Industry Forum 2005 Support to the Warfighter Can Industry Do Better? 26 Aug 05

Why Are We Here? This is industry’s chance to identify changes to facilitate their support to the warfighter This is the gov’t’s chance to identify industry actions that would improve “supporting the warfighter”

Ground Rules Non-attribution (unless you want your name in print) Discussion goes where you want it to go (but be nice) Results will be summarized in the main session

Kick-off Questions How can the gov’t better articulate warfighter needs? How can industry better understand warfighter needs? Which industry assets can be brought to the warfighter? What is industry not providing? What gov’t barriers exist to industry doing more? Does the gov’t prefer systems or solutions? How can the gov’t provide incentives to industry to come up with new concepts/solutions?

Something a bit harder… The gov’t fixates early on particular systems, encouraged by industry who wants to sell their solution. Is this true? How do we fix this? Or is it OK? Industry fixates on its “pet rock” and sells it to the gov’t as the solution to any and all needs. Is this true? How do we fix this?