Government Contract Management Conference 2010 - Schedule & Events

General Session Panel: Reforming Contracting: Building Acquisition Workforce Capacity through Procurement Best Practices (Regency CD CTR EF)

• Steve Kelman, Fellow, Ph.D., Weatherhead Professor of Public Management at Harvard University; 
• Soraya Correa, Director, Office of Procurement Operations; 
• Michael Thompson, Director of Enterprise Business Systems, ACC; and
  
• Cathy Read, Director of Acquisitions Management, OLM

• David J. Berteau, Senior Advisor and Director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Steve Schooner, Fellow, Nash & Cibinic Professor of Government Contracts Law, GWU Law School
• Karen Wilson, Director of Acquisition Policy and Industrial Affairs, The Boeing Company
• Mathew Blum, Associate Administrator, Office of Federal Procurment Policy 

Breakout Sessions (4)

• Update on the Defense Budget (Potomac 3/4)
  Jim McAleese, President, McAleese and Associates, LLP
  
  
• And...the Rules-of-the-Road on the Promulgation of Government Contract Clauses/Regulations Are...? (Potomac 5/6)
  Charles Rumbaugh, Private Dispute Resolution Arbitrator/Private Judge/Mediator/ADR Consultant
  
  
• Sharing the Benefits of a Shared Service Model (Washington Room)
  Patricia E. Healy,Executive Consultant, CGI, Chris Hamm, Jay S. Miller, and John Pientka
  
  
• AbilityOne Contract with DOD for Closeout Services (Potomac 1/2)
  Dave Theimer, Assistant Vice President Marketing, NISH

Lunch Break with Guest Speaker (Regency CD CTR EF)

• Daniel I. Gordon, Administrator, OMB Office of Federal Procurement Policy

Breakout Sessions (4)

• What’s New in. GAO Bid Protests (Potomac 3/4)
  Ralph O. White, Managing Associate General Counsel for Procurement Law, Government Accountability Office (GAO)
  
  
• What it Means To be the Trusted Business Advisor in Federal Acquisition (Potomac 5/6)
  Lisa Doyle, Chancellor, VA Acquisition Academy
  
  
• To Ask or Not To Ask: What is the Question?—Sponsored by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) (Washington Room)
  Eric Gregory, Senior Vice President Capture and Proposal Development, CACI
  
  
• Cost Estimating and Risk Analysis as Tools for Contract Management—Sponsored by the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis (SCEA) (Potomac 1/2)
  Peter J. Braxton, CCEA, Senior Cost Analyst, Technomics, Inc.
  

Breakout Sessions (4)

• Constructive Changes (Potomac 3/4)
  Michelle Currier, CFCM, CPCM, Fellow, Professor, Defense Acquisition University
  
  
• Managing Large Federal Health Care Contracts Like TRICARE and MEDICARE (Potomac 1/2)
  Iris Cooper, CPCM, Fellow, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Department of Veterans Affairs; Dan Kane, Acting Director, Office of Acquisition and Grants Management, CMS; and Karen Jackson, Director of Contractor Management Group
  
  
• Audits, Audits, Audits - Managing Relations Between Contracting Officers, Auditors and Contractors (Potomac 5/6)
  Greg Bingham, Vice President, The Kenrich Group LLC; and Rich Rector, Partner, DLA Piper (Presentation Notes)

• Source Selection, Executive Program Analyst, Kepler Research, Inc. and Alexander Grandados, Source Selection Manager, CACI, Inc.  (Washington Room)
  

Keynote Presentation: A CEO's Perspective on .National Imperatives (Regency CD CTR EF)

• Paul M. Cofoni, President and Chief Executive Officer, CACI

General Session Panel: Federal Acquisition Legislation Update (Regency CD CTR EF)

• Molly Wilkinson, Republican Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
• Alan Chvotkin, Fellow, Executive Vice President and Counsel, Professional Services Council
• Mary Ellen Fraser, Of Counsel, McKenna Long & Aldridge, LLP

Breakout Sessions (3)

• Succeeding in the Acquisition Profession - How to's from Leaders in our Field—Sponsored by the NCMA Women's Forum (Potomac 3/4)
  Kate Vitasek, Founder, Supply Chain Visions and Lead Researcher on Vested Outsourcing, Faculty, Center for Executive Education, University of Tennessee; Angela Styles, Partner, Crowell and Moring, and prior head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy; Lesley Field, Deputy Director of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy
  
  
• Creating Mastery: Negotiating in the World of Neuroscience (Potomac 5/6)
  Jim Camp, CEO And Founder, Camp Negotiation Systems® and Bruce Lewolt, CEO, BrainX
  
  
• MDA's BRAC Experiences (Potomac 1/2)
  Barney Klehman, Director of Contracts, Missile Defense Agency
  
  
• The Great Divide: 2010 Acquisition Policy Survey (Washington Room)
  Lou Crenshaw, Executive Director, Defense and Intelligence Sector of Grant Thornton's Public Sector Group

Lunch Break with Guest Speaker (Regency CD CTR EF)

• Kate Vitasek, Founder, Supply Chain Visions and Lead Researcher on Vested Outsourcing, Faculty, Center for Executive Education, University of Tennessee

General Session Panel: Government and Industry Relations—Working Together to Get Through Tough Times (Regency CD CTR EF)

• Dr. Carol E. Lowman, Deputy Director, U.S. Army Contracting Company
• Steve Weiss, Executive Vice President, Government Business Operations, CACI
• Nick Nayak, Ph.D., Chief Procurement Office, Department of Homeland Security
• Ron Wester, Deputy Director of Contracts, U.S. Forest Service