NDIA Industry Forum Rocky Mountain Chapter

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NDIA Industry ForumRocky 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

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Why Outsourcing?

• Definition Paying another company to provide
  services which acompany might otherwise have
  employed its own staff toperform.
• Outsourcing has a bad connotation of sending US
  jobs overseas to places like India and China. In
  todays 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

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Defense Industrys 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)

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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?