1. ABA Accounting Cost & Pricing Committee on 10 Oct 17
OVERVIEW
ABA Accounting Cost & Pricing Committee on 10 Oct 17

2. What is the Section 809 Panel?
Congressionally mandated (FY16 NDAA), independent, non- FACA commission tasked with streamlining and improving the defense acquisition process
18 commissioners who are senior marketplace and government leaders with more than 350 years of collective experience
Focused on creating an agile and simplified defense acquisition process that values “time” and provides warfighters what they need, when they need it

3. The Honorable Deidre Lee
Commissioners
The Honorable Deidre Lee
Chair
Mr. David G. Ahearn The Honorable William A. LaPlante
Maj Gen Casey Blake, USAF Maj Gen Kenneth D. Merchant, USAF (ret)
Mr. Elliott Branch Mr. David P. Metzger
The Honorable Allan V. Burman Dr. Terry L. Raney
Mr. David A. Drabkin Maj Gen Darryl A. Scott USAF (ret)
VADM Joseph W. Dyer USN (ret) Lt Gen N. Ross Thompson, III USA (ret)
Ms. Cathleen D. Garman Mr. Laurence M. Trowel
Mr. Charlie E. Williams, Jr. BG Michael D. Hoskins, USA

4. Research Teams

5. Research Teams

6. And One More
Re-codifying procurement/contracting provisions – The Armed Services Procurement Act Redux (2020?)

7. Team 4 Barriers to Entry
Team 4 is focused on evaluating and removing regulatory, cultural, or bureaucratic barriers to entry of the DoD marketplace.
Removing barriers to entry will attract companies interested in conducting business with DoD that have not previously entered the DoD marketplace.

8. Team 4 – Barriers
How do we restructure our business models (DOD’s Business models) to enable a rate of innovation that allow DoD to obtain and maintain lethality/technological dominance?
How do we restructure DoD business models (DoD’s Business models) to attract non- traditional companies which have chosen not to do business with DoD?

9. Team 4 Functional Topics
What are other countries doing?
Competition
Technical capability
Brooks A&E Act
Compliance/Audit
GWACS/MACs/IDIQs
Lack of industry background by DoD Managers
Focus on value and price, not cost
Funding uncertainty
Production rates
Protests

10. Team 4 Functional Topics
Purchase Cards
Socio-Economics
Small Businesses;
Domestic Sourcing Restrictions;
Labor Laws;
Environmental Laws
Other
Supply Chain/Subcontracts
Sustainment
Tools

11. Section 809 Panel Interim Report
Our interim report can be found at: content/uploads/2017/05/Sec809Panel_Interim- Report_May2017_FINAL-for-web.pdf

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