Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise Conference 6-9 June 2011

The Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) is an overarching construct for integrating operational intelligence capabilities in support of DoD missions. This community is closely related to the DoD Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) community, but the focus here is more on the operational military. Here is a bit from the DI2E conference site:

The first Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) Worldwide Conference & Technology Exposition will take place at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion. The theme of this year’s conference is “Converging the Enterprise”. The DI2E is the logical integration of the successes of the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) and Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) Enterprises to support our defense, national, and international partners with all-source intelligence and counterintelligence.

The 2011 DI2E Worldwide Conference and Technology Demonstration brings together developers, program offices, and users to focus on how to best deliver a professional, fully integrated, and seamless Enterprise. This Enterprise will provide the best intelligence, counterintelligence, and security information under any condition or circumstance, whenever and wherever, in support of the warfighter, coalition and the national intelligence requirements.

This is a great conference for learning about emerging mission needs in this domain.

To get more info and to register see: http://www.ncsi.com/di2e11/index.html

The agenda is below:

Morning Session – Strategic Perspectives

Enhance awareness of how JIOC, DCGS and IC initiatives are key enablers to effective implementation of information sharing within the broader Defense Intelligence and Command and Control Enterprises.

0750 – 0800

Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson

Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command

0800 – 0815

Guest Speaker

Mayor Dwaine Carawary

Mayor of Dallas, Texas

0815 – 0900

ISR and the Operational Commander

General Raymond T. Odierno

United States Army, Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command

0900 – 0945

Warfare in the 21st Century

Major General (P) Michael T. Flynn

Special Assistant to Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, United States Army

0945 – 1030

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1030 – 1200

Strategic Perspectives from CSA’s

Moderator:
Mr. Kevin P. Meiners

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Portfolio, Programs, and Resources, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Panel Member:
Mr. Grant M. Schneider

Deputy Director for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency

Major General Theodore C. Nicholas

Deputy Director, Signals Intelligence Directorate, National Security Agency

Mr. David Bennett

Program Executive Officer, Global Information Grid Enterprise Services

Mr. Paul E. Muench

Deputy Chief Information Officer, National Geospatial – Intelligence Agency

1200 – 1300

Technology Exposition/Lunch

1300 – 1345

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Keith Barber

Implementation Lead for “On-Line, On-demand” Services, National Geospatial – Intelligence Agency

1345 – 1515

Panel Presentation: Services Panel

Moderator:
Ms. Mary Lynn Schnurr

Senior Technical Advisor, Army Intelligence Chief Information Officer, Information Management, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2 Headquarters, Department of the Army

Panel Members:
Mr. Robert “Bo” T. Marlin

Deputy Director, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Capabilities, United States Air Force

Major General (P) Michael T. Flynn

Special Assistant to Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, United States Army

Mr. James T. Simpson

Principal Deputy for Intelligence, Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence, United States Navy

Mr. Eric S. Downes

Enterprise Information Management Office and Chief Information Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

1515 – 1600

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1600 – 1645

Workshop Sessions

1. Workshop #1: NGA’s NSG Expeditionary Architecture (NEA) — Current and Future Capabilities

   Mr. Jay Driscoll

   Program Manager, NSG Expeditionary Architecture, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

   Breakout discussions on the current and future expeditionary architecture to include discussions on: NSG Video Services (NVS), coalition information sharing (Afghan Mission Network), and unclassified information sharing via the Protected Internet Exchange (PIX).

2. Workshop #2: DI2E Framework

   Panel Moderator:
   Mr. Kevin West

   Deputy Director, Enterprise Programs, ISR Programs Directorate, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

   Panel Members:
   Mr. Ed Lane

   Program Officer, National Reconnaissance Office

   Mr. John Snevely

   DCGS Family of Systems, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) – ISR Programs

   This breakout session will discuss how the DI2E framework fits into the overall Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E). In addition, it will provide insight into the systems and processes that will be used to build, field and sustain the DI2E framework. Finally, the session will discuss the relationship of the DI2E Framework to emerging national level capabilities.

3. Workshop #3: DI2E and Human Derived Intelligence: the Challenge, the Opportunity

   Mr. Kelly Hughes

   Deputy Chief, Office of Technology, Defense Counterintelligence and HUMINT Center, Defense Intelligence Agency

   Panel Member:
   Ms. Sarah Klingensmith

   Chief, Architect & Integration Division

   The Defense Counterintelligence and HUMINT Center (DCHC) Office of Technology (DXT) is uniting counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) stakeholders to collaboratively design a CI and HUMINT IT architecture that supports “unity of effort, integration and interoperability”. This cooperative approach for those working with human domain data helps ensure this critical and timely data is available to Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms for tasking, posting, discovery, sharing, processing, exploitation, access and dissemination. The workshop will focus on human domain information sharing requirements, the current and future operational environment, and the impact of technological change. Current DXT integration and interoperability efforts will also be discussed to ensure the support enduring of human domain capabilities.

4. Workshop #4: DCGS OUFT — Operational Users Forum, An Introduction to Enterprise Mission Threads

   Mr. Keithon Grigsby

   DCGS Operational Users Focus Team Lead, United States Joint Forces Command

   The Operational Users Focus Team (OUFT) is a corner stone of the DCGS governance structure and acts as the primary link between the enterprise and the Joint Task Force Commander (and below). The OUFT reviews joint policy, CONOPS, standards, business processes, and TTPs for their impact on the DCGS enterprise and or operational users through continuous interface with COCOMs, Services, CSA’s, National Agencies, and multi-national partners. This breakout session will provide a forum for the OUFT, operators and users to discuss the development of business processes/mission threads which guide the transformation of the DoD DCGS Enterprise.

5. Workshop #5: AFPAK Lessons Learned

   Mr. Irving “Mac” Townsend Jr.

   Senior Technology Officer for Data Management, Defense Intelligence Agency

   Short and long term solutions to intelligence sharing and collaboration problems for the AFPAK mission begun in FY10 as part of USD(I) ISR TF Information Sharing for Afghanistan initiatives have helped us to codify mechanisms to solve these problems for AFPAK and at any COCOM for operational and humanitarian missions. Stand up of specialized networks (classified and unclassified), interaction with coalition partners, movement of data within and between networks, discovery of data, database interaction, cloud interaction, and knowledge management to bridge the understanding of technology as it specifically applies to the mission are all capability facets addressed to holistically solve these problems. Finally, in conjunction with the DI2E Framework, incorporation of an overall architectural framework that originally leveraged existing IC data layer and DCGS-IC components was developed as the framework to ensure that current and future AFPAK.

6. Workshop #6: COCOM/JIOC Challenges, Gaps & Requirements

   Mr. Mark S. Chandler

   Senior Advisor, Warfighter Support, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

   Provide status updates on deployment of the DI2E Framework to USSOUTHCOM/USCENTCOM, formulation of the JIOC Functional Requirements Document, followed by discussions on COCOM challenges, IT Gaps/Requirements.

7. Workshop #7: DCGS-A: Empowering the Warfighter through Advanced Technology

   Moderators:
   Colonel Timothy P. Hill

   Director of Futures, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command

   Colonel Charles A. Wells

   Project Manager, Distributed Common Ground System – Army

   Colonel Edward Riehle

   TRADOC Capabilities Manager, Sensor Processing

   DCGS-A serves as the Army’s foundation layer for ISR data and is the Army’s Cornerstone system for Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination. This breakout session covers DCGS-A’s use of cutting-edge technologies such as Cloud computing and advanced analytics in order to achieve precision search and analysis on huge data sets in near-real time. The discussion includes an update on the Army’s move to an objective Cloud architecture and other efforts to leverage cutting-edge technology in support of the Warfighter.

8. Workshop #8: Standard Profile Practices — A Quantum Leap for Enabling Capabilities

   Mr. James Feagans

   Office of the Director of National Intelligence IC-CIO/ICEA, Chief IC Enterprise Standards and Governance PM

   The need for interoperability and validated solutions prior to global events is now more than ever fundamental to Joint Operating Environments. The DNI/CIO and DoD/CIO is actively partnering to establish standards based profiling practice that allows technical solutions to be exposed, reused and recombined in an agile, modular quick delivery manner. This workshop introduces the discipline of standards based profiling as an International Standards Organization (ISO) practice, the Joint DoD/IC governance process and an overview of the ER2 tool suite that’s providing advanced capabilities for developers, acquisition and program managers the IC Standards Repository.

9. Workshop #9: Tactical Users Breakout Panel

   Moderator:
   Lieutenant Colonel Michael F. Garcia

   Assistant TRADOC Capabilities Manager – Sensor Processing

   Panel Members:
   Sergeant First Class Charles Buman

   Knowledge Manager, 513th Military Intelligence Brigade

   Sergeant First Class Morgan Brady

   Knowledge Manager, 470th Military Intelligence Brigade

   This panel presents tactical user/operational support personnel DCGS-A experiences. Panel members will describe successes/challenges experienced as operational users with focus on the tactical edge. They will highlight how today’s technologies are enabling current efforts and future technology requirements. Attendees will have the opportunity to take part in a question/answer session.

Morning Session — User Perspectives

Provide a forum for exchange of ideas, enterprise level transformation activities, the roles of our coalition partners, and an opportunity to explore the full spectrum of DI2E related initiatives.

0750 – 0800

Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson

Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command

0800 – 0830

Keynote Speaker

Brigadier General Brian J. Donahue

Director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems, United States Central Command/J6

United States contribution to the Afghanistan Mission Network has enabled the supported CJFT CDR’s intent – changing the coalition operational norm in AFG by enabling a true coalition fight. CENTCOM believes this is not a niche requirement for this current fight in AFG – it is the new national norm and must become part of the CENTCOM manned posture.

0830 – 0945

Panel Presentation: COCOM/JIOC Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Mark S. Chandler

Senior Advisor, Warfighter Support, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Panel Members:
Mr. Robert T. Hunt

Deputy Director (Support), Joint Intelligence Operations Center U.S. European Command (JIOCEUR)

Mr. John A. Marshall

Chief Technology Officer, J2, United States Joint Forces Command

Captain Joseph B. Spegele

Deputy Director of Intelligence for North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command

Colonel David J. Gibson

Division Chief, Intelligence Operations Division, Intelligence Directorate, United States Transportation Command

Mr. Michael N. Schulman

United States Strategic Command Assistant J2 for Intelligence Support & Chief, Defense Intelligence Agency Forward Element

Mr. Bill “Rod” Moore

Deputy Director of Intelligence, United States Central Command

Captain Bruce F. Loveless

Commander, Joint Intelligence Operations Center, United States Pacific Command

Mr. Konrad J. Trautman

Director of Intelligence, United States Southern Command

Mr. Russell W. Horton

Chief of Intelligence Transformation, United States Forces Korea

Mr. David N. Singley

Chief, Enterprise Integration and Information Sharing Division, Deputy Directorate for Warfighter Support and Integration Directorate for Intelligence, J2

Mr. Gary H. Thompson

Deputy Director, Directorate of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, United States Southern Command

Colonel Mike Ellert-Beck

Joint Intelligence Operations Center Director, United States Cyber Command

Panelists will discuss operations in their theater, how DI2E/IT supports their operations, and what their primary requirements are; this will be followed by free-flowing discussions with the audience.

0945 – 1030

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1030 – 1200

Panel Presentation: Information Sharing & Interoperability of Services/Applications

Moderator:
Mr. Neill Tipton

Director, Information Sharing and Partner Engagement, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Panel Members:
Dr. Ann M. Carbonell

Director, National System for Geospatial-Intelligence Expeditionary Architecture, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Mr. Mark S. Chandler

Senior Advisor, Warfighter Support, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Ms. Annette L. Redmond

Special Advisor for Enterprise Intelligence Operations, Army Intelligence & Security Command

Mr. James Harris

Chief, Office of Enterprise Management, Defense Intelligence Agency

1200 – 1300

Technology Exposition/Lunch

Afternoon Session

Providing a framework through the DI2E Community for interoperability with all COCOMs, CSAs, DoD, and the IC for the purposes of disseminating discoverable and reusable services through web applications.

1300 – 1430

Panel Presentation: Warfighter — The Tactical Perspective

Panel Moderator:
Colonel Barry Harris

Commander, 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, Intelligence and Security Command

Panel Members:
Colonel Paul D. Nelson

Commander, 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing, Langley Air Force Base

Mr. Duane “Dewey” Dannewitz

Director of Capabilities Integration for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Joint Training Counter-IED Operations and Integration Center and Training Brain Operations Center

Mr. Vincent Kapral

Senior Intelligence Technical Advisor and Intelligence Product Lead for Readiness, Modernization, Training, and Assessments, Navy Cyber Forces

Captain Christy Whitfield

DCS, G-2, Plans Officer, United States Army Special Operations Command

Colonel John M. Altman

Chief of the Technology Division, for the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, in the Headquarters, Department of the Army, Pentagon

Mr. Bernard D. Rogan

Chief Knowledge Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity

1430 – 1515

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1515 – 1630

Panel Presentation: Coalition Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Richard Radcliffe

Director for International Technology and Architectures, Information and Partner Engagement Directorate, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Joint and Coalition Warfigther Support, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Panel Members:
Mr. Chad Hodgens

Director Battlespace Awareness, Joint Capability Coordination Division, Vice Chief of Defence Group, Australian Department of Defence

Commander Peter Kwant

Branch Head C4ISR, Department Operational Policy, Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Royal Netherlands Navy

Lieutenant Colonel David A. Quick

Chief of Defence Intelligence, J2 Force Development, Canadian Forces

Mr. Terrance J. Meyer

Intelligence Chief Information Officer, United States Central Command

1630 – 1715

Workshop Sessions

1. Workshop #1: NGA Initiatives for Improving Motion Imagery Interoperability and Usage

   Mr. Donnie Self

   Chief, Sensor Assimilation Division, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

   With the constant and insatiable demand for motion imagery, the session will cover NGA’s vision for motion imagery as well as NGA’s best practices and experiences implementing a motion imagery capability including working with the commercial broadcast industry. Additional topics to be covered include motion imagery interoperability & standards and their importance.

2. Workshop #2: Next Generation Risk & Acceptance (R&A) Related to Secure Trusted Cloud Computing

   Moderators:
   Mr. Rob Vietmeyer

   Cloud Computing Lead in the Enterprise Services & Integration, Office of the Department of Defense (CIO)

   Mr. Todd G. Myers

   Chief Technology Advisor, NSG Expeditionary Architecture, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

   The purpose of this panel session is to elaborate on current R&A and the requirement to establish two distinct processes to R&A the physical infrastructure independent from the virtual hosted services in order to provide a trusted state compute and application hosting not bound to the physical infrastructure in order to serve on-demand and self-service mission needs across DoD and the IC.

3. Workshop #3: Activity Based Intelligence

   Mr. William T. Roberts

   Chief, Analysis & Applications Division, InnoVision Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

   The impending exponential increase in data resulting from the flood of full motion video sensors and emergence of gigapixel-class sensors in theater demands a new analytic paradigm to effectively and efficiently provide support to ongoing operations. This session will take a look at the solution—ABI, enabled by extracting the activities of interest from the raw data streams and disseminating in standards-compliant formats, combined with advanced analytics and assistive, automated exploitation capabilities providing alerts and notifications thereby reducing data discovery and allowing analysts to focus their efforts on higher level problems.

4. Workshop #4: Industry Advisory Group (IAG)

   Moderator: Mr. Dave Chesebrough

   President, Association for Enterprise Information

   The DCGS Industry Advisory group will hold a workshop on modes and methods of industry engagement with DCGS/DI2E. Industry and government representatives will identify and discuss topics that address enterprise aspects of DCGS and the evolving intelligence information enterprise.

5. Workshop #5: CSA and Reserve Compnenet (RC) IT Way Ahead and Interoperability with DI2E

   Mr. Thomas Tucker

   Senior Analyst, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Warfighter Support, Warfighter Requirements and Evaluation Directorate, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

   This session will provide status update of CSA & RC IT capability integration into the DI2E, their interoperability with COCOM/JIOC operations/architecture followed by associated discussions.

6. Workshop #6: Identity and Access Management Panel

   Moderator: Mr. Ron Spear

   Senior Enterprise Engineer, DCGS Enterprise Activation Team – DCGS Multi-Service Execution Team Management Office (DMO)

   Panel Members:
   Mr. Gregory C. Hall

   Co-Chair of the Authorization and Attribute Services Committee, ODNI CIO

   Mr. Arthur R. Friedman

   Senior Strategist for Privilege Management, OASD(NII / DASD IIA

   Mr. Jeff Gilliatt

   Chief Engineer, DCGS Multi-Service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO)

   Discover progress and challenges to identity management and allowing access or not based on that identity, which are fundamental to balance the need-to-protect with the responsibility-to-provide. The panel will share insight from a policy, standards, and technical point of view into DoD and IC intelligence information enterprise identity and access management.

7. Workshop #7: The DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB): Data Services Layer of the DI2E Architecture

   Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Tschour

   Director, Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) Multi-Service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO), Intelligence and Special Programs Division, AFPEO C2ISR Directorate, Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base

   The DCGS enterprise established a baseline infrastructure and common services among the DCGS Programs of Record called the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB). The DIB will be leveraged as the data layer of the DI2E to enable intelligence sharing among DCGS, the Joint Intelligence Operations Centers (JIOCs) and the Intelligence Community as well as coalition partners. Topics will include:

   • Metadata development, test and management
   • The DIB Evolution to the DI2E Data Framework with MTS demo.

8. Workshop #8: Building “The Big” Enterprise: Information Sharing Across Communities

   Moderator:
   Ms. Lorraine Wilson

   Director for Enterprise Engineering and Knowledge Management, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

   This panel will look at the design considerations, constraints and imperatives as we collectively engineer the information enterprise to enable sharing information across many communities, with many customers, who have very different mission needs. The DOD and the DNI have information sharing initiatives underway to meet their community and customer specific needs. USD(I) has established the DI2E which is meant to further articulate the information sharing framework for the Military Intelligence Community in order to ensure intelligence information (both traditional and non-traditional intelligence) is available to support the full spectrum of operations, planning and decision-making activities; from strategic to tactical; from the highest levels of classification to the unclassified security domains.

   The challenge for the DI2E is that it must be consistent with DOD CIO and DISA as well as the national Intelligence Community directions. This panel will focus on those intersection areas that are most critical to creating a broad information sharing environment that supports the DOD/IC missions and will highlight the particularly challenging issues or those most critical to taking this from a “Powerpoint” discussion to real capability.

   User Perspectives

Inspire new thinking — the roles industry can play in assisting in the area acquisition of services, capability metrics, and rapid delivery of solutions to the Warfighter.

0800 – 0805

Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson

Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command

0805 – 0850

Using an Integrated Framework Approach to Manage An Enterprise

Mr. Robert W. Noonan

Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

In order for the Department to develop, field, and manage the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, it needs to look beyond the latest technology. Five critical areas of focus, Policy, People, Operations, Technology, Management; are essential to successful enterprise mission accomplishment.

0850 – 1020

Panel Presentation: Industry Leaders Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Robert W. Noonan

Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Panel Members:
Mr. Andras Szakal

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM United States Federal

Mr. Steven Lefrancois

Chief Technology Officer, Verizon Federal, Verizon Business

Mr. David Fastabend

Vice President, Advanced Information Systems, ITT Information Systems

Mr. Edward Bush

Vice President, C4ISR Networked Systems (CNS), Northrop Grumman

Mr. Brian I. Geehan

General Manager, Department of Defense Services, Microsoft

Mr. John D. Thomas

Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intelligence Systems, SAIC

The panel is composed of leaders from across industry that are providing the technology that is at the heart of the intelligence information enterprise, and for whom robust enterprise capabilities are a matter of extreme importance, both for their own operations and those of the clients they serve. The panel will explore the imperatives, strategies, potential roadblocks and pathways for success for DI2E as they consider the real challenges faced in creating a fully integrated and seamless enterprise. Panelists will relate the DI2E strategy to their experiences with their own companies and customers.

1020 – 1035

Break

1035 – 1150

Panel Presentation: Emerging Technologies Panel — Cloud Technologies

Moderator:
Mr. John Marshall

Chief Technology Officer, Joint Intelligence Directorate, United States Joint Forces Command

Panel Participants:
Mr. Thomas Preston

Solutions Program Manager, Global Government Solutions and Corporate Security Programs, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Dr. Albert N. (Chip) Copper III, Ph.D.

Principal Engineer, Brocade Communications Systems Inc.

Mr. Lewis Shepherd

Director of The Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments (MSI)

Colonel Charles A. Wells

Project Manager, Distributed Common Ground System — Army

Mr. Robert Gourley

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Crucial Point, LLC

Ms. Lorraine Wilson

Director, Enterprise Engineering and Knowledge Management, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

Mr. Joseph A. Smith

Technical Executive, Sensor Assimilation Division, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Ms. Jackie George

Cloud Program Manager, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Panel Members both from government and industry will discuss current cloud technologies being employed within the community and industry. The panel will address how cloud technologies are enabling the community to share information more easily in a cloud environment. Industry panelist will focus on next generation technologies that will change our everyday lives.

1150 – 1235

Enterprise Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Alignment

Mr. George H. Labovitz, Ph.D.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ODI and Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior, Boston University Graduate School of Management

1235 – 1245

Closing Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson

Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command

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