Supply Chain 2009 Agenda

October 14th-16th, 2009

Day One: October 14th, 2009

Time	Description	Presenters
7:00am	Visitor Badging (GSFC Visitor Center/Building 88) and Conference Check-In (Building 3 Goett Auditorium)
8:30am	Welcome and Conference Overview	Mike Kelly, Chief, Institutional Support Office, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA GSFC.
8:45am	Goddard’s Mission Legacy and Portfolio	Rick Obenschain, Deputy Director, NASA GSFC
9:15am	NASA’s Quality Assurance Program	Bryan D. O’Connor, Chief, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA Headquarters
10:00am	Networking Break / Refreshments
10:20am	Managing Success in a Risky Business	Frederick D. Gregory, former Deputy NASA Administrator
11:05am	Panel Session: Goddard Contractor Excellence Award winners	Facilitator: Mike Kelly, Chief, Institutional Support Office, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA GSFC. Panelists: - - Heather Shinn, Senior Project Manager, Parsons Corporation - Dwight Yoder, Deputy Program Manager, MEI Technologies, Inc. - Leonid J. Tasheiko, Esq., President and Chief Executive Officer, LJT & Associates
12:15pm	Lunch Break (see listing of local lunch options)
1:30pm	Teaming for Mars: MAVEN – the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission	- Bruce M. Jakosky, Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), University of Colorado - David Mitchell, Project Manager, NASA GSFC - Mark Jarosz, Observatory Manager, NASA GSFC
2:30pm	Panel Session: Mission Assurance Lessons-Learned, Best Practices and Challenges	Facilitator: Rob Sticka, Chief, Institutional Assurance Branch, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA GSFC Panelists: -Joe Radich, Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer (JWST), NASA GSFC - Renee Robinson, Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer (RBSP), NASA GSFC - Roger Counts, Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer (SAM), NASA GSFC - Kim Plourde, Chief Mission Assurance Manager Earth Science & Solar System Exploration Directorates, NASA JPL
3:10pm	Networking Break / Refreshments
3:35pm	GSFC Supplier Assessments: Analysis of Findings and Achieving Compliance	- Charlie Robinson, Lead Auditor, NASA Contract Assurance Services (NCAS) - Brenda Brunello, Lead Auditor, NASA Contract Assurance Services (NCAS)
4:15pm	Implementation and Verification of Mission Assurance Requirements for the James Webb Space Telescope	- Michael Hirsch, Director of Mission Assurance for Civil Systems, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
5:00pm	Adjourn for the Day

Day Two: October 15th, 2009

Time	Description	Presenters
8:15am	Today's Agenda	Jonathan Root, Deputy Supply Chain Manager, Institutional Support Office, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA GSFC
8:30am	Panel Session: Capitalizing on NASA Supplier Assessments	Facilitator: Louis Thomas, Deputy Supply Chain Manager, Institutional Support Office, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA GSFC Panelists: - Frank Pochopin, Quality Assurance Manager, Barr Associates - Glenn Jackson, Senior Manager for Quality, Reliability and Mission Assurance, Raytheon Vision Systems - Dan Berry, Director, Quality Management Resources, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
9:40am	Supply Chain Management Challenges and Opportunities	- Joe Martha, Partner, Supply Chain & Logistics Practice, Booz Allen Hamilton - Bob St. Thomas, Supply Chain Business Executive, IBM Global Business Services
10:25am	Networking Break / Refreshments
10:45am	Supplier Management and Supplier Quality Initiatives for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)	- Thomas Thrailkill, Director of Supplier Management, Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems
11:25am	Developing Mission Success Capabilities for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) Ground Segment	-Peter Snyder, Engineering Manager, Government Communications Systems Division, Harris Corporation
Noon	Lunch Break (see listing of local lunch options)
1:15pm	On-orbit Anomaly Management and Lessons Learned	-Jim La, Manager, Missions Operations Assurance, Institutional Support Office, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA GSFC - Sean Ryan, Manager, Mission Operations and Data Systems Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado - Grant Faris, Chief Mission Operations Assurance Manager, NASA JPL
2:15pm	Quality in the Moment of Truth: Sustaining Processes for Mission Success	Claes Berlin, Quality Director, RUAG Space-Sweden
3:00pm	Networking Break
3:20pm	Supply Chain Management for NASA Missions	Brian Fischer, Vice President, Supply Chain Management, Orbital Sciences Corporation
4:05pm	Goddard’s Supply Chain Management Program: The Year Ahead	Jonathan Root, Deputy Supply Chain Manager, Institutional Support Office, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA GSFC
4:30pm	GSFC Tour Logistics and Closing Remarks	Mike Kelly, Chief, Institutional Support Office, Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate, NASA GSFC
5:00pm	Adjourn Conference

Day Three: October 16th, 2009

Time	Description	Names
9:00am	Guided tour of GSFC’s Visitor Center and Spacecraft Integration / Test facilities. The tour will begin at the Visitor Center (Building 88). Charles Kim is the tour leader for the Institutional Support Office, Safety and Mission Directorate.
Noon	End of Tour