Defense Strategies Institute professional educational forum: 6th Annual Automated ISR and Battle Management Symposium February 13-14, 2018: Mary M. Gates Learning Center 701 N. Fairfax St. Alexandria, VA 22314
The 2018 Automated ISR & Battle Management Symposium will focus on optimizing and expediting ISR asset tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination to support critical DoD and IC operations. Program Design & Goal: With the ever increasing need for ISR data, and the high volume of data being generated, operators are demanding increased ISR capabilities as well as greater efficiency in PED to ensure timely and accurate intelligence information. Today, the Armed Services and intelligence agencies must continue to enhance ISR capabilities through continued process improvement and automation to ensure the IC and DoD operate as effectively as possible. The 2018 Symposium will address the continuing demand for ISR capability and how the Services and IC will deliver this critical capability accurately and efficiently to the Warfighter. DSI s team specializes in the extensive research and development of our Summits' content and focus areas, and we will assemble the most respected minds in human and technical intelligence analysis from ISR leaders to key policy-makers across military and civilian offices. Our non-partisan approach allows us to reach across all services and organizations to bring together a truly holistic group of decision makers and solution providers. DSI s Symposium directly supports IC and DoD priorities by providing a conduit for officials to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department's mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time. Operating Guidelines: DSI s Symposium will provide a forum to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their mission. * This Symposium is open and complimentary to all IC, DoD and Federal employees and is considered an educational and training forum. (Industry and academia members are charged a fee of attendance) This Symposium is CLOSED TO PRESS / NO RECORDINGS General Target Audience: Specific topics to be discussed include: ISR Capability developers, Industry Solution Providers, Research and Development Organizations, Intelligence Agencies Interested in Best Practices, Service Intelligence Commands and Directorates, ISR Requirements Directorates, Combatant Command Intelligence Directorates, Homeland Security and Law Enforcement Intelligence Officials, Advanced ISR/ Persistent Surveillance solution providers -Accurately identifying collection gaps to maximize operations and intelligence operations endeavors by way of thorough analysis -Efforts towards acquiring machine-machine technologies and communications to facilitate C2 and battle management -Executing global ISR missions to support combatant command and air components -Developing intelligence capabilities and affordable modernization strategies to enable the future force -Efforts towards developing and evaluating ISR technologies to provide effective, proactive situational awareness, and tracking, targeting and survivability solutions -Alleviating the workload of intelligence analysts by using new tools to automate ISR information and capabilities
February 13, 2018 8:00 8:45 Registration and Light Breakfast Reception Open 8:45 9:00 Moderator Opening Remarks 9:00 9:45 Leveraging Open Architecture to Advance ISR in a Multi-Domain Environment -Integrating open architecture to achieve the AF ISR PED mission -Efforts to balance growing capabilities with resource limitations -Future objectives to amply data analytics to optimize resources John Vona (Confirmed) Chief, Intelligence Systems Division, Plans, Programs & Requirements Directorate HQ Air Combat Command 9:45 10:30 Exploiting ISR Data in Support of Accurate and Efficient Decision-Making -Delivering strategic intelligence to allow crucial decisions on counterterrorism, WMD, and political crises -Applying GEOINT to advance our nation s ISR capabilities -Providing analysis of imagery and geospatial information to remain a competitive military power Dr. Anthony Vinci (Confirmed) Associate Director for Capabilities NGA 10:30 11:00 Networking Break & Exhibits 11:00 11:45 Air Force Keynote Remarks: Air Force Efforts to Deliver Decision-Quality Data Across Multiple Domains in Support of the Warfighter -Developing an open architecture structure to efficiently share data -Streamlining and threading together battlespace intelligence -Accurately identifying collection gaps to maximize operations and intelligence operations endeavors by way of analysis Lt Gen VeraLinn Jamieson, USAF (Tentative) Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR (A2) HQAF 11:45 12:30 Leveraging ISR Assets to Ensure Stability and Agility in the CENTCOM AOR -Advances in developing an Airborne ISR PED CONOP and working to enhance enterprise PED architecture -Efforts towards applying ISR systems, services, applications and tools that facilitate warfighter readiness BG Karen Gibson, USA (Confirmed) Director of Intelligence, J-2 US Central Command (CENTCOM) 12:30 1:30 Networking Lunch & Exhibits
1:30 2:15 Air Force DCGS Open Architecture -Developing, acquiring, and sustaining capabilities to support aerospace management, air operations command and control, mission planning -Efforts towards developing programs aimed at intelligence, theater battle control, airborne battle management, missile warning, space control sensors, joint operations and force application planning and weather operations Col Raymond Wier, USAF (Confirmed) Chief, C2ISR Division Battle Management Directorate AFLCMC 2:15 3:00 Challenges and Opportunities for Realizing Intelligence Production at the Speed of Collection -Focus of developing machine-generated analysis to expedite delivery of vital information -Advances in seeking AI-based opportunities for generating analytic products that aim to surpass traditional, highly-trained IC analysts Dr. David Isaacson (Confirmed) Program Manager, Machine Analytics Research ODNI 3:00 3:45 Advances and Initiatives to Enhance ISR and Tactical Systems for Military Preparedness -Development of advanced techniques and prototypes in radiofrequency, sensor algorithms, and adaptive array processing -Efforts toward integrated sensing and decision support for military readiness -Initiatives in enhancing surface surveillance and undersea warfare ISR systems Dr. Rick Heinrichs (Confirmed) Assistant Division Head, ISR and Tactical Systems MIT Lincoln Laboratories February 14, 2018 8:15 8:45 Registration and Light Breakfast Reception Open 8:45 9:00 Moderator Opening Remarks 9:00 9:45 Efforts and Initiatives to Support our Nation s Combatant Commands with Effective ISR -Developing a global situational awareness display of deployed ISR -Recommending allocation strategies based on operational and intelligence requirements -Conducting risk analysis to optimize risk mitigation strategies RADM Brett Heimbigner, USN (Confirmed) Deputy Director, ISR Operations Joint Staff J-32 9:45 10:30 Leveraging Information Warfare to Provide Decision Superiority across the Navy -Capitalizing on the variety and velocity of data received from sensors and open sources to create battlespace awareness and informed decisions -Migration to cloud-based architectures ashore and afloat to enable analytic environments and battle management decision aids RADM Brian Brown, USN (Confirmed) Director, Warfare Integration for Information Warfare (OPNAV N2/N6F)
10:30 11:00 Networking Break & Exhibits 11:00 12:30 Panel Session: Increasing the Security and Interoperability Capabilities of Future ISR Systems to Survive in Multi-Domains This panel discussion will address the vital need for interoperability among ISR systems. It is crucial our forces have open architecture capabilities to allow data to move across various domains, platforms and sensors in a rapid, secure, and effective manner. Invited panelists will discuss the following key points: Developing and enhancing capabilities that promote common interfaces, and automated solutions for processors and data collection Ensuring survivability in ISR systems to be superior across multi-domains to ensure actionable intelligence can reach vital decision-makers Panel Moderator: Marius Vasilliou Analyst and Project Leader, Institute for Defense Analyses (Invited) Panelists: Andrew Newman Supervisor, ISR, Targeting, and Sensors Group, JHU-APL (Invited) Michael Kolodny Senior Technology Consultant, ARL (Confirmed) Jon Jones Technical Advisor, Information Directorate, AFRL (Invited) 12:30 1:30 Networking Lunch & Exhibits 1:30 2:15 Sourcing and Delivering Integrated Aerial ISR to Support Future Warfighter Needs -Leveraging national capabilities to enable timely dissemination of intel -Efforts to develop, acquire, field, and supply life cycle support to modernized, integrated, and tactically relevant aerial ISR sensor payloads -Providing PED intel products to support warfighters with actionable intelligence Christian Keller (Confirmed) Project Manager PM Sensors-Aerial Intelligence PEO IEW&S 2:15 2:45 Networking Break & Exhibits 2:45 3:30 Equipping and Sustaining Marines with ISR-Enterprise Integrated Capabilities -Providing systems for collection, analysis, utilization, and dissemination of signals, HUMINT, GEOINT and various other intel information -Enhancing USMC s readiness and fighting ability by providing enhanced ISR capabilities required by commanders and MAGTF intel units Col Dave Burton, USMC (Confirmed) Program Manager Marine Intelligence (PM MI) MARCORSYSCOM
3:30-4:15 Delivering Timely and Actionable Intelligence to Successfully Execute Global Operations -Advancements in multisource ISR products, applications, capabilities, and resources -Integration of cyber ISR teams and expertise to strengthen the country s cyber mission forces -Executing global ISR missions to support combatant command and air components Col Christopher Russell, USAF (Confirmed) Commander 625th Operations Center 25 th Air Force 4:15 5:00 Advances and Objectives in Army Aerial ISR Operations -Enhancing PED operations with analytic capabilities -Enabling Aerial-ISR intelligence across multiple domains -Optimizing system performance and collection operations COL Daniel Mettling, USA (Confirmed) Commander 116 th Military Intelligence Brigade 5:00 5:45 Objectives and Goals to Enhance the DoD s ISR Capabilities -Incorporating the IoT to fully integrate the ISR enterprise -Enhancing the necessary capabilities in a cost-effective manner -Ensuring future systems are affordable and capable Bong Gumahad, SES (Tentative) Director, ISR OUSD (AT&L) 5:45 End of Symposium