1. In-threatre Logistics & Asset Visibility
The "last tactical mile" presents the most challenging logistical support constraints. How do you provide supply and support to a diffused battlefield? Providing total visibility and accountability of all supply chain assets in-theatre increases warfighter support and reduces warfighter risk.

Program Highlight:
Panel Discussion: Strategies for increasing in-theater logistics support Major General Yves J. Fontaine, Commanding General, US Army sustainment command.

2. Reset, recovery & reconstitution
The military must overcome the obstacles associated with the drawdown in Iraq the buildup in Afghanistan to rapidly retrograde equipment from theater and facilitate the repair, redistribution and life cycle management of equipment.

Program Highlight:
Panel Discussion: Post Iraq retrograde, reset & reconstitution Major General Raymond Mason, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, US Army forces command

3. Joint, Interagency & Coalition Logistics
Operations Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom, and Enduring Freedom revealed that Joint and Service logistics processes and systems that could not communicate with each other resulted in order-fulfillment lag times, redundant resources, choked supply pipelines and uncertainty for the warfighter.

Program Highlight:
Posturing Joint Logistics for the Future Lieutenant General Kathleen M. Gainey, Director for Logistics, J-4, The Joint Staff

4. Adapting To The New Budget Environment
The new administration is focusing on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their internal business policies as well as looking for eery possible cost efficiency strategy that they can employ within the defense budget.

Program Highlight:
Defense Logistics - An OSD Perspective Alan Estevez, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics & Materiel Readiness), US Department of Defense

Are you a manufacturer who's considering attending Defense Logistics? Here's why you should attend:

• You'll have the opportunity meet, network with, and learn from senior logisticians and policy makers from across DoD and the Services:
• Each senior leader will be tasked to discuss their 12-18 month roadmap, highlighting any shift in their strategic initiatives that will help you realign your organization
• You'll hear from your peers as they examine the impact of the Dod's insourcing efforts and the effect it will have on public-private partnering:
• Executives from Boeing and Northrop Grumman already confirmed!
• You'll have the opportunity to lay the groundwork for future partnerships with other manufacturers, contractors and technology companies:
• These new partnerships will drive your business and vision forward.
• And you'll focus on key successes and lessons learned in OIF and OEF that will drive future innovations and support of the warfighter