Webinar
Strengthening Agile Procurement within the Department of Defense
From Leadership Connect
In today’s rapidly changing and highly uncertain market, new requirements arise every day, from new regulations to new sources of risk or competition. Building a truly agile procurement function requires more than adjusting internal processes. As the market has rapidly changed, the need to strengthen the agile procurement process within the Department of Defense has become increasingly important.
Tune in to this webinar as topic experts go in depth as to why it is so important to strengthen agile procurement within the department of defense, and what this means within the DOD. Hear as our panelists describe best practices to implement an agile strategy, and what that looks like. What are the driving forces of agile procurement in the Department of Defense?
Speakers to come.
Moderator
Alan B. Thomas Jr.
Chief Solutions Officer
Leadership Connect
Alan is the Chief Solutions Officer at Leadership Connect. He also serves as an Operating Advisor to Enlightenment Capital. Prior to these roles, he was appointed and served as the Commissioner of the US General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service from June 2017 until November 2019. As Commissioner, Alan led 3,500 people responsible for delivering $65B in acquisition and technology solutions annually to enable efficiencies across the federal government. He also served as a founding member on two Congressionally mandated boards, the Technology Modernization Fund and the Federal Acquisition Security Council.
Alan started his federal career as a Presidential Management Fellow, serving on both the Army staff and in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, where he earned the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence and the Vice President’s Hammer Award for innovation in public service. Later in his career he returned to public service as a member of the Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations in Iraq and on the staff of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
In the private sector, Alan held several leadership roles including Chief Operating Officer at both IntelliBridge and Berico Technologies, Vice President with Data Networks Corporation, and as a business unit leader at Unison. Earlier in his career he held delivery and account management roles with Booz Allen Hamilton and FreeMarkets.
Alan holds a Master of Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School, a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas’s LBJ School, and a Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College. He maintains an active security clearance.
Alan provides guest commentary to Federal Computer Week and the Federal News Network.
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