Main Conference Day 1: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

7:15 Registration And Coffee

8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

8:30 Keynote: Examining Asset Visibility Applications – Finding The Best Toolset For The DoD

  • Finding the toolkit best matched for your specific needs
  • Tried and tested examples
  • Positive and negative results that dictated implementation

Robert Leibrandt
Deputy, Unique Identification and Procurement Information Assurance, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy

9:10 Keynote: Innovative Technology To Enhance Asset Visibility

  • Satellite tracking and mesh network technology to extend asset visibility to the last tactical mile
  • Integrating tracking technology and advanced composite materials to create self-reporting containers

Dr. Vic Ramdass
SES, Director
U.S. Army Logistics Innovation

William Jarrett
Logistics Management Specialist
U.S. Army Logistics Innovation Agency

9:50 Networking Break

10:35 Emerging Results Of Recent Passive RFID Implementation

  • AIT and RFID products and services offered on the AIT-IV, RFID-III, and pRFID multi-vendor IDIQ contracts
  • Army's transition from American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for active RFID
  • Update on PM J-AIT's RF-ITV worldwide infrastructure

Lieutenant Colonel Cary Ferguson
Product Manager, Joint-Automatic
Identification Technology (J-AIT)

11:15 In Transit Visibility System Advancements At The US Army

  • Achieving corporate visibility over the Army’s enterprise and equipment
  • Challenges in adaptation
  • Future requirements needed to improve visibility

Carlos Morrison
Director, CIO
ARMY G-4 LOGISTICS

11:55 Lunch

1:10 Lessons Learned Implementing RFID At Walmart

  • Walmart's learnings in using EPC Technology
  • Supply chain visibility
  • Turning data in to information

Simon Langford
Director of Inventory Management Systems (including RFID)
Walmart

1:50 Applying Retail Lessons To Defense Specific Solutions

  • Use of new technologies to achieve results
  • Unique challenges in different industry global supply chains
  • Tracking consumables vs. tracking long-term assets

Justin Patton
Managing Director, University of Arkansas RFID
Laboratory

2:30 Networking And Refreshment Break

3:15 ATLASS (Asset Tracking Logistics And Supply System) In The Marine Corps

  • Data cleansing
  • Dashboard operation
  • Serial number management

Captain Shawn Daley
USMC, Project Officer for ATLASS
MARCORSYSCOM

3:55 Current Capability Gaps In Critical Sea-To-Land

  • Enabling seamless movement
  • Examining technologies and tools selected
  • Takeaways, options for improvement and lessons learned

Melissa Miller
Advanced Technology Ordnance Surveillance (ATOS), Advance Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) Project Manager
Naval Surface Warfare Center

4:35 End Of Day One

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