reliability
  • Diagnostics & limited prognostics
  • Autonomic logistics

Byron V. Chapman
Ground Wheeled Vehicles Capabilities Integration Officer, Capabilities, Development & Integration
Marine Corps Combat Development Command

4:10 End Of Main Conference