{"49905":{"#nid":"49905","#data":{"type":"news","title":"McGinnis Speaks at Defense Manufacturing Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Leon McGinnis spoke at the 2008 Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC held in December.  Based on the theme, \u0022Defense Manufacturing: Are We Ready to Provide Affordable Warfighter Capabilities?*, the agenda was structured to bring together over 1000 leaders and technical specialists from government, industry and academia to exchange perspectives and information about the DOD Manufacturing Technology program, industrial base initiatives and related DOD transformation initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcGinnis\u0027s address focused on \u0022transformation challenges in global collaborative\/network centric manufacturing* and highlighted the R\u0026amp;D currently underway and in development at Georgia Tech.  DMC is the major venue for manufacturing R\u0026amp;D information exchange in the defense manufacturing sector.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2008 Defense Manufacturing Conference was held at Disney\u0027s Coronado Springs Resort, Walt Disney World* Resort, Florida. It was held in collaboration with the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and Concepts, the Military Departments, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Missile Defense Agency and the Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor McGinnis\u0027s address focused on \u0022transformation challenges in global collaborative\/network centric manufacturing\u0022 and highlighted the R\u0026amp;D currently underway and in development at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"McGinnis speaks at Defense Manufacturing Conference"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-12-09 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:56","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49906":{"id":"49906","type":"image","title":"Professor Leon McGinnis, Eugene C. Gwaltney Chair","body":null,"created":"1449175366","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:46","changed":"1475894451","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:51","alt":"Professor Leon McGinnis, Eugene C. Gwaltney Chair","file":{"fid":"126970","name":"tvg38567.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tvg38567_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tvg38567_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":56287,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tvg38567_0.jpg?itok=-1LDRr1F"}}},"media_ids":["49906"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1729","name":"defense manufacturing conference"},{"id":"577","name":"leon mcginnis"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}