If you could dialogue with a senior leader about acquisition, who would it be?
We'd like to bring some high-level experts - could be government practitioners, instructors. etc. from Federal, state and local government - to talk about the hot topics and key issues in acquisition and contracting on GovLoop.
If you could name some people you'd like to see us interview (or maybe that you would like to interview yourself!) or with whom you'd like to dialogue more directly, who would it be?
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Here's our first example:
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Tags: acquisition, contracting, experts, procurement
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Permalink Reply by Dick Field on -
I highly recommend Lt. Col. Dan Ward, USAF. He is Chief of Acquisition Innovation, Acquisition Chief Process Office, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense of the Air Force for Acquisitions Integration. Don't let the lengthy title fool you. He is a very out-of-the-box thinker and communicator who is also well published and a creator of such concepts as FIST (Fast, Inexpensive, Simple, Tiny). You can check out his work in the archives of Defense AT&L magazine (the professional journal of the Defense Acquisition University), including such seminal efforts as "The Rogue Program Management Art of War" (May-June 2005).
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Krzmarzick on -
Thanks, Dick! Any sense as to how to approach him or questions you'd like to ask?
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Permalink Reply by Jaime Gracia on -
Andy- Send Dan an email. He is very responsive and would be a great resource. His FIST concepts are fantastic and he is a truly an innovator.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Krzmarzick on
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Awesome, Jaime! Thank you!
Got some specific questions you'd like me to ask him that would be interesting/beneficial to the community? -
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Krzmarzick on
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I opened up the discussion in the Young Acquisition Professionals group and we're 12 comments into some great ideas!
http://www.govloop.com/group/contractingacqusitionprofessionals/for... -
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Permalink Reply by GovLoop on -
Was at Kennedy School with Chris Hamm of GSA this week. I like the way that guy thinks.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Davie on -
Chris Hamm is the bomb! Genius, innovative, and leading BetterBuy for GSA.
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Permalink Reply by GovLoop on
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I'd love to get people from some of the biggest contracts:
-SEWP
-Deepwater
-CIOSP3
And also some people who do lots of small contracts everyday
I think there is a lot of variation in acquisition and would love to highlight -
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Permalink Reply by NITAAC on -
NITAAC is happy to speak on its CIO-SP contract -- we're in a holding pattern for 3 because of evaluations, but you can go to http://nitaac.nih.gov/nitaac/contact to reach our Director, Deputy Director or Customer Support.
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Permalink Reply by Joanne Woytek on -
NASA SEWP is always happy to participate in Govt acquisition discussions - contact Marcus Fedeli - marcus.a.fedeli@nasa.gov
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Permalink Reply by Pattie Buel on -
Jeff Parsons - Army Contracting Command and his counterparts at the other services
Mike Canales - DPAP
Ashton Carter - OSD
Would love to see a discussion on the way the various services approach interagency and assisted acquisitions and why they chose the implementation they did (since it's all based off same DoD policy but works vastly different) -
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Permalink Reply by Candace Riddle on -
All great suggestions for individuals you would like to rub elbows with! Now what do you want to ask them? Click here to post your responses.
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