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Speakers are not necessarily in date order of presentation
2012
Steven J. KempfCommissioner, Federal Acquisition Services, GSA
2011
Richard GinmanDeputy Director for Contingency Contracting and Acquisition Policy (DOD/DPAP)
Nancy GundersonHHS Senior Procurement Executive/DAS in Office Grants and Acquisition Policy and Accountability
Laura A. Dickinson
GW Law Professor and author of
Outsourcing War and Peace
Co-Hosted Presentation by Professor Laura A. Dickinson
Katrina McFarland
President, Defense Acquisition University
RADM Kathleen Dussault
Director of Navy Supply, Ordnance and Logistics Operations (OPNAV N41)
Nick Nayak
Chief Procurement Officer, Department of Homeland Security
Bloomberg Group
Acquisition Reporters
Dan Gordon
OFFP Administrator
David Berteau
PRT Board Director and Senior Advisor and Director, Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS
Peter LevineGeneral Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee
2010
Gen Larry Welch
USAF-ret and former Chief of Staff - QDR Independent Panel Report, Chapter 4 on Acquisition Reform
Ronald J. Youngs
Acting Executive Director, Contracts, Defense Contract Management Agency
Kathleen M. Turco
Associate Administrator, GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy and GSA rep to OFPP Cost Accounting Standards Board
Joanie Newhart
OFPP Associate Administrator for Acquisition Workforce Programs
Bob Dickson
Exec Director, Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan
(accompanied by Rich Beutel and Rosemary Byrd)
Chris Denby
CEO, Markitecture
Randy Fowler
OSD Assistant Deputy Under Secretary (Materiel Readiness)
Ed Harrington
Army Deputy Assistant Secretary for Procurement and Vince Faggioli, AMC Command General Counsel
Daniel I. Gordon
Administrator, OMB Office of Federal Procurement Policy
2009
Jill Stiglich
Principal Advisor, Procurement and Acquisition Policy (OSD-AT&L)
Al Volkman
Director of International Cooperation (OSD)
Charles Williams
Director DCMA
Jim Williams
GSA Acting Administrator
Kathleen Dussault
Director of Supply Ordnance & Logistics (CNO) and former head Joint Contracting Command – Iraq and Afghanistan
Jan Frye
SPE and DAS, Acquisition & Logistics, Dept. of Veterans Affairs
Richard K. Sylvester
Vice President, Acquisition Policy, Aerospace Industries Association
2008
Frank Anderson
President, Defense Acquisition University, OUSD (AT&L)
David Drabkin
GSA SPE and Deputy CAO
Lesley Anne Field
Acting Administrator, OFPP (OMB)
Honorable Jacques Gansler
Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise; Director, Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise; and Chairman of the Commission on Army Acquisition and Procurement in Expeditionary Operations
Greg Giddens
DHS Program Manager for SBINet
Mike Golden
Associate General Counsel, Procurement Law (GAO)
Kevin Mahoney
OPM Associate Director for Human Capital Leadership & Merit System Accountability
Jill Stiglich
Office of the Director, Defense Procurement & Acquisition Policy
2007
LCDR Kristin Acquavella
2006 Staats Award winner
Shay Assad and Dick Ginman
Director, Defense Procurement & Acquisition Policy; Director of Policy (and former PRT Director)
Mathew Blum
Associate Administrator for Competitive Sourcing, Office of Federal Procurement Policy
Ric Cusick
Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics
Paul Denett
Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy (former PRT Director)
Dee Lee
FEMA Deputy Director for Operation
Peter Levine
General Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee
Katherine Schinasi
Managing Director. Acquisition & Sourcing Management, GAO, accompanied by Paul Francis (GAO)
Molly Wilkinson
Chief Acquisition Officer, GSA
2006
Mark Esper
VP, Defense & International Affairs, Aerospace Industries Association
Ken Krieg
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Marcia Madsen
Chair of the Acquisition Advisory Panel
Robert Reisner
Senior Principal for Strategic Sourcing, Acquisition Solutions
Greg Rothwell
former Chief Procurement Officer, Department of Homeland Security, and PRT member
Pat Stillman
Rear Admiral, Program Executive Officer for the US Coast Guard's Integrated Deep Water Program
James A. Williams
Commissioner, Federal Acquisition Service/GSA
2005
Frank Anderson
President, Defense Acquisition University
Doug Brooks
President, International Peace Operatives Association
Rob Burton
Acting Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy
David Chu with Nancy Spruill
Under Secretary of Defense for Personal and Readiness
Peter Levine
Minority Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee
Emily Murphy
Chief Acquisition Officer, General Services Administration
Gene Reardon
Deputy, Department of Defense, Inspector General
David Safavian
Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy
David Sutfin
Chief, GovWorks, Department of Interior
Bill Woods with Dave Cooper
Director in the Acquisition and Sourcing Management Group, US Government Accountability Office
2004
John Brosnan
Senior Procurement Counsel, House Committee on Government Reform
Rob Burton
Acting Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy
Bruce Cwalina
Deputy Assistant Commander for Contracts, Naval Air Systems Command
Lee Kair
Acting Assistant Administrator for Acquisition, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security, and 2004 PRT Staats Award winner
Deidre Lee
Director, Department of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy
Karen Manos
Partner, Howrey, Simon Arnold & White LLP
Chip Mather
Founding Partner of Acquisition Solutions, Inc
Greg Rothwell
Chief Procurement Executive/Senior Procurement Executive, Department of Homeland Security
Stan Soloway
President, Professional Services Council
Mike Thibault
Defense Contract Audit Agency Deputy Director
2003
Charles Bowsher
former Comptroller General, US general Accounting Office and Volcker Commission member
Alan Chvotkin
Counsel, Professional Services Council, and PRT member
Dave Drabkin
Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Acquisition Policy, General Services Administration
Nancy Gunderson
Acquisition and Business Group Leader for the Pentagon Renovation Program, and winner of the 2003 PRT Staats Award
Mark Kryzko
Deputy Director for Electronic Business, Office Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Greg Macfarlan
Logistics Management Institute and co-author of "The Role of the Business Manager or Advisor in Federal Acquisition Management
2002
Frank Anderson
Brigadier General (USAF retired), President, Defense Acquisition University
David Chu
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
Lou Kratz
Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense, Logistics Plans and Programs
Susan Livingstone
Under Secretary of the Navy
Hannah Sistare
Executive Director, National Commission on the Public Service
Stan Soloway
President, Professional Services Council
2001
Ken Beeks
Vice President, "Tail-to-Tooth Commission", and National Staff, Business Executives for National Security
Keith Charles
Office, Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, Director of "The Acquisition 2005 Task Force"
John Douglas
President and CEO, Aerospace Industries Association
Jack Gansler
former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and returning member of the PRT
Bill Gormley
former Assistant Administrator of Acquisition, Federal Supply, Service, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Office of Commodity Management, General Services Administration, and new PRT member
William Hauenstein
Rear Admiral, retired, Director, Acquisition Career Management in the Office, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (RD&A)
Phil Odeen
Executive Vice President, Washington Operations, TRW, and PRT member
Ken Oscar
Acting Deputy Administrator for Federal Procurement, Office for Federal Procurement Policy
Angela Styles
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy
2000
Frank Anderson
Brigadier General, Commandant, Defense Systems Management College
Bert Concklin
President, Professional Services Council
Mort Downey
Deputy Secretary of Transportation
David Drabkin
Assistant Administrator for Acquisition, General Services Administration
Scott Gould
former Chief Financial Officer, Department of Commerce
Robert Murphy
General Counsel, Congressional Budget Office
Stan Soloway
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform
Lauren Uher
Office of Federal Procurement policy
Lenn Vincent
American Management Systems
David Walker
Comptroller General, US General Accounting Office
1999
John Douglas
President, Aerospace Industries Association
Jon Etherton
Assistant Vice President for Legislative Affairs, Aerospace Industries Association
Deidre Lee
Administrator, Office for Federal Procurement Policy, and Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget
Dave Muzio
Deputy Associate Administrator for procurement Innovation, Office of Procurement Policy, Executive Office of the President
Stan Z. Soloway
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform
1998
Stephen Carberry
Chief Procurement Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Jack Gansler
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Acquisition
Otto Guenther
recently retired Lt.General and Director of Army Information Systems, and new member of the PRT
Jim Hinchman
Acting Comptroller General, US General Accounting Office
Deidre Lee
Associate Administrator for Procurement, NASA
Ralph Nash
PRT & Michael Monts, Attorney for United Technologies Corporation
Rona Stillman
Chief Scientist for Computers and Telecommunications, US General Accounting Office
Bob Welch
Acquisition Executive, Department of Commerce