** Revised March 11, 1999
Tuesday, April 20

7:30 a.m. - Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - Welcome and Opening Remarks
Guy Curtis, Chairman of the Board, AFEI

9:00 a.m. - Government Shares the Challenges
Marvin Langston, Ph.D., Deputy Chief Information Officer, OSD (invited)

Mark Schaeffer
Deputy Director, Systems Engineering, OSD

10:15 a.m. - Break

10:30 a.m. - Industry Leads the Charge
Jim Webb, Federal Program Manager Invention Machine

Jeff Plotnick, Vice President & General Manager of Supply Chain Solutions, Computer Sciences Corporation

11:30 a.m. - Federal Electronic Commerce Coalition
Howard Stern, Co-Chair
Robert Sturm, Co-Chair

12 noon - Lunch

1:00 p.m. Applying a Digital Knowledge Environment to Improve Logistics Customer Services
Lou Kratz, Director of Logistics Systems Reengineering, Office of the Secretary of Defense

An overview of ongoing DoD actions to employ advanced information systems and commercial business practices to reinvent DoD logistics, improve service to the warfighter, and improve mission readiness. Key areas to be highlighted include the DoD's migration to commercial transactions standards (ANSI X.12), migration to commercial product data standards, the use of smart product models, and collaborative work environments (Advanced Logistics Program) to enable dynamic control of our logistics pipeline.

1:30 p.m. - Panel of Knowledge Experts

Knowledge When and Where It is Needed
Cliff Geiger, President, Unified Industries, Inc.

Today's technology allows the identification, access, and timely delivery of information to enable the accomplishment of tasks with concurrent learning and doing. The implications for staffing, training, and maintenance will be discussed.

Integrated Digital Environment
Michael Lowry, Defense Contract Management Command

Standards - What's Happening
Jerry Smith, Defense Information Systems Agency

2:30 p.m. - Breakout Working Sessions for AFEI Divisions & Planning Committees
(Refer to final program for room assignments)

6:00 p.m. - Day One Adjourns

Wednesday, April 21

9:00 a.m. - Federal Electronic Commerce Program
Paul Grant, Co-Chair, Federal EC Program Office

9:30 a.m. - 21st Century Commerce EXPO 1999
Elaine Litman, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 1999 EXPO Chair

10:00 a.m. - Breakout Session Status Reports

12:00 noon - Adjourn