26 APRIL 2017: DPAAS Luncheon and Networking Meeting
We are very pleased to announce that Ms. Jeanne Fox, HQ AFMC/A5R, will be our speaker at the 26 April 2017 (Wednesday) meeting of the Defense Planning and Analysis Society, 11:30-1:30 pm, 2800 Presidential Drive, Holiday Inn, Fairborn, Ohio. Ms. Fox is Chief of the Operational Capability Requirements Division, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. She will discuss “Trusted Plans, Defendable Requirements, Agile and Effective Resourcing”.
ABSTRACT: Is JCIDS Dead?
In April of 2011 Mr. James Hasik, an industrial analyst for Global Security.org wrote “JCIDS is Dead”. And yet today, six years later, JCIDS is alive. The Joint Capabilities Integration Development System (JCIDS) is the formal DoD procedure which defines acquisition requirements and evaluation criteria for future defense programs. The future of defense programs has been in an extended period of contraction and JCIDS has responded with a variety of process and policy changes that impact how the USAF does operational capability planning. This presentation will discuss recent and likely changes to the JCIDS process, how the USAF is responding to those changes, what the challenges are, and what the future of USAF execution of JCIDS might look like. How can the Chief of Staff of the Air Force have confidence that appropriate trade-offs among cost, schedule, technical feasibility, and performance objectives have been made to ensure program requirements are affordable?
USAF Headquarters (HAF) has implemented a new process for executing JCIDS that separates the requirements document review process from the operational capability requirements development process. The document review process is meant to determine whether the document is right. The operational capability requirements development process is meant to determine whether the right capability is being documented. This presentation will discuss recent and likely changes to the HAF capability development process, how the AFMC is responding to those changes, what the challenges are, and what the future of the requirements to acquisition continuum might look like. How can the USAF assess the military value of operational capability relative to acquisition cost?
Jeanne Fox is the AFMC focal point for operational requirements, life cycle management policy, and Program Management career management activities. She leads Command oversight, evaluation and management of JCIDS requirements. She is responsible for formulating the AFMC corporate position for Air Force Capability Development Council decisions and for other General Officer/Senior Executive Service decision forums. She serves on the Program Management Intermediate Development Team which assesses high potential program managers for career development opportunities and placement in key positions. She leads the facilitation of Command-level reviews of acquisition programs that have failed or indicate opportunity for enterprise improvement.
Ms. Fox entered federal civil service in1986 as a Presidential Management Intern with the USAF Ballistic Missile Office, Norton AFB CA. She has served in a number of management positions in the acquisition and support functions that span a wide range of Air Force and Navy line and staff positions. These include Chief of Fighters and Bombers Capability and Development Planning, Integration and Transition, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, MQ-1 Predator Branch Chief, Deputy Chief of Rotary Wing Aircraft, Special Operations Forces, Combat Search and Rescue Next Generation Helicopter Production Flight Chief, lead program manager for the Air Force Simulation and Analysis Facility, and US Navy project manager for the configuration and installation of Stress Data Recorder Set. She has also been Strategic Planner for Commander, Aeronautical Systems Center. She previously served at the Naval Air Warfare Center as Command Evaluation Officer.
Registrations/Cancellations need to be received no later than 12:00 Noon, 25 April 2017. To cancel your registration, please send an email to admin@dpaas.com. “No shows” will be billed.