Acquisition Next - Fall 2022 Government Contracting Conference

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Acquisition Next, the central theme for the conference, focused on the need to replace the industrial age acquisition paradigm of linearity and prediction with digital age approaches of modularity, speed, iteration, and competition.

Speakers included senior officials from government, business, and academia. The conference fireside chats and panels explored the Acquisition Next approach in 

  • Bridging the valley of death from technology development to production
  • Spurring small business innovation, 
  • Implementing concepts such as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) 
  • Reforming the budget process, and 
  • Institutionalizing workforce innovation. 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Dr. William A. LaPlante
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment

Ellen Lord
Vice-Chair, PPBE Reform Commission

Heidi Shyu
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

Mike Brown
Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

CONFERENCE SESSIONS & VIDEO LINKS

Each session link includes a list of speakers and the session description.

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