The Challenges of Complex Acquisition Efforts

Please join us for a panel discussion on the lessons learned from past and ongoing highly complex major acquisition efforts, from engaging and sustaining stakeholder support to shepherding specific platforms through to fielding. Panelists will offer their insights on what might these lessons imply for the way ahead for the Future Vertical Lift effort given its planned size and complexity.

Featuring:

David Venlet, VADM USN, Retired
Former Program Executive Officer, Joint Strike Fighter

Betsy Schmid
Vice President, National Security and Acquisition Policy
Aerospace Industries Association

David J. Berteau
Senior Vice President
Director of National Security Program on Industry and Resources
CSIS

LtCol Alison Thompson
FVL Acquisition Staff Specialist
OSD AT&L Land Warfare and Munitions

Moderated by:

Dr. Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies
CSIS