Main Summit Day Two: Wednesday, November 19, 2008

8:15 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:25 Accelerating Innovative Technology For Lightweight Vehicles (Keynote)

• Best practices applied for the development, engineering, and analysis of warfighter systems
• Developing emerging technologies to field the right equipment in the shortest time possible

COL Mike Flanagan, USA
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (G3)
RDECOM

9:05 Making Total Lifecycle Systems Management a Reality

• War-time mission needs have exposed the importance of designing effective, adaptive systems for maximum readiness.
• Designing, engineering, manufacturing & sustaining multiple variants of complex weapon systems
• Product lifecycle management tools

LTG (R) Roy E. Beauchamp
Former Deputy Commanding General
Army Materiel Command

Mike Hannan
Business Development Manager
PTC

10:40 Stryker Modernization (Stryker Brigade Focus)

• Evaluating enabling technologies
• Maintaining 10 variant commonality
• Enhancing while fighting

LTC Stuart Meyer, USA
Product Director for the Stryker Mobile Gun System and Stryker Nuclear Biological Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle
Stryker Brigade Combat Team

11:15 Preparing The Army And Its Strykers For Combat (Stryker Brigade Focus)

• Focused collections for CALL on the vehicle and the brigade structure
• Analysis, dissemination, integration, and archiving of new concepts for the Stryker

David Bialas
Chief, Integration Division, Center for Army Lessons Learned
US Army Combined Arms Center

1:15 Army-Marine Logistics Interoperability Demonstration (Logistics Interoperability)

• (AMLID), Enabling Platform/Logistics Systems Interoperability
• • Developing the Demonstration thru Joint Architecture
• • Integrating Army-USMC Platform Logistics Systems
• • Enhancing the COP thru Automation

Jeffrey N. Simmons
Logistics Innovation Agency (LIA)
Exploration Group, US Army

1:55 Exceeding Warfighter Requirements: Ground Combat Virtual Training Devices (Training and Simulation)

• Stryker Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) Basic Skills Trainer (BST)
• Stryker Maintenance Training System (MTS)
• Stryker Mobile Gun System (MGS) Advanced Gunnery Training System (AGTS)

LTC Charlie Stein, USA
Product Manager Ground Combat Tactical Trainers
PEO-STRI

3:20 Marine Corps AAV: Present-Day Observations And Forward-Looking Goals (AAV Systems)

• Overview of the AAV Program
• History and description of the AAV and its mission
• Future upgrade initiatives

Bryan Prosser
Program Manager, Assault Amphibious Vehicle Systems Armor and Fire Support Systems
Marine Corps Systems Command

4:00 Joint Battle Command-Platform (JBC-P) (Combat ID Focus)

• The evolution of Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and below (FBCB2) to JBC-P
• The relationship of FBCB2/JBC-P to Combat ID
• Integration of JBC-P into Unified Battle Command

Mike Kelley
TRADOC Capability Manager
Platform Battle Command and Combat ID

4:40 End Of Main Summit