Conference Day One: Tuesday, December 8, 2009

7:15 Registration And Coffee

8:00 Welcome And Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:15 Keynote: Challenges Of Delivering A Ready Army By Providing The Best Logistics Capabilities, Policies, And Programs

MG Robert Radin
USA
Deputy Chief of Staff G-4 / Logistics (Incoming)

8:55 Managing, Executing, Overseeing, Integrating, And Improving The Ground Equipment Supply Chain

  • Marine Corps ground supply chain management improvement
  • Maintenance planning and execution
  • OIF/OEF support

Michael A. Williamson
C.P.L. Director, Supply Management Center, Marine Corps Logistics Command
USMC

9:35 Networking Break

10:20 The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development And Engineering Center Briefing On Survivability And Mobility

  • Ground system power and mobility
  • Ground system survivability
  • Intelligent ground systems
  • Modeling and simulation, testing, and validation

Dr. Grace Bochenek
Director
TARDEC

11:00 Managing Logistics Missions In Support Of Current And Future ANG Operations

  • Identifying and resolving equipment and maintenance problems and materiel readiness issues for combatant commands
  • Matching materiel to mission and assuring logistics readiness in the Army National Guard Force Generation process
  • Maintaining accounts for and managing combat equipment and supplies

COL Clark Presnell
Chief of Logistics
Army National Guard

11:40 Lunch

1:00 Optimization Of TWV Handling Using Full Scale Hardwarein- The-Loop Simulation

  • Facility description and capabilities of ATC's roadway simulator
  • OIF/OEF success stories in developmental testing
  • Expansion of facility and methodology to component characterization of tires, springs & dampers

Dr. William C. Frazer
Division Chief Automotive Instrumentation Aberdeen Test Center

1:40 New Reliability And Availability Improvement Policies And Their Implementation

  • New Army and DoD reliability growth policies
  • New availability policy
  • ATEC's approach to policy implementation

Dr. Michael Cushing
Acting Director, Reliability & Maintainability Directorate
Army Test and Evaluation Center

2:20 Networking Break

3:05 Autonomic Logistics Supporting Tactical Combat Vehicles - Update

  • USMC autonomic logistics
  • Fielding embedded sensors and processors onto LAV, AAV, and MTVR’s
  • Results of operational field testing and evaluation

Eddie Crow
Head, Systems and Operations Automation Division
Penn State University Applied Research Laboratory

3:45 Overarching Logistics Vision And Policy

  • Transportation
  • Facilities management
  • Supply and maintenance
  • Procedure innovation and modernization

Valerie Wimberly
Logistics Management Specialist
HQ US Army Corps of Engineers

4:25 End Of Day One

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