Major General Henry C. “Hank” Morrow
Commander, 1st Air Force

Commander, Continental U.S.
North American Aerospace Defense Command Region
Wednesday, November 14
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Keynote Address

Securing and protecting the borders of North America from air, land and sea is an enormous challenge requiring interoperable systems and processes common to all Federal and international agencies. This session will provide insight to these challenges and how military, other national agencies, and international partners are interacting to provide seamless protection of North America’s borders.

Cyberspace has emerged as a warfighting domain much like air, land and sea even though it is a less visible one. CyberSpace is composed of hundreds of thousands of interconnected computers, servers, routers, switches, and fiber optic cables that allow our critical infrastructures to work. Thus, the healthy functioning of cyberspace is essential to our economy and our national security. It is the framework of our information infrastructure. Securing cyberspace is a difficult strategic challenge that requires coordinated and focused effort from our entire society—the federal government, state and local governments, the private sector, and the American people. This section of the conference will provide different perspectives of cyberspace security, from those that set national policy to those that are charged with planning and directing cyber defense and conducting cyber attacks in support of assigned missions.

C4ISR is a generic description of systems used to fight the global war on terror, provide assistance to emergency responders and to humanitarian operations. This session will provide lessons learned from attacks and natural disaster response, describe C4ISR systems in operation today, and discuss systems’ interoperability - getting information from one community to others, in a timely, understandable manner.

How will the exponential increase in sensor information (data) impact C4ISR systems? Not only are the number of sensors increasing, but the phenomenology is broadening (bio, chemical, nuclear, etc) and bandwidth needs to be increased (photos, video, multi-spectral, etc). What is the impact to architecting these systems and how is government’s approach to acquiring them changing? This section will examine which programs are being developed to deal with the increasing complexity of technology, the adaptive threat and the ever increasing need to share information between organizations that have not traditionally worked together in the past.

How are government, industry and academic research organizations working to address the diverse and sophisticated threats to North America and our national information infrastructure? Are there technology transition strategies in place to move solutions to a more diverse customer base, supporting activities in both the military and non-military organizations? Do we have a cost-effective, pro-active approach to evolve technology to support future requirements? In this section, representatives from various organizations will describe the evolving technology needs and how investments are being directed to address them.

Moderator:

	Mr. Richard J. Byrne
	Vice President Command and Control Center MITRE

Panelists:

	Mr. Zachary Lemnios
	Chief Technology Officer MIT Lincoln Laboratory
	RADM George Naccara, USCG (Ret.)
	Federal Security Director Transportation Security Administration Department of Homeland Security
	Mr. Dennis Treece
	Director of Corporate Security Massachusetts Port Authority