Main Summit Day 2: Wednesday, April 21, 2010

8:15 Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:30 The G-3/5/7 Perspective On The State Of Tactical Vehicles

• Operations and plans initiatives
• MRAP integration

Major General Rhett A. Hernandez, USA
Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff
G-3/5/7

9:15 Increasing Readiness Of Tactical Vehicle Capability Packages Through Interoperability

• Enhanced Situational Awareness For The MRAP
• Secure Wireless Communication Applications For Tactical Vehicles
• Advancements In Off-Road Navigation For Rugged Terrain

Pete Ward
MRAP Project Engineer
SPAWAR Systems Center – Atlantic

10:00 Blast Attenuation Seating: What You Need To Know

• Acceleration force injuries and deaths resulting from vehicle IED attacks
• Purpose and operation of a blast attenuation seat and footpad system
• Blast attenuation seat design criteria to prevent / mitigate acceleration force casualties

Brigadier General Kenneth Bergquist AUS – Retired
Vice President
Jankel Tactical Systems

11:30 HBCT Modernization And Its Implications For Tactical Vehicles

• HBCT formation
• How requirements are generated and prioritized
• HBCT platform modifications and the DOTMLPF analysis

Colonel Jeff Swisher, USA
TRADOC Capability Manager
Heavy Brigade Combat Team (TCM HBCT)

12:00 Vendor Panel: Vehicle Armor Design And Deployment

Hear from experts on vehicle armor design and deployment! In this interactive panel you will be able to ask your questions on process management, R&D methods, and the latest in armor design.

Moderator:

Michael L Griffin
Huntsman

12:45 Heavy-Duty Jobs On The Battlefield

• Vehicle towing and mobility in theater
• Solutions to keeping the warfighter safe while performing his mission

Ellen Kietzmann
Vice President
Blue Ox

2:00 Current Challenges With Power Requirements In Tactical Vehicles

• Testing and evaluation
• Equipment surveys from the theater

Michael A Gallagher
Program Manager, Expeditionary Power Systems
Marine Corps Systems Command

2:30 Integrated Electronics Suite For Tactical Vehicle Combat Activities

• Developmental concepts to integrate navigation
• First fully integrated biometric data collection
• Net Centric electronics

Speaker TBA

4:00 LAV And MPC: Marine Corps Combat Developer Update

• Maintaining the expeditionary fleet
• Expectations for an effective modernization strategy
• Balancing protection, payload and performance in the fleet

Chris Yunker
Mob/C-Mobility Section, Fires & Maneuver Integration Division
Marine Corps Combat Development Command

4:45 Tactical And Combat Vehicle Transportability Engineering

• CONUS/OCONUS infrastructure
• Time-phased, origin-to-destination analysis
• Transportability characteristics of military materiel

John D. Newman
Deployability Engineering Branch Chief
Transportation Engineering Agency (SDDCTEA) Deployability Division

5:15 End Of Summit