On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, the Atlantic Council and National Defense University’s Center for Technology and National Security Policy presented a one-day conference on the stakes and status of DOD business transformation. The conference was on behalf of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation. The remarks of conference participants are summarized in the links below.

• Summary of Conference
• John H. Young, Jr., Transforming the Way DoD Does Business: Are We “Going Global”?
• Gerard M. Mauer, Jr. RDML, USN (Ret), Transforming the way DoD Does Business: Confronting the Obstacles
• Dr. Leanne Viera, The Globally Integrated Enterprise
• Bryan N. Sparling Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Rethinking SOUTHCOM
• Dr. Ron Ritter, AFSO21: Air Force Smart Ops for the 21st Century
• Jim Brice, Lean Six Sigma
• Mr. Mike Kirby Deputy Under Secretary of the Army, Business Transformation for an Expeditionary Army at War
• LCDR Michael J. Weaver(USN) OSD POLICY, The 2006 QDR Construct