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Thursday, October 31, 2013
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
WELCOME
Mr. Steven Ritchey
Vice President for Intelligence
AFCEA International
Lt Gen Bruce Wright, USAF (Ret.)
Vice President, C4ISR
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Conference Co-Chair and Member of the AFCEA Intelligence Committee
Brig Gen Neal Robinson, USAF (Ret.)
Director, Business Development
Oracle Corporation (National Security Group)
Conference Co-Chair and Member of the AFCEA Intelligence Committee
Ms. Ginger Wierzbanowski
Vice President, Space, Missile Defense & Advanced Technology Programs
Northrop Grumman Corporation 8:15 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
THE STATE OF USAF ISR
The Air Force has spent the last decade investing in ISR capability and capacity to support counter-terrorism and counter insurgency operations focused on real-time support to ground and maneuver forces. Now, with a planned “pivot to the Pacific,” the Air Force must transition from a force designed around permissive environments to a balanced mix of capabilities to operate across the air, space, and cyber domains, driving operations in an anti-access, area-denial environment—while delivering value for the DoD and taxpayer.
Focus Questions
- How does Air Force ISR operate in denied/contested air, space, and cyber environments?
- How does the role and responsibility of Air Force ISR change between Phase 0/I/II operations in support of Combat Air Forces and Combatant Commanders?
- How does Air Force ISR characterize targets for kinetic and non-kinetic operations across all domains (land, maritime, air, space, and cyber)?
Speaker
Lt Gen Larry James, USAF
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Headquarters USAF, Washington, DC
8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
ISR INNOVATION AND CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
In 2011, the Secretary of the Air Force asked the A2 staff to conduct a comprehensive review of the state of USAF ISR. From that review flowed several follow-on tasks the Air Staff is still pursuing, several of which have significant S&T aspects to them. Industry can interact with these efforts through a number of projects, such as PCPAD-X, Capability Collaboration Teams, and other front doors.
Focus Questions
- What sensing challenges are relevant to AF ISR today?
- What is the AF way-ahead for data sharing and discovery in an era of proliferating sensors?
- How is the AF working to deconflict the demand for platforms and sensors that may have more than one role to play in the battlespace?
Speaker
Mr. Jeffrey Eggers
Chief Technology Officer
Director for ISR Strategy, Plans, Doctrine, and Force Development 9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
NETWORKING BREAK
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
CAPABILITY PLANNING
The Core Function Lead Integrator for Global Integrated ISR (GIISR) is responsible for producing the GIISR Core Function Master Plan (CFMP) as a holistic, multi-domain planning and programming document within the Air Force Corporate Structure. The CFMP incorporates the Air Force ISR Capability Gaps and bins them into key ‘risk areas’ for solutions analysis and potential investment. Gen Hostage will discuss the CFMP process as it relates to Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution and how industry’s understanding of the process will aid technology insertion.
Focus Questions
- What is the GIISR Core Function Master Plan and how does it relate to the PPBE process within the AF Corporate Structure?
- What strategies, doctrine, and analyses affect and inform the development of the CFMP?
- What is a Capability Collaboration Team and how do they address risk in GIISR Key Risk Areas?
Speaker
Gen Mike Hostage, USAF
Commander, Air Combat Command
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
ACQUISITION INTELLIGENCE – DELIVERING MAXIMUM CAPABILITY AT MINIMUM COST
The rate of technology advancement and proliferation is increasing. The importance of intelligence that enables mission capability (Intelligence Mission Data) and ensures our systems can meet the emerging threat has never been greater. We face disconnects today between 5th generation platform requirements to consume intelligence data and Intelligence Community capacity to produce such data. Addressing this issue starts during concept development and continues throughout the full life-cycle of modern weapons systems. Management of intelligence as a component of acquisition programs is key to ensuring our modern weapon systems are, in fact, intelligent.
Focus Questions
- What is involved with managing intelligence as a component of acquisition programs?
- How does acquisition intelligence impact successful development of weapons systems?
- How do we ensure the intelligence required to enable modern technologies is reflected in total life-cycle costs?
- What bottlenecks exist, and are there mitigation strategies in place?
Speaker
Lt Gen C.D. Moore II, USAF
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: AIR FORCE GLOBAL ISR
Gen Mark Welsh III, USAF (invited)
Chief of Staff
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
LUNCH AND NETWORKING
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
AF DCGS –INFORMATION DOMINANCE THROUGH INNOVATION
In the face of increasingly austere fiscal resources and dynamic operational environments, the AF ISR Enterprise faces distinct modernization challenges to meet the Chief's ISR Vision for the AF. The Air Force Distributed Common Ground Station (DCGS), as the service's premier globally networked Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance weapon system, will play an integral role in improving interoperability across Air Force systems to enable support across the full range of military operations.
Focus Questions
- Will AF DCGS provide the backbone for the AF ISR Enterprise moving forward?
- How will AF DCGS provide intelligence support to the warfighter in an A2AD environment?
- What role does the ISR Systems Engineering Center play in the continual innovation of collection technology as well as adversary technology?
- How will a static or decreasing analytic workforce adapt to the increasing quantity and quality of data entering DCGS from advancing sensor capabilities?
Speaker
Maj Gen Robert Otto, USAF
Commander, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
ISR R&D / S&T
AFRL is the Air Force's only organization wholly dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of warfighting technologies for our Air, Space, and Cyberspace forces. Synchronizing forces across the three warfighting domains in time and purpose for effect is paramount and a major challenge. The three domains possess dramatically different characteristics with respect to speed, time, distance, governing physics and forces. Modern conflicts demand rapid, agile, and assured operations to meet decision support needs across both the domains and the spectrums of conflict. AFRL is uniquely organized to integrate across technical disciplines to aggressively develop ISR S&T solutions for GIISR capability gaps spanning Air, Space, and Cyberspace.
Focus Questions
- How is AFRL, as the Air Force’s “venture capitalist,” investing ISR S&T toward the future fight, including post-Afghanistan, the pivot-to-the-Pacific, and beyond?
- How are ISR S&T programs guided by the GIISR Core Function Master Plans, and what are the key risks associated?
- How does AFRL assure that current ISR S&T will integrate with the current and future AF ISR Enterprise (including DCGS, Squadron Operations Centers, AOCs, etc.)?
Speaker
Maj Gen William McCasland, USAF
Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
NETWORKING BREAK
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
THE CURRENT AND FUTURE STATE OF AIR FORCE ISR
During this session, the panel members will respond to questions from the audience.
Moderator
Lt Gen Bruce Wright, USAF (Ret.)
Vice President, C4ISR
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Conference Chairman
Panelists
Gen Mike Hostage, USAF
Commander, Air Combat Command
Lt Gen Larry James, USAF
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Headquarters USAF, Washington, DC
Lt Gen C.D. Moore II, USAF
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Maj Gen William McCasland, USAF
Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory
Maj Gen Robert Otto, USAF
Commander, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency
Mr. Randall Walden, SAF/AQI
Director for Information Dominance Programs
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition
Headquarters USAF, Washington, DC
Mr. Jeffrey Eggers
Chief Technology Officer
Director for ISR Strategy, Plans, Doctrine, and Force Development
4:30 p.m.
CONFERENCE WRAP-UP
Lt Gen Bruce Wright, USAF (Ret.)
Vice President, C4ISR
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Conference Co-Chair
Brig Gen Neal Robinson, USAF (Ret.)
Director, Business Development
Oracle Corporation (National Security Group)
Conference Co-Chair
Ms. Ginger Wierzbanowski
Vice President, Space, Missile Defense & Advanced Technology Programs
Northrop Grumman Corporation |
