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The Seventeenth Conference on International Defense Cooperation

ComDef Program

Conference Co-Chairs

Al Volkman
Director, International Cooperation, OUSD (AT&L)

Uwe Fialkowski
Counselor for Defense Cooperation, Embassy of Germany, Washington, DC

Driving Interoperability - Transforming Coalitions

0800-0815

Welcome and Introduction of the Co-Chairs

0815-0900

Force Transformation – International Implications

Prof. Adrian Kendry, Senior Defense Economist, NATO, Brussels
Richard Millies, Deputy Director, Defense Security Cooperation Agency
Moderator: Colin Clark, Senior Writer, Defense News

0900-0915

BREAK

0915-1030

Mind the Gap – Equipment Shortfalls in Coalition Activity

Aaron B. Fuller III, VP and General Manager, Computer Sciences Corporation
Dr. Hilmar Linnenkamp, MDirig.,
Director for International Cooperation, Rue III, FMoD, Bonn (Invited)
LTGEN Robert Magnus, USMC, Deputy Commandant for Programs & Resources, HQ USMC
Moderator: Wolfgang Winter, FMoD, Bonn

1035-1200

International Ballistic Missile Defense

Dr. Bernard Brown, Head, Business Development Sector, Extended Air Defense, MBDA
Dr. J. David Martin, Deputy for Strategic Relations, Missile Defense Agency
Dr. Danny Peretz, Director, Arrow Program, IAI, MLM Division
Klaus Riedel, President, MEADS International, Inc.
CAPT. Dallas G. Wilfong, III, USN, PEO TSC/Pacific Area TBMD Rep. - Coalition Communications
Moderator: Dr. Hans Binnendijk, Director, Center for Technology and National Security Policy

1230-1400

Luncheon – National Leadership Perspectives

Alan Williams, Assistant Deputy Minister of Materiel, Department of National Defence, Canada
MGEN Simon Willis, Head, Australian Defence Staff, Embassy of Australia
Hon. Michael W. Wynne, Principal Deputy for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, OUSD
Moderator: John Roos, Editor, Armed Forces Journal International

1400-1500

Defense Industries Financial Prognosis

Gregory Bernardi, President, London Forfaiting Americas, Inc
Pierre Chao
, Managing Director, Global Aerospace/Defense, Credit Suisse First Boston
Wolfgang Demisch, President, Demisch Associates
Lucy Fitch, VP, Acquisitions & Strategy, BAE Systems
Victor F. Ciardello, Director, Financial & Economic .Analysis, OSD(AT&L)/IA
Moderator: Vago Muradian, Editor, Defense News

1500-1600

Successful Cooperative Models

Stephen C. Moss, President, AgustaWestland, Inc.
Jon Schreiber, Director International Programs, JSF
Otmar W. Titus, President & COO, RAM-System GmbH
Ralf Uekermann, Program Executive Office, German Representative, MIDS
Moderator: Frank Kenlon, OUSD (AT&L)/IC

1600-1700

Technology Transfer - Showstopper

Lisa Bronson, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Tech. Security Policy & Counterproliferation), DoD
Hon. David McCurdy, President, Electronic Industries Alliance
Stan Z. Soloway, President, Professional Services Council
· Moderator: Hal Gershanoff, Publisher & Editor, Journal of Electronic Defense

1645-1730

View from the Hill

Congressman Mark Kirk (R-19th/IL)
Introduction: Paul Behrends, Vice President, Rhoads/Weber Shandwick Government Relations

1730-1900

Defense Attaches' Reception

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