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Panel – Perspectives in Program Management
Thursday,
May 18, 2006
12:45 p.m. –
2:15 p.m.
Chair:
Perspectives in Program Management
Kenneth Miller – Special Assistant for Acquisition Governance and
Transparency to the Secretary of the Air Force
Papers:
Best Practices: Better Support of Weapon System Program Managers
Needed to Improve Outcomes
Michael Sullivan, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, GAO
Cristina Chaplain, US Government Accountability Office
When Should You Terminate Your Own Program? Bad Business: The
JASORS Debacle
John Dillard, Naval Postgraduate School
Managing Tipping Point Dynamics in Single Development Projects
David Ford, Texas A&M University
Tim Taylor, Texas A&M University
Chair: Kenneth Miller, Special Assistant for Acquisition Governance and Transparency
to the Secretary of the Air Force.
Mr. Miller, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Special
Assistant for Acquisition Governance and Transparency to the Secretary
of the Air Force, Washington, DC. Mr. Miller assists in discharging the
responsibilities in the direction, guidance and supervision of Air Force
programs for research, development and acquisition of systems,
supplies and services. This includes the formulation of acquisition and
contracting policies and the management oversight of specific
acquisition programs.
Mr. Miller, a native of Columbus, Mississippi, began his
professional career in 1975 as an aerospace engineer with the Naval Air
Systems Command. He advanced to weapons systems acquisition
management as the Assistant Deputy Program Manager for the H-3 antisubmarine helicopter,
later serving as Deputy Program Manager for the E-6A and Principal Deputy Program Manager
for the A-6/EA-6 Weapons Systems Program Office. In April 1989, the Navy established the
new Program Executive Offices within the acquisition system. Mr. Miller was selected to be the
first Deputy for Acquisition for the Program Executive Office (Tactical Aircraft), providing policy
and execution advice to the Program Executive Officer on assigned programs.
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