Los Angeles Town Hall Event Summary

On February 19, 2014, senior defense leaders joined a panel of experts from Booz Allen Hamilton in Los Angeles, CA, to discuss how enterprise integration can enable smarter, better, and faster mission success. In particular, the group discussed the importance of exposing and reusing as much existing data as possible while building in interoperability from the start.

The panelists included Tom Pfeifer, lead of the US Air Force (USAF) C4ISR business; Lorne Caddick, lead of the Advanced Systems Engineering and Integration (ASE&I) division of Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services; and Brian Abbe, co-lead of Rapid Prototyping and Platform Integration (RPPI) within the Strategic Innovation Group.

Drawing upon nearly 60 years of combined military and federal expertise, the panelists discussed their diverse experiences and presented case studies to suggest strategies for acquiring, developing, and managing a government-owned system of systems (SoS)