"Transforming the Intent Into Action: Achieving Success Through Workforce Excellence”
The fourth annual U.S. Space Program Mission Assurance Summit, held in support of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and National Aeronautaics and Space Administration (NASA), will be hosted by The Aerospace Corporation on December 1, 2011. The Summit is a "by invitation only" event, and invitees include Government, industry, and FFRDC senior leaders from program offices, as well as mission assurance, quality, and systems engineering functional areas.
The Summit provides a forum for the top national security, civil, and commercial space sector leadership to collaborate, learn, and enhance mission assurance on all programs.
The U.S. Space Program leadership has agreed on a strategic intent “to create an environment that will deliver 100-percent mission success” and to a mission assurance framework to focus the collaborative efforts necessary to fulfill the intent.
This year’s theme, “Transforming the Intent into Action: Achieving Success through Workforce Excellence,” recognizes the critical role that government and industry workforces play in effectively and efficiently delivering on orbit capability. Challenges abound in our collective efforts to recruit, develop, and retain space expertise, particularly given competition for resources and priorities in the U.S. space enterprise.
Four breakout sessions are planned that focus on challenges faced in acquiring critical space systems. They are as follows:
- Retaining space systems design expertise in a constrained budget environment;
- Optimizing Mission Assurance: Posturing the program workforce for efficient execution;
- Developing Workmanship Excellence: Knowing what to do and doing it; and
- Developing effective space systems program managers to achieve acquisition success
Anticipated outcomes include identifying and sharing best practices and developing actionable plans for calendar year 2012.
In addition to the breakout groups, a keynote address by a senior leader is planned, followed by a senior government panel comprised of the Commander, SMC, Director, NRO, and senior representatives from MDA and NASA. The day will conclude with outbriefs to the senior government representatives followed by their closing remarks.
All invitees are encouraged to commit to attending this fourth annual U. S. Space Program Mission Assurance Summit. The agenda is structured to appeal to a broad spectrum of acquisition professionals, from program executives to program managers to systems engineers across the government-industry community.
Participants are urged to take full advantage of this special opportunity to contribute to and learn from this collaborative forum, which is aimed at sharing how to best combine collective knowledge, skills, and experience to effectively and efficiently deliver critical space systems in order to ensure 100-percent mission success.
General Chair
Susan Hastings
The Aerospace Corporation
571-307-5866
Susan.E.Hastings@aero.org
Sponsored by The Aerospace Corporation
