Dining Facility Troop Feeding: Operations and Business Opportunities Session at Federal Food Symposium (April 1-2)

Session Focus – Dining Facility Troop Feeding: Operations and Business Opportunities

For more information or to register, visit: https://food.ncmbc.us/.

The Federal Food Symposium, hosted by the Office of US Senator Thom Tillis, the Office of Senator Ted Budd, the North Carolina Military Business Center and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, connects the Department of Defense and federal subsistence buying and R&D agencies with food producers, growers and R&D entities in the southeast. 

When. April 1-2, 2025

Where. Fayetteville Technical Community College
Tony Rand Student Center, 2220 Hull Road
Fayetteville, North Carolina, 28303

Sessions. 

  • Retail Food Operations and Business Opportunities.
  • Retail Food Opportunities: Brand and Non-Brand Products.
  • Supply Chain and Research and Development for Tactical Rations.
  • Subsistence Support to the Warfighter: Current and Future Challenges.
  • Troop Feeding Operations and Business Opportunities
  • Other Federal Agency and Department of Defense Opportunities. 

Registration and sponsorship opportunities are now available.  

Dining Facility Troop Feeding: Operations and Business Opportunities. Installation food service representative(s) will discuss food requirements generation and ordering processes to support their troop feeding facilities.  DLA Subsistence officials will outline acquisition processes for supporting dining facilities at multiple installations through regional prime vendor contracts.  Full line and fresh fruit/vegetable prime vendors will discuss their challenges and supplier engagement processes in support of DLA, installations and warfighters.

Speakers:

  • Jasmine Brown, Division Chief, Operational Rations and Equipment Division, Defense Logistics Agency, Troop Support
  • Robert L Clark Jr, Installation Food Program Manager, Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), Installation Supply Division, Army Field Support Battalion-Liberty, Fort Liberty, NC 
  • Chief Warrant Officer 3 Carlos Amaro, Operations Officer, US Marine Corps
  • Master Gunnery Sergeant, Shawn C. Fitzpatrick, OIC, West Coast Food Management Team, Food Service and Subsistence Program HQMC
  • Major Luis Linares-Ayala, Commander, 4th Force Support Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
  • Allen Fritzsching, Chief, Supply & Services Branch, US Army Forces Command
  • Sergeant Major Patrick Baker, Chief Culinary Management, US Army Forces Command