2012 MRO Military Conference Agenda
Last updated: January 30, 2012
| PRE-CONFERENCE DAY – Monday, April 2, 2012 | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | Golf Tournament (additional fee) | |
| PRE-CONFERENCE DAY – Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | ||
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration Opens | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Seminars (additional fee):
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| 12:00 p.m. | Seminars End | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Exhibition Hall Opens | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Cocktail Hour in the Exhibition Hall | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Registration & Exhibition Hall Close | |
| 7:30 p.m. | MRO Reception (additional fee) | |
| CONFERENCE DAY ONE – Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | ||
| 7:00 a.m. | Registration Opens | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome
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| 8:45 a.m. | Priorities, Policies, Issues As the Defense Department shifts to a new reality of limited funding and demand for improved cost, it’s imperative to sort out achievable priorities from an enterprise perspective. Mr. Johns will cover:
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| 9:15 a.m. | Commanders’ Table In back-to-back presentations, military commanders will outline requirements and priorities for sustaining, maintaining, repairing, and resetting the nation’s weapon system assets.
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| 9:15 a.m. | US Army | |
| 9:45 a.m. | US Navy
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| 10:15 a.m. | US Air Force
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| 10:30 a.m. | Exhibition Hall Opens | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. | The MRO Forecast There’s a strong sense that business is contracting. Here are the real numbers, on a global basis, for where the dollars are in the MRO Military marketplace.
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| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:30 p.m. | Defense Business Board Study: Implications for the MRO Community The Defense Business Board has made recommendations to optimize global logistics management, from organizational structure to reducing overhead and managing enterprise-wide logistics. Here’s an update on how the recommendations have been integrated and accepted.
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| 2:00 p.m. | Making it Work While the government customer scales back demand and structure, industry leaders are working to adjust how they provide service to Warfighters. These case studies were identified as part of Aviation Week’s Program Excellence initiative.
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| 2:05 p.m. | Using a Global Customer Base to Achieve Efficiencies
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| 2:35 p.m. | Integrating the Supply Chain to Deliver Warfighter Value
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| 3:05 p.m. | Innovative Practices for a PBL Program
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| 3:35 p.m. | Lessons Learned In Driving out Inefficiency, Driving in Effectiveness
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| 4:05 p.m. | End of Conference Day One | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Cocktail Hour in the Exhibition Hall | |
| 5:30 p.m. | Exhibition Hall Closes | |
| CONFERENCE DAY TWO – Thursday, April 5, 2012 | ||
| 7:30 a.m. | Registration Opens | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome
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| 8:45 a.m. | Making Business Sense While customers are redefining the work and processes to acquire MRO, business leaders have some ideas of their own on how to drive out cost, provide quality service meeting the readiness demand, and stay in business.
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| 9:30 a.m. | Exhibition Hall Opens | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:15 a.m. | Depot Commanders Report Depot Commanders feel the pinch – from the warfighters’ requirements to the policies and regulations put in place to work as partners with industry. This panel will look at how they are addressing change and specific pain points they face during the coming 18 months -- from right-sizing to affordability to complexity.
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| 11:15 a.m. | Program Updates Leaders will provide overview of how they are approaching long-term sustainment on programs that face continued intense scrutiny. The program reviews include an unmanned vehicle, the F-35 and the all-new tanker program.
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| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch Keynote Speaker While the focus of MRO Military is on achieving readiness at a cost that is viable in the current economic environment, more important is the nature of the work we do -- providing support to warfighters. Our special guest will provide a look from the front lines -- what we are achieving, and pivotal challenges with the dynamic and volatile environment.
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| 2:00 p.m. | End of Conference | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Exhibition Hall Closes | |
