SAME Industry-Government Engagement Summit - 4 PDH

Monday, March 24, 2025
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. ET
Salons A, B, and C | Bethesda North Marriott

Government Attendee: $0
Industry Attendee: SAME Member - $99 / Non-Member - $129

Already registered for Capital Week? Email registration@same.org to request that the IGE Summit be added to your registration.

Limited seats per session. Choose one of three IGE initiatives when you register.

Interactive Workshop: Elevating Partnering Across DOD Projects - hosted by SAME Construction COI

Installations of the Future - hosted by SAME AI COI

Joint Engineering Challenges & Solutions - hosted by TBD COI

Additional Information

Interactive Workshop: Elevating Partnering Across DOD Projects

Join us for an unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with senior leaders from the DOD and the AEC industry in a dynamic, hands-on workshop that could redefine partnering success in military construction and beyond. Led by Jennifer Campbell, head of the Partnering line of effort in SAME’s Construction Community of Interest, this interactive session will empower participants to influence the future of collaboration across DOD projects.

This four-hour summit is designed to deliver actionable insights and high-value connections. Divided into two compelling segments, attendees will explore:

Session 1: Partnering Best Practices—Ensuring Implementation Success
Gain insights into the current state of partnering within DOD projects. A brief presentation will highlight successful strategies and common pitfalls before participants break into small groups to tackle real-world implementation challenges. You’ll have the opportunity to share your knowledge, collaborate with peers, and help shape the next generation of partnering practices.

Session 2: The Mother of All Playbooks—Creating a Unified Partnering Approach Across DOD
Imagine a unified framework for partnering across all DOD branches and agencies. This session begins with a short presentation on current approaches, including highlights from existing partnering playbooks. Small group problem-solving will follow, enabling participants to help define the vision and opportunities and brainstorm, refine, and propose practical solutions for the barriers to standardization. The session concludes with a facilitated discussion, capturing diverse perspectives and aligning on actionable next steps.

Why Attend?
•    Accelerate Your Networking: Capitalize on early access to senior executives from DOD and the A/E/C industry in an intimate setting.
•    Deepen Understanding: Gain valuable insights into the challenges your partners face and share your expertise to create meaningful solutions.
•    Shape the Future: Be part of a collaborative effort to influence and enhance DOD’s approach to partnering, leaving a legacy that improves outcomes for years to come.

By the end of the summit, you’ll walk away with clarified opportunities, identified barriers, and actionable next steps to advance partnering excellence.

 

Installations of the Future

“George Jetson Meet Nuts and Bolts”. It is fun to imagine future installations with unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned submarines, and robots automated by computer systems. But in preparing for future installations, it’s more important to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is needed. Flexible piers to respond to various water levels over the decades? Dozens of remotely scattered UAV airfields to spread out the fleet and enable the UAVs to respond? Appropriately designed cyber control centers? This interactive, collaborative, head-scratcher session will explore what systems, facilities, and processes that are different from today are required to be developed for future installations/federal campuses. 

Moderator: Col. Paula Loomis, F.SAME, F.AIA, USAF (Ret.), Urban Collaborative
Panelists:
Hon. Lucian Niemeyer, F.SAME, Building Cyber Security
Get Moy, Ph.D., P.E., AECOM
Edmond Gauvreau, FAIA, USACE
Col. Patrick Hogeboom, P.E., USA (Ret.), Michael Baker International

Joint Engineering Challenges & Solutions

What do we mean when we ask what are the “Challenges and Solutions” to any endeavor? In the Joint Engineer Contingency Operations space, a “challenge” or “solution” is defined by the risk perception and tolerance from any particular stakeholder. For instance, the COCOM risk is focused on the ability to meet the mission need or desired capability. The Service Engineer/Logistics staff’s risk may be focused on the ability to meet specifications and schedule either using military units (e.g. Seabees, RED HORSE, Engineering Battalion) or Industry. If Military assets are not available and a contract solution is sought, then another set of risk tolerances are introduced from the Acquisition community and Industry. The acquisition community risks focus on the ability to solicit, evaluate and award a contract within IGE, without protest, along with being able to manage the contract post award. Finally, Industry risks are focused on contractual terms (contract type (FFP/CR), liquidated damages, minimum guarantees), finance (profitability and cash flow) and ability to execute to the schedule. This panel will attempt to address these risks and provide recommendations on how to manage each stakeholder’s risk profile to come to a fair and equitable methodology for engaging Industry for COCOM requirements.

Moderator: Richard Sloop, P.E., Fluor Government Group
Panelists:
Col. Brandon Bowman, USA, USACE
Capt. Joseph Harder, USN, COMNAVFACSYSCOM
Doug Hill, KBR
Col. Gregory Mayer, P.E., USAF, AFCEC
Ken Myers, Flour Mission Solutions

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