Conference Day One: Tuesday, December 8, 2009

7:15 Registration And Coffee

8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

8:15 Brown Water: Evolving Requirements Direction For The Littoral Combat Ship

  • Littoral Combat Ship today and opportunities for tomorrow
  • Changing threats and newly formed mission requirements
  • Spiral development and concepts to benefit the enterprise

CAPT R. L. Tindal, USN
Deputy, Surface Ships
Surface Warfare

9:00 New Technologies For The DDG-1000 Destroyer

  • DDG-1000 program status and prime missions
  • Transitioning production technologies to reduce cost

CAPT James Syring, USN
Program Manager
DDG-1000 Program Office

9:45 Networking Break

10:30 Submarine Force: Development Updates: Virginia Class Program

  • Reducing total life-cycle costs to benefit the bottom line
  • Making the acquisition system more efficient, responsive, and timely

CAPT Michael Jabaley, USN
Program Manager
Virginia Class Submarine Program Office

11.15 Ship Board Weapons: Naval Safety & Security Requirements

  • Explosive Safety & security policy
  • Fleet requirements & issues

Stephen Bennett
Directorate, Ship Board Weapons Integration Team
Naval Sea Systems Command

12:00 Luncheon

1:15 The Future of Amphibious Landing Craft

  • Current and proposed “High-Low Mix” of naval platforms to support the ship-to-shore movement of combat power and logistics support by the US Navy

CAPT Jeffrey Riedel, USN
Program Manager, Amphibious Warfare Program Office
PMS-377

2:00 Updates On Unmanned Surface & Subsurface Vehicles

  • Leveraging unmanned systems on & under the water to get global persistent presence
  • Leveraging existing systems to identify the key technologies to transition capability to the fleet in an incremental manner
  • Pursuing autonomy and energy sources to allow extended operations with reduced manning requirements

CAPT Paul Siegrist, USN
Program Manager
Unmanned Vehicle Program Office

2:45 Networking Break

3:30 Forward Looking: Navy Force Structure

  • Adequacy of total planned size of Navy
  • Ship procurement affordability

Ronald O’Rourke
Specialist in National Defense
Congressional Research Service

4:15 Destroyer Update: Technological Updates For The DDG-51 Destroyers

  • Improvements and future opportunities for modifications
  • Reducing manning requirements and increasing war fighting capabilities
  • Maintaining mission relevance to maximize efficiency

S. Kyle Jones
Head, Warfare System Program Office
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

5:00 End Of Day One

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