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| Day
One – Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
| 0730 - 0800 |
Registration and Coffee |
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| 0800 - 0900 |
Contractors on the Battlefield |
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Dr.
Frank Camm, Senior Economist, RAND. Author,How Should
the Army Use Contractors on the Battlefield? |
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| 0900 - 1000 |
Private Military Contractors:
Policy Dilemmas and Deferred Decisions |
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Dr. Peter W. Singer,
Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative, Brookings Institution.
Author, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military
Industry |
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| 1000 - 1015 |
BREAK |
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| 1015 - 1145 |
International Private Security
Contractors |
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Moderator: Sean
McFate, Program Director, National Security Initiative,
The Bipartisan Policy Center |
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Douglas
Brooks, President, International Peace Operations Association
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Dr. Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt,
Steering Committee, Business and Human Rights Program, Amnesty International
USA |
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John
Wrenn, Director, Corporate Communications, Global Stability
Initiatives, Blackwater Worldwide |
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| 1145 - 1300 |
Working Lunch: Do Contractors
Undermine Democracy? |
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Dr. Deborah Avant,
Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies,
University of California, Irvine. Author, The Market for Force:
The Consequences of Privatizing Security |
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|
| 1300 - 1445 |
Privatizing Homeland Security
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Moderator: Robert
Salesses, Chief of Staff, Homeland Defense and Americas’
Security Affairs, Department of Defense |
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Sam Brinkley,
Vice President, Homeland and International Security Services Office,
Wackenhut Services, Inc. |
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Nancy Gunderson,
Director, Acquisition Operations Branch
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security |
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Daniel
O’Brien, Senior Market Manager, National Security
Global Business Unit, Battelle Memorial Institute |
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RADM (Ret) James
Plehal, Business Liaison, Private Sector Office, Department
of Homeland Security |
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|
| 1445 - 1500 |
Break |
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| 1500 - 1545 |
A Better Framework for the Sourcing
Decision? |
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Michael
Love, Assistant
General Counsel, Computer Sciences Corporation |
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|
| 1545 - 1645 |
Post-Cold War Downsizing of the
Military |
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Dr. Michael O’Hanlon,
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution |
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| Day
Two - Thursday June 19, 2008 |
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|
| 0730 - 0800 |
Registration and Coffee |
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|
| 0800 – 1000 |
What Are Inherently Governmental
Functions? |
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Moderator: Gary
Motsek, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Office
of Program Support, OSD/AT&L |
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Mathew Blum,
Associate Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office
of Management and Budget. OFPP oversees OMB Circular A-76, which
establishes federal contracting guidelines, including with respect
to inherently governmental functions |
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James
Walsh, Program Director, Bureau of International Narcotics
and Law Enforcement, Department of State |
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George Laudato,
Administrator’s Special Assistant for the Middle East, U.S.
Agency for International Development |
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|
| 1000 - 1015 |
Break |
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| 1015 - 1130 |
Outsourcing Intelligence |
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Benjamin Powell,
General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
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Tim Shorrock, Investigative
Journalist. Author, Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence
Outsourcing |
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|
| 1130 - 1230 |
Is Outsourcing Really Cheaper?
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Dr.
Elliott Sclar, Professor of Urban Planning and International
Affairs and Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development,
Columbia University. Author, You Don’t Always Get What You
Pay For: The Economics of Privatization |
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| 1200 - 1345 |
Working Lunch: Contractors and
Soldiers: Effects on Unit Cohesion, Command Relationships, and Retention |
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Dr.
Ryan Kelty, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral
Sciences and Leadership, United States Military Academy. Author, Soldiers’
Attitudes Toward Civilian Contractors: A Case Study |
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| 1345 - 1400 |
Break |
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| 1400 - 1500 |
Accountability and Legal Liability
for Military Contractors |
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Professor Laura
Dickinson, University of Connecticut School of Law. Author,
Legal Regulation of Private Military Contractors, the New Mercenaries
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| 1500 - 1600 |
Outsourcing Reconstruction and
Development |
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Janet Ballantyne,
Senior Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development |
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|
| 1600 - 1615 |
Key Issues and Findings |
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Bernie Carreau,
Center for Technology and National Security Policy |
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