Video: November 13 Defense Acquisition Reform Event

On November 13 the Lexington Institute hosted an acquisition reform event on Capitol Hill that brought together many experts in the field.  Speakers included Byron K. Callan, Managing Director, Capital Alpha Partners; The Honorable Gregory R. Dahlberg, former Under Secretary, U.S. Army; Mackenzie Eaglen, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Jon Etherton, President, Etherton and Associates, Inc.; The Honorable Christine Fox, former acting Deputy Secretary of Defense; Daniel Goure, Vice President, Lexington Institute; Andrew P. Hunter, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Phil Jasper, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Rockwell Collins; Gregory Kiley, President, Kiley & Associates, LLC; William A. LaPlante, Assistant Secretary,  Air Force (Acquisition), Steve McCarthy, Minister (Defence Materiel), British Embassy; Kenneth E. Miller, former Special Assistant for Acquisition to the Secretary of the Air Force; Philip A. Odeen, former Chairman, National Defense Panel; Michael E. O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution; The Honorable James Talent, Senior Fellow, AEI (former Member, Senate Armed Services Committee); and Vice Admiral Patricia Tracey (Ret), Vice President, Defense, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (former Director, Navy Staff). If you would like to view their concise, back-to-back assessments of how to improve management and procurement at the defense department, and how that department might become a better customer, please click here.