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Sunday, March 21
10 a.m. Cottonwood Ballroom	Registration Opens
Noon	Golf Tournament Padre Course Golf alternative: Spring Training Baseball Outing
6:30 p.m. Sonoran Terrace	Opening Reception & heavy hors d’oeuvres
Monday, March 22
8:30 a.m. Sunshine Ballroom	Conference Opening & Welcome Mac Curtis, PSC Chairman Setting the Stage Stan Soloway, PSC President & CEO
9 a.m.	Keynote Address Michael J. Bayer President and CEO, Dumbarton Strategies Chairman, Defense Business Board Mr. Bayer will highlight the Defense Business Board’s assessment of DoD’s top business challenges and how they will affect our industry, including DoD’s manpower challenges and its efforts to balance missions and capabilities.
9:45 a.m.	The FY11 Budget & Beyond: Impacts on the Logistics and Installations Missions and Markets Jim McAleese, Principal, McAleese & Associates
10:45 a.m.	Break
11 a.m.	Panel Discussion: Insourcing: The View from the Services How do the different military branches view insourcing and what are they doing to move in that direction, or not? Moderator: Bill Mixon, President and CEO, USIS Panelists: Robert M. Griffin, Jr., Assistant Commander for Acquisition, Naval Facilities Engineering Command John Nerger, Executive Director, Army Installations Management Command Jim Holland, Deputy for Installation Policy, Office of The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations Nancy M. Heimbaugh, Director, J-7 Acquisition Management, Defense Logistics Agency
Noon Salon G	Lunch How Going "Green” Will Affect the Logistics and Installations Markets Richard Kidd, Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Mr. Kidd will discuss how the government’s emphasis on “green” will affect the federal government's logistics and installations markets.
1:15 p.m.	Break
1:30 p.m. Sunshine Ballroom	The Quadrennial Defense Review: Implications for Contractors David Berteau, Senior Adviser and Director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, Center for Strategic & International Studies
2:45 p.m.	Panel Discussion: Logistics, Sustainment and the Civilian Agencies Moderator: Al Burman, President, Jefferson Solutions Panelists: Sharie Bourbeau, Deputy Undersecretary for Management and Chair, Dept. of Homeland Security Executive Logistics Council Maurice (Mo) Stewart, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition and Logistics Programs and Policy, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Joseph H. Jeu, Assistant Commissioner for General Supplies and Services, Federal Acquisition Service, U.S. General Services Administration
4:00 p.m.	Adjourn
6:45 p.m. Salon G	Reception
7:30 p.m.	Dinner
9 p.m.	PSC After Hours
Tuesday, March 23
8:30 a.m. Sunshine Ballroom	Keynote Address Building Up & Drawing Down: Contingency Requirements and the Implications at Home MGEN Yves Fontaine, US Army Sustainment Command People, equipment and facilities, the sustainment budget, new challenges, and market opportunities
9:15 a.m.	Panel Discussion: Emerging Labor Policy Challenges A discussion of the latest labor policy developments such as Department of Labor oversight of SCA requirements and employee verification mandates as well as new regulatory initiatives, including implementation of President Obama's labor Executive Orders. Moderator: Laura Evans, Vice President of HR and Administration, MAR, Inc., and Co-Chair, PSC Labor Relations Committee Panelists: Jim Evans, Regional Labor Advisor, Air Force Labor Advisors Office - Western Region Eric Murray, District Director, Phoenix District Office, US Dept. of Labor Wage & Hour Division Alfred E. Moreau, Army Labor Advisor
10:30 a.m.	Panel Discussion: Key Procurement Policy Trends to Watch Topics to be covered include organizational conflicts of interest; reducing “high risk” contracts; the federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System; government “targeting” contractor employees for insourcing; reducing bid protests, and much more. Moderator: Bob Vincent, VW International Panelists: BrigGen Wendy Masiello, Combat and Mission Support Program Executive Officer, US Air Force Tracey Pinson, Director, Office of Small Business Programs, U.S. Army BrigGen Steve Leisenring, Commander, Army Mission and Installation Command NAVFAC (tbd)
Noon	Closing Remarks/Adjourn

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