Professional Development

Wednesday, March 4

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Intelligence Professional Development Seminar
Global Surveillance Challenges: Impact on Analytic Tools, Training and Tradecraft

Instructor: Dr. Lisa A. Costa Chief Scientist The MITRE Corporation

Discussions will center on the challenges of Global Surveillance from the analytic perspective.  Fusing multi-INT data sources with varying degrees of uncertainty in a timely manner and being able to communicate that uncertainty to the user challenges the current analytic enterprise environment.  Emphasis will be placed on the need to exploit advanced analytics and the skills and enterprise services required to support such environments.  Particular emphasis will be placed on global situational awareness and preparation of the environment through multisource sense making, highlighting the: Social Sciences, Decision Sciences, Information Sciences, and Physical Sciences.

This Professional Development Seminar (PDS) is a companion to the “Global Surveillance Challenges: Impact on the Enterprise” PDS and the Intelligence Panel led by Mr. Konrad Trautman.

Thursday, March 5

9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
C4 Professional Development Seminar

Biometrics: Policy, Plans and Enterprise Infrastructure

Instructor:
Mr. Craig Archer
Identity Superiority Manager

U.S. Special Operations Command

Biometrics has emerged as one of the key technologies enabling Identity Superiority in the Global War on Terror (GWOT).  Looking beyond military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, biometrics-enabled identity operations could become even more effective in the GWOT, but will primarily be executed through third parties. Now is the time to put the policy, plans, and enterprise infrastructure in place to support sovereign nation biometrics data collaboration around the world.  Specific topics include: policy implications and requirements, planning, interagency support, sovereign nation biometrics sharing challenges, and a case model for an enterprise architecture. 

Thursday, March 5

9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Intelligence Professional Development Seminar

Web 2.0 - Challenges and Promises for Information Sharing

Instructor: Mr. David Arsenault MITRE Department Head

Web 2.0 is a way of life for this generation of students, digital natives. To digital natives, these technologies and the communities they enable are the fabric of daily life. Government must embrace these World Wide Web (www) technologies, employed in new and innovative ways to attract the best and brightest of this next generation to serve with us.

This professional development seminar will explore the place of Web 2.0 in government. Specific topics will include the role of Web 2.0 in information sharing, collaboration, and how we can leverage these technologies while maintaining operational security (OPSEC) and preventing network exposure and risk. The seminar will explore specific Web 2.0 technologies and services,
including:

• Social Networking: GovLoop, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace
• Social Bookmarking: del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us/>
• Social News: reddit, Digg
• Mashups, APIs, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds
• Blogs and Twitter
• Wikis: Wikipedia, Intellipedia
• Video and Photo Sharing: YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, Twitpic
• Mapping: Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth