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Defense Business Transformation: Audacity for Change
March 11, 2009
The Atlantic Council's Program on International Security co-hosted with the National Defense University a unique conference on the challenges of business transformation within the Department of Defense. Called "The Audacity for Change: Transforming the Way the Department of Defense Does Business," the conference brought together the wider defense community to examine the obstacles to organizational change within the DoD, perspectives on the current state of business transformation, as well as solutions that can chart a way ahead in this very difficult security climate of on-going operations, major procurement undertakings, and financial and fiscal crisis. The conference included presentations from OSD, the Combatant Commands, as well as industry and outside of government defense experts.
Media Coverage:
- Outside View: Don't let Pentagon implode – UPI, Harlan Ullman
Preliminary Agenda:
Day 1 – Tuesday, March 10
- 9:00 - Registration and Coffee
- 9:30 - Welcome
- 9:45-11:15 - Defining the problem
- 11:30-12:45 - Lunch with keynote speaker ADM James Stavridis, USSOUTHCOM (confirmed)
- 1:00-2:45 - Other perspectives on DoD Transformation:
- Moderator: David Oliver, EADS (confirmed)
- Brian Dailey, Lockheed Martin (confirmed)
- David Fisher, BTA (confirmed)
- John Barry, Newsweek (confirmed)
- Norman Ornstein, AEI (confirmed)
- 3:00-4:35 - A view from the Combatant Commands:
- Moderator: Hans Binnendijk, CTNSP, NDU (confirmed)
- VADM Ann Rondaeu, USTRANSCOM (confirmed)
- VADM Robert Moeller, USAFRICOM (confirmed)
- RADM Charles Martoglio, USPACOM (confirmed)
- 4:45-5:45 - Afternoon keynote speaker Gen Victor Reunart USNORTHCOM (confirmed)
- 6:15 - Reception
- 7:00-8:30 - Dinner with keynote speaker Senator John Kerry (invited)
Day 2 – Wednesday, March 11
- 08:30-10:00 DoD - Response to business transformation:
- Moderator: ADM Harry Ulrich, former Commander US Naval Forces Europe (confirmed)
- LTG Robert E. Durbin, US Army (confirmed)
- US Navy representative (invited)
- US Marine Corps representative (invited)
- Michael A. Aimone, US Air Force (confirmed)
- 10:15-12:00 - Recommendations:
- Moderator : ADM Sir Ian Forbes, former Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (confirmed)
- Richard Danzig, CSIS (confirmed)
- Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress (confirmed)
- Harlan Ullman, NDU (confirmed)
- GEN Jack Keane, Keane Advisors (invited)
- 12:15-13:30 - Lunch with final comments by ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (invited)
Conference Objectives:
- Inform the public on defense, national security, and transformation
- Evaluate the degree of the urgency for change, and test the basis for worry no matter how defined
- Examine transformation alternatives based on various degrees of urgency
Crucial Issues for Transforming the Way DoD Does Dusiness:
- Balancing requirements and priorities for big and small wars
- Balancing goals of ground, air and maritime superiority and forcible entry operations capabilities with more modest objectives
- Balancing priorities for big war systems with deployment of the bulk of the forces in stability and security operations
- Balancing risk between short and long term spending priorities
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