Keynote Speakers

The Honorable John Grimes
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Network and Information Integration) and Department of Defense Chief Information Officer
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Extensive technical and policy experience in telecommunications, information systems and the command and control fields.  Public service includes White House National Security Council Staff as Director for National Security Telecommunications Policy, Director of Defense Command, Control and Communications Programs, and Senior Director White House Situation Support Staff.  Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Defense-wide Command, Control and Communications and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures.

LTG Michael Maples, USA
Director
Defense Intelligence Agency
Also commands the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance for the United States Strategic Command.  Served as the Vice Director and Director of Management of the Joint Staff prior to assuming his current responsibilities.  Former Commanding General, U.S. Army Field Artillery.

The Honorable Dale Meyerrose
Associate Director of National Intelligence and Chief Information Officer
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
First Chief Information Officer of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  Prior to that served as CIO of NORAD and also as the first CIO for the U.S. Northern Command, created in the wake of Sept. 11 to assist in homeland defense and support civil agencies.

The Honorable Charles Robb
Co-Chairman
Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S.
Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
Former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator.  As a U.S. Marine Corps officer during the 1960s, commanded an infantry company in combat in Vietnam and, as a senator during the 1990s, the only member ever to serve simultaneously on all three national security committees. 

Luncheon Speakers

Dr. Jeong Kim
President
Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs
Oversees the communication industry's most heralded R&D organization. His team is responsible for designing the products and services at the forefront of communications technology as well as conducting fundamental research in a wide variety of fields such as optical networking/photonics, nanotechnology, wireless/mobility, physical sciences, computing and information sciences, and network software.

Mr. Robert Richer
Vice President of Intelligence
Blackwater USA
Former Associate Deputy Director of Operations, CIA.   Served 11 years of active duty in the Marine Corps.  Former Chief of Station in the Middle East, Chief of Russian Operations and Chief of Near East Division in Directorate of Operations.

Session Speakers

LTC (P) Bill Adamson, USA
Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations and Intelligence
Joint IED Defeat Organization

Ms. Maureen Baginski
Director, Intelligence Sector

BearingPoint

Served as the FBI's Executive Assistant Director for Intelligence where she was responsible for establishing and managing the FBI's first-ever intelligence program.

Dr. Sean Edwards
Intelligence Analyst
National Ground Intelligence Center
Former Army Ranger.  Conducted a study on Operations in Complex Terrain, to include the Battle of Fallujah -- having a significant effect on Army thinking on doctrine and tactics.

Dr. Thomas Fingar
Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The first Deputy DNI for Analysis (DDNI/A).  Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence & Research).  As DDNI/A oversees all intelligence analytic activities.  Also responsible for the President's Daily Brief (PDB) and chairs the National Intelligence Council.

The Honorable Jeffrey K. Harris

Vice President

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Managing Director for Horizontal Integration of Situational Awareness Systems Lockheed Martin Corporation Senior executive point of contact to National Security Community customers. Former President and General Manager of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Operations and President of Lockheed Martin Special Programs. Also served as President of Space Imaging, the first company to commercially provide high-resolution satellite imagery and information products of the Earth.

Dr. Eric Haseltine
Assistant Director for National Intelligence for Science and Technology
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Responsible for leading the Intelligence Community to a coherent S&T strategy that insures IC dominance and use of world-class R&D processes.  Former Director of Research, NSA and former Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering. 

Dr. Edward Liszka
Director, Applied Research Laboratory
The Pennsylvania State University
Former Chief Scientist and Director of Research and Technology for the Office of Naval Research.  An acknowledged expert in the areas of underwater acoustics and technologies associated with controlling underwater vehicles.

Mr. Mike Meermans
Staff Director
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Responsible for coordinating all the activities of the HPSCI as it fulfills its Congressional oversight function.  Also served over 20 years on active duty with the U.S. Air Force in a variety of intelligence assignments.

The Honorable Ronald Neumann
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Former Ambassador in Algeria and Bahrain prior to being Ambassador Negroponte's POL MIL lead in Baghdad.  Served in Vietnam as an Infantry Platoon Leader and earned the Combat Infantry Badge.  A long time Middle East hand having first learned Pharsi and later Arabic.

Mr. J. David Patterson
Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense/Comptroller
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Deputy Comptroller for all DoD.  Former senior civilian Special Assistant to Deputy former Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. On June 6, 2005, named Project Director for the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment (completed December 2005).

Dr. Neil Siegel
Vice President for Technology and Chief Engineer for C3
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Led TRW (acquired by Northrop Grumman in December 2002) to become the world’s leader in battlefield digitization.  Invented the “force-structure-aware network,” -- achieving wireless communication interconnectivity of thousands of mobile platforms with low-cost radios and without fixed infrastructure, such as cell towers.

Mr. James Simon
Director
The Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments
Former President and CEO of Intelligence Enterprises, LLC.  A career CIA officer, was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate as the first, and last, Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Administration. After September 11th, was designated as the senior intelligence official for homeland security.

MG Michael Vane, USA
Vice Director for Force Structure, Resources and Assessments, J-8
The Joint Staff
Leads the J-8 Directorate charged with providing support to the CJCS for developing force structure requirements, conducting studies, analyses, assessments, and evaluating military forces, plans, programs, and strategies.  Also serves as the Joint Requirements Oversight Council Secretary and Chairman of the Joint Requirements Board. In those capacities, orchestrates Joint Staff support of the requirements development process and oversees the Joint Warfighting Capabilities Assessment process.