Transcript NDIA Industry Forum

NDIA Industry Forum
Rocky Mountain Chapter
“Future of Competitive Sourcing”
Break-Out Session
26 August 2005
Ms. Laurie Carroll, HQ AFSPC/XPM
DeForest Hamilton, The Boeing Company
Randy Welsch, Master Solutions
Why “Outsourcing?”
• Definition: Paying another company to provide services which a
company might otherwise have employed its own staff to
perform.
• Outsourcing has a bad connotation of sending US jobs overseas to
places like India and China. In today’s context, a better phrase is
“competitive sourcing.”
• Why competitive sourcing?
–
–
–
–
Department of Defense is “right-sizing”
Budget pressures
Adds budgetary and manpower flexibility for the Command
Common sense factor that industry can do some things better
Defense Industry’s Role
• Historical competitive sourcing:
–
–
–
–
–
“Roads and commodes”
Landscaping / building maintenance
Military housing (construction, management)
Law enforcement
Computer / Information Technology (small scale)
• Out-of-the-Box competitive sourcing ideas:
–
–
–
–
–
Communications / Information Technology infrastructure
ICBM missile maintenance (Minot, F.E. Warren, etc.)
Flight crew members on non-weapons carrying aircraft
Launch sites (VAFB, Cape Canaveral)
Satellite Operations (50th Space Wing: 2SOPS, 3SOPS)
Challenges
• Is the military culture ready for the invasion of the contractors?
–
–
–
–
Some may see it as limiting their professional space training options
In certain fields, there may be concerns with “white lab coats”
War fighting missions may be off limits
Training changes: moving from the ICBM model with
lists to the
commercial model, e.g., Iridium, Spaceway, etc. (Maytag repairman)
• Contractor Ops must provide a transition plan to be credible.
• Process improvements to the current competitive sourcing methods?
– A DoD-wide coordinating body for competitive-sourcing?
– Other…?