Q: How does your organization spell:
- Fayed Rasheed Ahmed Hasan el-Kadi Bany Hamed
- Fayiz Rasheed Ahmed Hasan Alkady Banihamed
- Fayiz Rashid Ahmad Hassan al-Qadi Bani-Hamad
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Q: What does unique capabilities and experience does CSC bring to the Intelligence Community?
A: CSC sees "mission" and "IT" becoming more and more unified. We see, too the need to build enterprise solutions for mission management, processing, analysis, dissemination, and information sharing." We lead the industry in building enterprise-class solutions that fuse mission-critical needs with contemporary and forward-leaning IT infrastructures. CSC has built a security and IA consulting organization that is comprised of over 1,300 security and IA professional's of which a large percentage are cleared and certified. Examples of five of our prominent categories in this consulting space are: secure IT operations including cross-domain architectures; cyber intrusion detection response; cyber fusion and identity management; cyber policy, architecture, education and training; and force protection.
Q: How does CSC's commercial experience serve the Intelligence Community?
A: CSC's commercial experience ensures the Intelligence Community gets access to the widest range of proven, new, and emerging technology, thinking, and approaches. We do work today to help Virgin Money build a worldwide infrastructure in support of its micro-loan business. We help the National Health Service in the UK with its back-office systems, and we provide support throughout London Transport. We provide a very high-availability IT infrastructure for Hess Oil. We're leading the way in building public- and private- sector cloud architectures. As a result, the Intelligence Community can be sure to gain from CSC the widest range of potential solutions. Because of our global reach we see approaches to solving security related issues from a number of unique vantage points. Our security colleagues in different geographic regions through out the world have the ability to quickly share best of breed concepts and solutions, from their specific countries, that smaller less geographically dispersed IT service companies do not have access to.
Q: How can one describe CSC's commitment to national security?
A: CSC's support to national security goes back almost to the company's founding in 1959. We've built military logistics systems, and our technologists helped program the Aegis system that protects our Navy, intercepts ballistic missiles, and has proven effective against satellites. CSC today provides support throughout the Intelligence Community, the Department of Homeland Security, and DoD. Our people provide mission-critical support to the nation's drug and law enforcement communities. We were the first large IT systems integrator to be asked to execute with the Department of Defense a Defense Industrial Base Pilot Program Framework Agreement, under which we share information with DoD regarding cyber events, vulnerabilities, and mitigation approaches.
Q: I thought Deloitte was only a tax and auditing firm. What other services does Deloitte provide?
A: As organizations with deep commercial industry knowledge, our access to the network of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu member firms provides a source of effective practices in areas such as strategy, financial management, enterprise risk management, and human capital. Every day, federal government organizations turn to us for better insights into effective strategies from around the world and to tap into our network of professionals across our industry programs. This means that they can benefit from public and commercial sector experience no matter where it resides in our organization.
Q: What work are you currently doing within the Intel Community?
A: Deloitte supports the Intelligence Community mission through a combination of services based on comprehensive business solutions and supported by powerful commercial technology. We have extensive experience supporting the Intelligence Community, providing a wide range of services and solutions such as Performance Management, Financial Intelligence, Enterprise System Solutions, Enterprise Architecture, Human Capital Management, and Organizational Process Improvement. Our services combined with our strategic relationships have enabled us to help agencies in their efforts to improve performance across all areas of their operations while reducing costs, maintaining accountability, and achieving mission objectives.
Q: How do I know that my agency will get the best service and solutions from Deloitte?
A: Deloitte’s extensive experience supporting the Intelligence Community allows our multidisciplinary teams to provide wide-ranging and informed services and solutions to help our clients in their efforts to address their complex needs from strategy to execution. In addition, Deloitte LLP has been consistently recognized by industry associations and analyst groups for our service excellence, superior technical capability, and commitment to our clients in the federal marketplace.
Q: How does Fortinet achieve such high performance with FortiGate while detecting and eliminating the complex security threats?
A: A key differentiator, Fortinet's custom-built FortiASIC content and network processors enable FortiGate systems to detect and eliminate even complex, blended threats in real time without degrading network performance, while an extensive set of complementary management, analysis, database and endpoint protection solutions increases deployment flexibility, assists in compliance with industry and government regulations, and reduces the operational costs of security management.
Q: Are there any portions of the security solution that Fortinet OEM’s?
A: Fortinet's flagship FortiGate® security platforms offer a powerful blend of ASIC-accelerated performance, integrated multi-threat response, and constantly-updated, in-depth threat intelligence. Employing innovative technologies for networking, security and content analysis, Fortinet systems integrate the industry's broadest suite of security technologies, including firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, antispam, and traffic shaping, all of which can be deployed individually to complement legacy solutions or combined for a comprehensive threat management solution. Fortinet® security products offer dynamic protection based on the work of the dedicated Fortinet® Global Security Research Team, which researches and develops protection against known and potential security threats. Their research forms the basis of the FortiGuard Security Subscription Services, which deliver continuous, automated updates for antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, antispam, vulnerability and compliance management, application control, and database security services. All Fortinet technology, including the ASIC chips and FortiGuard services are internally developed.
Q: Is Fortinet more of a commercial SMB vendor?
A: Absolutely not. Fortinet has proven enterprise-class technology scaling up to 172Gbps firewall throughput. We have Federal customers using FortiGate in tactical deployments, enterprise deployments, and in cloud based security services. Fortinet has been selected by all 4 approved ILECS (AT&T, Sprint, Qwest, and Verizon) as THE security solution in the Trusted Internet Connection MTIPS Networx architecture.
Q: Why is IBM relevant in the Geospatial Intelligence Community?
A: IBM's industry thought leadership and Research investment, prepares NGA for the Now, Next and AfterNext.
Q: What are some of your most relevant solutions that apply to GEOINT today?
A: IBM is proud of its Smarter Planet initiative, which encompasses our solutions for analytics including Stream Computing and Entity Analytics, secure cloud computing platforms, datacenter and green advancements, and security to deliver transformative solutions to create actionable intelligence for a smarter planet.
Q: Who do I contact find out more about IBM technologies that empower geospatial intelligence?
A: Please visit us at ibm.com/federal, or to speak with someone on the phone, our NGA Client Team will be happy to assist you, Myra Dudley NGA Client Manager 301-803-1945, Gabe Chang NGA IT Architect 301-803-3655
Q: How has Intelsat General Corporation (IGC) assisted defense and government agencies as well as commercial firms in the area of ISR?
A: IGC has developed specific Ku-band beams on the Horizons 2 spacecraft with full coverage of the CONUS as well as the East Coast of North America. This “Boomerang Beam” extends the coverage of the East Coast of North America 300 miles offshore to include most of the Caribbean Islands. This coverage, coupled with the large 72 MHz transponders, will support UAV Missions of the Global Hawk and Predator platforms. IGC also has the ability to assign additional spacecraft around the planet to accommodate UAV missions.
Q: What unique solutions does Intelsat General provide to military and civilian government entities today?
A: As the world’s leading satellite operator, Intelsat General provides customized, end-to-end communications solutions utilizing our global network of more than 50 satellites, 8 teleports and extensive fiber infrastructure. Bringing these solutions together with our equipment vendor relationships and regulatory authorities around the world, Intelsat General is a “one-stop-shop” for turnkey solutions to the U.S. military, Allied forces, civilian government agencies and industry partners alike.
Q: How is Intelsat General assisting military and civilian government entities with future mission requirements?
A: Intelsat General is currently working with several U.S. military and Allied force entities defining the locations, frequency bands, and capacity requirements to meet the growing demands for higher throughput. The potential solutions under discussion include hosting payloads on upcoming commercial launches, and increasing our global terrestrial network to meet growing requirements for entry point locations.
Q: Is ManTech supporting our efforts to fight terrorism overseas?
A: Yes, the company supports the advanced telecommunications systems that are used in Operations Iraqi Freedom and in other parts of the world; has developed a secure, collaborative communications system for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and builds and maintains secure databases that track terrorists.
Q: Understanding that collaboration among different Agencies is a major issue within the Intelligence Community, is ManTech helping to resolve that issue?
A: Yes, ManTech developed a Web 2.0 enhanced collaboration tool called A-Space/GovKonnex for the Intelligence community. This tool was named one the Top 50 Inventions of the Year by Time magazine.
Q: Is ManTech contributing to the Intelligence Community’s critical Cyber Initiative efforts?
A: Yes, ManTech’s team of cyber security experts develop and employ some of the most advanced cyber security techniques, process, methodologies and tools available to protect, secure and exploit information. We utilize a state-of-the-art forensics laboratory to simulate and model different scenarios for our Intelligence, DOD, Homeland Security, State Department and related customers.
Q: Lots of companies talk about performance-based IT service delivery, why should I listen to McNeil?
A: There are several reasons to come to McNeil for your IT service delivery needs. First, we pride ourselves on being an IT company – no someone who just provides IT staff to the government. We have a corporate commitment to certification, education and training which has resulted in ISO 9000-2001 certification, a sizable percentage (growing toward 100%) of our workforce with ITIL certifications, and a large number of personnel with the certifications and training that matter to the government today, such as CISSP, led by managers schooled in Program Management (PMP) and the latest best practices in IT service delivery. Next, we have executed one of the few performance-based contracts in government that actually relied on extensive, mutually agreed Service Level Agreements to govern and assess the provision of services. We consistently met each of over 76 SLAs and exceeded them some 80% of the time. Lastly, our size is our strength. As a $600M company, we are big enough to accomplish any job, but small enough to still care about and listen to the customer. With a very flat management structure, all PMs report to the Senior VP for IT, McNeil can make decisions in hours that take others weeks or months.
Q: Why should I use McNeil for my language needs, lots of companies can provide interpreters and translators?
A: Maybe, but none of them are true language companies! McNeil is the largest full service language company in the US. We provide translators, interpreters, and linguists (we currently provide over 9000 FTEs to the Army in Iraq). We provide training, deep linguistic research, and language testing. We own our own publishing company (Dunwoody Press) which allows us to produce custom dictionaries, grammars, readers, glossaries, and refreshers. And we do all this in over 150 languages and dialects. Still think we’re no different than the rest?
Q: Logistics and aviation support are commodities, why McNeil?
A: Turn Key aviation solutions! McNeil can provide aviation solutions that are one stop shopping anywhere on the planet. The McNeil team has operated in Africa, the Middle East, CONUS, Europe, and South America and have had bases and operations in most of those regions. We are currently operating helicopters in the Middle East, STOL aircraft, wide body jets, heavy jets and cargo aircraft. We are also currently involved in a fixed wing program that maintains a LifePort medical system aboard three B767 aircraft. The McNeil team can deploy to conduct advance set-up and to make the arrangements for your accommodations, ground transportation, hangar/ramp facilities, communications, clearances, fuel, and security requirements and to establish communication lines with the entities that will be using the service. These logistics will be in place by the time the mission is started. We have the ability to set up a complete turnkey operation in anywhere in the world to do so smoothly, professionally, securely and quickly.
Q: Why “The Cloud” and NetApp?
A: NetApp brings Extreme Flexibility with Always-on data mobility, secure multi-tenancy, and ease of management. This simplifies Disaster Recovery by moving data automatically and enables secure environments for your users, plus provides the flexibility to advance as requirements change.
NetApp brings Outstanding Efficiency via Unified Storage Architecture solutions like deduplication that deliver efficiency across your virtualized data center, which drives down IT costs across the Enterprise.
NetApp has a Proven Expertise Track record in serving enterprises, expertise in deployments, and is a pioneer in IT as a Service (ITaaS), thus significantly reducing risk.
Q: How can Unified Storage Architecture solutions developed by one of the fastest growing Data Management Companies, NetApp, help simplify your Enterprise?
A: A single Operating System across all NetApp Storage Arrays
Why is this important to you? This requires IT personnel to learn only a single set of skills to management, provision, and protect storage. This significantly lowers IT costs.
NetApp storage solutions are Multiprotocol. This reduces risk significantly; as storage requirements change NetApp solutions can meet them, by simply adding a license. All NetApp Storage Arrays support Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, and FCoE simultaneously or as they are required, because the protocols are part of the operating system
The reduction in complexity from NetApp solutions can also reduce human error, the leading causes of downtime
Summary:
The unified approach means that you can use the same hardware, software, people, and processes for all your storage and data management requirements, regardless of tier, protocol or task. The advantages include higher people productivity, fewer errors, faster response and lower costs.
Q: How can NetApp Storage Efficiency lower your total cost of ownership and boost productivity across the Enterprise?
A: NetApp cuts storage capability requirements by 50% (Source: NetApp’s Virtualization Guarantee Program) through NetApp deduplication across your primary, secondary, and archival storage environments, proven with 35,000 licenses across our customer base
NetApp doubles your storage utilization though NetApp thin provisioning technology, adopted by over 75% of our customer base
NetApp solutions optimize test and development processes and cut storage requirements through virtual, space-efficient database cloning. This optimization significantly reduces your risk and lowers costs at the same time.
NetApp increases data protection through RAID-DP, which protects against dual disk drive failures and consumes 46% less storage than disk mirroring. Protect your data and lower your storage costs at the same time.
Q: How is Oracle committed to the IC?
A: Oracle is the worldwide leader in enterprise software and has developed products directly in response to IC needs.
Oracle's National Security Group is focused solely on the IC and reports directly to corporate executive leadership.
Q: Why choose Oracle COTS software over open source software?
A: Oracle has a lower total cost of ownership
Oracle provides reliable support for upgrades, maintenance, and training (even for open source software, such as Linux).
Q: What does Oracle's acquisition of Sun mean for the IC ?
A: Oracle now provides an integrated and open product stack from "disks to applications" that can be tuned to IC needs.
Q: Why do I know - - or need to know - - Telcordia?
A: Having pioneered many of the advanced telecommunications technologies in use today, and with its software supporting most major carriers, Telcordia is widely viewed as the chief architect of the U.S. telecommunications system. Telcordia’s lineage goes back to AT&T, Bell Labs, and the beginnings of the evolution of the U.S. telecom infrastructure. The 1982 DOJ Consent Decree, which broke up the AT&T Bell System, created Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), renamed Telcordia in 1999, as a separate entity to provide a wide spectrum of software systems, technical consulting, and advanced research support for the newly created Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs). In addition to its R&D and standards setting, Telcordia also owned or developed nearly 6000 components of network software, many of enormous size, which functionally ran the U.S. telephone system. As part of the AT&T break-up, Telcordia was also chartered to provide lead technical support for securing the U.S. telecom infrastructure. In doing so it became a founding member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). Given additional marketing freedoms after being sold to SAIC in 1997, Telcordia and entered the global market to deliver its network software and services. Today, Telcordia is owned by two private equity firms, Warburg Pincus and Providence Equity, and is focused on supporting virtually all carriers in the U.S. as well as major wireline and wireless carriers around the world.
Q: What’s wrong with today’s approaches to Cyber Security?
A: It is our view that truly secure networks must address, with astute balance: confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, and non-repudiation. In doing so, the fundamental challenge is to resolve the inherent tension between achieving a high level of security and maintaining end-end functionality. The former focuses on preventing bad things; the latter is about enabling good things. In achieving this balance, a secure cyberspace is not an end state but rather, an end-to-end state: a continuum of policies, actions and goals that reduce vulnerabilities while enhancing functionalities.
A critical obstruction to delivering this level of security and functionality is the fragmented environment of the communications industry and infrastructure. By design, most of today’s networks have diverse and distributed configuration and security controls. Networks continue to be built without adequate consideration of the principals of good design and architecture, particularly in the area of interoperability. At the federal level, beyond cyber security practices themselves, there are no single definitive entity that can truly dictate compliance to consistent system and network architectures and life cycle management.
These issues cannot be resolved through oversimplifying the problem or constructing a piecemeal solution. Incremental changes - - in either policy or technology - - are insufficient to address the complexity and severity of the issues being confronted. Unbiased overhaul of current and pending policies and shrewd application of alternative technologies are essential. The core of any such approach must be a partnership between public and private sectors that is focused on national security needs while reflecting each sectors’ unique drivers and constituencies.
Q: How does Telcordia’s Cyber work impact my business?
A: With decades of experience protecting the world's most complex networks, Telcordia has worked with public and private organizations around the world to provide unparalled efficiency and security across a wide range of networks and operating environments. Telcordia was the unifying element in making the RBOCs’ networks work with seamless efficiency and simplicity. Telcordia was also chartered with securing the U.S. telecom infrastructure by developing coherent operational support systems, certifying components entering the infrastructure, and defining a wide range of disaster recovery practices.
In addition to it’s over 1800 patents in the telecom field, Telcordia also has active involvement and key leadership roles in over 20 standards bodies around the globe. Telcordia’s Applied Research group is renowned for providing game-changing technologies to address the ever-evolving cyber threat. Recent examples of Telcordia innovations within DARPA/ARDA projects include Dynamic Quarantine of Worms, Cyber Early Warning Systems, Rapid Traceback of Cyber Attacks, Security for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Mitigation of Insider Threats, and Zero Outage Dynamic Intrinsically Assured Communities. At a strategic level, and as a member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, Telcordia actively supports cyber threat policy development. With its deep technical expertise, extensive intelligence community experience, proven cross-industry leadership, Telcordia is well-poised to meet the increasingly complex challenges of planning and protecting our nation’s networks, information assets, and services.
Q: Can a commercial service provider deliver services inside of the Intelligence Community?
A: Certainly! Verizon Business has been serving the Intelligence Community with IT & Network Solutions for more than 25 years. We have the cleared staff and facilities required for virtually any type of secure, reliable IT infrastructure and services. Whether it is a managed service in a secure remote facility, or providing direct support on site, Verizon is there.
Q: What can Verizon Business do to help ensure the success of your mission?
A: Verizon Business provides complete IT and network solutions ranging from infrastructure acquisition through management of local and global voice, video, and data networks. Whether it’s building and operating private computing clouds, or providing reliable, secure “always there” connectivity between critical nodes, Verizon delivers.
Q: Why choose Verizon?
A: Verizon is a recognized industry leader in IT services. We operate one of the largest global Internet Services in the world, providing voice, video, data, and a full range of other infrastructure services to businesses throughout the world. Ninety-six percent of the Fortune 1000 and thousands of government agencies and educational institutions rely on our professional managed services and network technologies to accelerate their business. We leverage the lessons we have learned in arriving at the Best Commercial Practices in our industry to bring solutions to the Intelligence Community that meet or exceed expectations while consuming proportionately less resources to make an important difference in achieving your mission success.
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