Conference Day Two: August 20, 2008
7:15 Registration And Continental Breakfast
8:00 Welcome And Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
8:15 Maintenance Focus: Bringing Maintenance Capability Forward To The
Warfighter
- Marine Corps Logistics Command strategic vision
- Maintenance Center Albany – focus on innovation
- MRAP maintenance and armor effort
- Maintenance “Forward” and Maintenance Center Albany “Mobile”
- Reset and beyond
Colonel Dan Gillan
USMC, Commander
Marine Corps Maintenance Center, Albany, GA
8:55 Maintenance Focus: Depot Combat Vehicle Maintenance
- Overview of recapitalization
- Overhaul for combat vehicle maintenance operations
Jeffery Simmons
Deputy Director of Production
Anniston Army Depot
9:35 Networking & Refreshment Break
10:20 MRAP Production: Parts To Port
- Innovative approach to MRAP vehicle production
- Building on best practices of industry and a military depot
- The next wave in low volume vehicle production
Dr. John R. Gray
Deputy Commander
Letterkenny Army Depot
11:00 Panel Discussion: Maintenance And Reset Of Heavy
Vehicles – Best Bets
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Operational Testing Of Heavy Wheeled Vehicles
- The work of the US Army Operational Test Command
- Realistic, rigorous testing
- MRAP, LTAS, and others
Colonel Brian Dosa
USA, Director, Engineer / Combat Support Test Directorate
U.S. Army Operational Test Command
1:40 USAF Heavy Duty Hybrid Electric Program
- Low emission and efficient hybrid military heavy duty trucks and hybrid electric powertrain electrification
- Milestones, future military applications, and benefits
Harvey Collier
Program/Financial Manager
Air Force Advanced Power Technology Office
2:20 Networking & Refreshment Break
3:00 Material Focus: Emerging Armor Trends For Heavy Vehicles
- Materials, trends, threats
- Payload, performance, and protection
- Chem / bio protection
- Sensors, networking, and armor
John Garnier
PhD, Armor Program Lead, Security Systems Technologies, National & Homeland Security Directorate
Idaho National Laboratory
3:40 Material Focus: Advanced Materials For Heavy Military Vehicles
- Making heavy vehicles lighter
- Metal matrix micro and nanocomposites and syntactic foams
- Self-lubricating and self-healing composites
Professor Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi
Director, Center for Composite Materials
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
4:20 End Of Main Conference
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