Date: November 18, 2004
Venue: COEX Convention Center, Grand Ballroom 104 & 105
Time: 09:00-16:00
KITA and JUSMAG-K will host a seminar to the KITA membership that is aimed at familiarizing Korean companies with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition process and some of the various methods available that could facilitate international participation.
The seminar will be highlighted with several guest speakers from the U.S. Department of Defense.
U.S. DoD Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) Program
Since 1980, the FCT program has focused on accelerating the acquisition process and reducing rising development costs by searching for products currently being used or developed in the commercial sector that meet and exceed current performance standards of existing products. DoD has funded over 500 FCT projects with approximately 160 leading to procurements worth over six billion U.S. dollars. Many FCT projects have reduced the total ownership of military systems, cutting overall acquisition and support expenditures while enhancing standardization and interoperability, improving allied cross-service support, and promoting international cooperation.
U.S. PACOM, Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations (ACTD)
ACTDs focus on bringing mature and maturing technologies from industry and R&D facilities to the military warfighter in order to solve important military problems. The goal is to provide a prototype capability to the warfighter and to support him in the evaluation of that capability. The program then operates militarily useful quantities of prototype systems in realistic military demonstrations making an assessment of the military utility of the proposed capability. The ultimate goal is to fill critical needs, which may ultimately result in the recommendation of full acquisition of the technology and further fielding of the system within operational military units.
In addition, KITA, JUSMAG-K and the U.S. Embassy Commercial Section will make presentations.
AGENDA
| 0900 | Opening remarks KITA |
| 0915 | Opening remarks JUSMAG-K and brief discussion of U.S. Acquisition System |
| 0930 | U.S. Embassy Commercial Section |
| 1000 | Presentation by U.S. Department of Defense Foreign Comparative Testing Office |
| 1100 | Presentation by U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) on the ACTD process |
| 1150 | Presentation by Korean Company participating in FCT program |
| 1230 | LUNCH |
| 1400 | Open question and answer session with FCT Team |
| 1500 | Break |
| 1515 | Open question and answer session with ACTD Team |
| 1600 | Closing remarks by KITA |
For conference registration, please contact KITA at http://www.kita.net.