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On Monday, December 12, the Baroni Center for Government Contracting held a webinar to discuss a recent report on how funding flexibility can help bridge the valley of death in defense acquisition. For those who could not make the webinar, we are sharing a video recording of the event and a Report and White Paper produced by the Center as background reading for the discussion.
We were pleased to have insights from three leaders in this space:
- James Ruocco, Director of Air Platforms and Weapons, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition;
- Katie Wheelbarger, Vice President of Global Program Support at Lockheed Martin; and
- Elaine McCusker, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former Acting Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller).
Participants gained fascinating insights from the discussion:
- How the Department of Defense (DoD) is managing integrated acquisition portfolios to help drive decision making and close capability gaps
- Efforts by DoD to close gaps in joint all-domain command and control and quickly target specific instances of interoperability or kill chains such as connecting an F-35 sensor with a HIMARS firing solution
- Ideas to create flexible tech insertion lines, mitigate inefficiencies resulting from continuing resolutions, and increase transparency and trust between DoD and Congress