MONDAY 9/12

SESSION

Scorecards & Best Value: Commercial Surface, Sealift and Airlift Metrics and Carrier Selection

Discussion will center on Metrics used by USTRANSCOM and its components to determine support effectiveness to the Warfighter.  Why we measure—What is measured—How measurements are collected—How measurements effect performance of the Supply Chain.

Topics include:

• Distribution Metrics
• Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF)
• Universal Services Contract (USC-6 v. USC-7)
• Defense Personal Property Program (DP3)
• Defense Transportation Coordination (Initiative) (DTC(I))
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program

Moderator

Deputy Commander, USTRANSCOM

Panelists

• Gail Jorgenson, TCAQ Director
• MG Kevin Leonard, USA, SDDC Commander

SESSION

Commercial Travel Programs and

Shrinking Travel Budgets

Moderator TBA

CANCELED

SESSION

From Management Trainee to the Executive Suite

Wondering how the path to career success works for you?  Think about managing yourself and your team so that everyone is a winner.  How do you lead without being in charge?   Are you comfortable working in a matrix organization, or do you need to have control of the entire project?  How do you deal with a disruptive team mate?

Join leaders from Public (DOD) and commercial transportation industries as they talk about processes that they have used themselves and in counseling others about methods that have been used successfully in the past and that have been proven successful in career management.  Our panel members, leaders in DOD and industry will share their views and engage in a dialogue with the audience to assist individuals and groups in successfully moving forward on the career path.

Moderator

Senior Vice President

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Panelists

• RADM Mark Heinrich USN, Commander Navy Supply Systems Command

• Bill Kenwell, Senior VP at Maersk Lines Limited
• BrigGen Mark Faulkner, USMC, Vice Director J4, Joint Staff
• Eric Mensing, VP, APL Limited

SESSION

AT21—Government Expectations

Agile Transportation for the 21st Century (AT21) program is set to release 11 operational capabilities by July 2012. The capabilities will individually and collectively improve USTRANSCOM and its components’ ability to provide timely, best-value delivery from the port of embarkation (POE) to the port of debarkation (POD).

AT21’s primary focus is enhancing Special Assignment Airlift Mission (SAAM), Time-Phased Force Deployment Data (TPFDD); and sustainment movements, which account for almost 90% of Component operating expenses.

This panel will discuss implications and capabilities of AT21

Moderator

AT21 Program Manager

USTRANSCOM/TCAQ-M

SESSION

Government/Industry Best Practices for DPS

In this panel discussion, transportation professionals from both government Personal Property Shipping Offices (PPSOs) and Transportation Service Providers (TSPs) will emphasize best practices and important communications to make shipments move smoothly through the Defense Personal Property System (DPS) and to provide superior service to Service Member customers. The panel will highlight lessons learned after this third peak season operating under DPS, using DPS screens to highlight the areas that can create misunderstandings and conflict between PPSOs and TSPs. NOTE: This session does not repeat; 2-3:30pm only

Moderator

Senior Vice President, Relocation Services, The Pasha Group

Panelists

• Reginald Hickmon, Branch Chief, Customer Service Division, JPPSO Northeast
• MSgt Daniel Cormier, NCOIC Quality Assurance, JPPSO Colorado Springs
• TSgt Melissa Curry, NCOIC PPPO Peterson, Peterson AFB, CO
• Kevin Myers, Director Military Services, Wheaton World Wide Moving
• Barbara Johnson, Operations Manager, Crystal Forwarding, Inc.
• Brandon Reagle, Operations Manager, Gale Transfer, Inc.
• Cheryl Garcia, Regional Vice President, U.S. Bank

SESSION

Defense Personal Property Program ( DP3)-Transition Complete

More than 90% of DOD household goods shipments moved via the Defense Personal Property System in FY2011.  Effective 1 October 2011, all shipments will move under this program and the legacy program TOPS will no longer accept new shipments.  This marks a major milestone, long in coming, for DOD.  In this session, the government program directors for both DP3 and its implementing system, the Defense Personal Property System (DPS) will provide program updates.  Emphasis will be on the lessons learned in the 2011 peak season, and the projected improvements in preparation for the 2012 peak season. NOTE: This session does not repeat; 3:45-5:15pm only

Moderator

TUESDAY 9/13

SESSION

In the AOR with our Young Leaders

Bridging the Operational Environment from a Strategic Perspective

Gain a greater appreciation for the importance of your role and its impact on our warfighters from the perspective of Young Leaders who serve across the transportation spectrum.

Moderator

• Industry: Eric Ebeling, American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier, LLC
• Customer: CPT Kevin Sirucek, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, Combined Joint-4 Logistics Directorate
• Representatives from the Service Branches TBD
  

SESSION

OSD Transportation Policy Vision and Discussion

Sustaining a military at war and continual economic pressures are impacting all facets of transportation within the Department of Defense and are driving managers to rethink supply chain operations in terms of transportation business and operational practices.  Senior executives from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the U.S. Transportation Command will address their transportation policy visions and initiatives underway in light of current and future budget constraints which are prompting innovative ways of doing business.  Topics will include leveraging the Department’s buying power for the Warfighter and best business practices; third party logistics expansion efforts; personal property regionalization; future operations tempos affecting business volumes; and collaboration efforts with Industry.

Moderator

Panelists

• BrigGen Mark Faulkner,USMC, Vice Director J4, Joint Staff
• Gail Jorgenson, Director of Acquisition, U.S. Transportation Command
• Lisa Roberts, Deputy, DASD (Transportation Policy), OASD (LMR)

SESSION

Leveraging Social Media

The panel will discuss the 3 traditional uses of Social Media (listen, protect and engage), potential life saving applications in emergency management, and the Joint Concept for Logistics Experiment representation using modeling and simulations. We’ll then have an interactive discussion on where the industry could be / should be / is leveraging Social Media. You don’t have to be ‘LinkedIn’ to participate, but we hope you will ‘Like’ us afterwards.

Moderator

Kirstin Knott

Director, FedEx Gov't Services
Department of Defense

• John DeFoor; Joint Concept Division; Joint and Coalition Warfighting/JS J7
  
• Brian W. Fields, NMCEM, PCP-I |VP & COO, Homeland Security & Emergency Management Div., B-Sting Ventures, LLC NOTE: this presentation will be Skyped

SESSION

Strategic Trends & Future Lift Requirements (Surface, Air, Sea)

The intent of this panel is to look out on the horizon, anywhere from two to five years down the road, and discuss efficiencies, research and development initiatives, fine-tuning multimodal operations, and the continuous effort to achieve the right mix of commercial and military lift.

Moderator

SESSION

The International Perspective

This session provides information on the challenges the military supply chain faces when supporting UN, NATO or country specific missions. It highlights the differences in status from a military and industry perspective when supporting these programs. The panelists are asked to provide their views on how to tackle the challenges and how to improve the international military supply chain issues

Moderator

NDTA European Region President

Command DGA, Program Manager HQ EUCOM J4 and HQ USAFE A4/7

Panelists

• Furqan Ali Mustafa
• Stefanie Dobbert, DB Schenker
• Hans Garcia, AFRICOM
• Simonas Satunas, Deputy Chief of Mission, Lithuanian Embassy
• Craig Strickland, Managing Director Government Sales, UPS

SESSION *Canceled

United State Central Command (USCENTCOM) Logistical Challenges and Issues

US Central Command is now in its tenth consecutive year of combat operations against Al-Qaeda and other terrorist activities.  With responsibilities including on-going contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and providing assistance to 18 other countries within their area of responsibility the logistics challenges facing this command are enormous.  This panel of logistics experts will discuss challenges in supporting a large rotational deployed force along with initiatives in-place or under development to overcome these challenges.  Logistics areas of discussion will focus on sustaining key classes of supply (fuel, ammunition, subsistence, construction materials, major end items, etc.) to difficult to reach locations using challenging lines of communication. 

Moderator

Panelists

• COL Mike Bird, DLA, USCENTCOM
• COL Jim Woodard, Chief Logistics Operations Division, USCENTCOM