Balancing Readiness, Affordability, & Efficiency

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Mr. Bryan H. Wood is the Assistant Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps for Installations & Logistics. Mr. Wood serves as the principal deputy and technical assistant to the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics, responsible for providing long-range continuity to the department's policy, direction and performance oversight for all installations and logistics functions at USMC bases and stations throughout the world and for the operating forces across the U.S. Marine Corps.

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Synchronization of supply chains and services across the DoD has led to significant reduced expenditures as well as efficiencies for each service. This type of operational collaboration has been impactful in an era of doing more with less. In this panel discussion, successfully efforts of collaboration will be examines along with opportunities for additional alignment in the way the DoD evaluates need for an acquisition.

· Consolidating capabilities and alternative methods to leverage other DoD agencies and resources

· Avoiding the usage and creation of a an already establishing capability to leverage the overall spend

· Utilizing existing supply chains and a better way to buy and fill needs from the transportation network community

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With almost 20 years of history, sustaining materiel though Performance Based Logistics arrangements have set out to deliver improved readiness at reduced life cycle costs. The question is, are these arrangements succeeding in this goal and how can they be refined to drive even more value.

This session will examine best practices in how PBLs should be managed, from a leadership and executional standpoint, the role of data collection and review in a PBL performance evaluation, the temperature-taken from DoD’s most senior leaders regarding the future of PBLs in the military and commercial sectors.

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The military is constantly adapting and adjusting to meet the needs of its Forces in order to best be prepared for combat. Especially in today’s day and age where data and technology make an enormous impact and provide an incredible opportunity, what are the senior leaders in the military logistics space considering to best approach these shifts in thinking?

This discussion will explore the following:

• What innovations are the military looking to invest in?
• How can service providers adapt and change to meet current needs?
• What can industry so to help improve the overall vision of leaders within the military?

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GSA has transformed more then anyone when it comes to logistics transformation. GSA closed distribution centers at the end of December and no longer has stock inventory where warfighters were supplied.

GSA currently runs a 100% direct vendor delivery system behind a number of contract vehicles that are designed to provide the same or better support then the distribution center. This is an unprecedented change, and a phase out of brick and mortar. The session will update the audience on the change, progress and initial performance of this new model.

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NAVSUP partners with Navy and industry, and continues to pursue additional partnering opportunities as a standard part of daily business. Experience has clearly demonstrated that partnering with industry, particularly under performance-based logistics (PBL) arrangements, promotes the sharing of best business practices, encourages reliability improvements, ensures the Navy retains its repair capabilities, and improves readiness at reduced costs.

This session will discuss the significant growth in new workload in both contracting and operations stemming from the fact that in additional to the utilization of PBLs, there is a transition away from a few of our PBL arrangements, meaning work taken back.

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Choose from 8 roundtable topic discussion groups and interact with fellow colleagues on the topic of your choice. This is an opportunity to dig-deeper into the content shared throughout day one and head from others on the best-practices and challenges they are faced with.

• Product Design Support Across the Development, Production and Sustainment Periods
• Building Sustainment Planning and Supply Support Management into the Design of an Asset
• Contract Engineering – Writing the Requirements and Making Business Case for Condition Based Maintenance
• The Acquisition Process – Drafting Better Requirements Documents for Running Successful Programs
• Financial Accountability and Auditing Readiness
• Transportation Security Services and Base Access