Executive National Security Forum

Defense Acquisition Reform: Ensuring Technological Superiority for the 21st Century

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry has kicked off a second round of Congressional acquisition reform with the release of the “Acquisition Agility Act,” which seeks to provide the Department of Defense greater ‘agility’ for major acquisition programs. This event will provide a greater understanding of the impacts of this effort on the Department’s requirements generation, budgeting, and acquisition processes, and decipher what this means for the Department, the defense industry, and nontraditional defense contractors.

Moderator: Ms. Sandra Erwin, Editor, National Defense

Speaker and Presenter Information

Panelists:

Dr. Camron Gorguinpour
Director of Transformational Innovation, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)

Mr. Byron Callan
Managing Director, Capital Alpha Partners, LLC

Dr. Michael O’Hanlon
Co-Director, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence,
The Brookings Institution

Mr. Roger Zakheim
Counsel, Covington and Burling, LLP