# Presentation: 201654

## Refining the Vision&Defining Success10 Dec 1998

**Brig Gen Frank J. Anderson, Jr.**
**United States Air Force**
**Deputy Assistant Secretary (Contracting)**
**Assistant Secretary (Acquisition)**

***Contracts & Procurement Section***
***Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)***
***Interagency Working Group (IAWG)***

## Since 14 Oct

- Defined Task Force Charters
- Identified Task Force Chairs
- Planned Year-Long Agenda
- Wrote Draft Agency Pledge
- Developed Success Matrix
- Started Spreading the Word

## Completing the President’s Charter

- 22 Agencies Participating
- 4 Task Forces
- Developing Guidance
- Consolidating Examples & Best Practice
- Providing Assistance
- 6 Section Meetings (Including the American Bar Association Conference)
- Tracking Success Through the Matrix
- Writing & Issuing Final Report

##           ADR Program Design

_**Chair**_**:**  Frank Carr
- Vice Chair:  Pat Sheridan
_**Objectives**_**:**
- Provide Program Design Assistance (as needed)
- Enhance & Further Develop Program Design Practices
_**Deliverables**_**:**
- Develop Program Design Guidance
- Collect, Consolidate Agency Program Materials
- Program Design Assistance

_***Task Forces, Chairs, Products***_

##      ADR Case Process Design

_**Chair**_**:**  Tony Palladino
- Vice Chair: TBD
_**Objectives**_**:**
- Enhance & Further Develop ADR Practice
- Provide Case Process Design Assistance
-   (as needed)
_**Deliverables**_**:**
- Write Federal ADR Resource Compendium
- Provide ADR Agreement Samples
- Provide Settlement Agreement Samples
- ADR Process Assistance (as needed thru Sep 99)

_***Task Forces, Chairs, Products***_

##               ADR Training

_**Chair**_**:**  Carole Houk
- Vice Chair:  TBD
_**Objectives**_**:**
- Ensure agency ADR needs are matched with ADR training resources
- Enhance & Further Develop ADR Practice
- Help Agencies Identify Training Needs
_**Deliverables**_**:**
- Develop ADR Training Resource List & Consolidated Training Schedule
- Develop ADR Training Services
- Help Agencies Build Training Plans

_***Task Forces, Chairs, Products***_

##              ADR Neutrals

_**Chair**_**:**  Judge Martin Harty
- Vice Chair:  Judge Eunice Thomas
_**Objectives**_**:**
- Ensure Agency Neutral Needs are Matched with Existing Government Sources
_**Deliverable**_**:**
- Develop Roster of Government Neutrals With Specialties & Disseminate to Agencies

_***Task Forces, Chairs, Products***_

## Our Plan of Action

## Major Milestones

_**4 Feb**_** **- Meeting 3
- Neutrals & Training
_**26-28 Apr**_ - ABA Conference
_**26 May**_ - Meeting 4
- ADR Program & Case Process Design
_**2 Jul**_ -** **Agency Self-Evaluations Due
_**21 Jul**_ - Meeting 5
- Agency Evaluations & Final Report Review
_**1 Sep**_ - Final Report to DOJ

## ADR Success Matrix

**Contracts & Procurement Section**
**ADR Success Matrix**
**Sept 98 - Sep 99**

## Spreading the Word

**Air Force Annual CEO Conference**
- Oct 98
- 11 Corporate Agreements to Date
**NCMA East Coast Conference**** **- Nov 98
- 60+  Attended ADR Seminar
-   (Mostly Business Managers)
**National Defense Industry Association** - 16 Dec
**Air Force General Counsel Education Conference** - Feb 99