Dan Barbieri Chair, AIA Intellectual Property Committee Rockwell Collins Inc.  

Dr. Alexis Lasselle Ross (invited) Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)  

The panel will discuss the FY 16 NDAA Section 813 Panel’s recommendations and other recent changes to the technical data statutes and implementing regulations, to include Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) implementation, improving communications for long term sustainment needs, new contractual mechanisms being considered, and recommendations regarding software.

Moderator: Kevin O’Brien, IP Attorney, UTC Aerospace Systems, ISR & Space Systems

Panelists:

Charles H. Harris, Associate Deputy General Counsel (Intellectual Property) Office of the Army General Counsel (invited)

James McEwen, Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Jon Etherton, President, Etherton & Associates, Inc.  

Congress recently passed legislation requiring (to the maximum extent possible) the DoD to negotiate a price for technical data deliverables before selecting a contractor for major weapon systems, and requiring the DoD to establish a cadre of IP experts skilled in IP valuation. The panel will discuss these legislative developments and other challenges and opportunities for IP valuation in defense acquisition.

Moderator: Nick Florio, Principal, Deloitte

Panelists:

Carolyn Tomberlin, Rockwell Collins Inc., IP Management

Jerry Trepkowski, Senior Counsel, The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

John Lisciandro, Managing Director, Government & Public Sector Valuation, Deloitte  

The panel will discuss challenges and opportunities in acquiring commercial items from both traditional and nontraditional contractors to meet DoD requirements, and explore various contracting instruments such as other transactions.

Moderator: Kelly Kyes, Senior Policy Specialist, The Boeing Company Panelists:

Richard Gray, Associate General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, DoD

Larry W. Brantley, Intellectual Property Counsel, Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel Command (invited)

Laurie Landgraf, Senior Counsel, The Boeing Company

Louis Ross, MEI-Micro.com  

The panel will discuss government and industry views on various sustainment-related technical data rights topics, to include: (1) the development of IP strategies as part of overarching acquisition strategies; (2) technical data that is “necessary for operation, maintenance, installation or training (OMIT)” and the carve out for “detailed manufacturing or process data”; and (3) depot-level maintenance and repair and 50/50 requirements.

Moderator: Dan Barbieri, Rockwell Collins

Panelists:

Azza Jayaprakash, US Army CECOM; Division Chief, IP Law Division

David Frey, Chief IP Counsel, Rolls-Royce Americas

David Rikkers, Senior IP Counsel, Raytheon

Roger Hamerlinck, Acquisition Policy Specialist, Office of the ASA (ALT)  

Dan Barbieri, Chair, AIA Intellectual Property Committee, Rockwell Collins Inc.