Foreign Affairs Live: Modernizing the Military
AGENDA 6:00pm - Keynote remarks by the Honorable Heidi Shyu 6:45pm - Panel Discussion: Modernizing The Military Michele Flournoy, Chief Executive Officer, Center for a New American Security General Mark A. Milley, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Greg Wenzel, Executive Vice President and Lead, Digital Solutions/C4ISR, Strategic Innovation Group, Booz Allen Hamilton Moderated by Janine Davidson, Senior Fellow for Defense, Council on Foreign Relations According to a March 2015 Government Accountability Office, Assessment of Selected Weapons Programs, total costs have increased $457 billion, or nearly 47 percent above their original estimates, with an average schedule delay of more than 29 months, across the 78 programs in the Pentagon's 2014 portfolio. Foreign Affairs Live: Modernizing the Military will bring together leading experts and practitioners for a high-level examination of the challenges, misconceptions and opportunities related to finding the best approach to achieving real defense acquisition reform and improving performance of large scale defense acquisition programs.
