Major General Craig Koziol Commander, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency US Air Force

This session will provide information on:

• Implementing HQ USAF/A2 policy and guidance to expand Air Force ISR capabilities to meet current and future challenges
• Organizing and presenting assigned forces and capabilities to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for combatant commanders and the nation
• Develop competencies vital to sustaining full-spectrum Air, Space and Cyberspace ISR capabilities

Rear Admiral William Leigher Director, Information Operations (N3IO)/DDNI for Cryptology (N2C) US Navy

• Offense and Defense-in-depth
• Workforce of the future
• Virtual presence

Attend this session to get a better sense of how NSA is influencing the protection of defense and military networks against intruder threats from one of it's top leaders. Join Mr. Sager as he discusses some of the key's to reducing vulnerabilities in out networks as information is communicated throughout our systems. He will discuss:

• Creating Value from Vulnerabilities
• Stakeholders in Assurance
• Vulnerability Plumbing

Giovanni Piazza Global Director, Knowledge Web, Center for Business Knowledge Ernst & Young

How to share knowledge and information, minimizing risks, losses and leaks, is a recurrent theme in private industry; understanding the enterprise management successes of the private sector, can help the defense agencies and military services work towards an effective information sharing culture and system. This session will help you secure the tools you need to implement and improve the key requirements of net-centric operations. This session will provide information on:

• Assessing the value proposition of knowledge sharing
• Achieving a culture of open sharing and free flow of information; pro's, con's, risk, rewards.
• Understanding challenges and successes in private industry's enterprise information management
• Overcoming issues related to knowledge loss when organizational retention is low
• Combining the best components of a successful knowledge sharing environment: "search engines", community platforms, repositories, social networks etc.

Colonel Medio Monti Commander, Joint Systems Integration Command, USJFCOM

This session will provide information on:

• Assessing compliance with net-centric technology standards and information assurance (IA) controls
• Identifying capability issues early in the acquisition cycle
• Integrating, validating, and demonstrating initial operational capabilities (including IA compliance)

	Colonel Medio Monti Commander, Joint Systems Integration Command (JSIC) USJFCOM
	Rear Admiral Janice Hamby Director, Command Control Systems NORAD and U.S. Northern Command US Navy

A main challenge of ensuring interoperability is getting support from all parties on the common elements and strategies that will be integrated. Join these leaders in communications and systems integration as they discuss the ways they work with their partners to decide on the most significant ways to align their networks.

This session will provide information on:

• Creating a list of "must haves" that all parties can agree to
• Understanding how to ensure that all parties can adhere to the needs of the joint networks
• Developing joint capabilities as both parties move toward future steps

Mark Powell Director of C4 and IT Infrastructure US Coast Guard

• The traditional way of producing Government information technology and communication systems does not produce the results that are required in today's technology rich environment
• The commercial world is building interoperable information technology and communication systems
• Government agencies should work with industrial partners and leverage their investments and knowledge to produce interoperable systems

Dr. Larry Stotts Deputy Director, Strategic Technology Office DARPA

This session will provide information on:

• Implementing radical innovation for the purposes of modernizing interoperable networks
• Driving long-term change towards the ideal of seamless information transfer between DoD systems
• Identifying new capabilities to meet spectrum challenges derived from technology advancement
• Discussion will highlight high data rate hybrid optical/RF communication, Dynamic Spectrum Access, disruption tolerance and mobile tactical wireless devices

Dr. Claudia Kropas –Hughes Deputy Chief, Technology Transition Division, Air Force Materiel Command US Air Force

• Developing early and complete life-cycle transition planning as well as creating a common understanding of the technology transition processes to be applied at all life cycle stages through the Air Force Initiative focused on Technology Transition
• Reaching the Initiative's overall goal by improving technology transition success through improved planning to increase probability and speed of the transition and increase the confidence of acquisition programs
• Making sure the right people are involved earlier in the process for increased collaboration between researcher, acquisition and stakeholders
• Using a robust, formalized process, the stage-gates, where the stagegate criteria outline the detailed activities and milestones necessary to transition from phase to phase

This session will provide information on:

• Ensuring that enterprise-level capabilities are constantly modernized to ensure readiness and preparedness
• Partnering with businesses to implement innovative net-centric technologies to support the warfighter
• Defining and validating solutions that could potential help alleviate current C4 systems battleground challenges

Thomas McCormick Director, Enterprise Operations National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

• Supporting NGA partners by providing enterprise dissemination and information services via a 21st Century Information Technology infrastructure
• Providing easy access to geospatial intelligence databases for all stakeholders
• Linking enterprise management with geospatial intelligence to improve NGA's support of combatant commands

The Department of Defense is operating in a complex environment as it moves towards a Net-Centric model. Spectrum is an increasingly essential element to enabling military net-centric operations, and the efforts of DoD to adapt require a fundamental shift in how we use and manage the spectrum in the future. Key components to this spectrum management transformation are - people, processes, and technology.

• People: The Defense Spectrum Organization (DSO) is the designated “center of excellence” to achieve mission-critical global spectrum access, and to make sure spectrum supportability is built into every step of the path bringing the spectrum-dependent systems to the warfighter. Partnerships across Federal government, academia, industry, and international arenas are critical.
  
• Processes: Spectrum management will soon be promoted through the use of an entirely new suite of tools and architectures that represent a qualitative shift. DSO is the key actor enabling these tools and architectures.
  
• Technology: Techniques of managing spectrum dynamically represent the future of the defense community’s route to spectrum Net-Centricity, using software defined radios, cognitive radios, and other means. DSO is leading the DoD spectrum management community’s aggressive adoption of these technologies.