Defense Logistics Modernization

Information Systems for the 21st Century

Friday, Apr 2, 2010

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Future defense budgets will be squeezed more tightly and DoD will come under growing pressure to enhance efficiency and save taxpayer money. Logistics account for well over one-fourth of the defense budget, including nearly $7 billion spent to date on fourteen modern information-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Logistics will be a key area for saving money even as demands grow to improve performance to support DoD missions. The QDR hints at this dynamic: “U.S. Transportation Command is spearheading efforts to improve distribution service levels across the full spectrum of operations in order both to improve end-to-end supply chain velocity and to reduce supply chain costs.”

In recent years DoD and its components have made steady and important progress in modernizing logistics business systems including the deployment of ERP systems. Like the global business community, however, DoD must move toward more interoperable and interdependent systems which combine multiple functions and it must transform the processes of organizations so that new technology is not laid over inefficient processes. The Forum will address how DoD can surmount key challenges in organization, systems, and governance, and how to accelerate efforts to save money and reduce the remaining performance gap between defense and commercial logistics operations.

Agenda

8:00am-8:30am	Breakfast Reception
8:30am-8:40am	Issue Overview and Introduction John Hamre President & CEO, CSIS
8:40am-9:30am	Keynote Speaker Ash Carter Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition Technology and Logistics (AT&L), Department of Defense
9:30am-10:40 am*	Panel I: Logistics Enterprise Resource Planning – Lessons Learned Moderated by General John Handy USAF (Ret.), Former Commander, USTRANSCOM Kevin Carroll President, The Kevin Carroll Group, LLC, Former Program Executive Officer, Enterprise Information Systems, USA David Fisher, Director, Business Transformation Agency (BTA)
10:40am-10:50am	Networking Break
10:50am-11:50 am*	Panel II: Logistics Enterprise Resource Planning Transformation – The Way Ahead Moderated by Dr. Jacques Gansler Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise, University of Maryland and Former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics LTG Daniel Brown (Ret.), Vice President, Logistics Center of Excellence, CSC, and Former Deputy Commander, USTRANSCOM BG Barbara Doornink (Ret.), Senior Vice President/Operations Manager, Joint Integrated Logistics and Transportation Solutions Operation, Science Applications International Corporation and Former Deputy Commanding General and Director of Operations for Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, USA
11:50 am-12:05pm	Lunch
12:05pm-1:00pm	Keynote Speaker Introduction Austin Yerks President, Defense Group, CSC Former Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA) Director of Federal Government Affairs, Deloitte & Touche LLP
	Hosted by David J. Berteau Director, Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS