SOLUTIONS Series

• Bearing Point
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Cogent Systems
• eZenia
• General Dynamics
• id:analytics
• MITRE
• Northrop Grumman
• Qinetiq
• Qwest
• Trustifier TCB
• Verizon Business

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This track will address the systemic problems and concerns surrounding IT acquisition including Policy. Governance, and Training.

• Improving Acquisition Efficiency Through Better Policy
• Applying Governance and Oversight
• Training the Next Generation Acquisition Professional

This track will address the unique differences between acquiring systems and services.

• Deploying IT at/for the Edge
• Building the Infrastructure - Systems and Services
• Scoping Requirements and Understanding Mission Applications

This track will focus on the need to deploy technology more rapidly in support of the mission.

• Jumping the Hurdles: Security, Accreditation, and Funding
• The Needle in the Haystack: Finding and Procuring Game Changing Technologies
• Haven't We Done this Before? - Case Studies and Lessons Learned

Plenaty/Keynote and Town Hall Sessions.

• Solutions IT Acquisition Keynote 1
• Solutions IT Acquisition Keynote 2
• Solutions IT Acquisition Keynote 3
• Solutions IT Acquisition Wrap-Up Town Hall Session

This track will discuss the domestic inter-agency information sharing environment and how the defense department collaborates with civilian agencies.

• Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA)
• The 2010 Olympics
• The Southern Border

This track will focus on the unique challenges and barriers of sharing information with allied and coalition partners in a multinational environment.

• Challenges Surrounding Information Sharing in the Allied/Coalition Environment
• Best Practices and Case Studies: The Framework for Allied/Coalition Information Sharing
• Emerging Trends and Technologies Impacting Information Sharing

This special academic track is sponsored by the George Mason University C4I Center for Excellence. Sessions topics will include technical paper presentations on topics related to information sharing.

• Service Oriented Architectures
• C2 Data Interoperability
• C2 Embedded Capabilities I
• C2 Embedded Capabilities II
• C2 and SOA Issues

Plenaty/Keynote and Town Hall Sessions.

• Gen Renuart Keynote Address
• Alberts/Gunderson/Minton Plenary
• Jeff Smith Keynote Address
• Wrap-Up Town Hall Session

How is war in cyber space different than conventional warfare? This track will approach this question from 3 perspectives. The standard doctrine of traditional warfare has a cyber warfare component utilized when sovereign nations execute war. There also exists a transnational base who coalesces around economic interests and this group of non-state actors controls a significant part of critical infrastructure. Additionally, there is a transnational (irregular) base of non-state threats; groups/individuals who pose a threat to state and non-state entities. The new paradigm of military, civilian govt. and industry will result in a hybrid approach to network warfare. A conflict that begins with a transnational entity could rely on resolution through a state-based means.

• Traditional Threats - State-Based Warfare
• Transnational Threats - Non-State-Based Warfare
• Hybrid - State-Based and Transnational Warfare

Recognizing that we are "ALL" on the front lines. This track will address the importance of cyber security at all levels of government and the private sector.

• Recognizing the Threat
• Formulating a Common Response
• The Public and Private Partnership

What are the commercial trends and future technology innovations? What is the international influence on the future of Cyber? What is the future cyber workforce?

• What are the commercial trends and future technology innovations?
• What is the international influence on the future of Cyber? (Alliances)
• What is the future cyber workforce?

How do we effectively operate and defend in the cyber domain? This track will focus on such topics as Cyber Operations in an Open Source Environment, the Influence of Adversary Motivations on Cyber Operations, and the Current State of Cyber Operations.

• Cyber Operations in an Open Source Environment
• The Influence of Adversary Motivations on Cyber Operations
• The Current State of Cyber Operations - A "Report Card"

How do we achieve effective assured information sharing in light of the increasing threat? How do we address the secondary challenge of identifying break through technologies on the horizon that will enable robust information sharing (Virtualization) and MLS operations?

• Protecting the Core Networks
• Assured Collaboration
• Optimizing A Secure Mobile Environment/Tactical Edge

Missions are increasingly dependent on the information & communications technology (ICT) underpinnings provided by our shared critical information infrastructures. The effects of Globalization, Network Convergence, and an increasingly net-centric information environment are our strategic advantages as well as our achilles heel. We share risks and vulnerabilities, and benefits between the Government and Private sector, how will we collaborate on protecting and defending this vital resource?

• Continuity of Operations for Critical Missions
• Global Infrastructure Resiliency for National Security Missions
• Information and Communications Technology and the Global Marketplace

How to move from a reactive risk adverse culture to a risk managed Net Centric environment?

• Enhanced Compliance/Security Best Practices
• How do we Measure Risk?
• Enterprise Security Management

How do we improve capability of the current USG cyber security workforce to effectively defend our nation in cyberspace? How do we strengthen the cyber security workforce pipeline for the future? How do we extend cyber awareness and literacy to other disciplines beyond Information Security/Information Technology?

• Building Cyber Security Professionals for Today
• Growing Cyber Security Professionals for Tomorrow
• Awareness and Literacy for Government in the Cyber Age

Authentication is any process by which you verify that someone is who they claim they are. The wide variety of authentication schemes makes it difficult to share identity data across systems, reliably authenticate devices and once authenticated in any system, determine what access the user is permitted. Solving these issues across multiple security, technology and geographic domains is key to effective identity management.

• Secure Sharing of Identity Data
• Device Authentication and Authorization
• Decoupling Authentication and Authorization

Protecting data and access to data through the use of Biometrics. Discussing the strategic vision of the future of biometrics and identity management: How are Biometrics contributing to Protection?

• Biometrics and Identity Policy
• Improving Technologies
• Denying the Adversary's Ability to Mask Identity

Single Identity used for DoD, Federal and Commercial Transactions. The Federal government is not in the business of providing credentials to everyone with whom it does business, but it does need to trust those same people. To enable physical or logical access control, the ability to verify the identity of someone through a trusted identity management provider is essential. Federation is a powerful tool that may be used to meet this need, but there are still many questions that must be answered. In this track, the technical and cultural challenges of accomplishing Federation will be discussed by the experts, both inside and outside of Government. They will provide ideas and case studies that explain how to maximize the use of Federation and how to embrace and use the tools available today.

• Overcoming the Risks of Federation
• How much trust is enough?
• How does Federation facilitate information sharing?

The future of Identity and Identity Management. How important is the protection of Identity to the next Generation? In a world fused with texting, My Space, and Facebook, what sociological changes are we facing when there is a fine line between reality and a second identity? How will this perspective on identity implicate government efforts in securing information? What is the future of IdM Technologies? How effective are current efforts at protecting the future of individual identities and access privileges? How important is identity protection to our future national security with the advent of potential Cyber threat? The tracks within the Next Generation Identity Track Sessions will provide thought provoking insight into these questions by promoting a dialogue around these potential conflicting issues - their effect on our society and National defense, both from a personal, sociological and national perspective.

• Future Identity Technologies
• Securing Identity in Future Infrastructures
• The Now Generation - What does Identity mean?

• Government's Transition from Systems to Services
• How to Succeed at Building an IT Service
• Services Procurements: Know the Issues
• The New Approach to IT Procurement - Emerging Case Studies

• Social Networking
• Peering into the Crystal Ball
• Airborne Networking; Increasing Warfighter Capabilities
• Information Sharing: a Path to Information Security

• What is the New Security Environment?
• Understanding Risk in This New Security Environment
• Process Systems Changes to Support the New Security Environment
• Privacy Concerns in a Collaborative Environment

• Policy, Pain & Process: Assured Information Sharing
• Incentives to Share; Incentives to Hoard
• Process Changes for Service Environment
• Two Views: Combat vs. Beltway Information Sharing