Fusion Centers

• Dr. Carter Morris, Director of Information Sharing and Knowledge Management, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, DHS
  
• Ms. Lora Becker (invited), Director (Incoming), Federal State and Local Threat Reporting and Assessments Coordination Group, DHS
  
• Dr. Elaine Cummins (invited), Executive Staff, National Security Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  
• Mr. Robert Riegle, Director, State and Local Fusion Center, DHS

Border Fusion

• Mr. Jim Flyzik, President, The Flyzik Group
• Mr. Greg Giddens, Executive Director for Secure Border Initiatives, DHS
• Ms. Kathleen Kraninger, Director of Screening and Coordination Office, DHS
• Mr. Rod MacDonald, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Information and Technology, DHS
• Mr. Frank Moss, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Consular Affairs and Passport Services, Department of State

Enabling Fusion: Survivable/Interoperable

• Mr. Robert Zitz (invited), Deputy Under Secretary for Preparedness, DHS
  
• Mr. Tony Cira (invited), Chief Information Officer, Federal Emergency Management Agency
  
• Mr. Paul Cosgrave, Chief Information Officer, City of New York
  
• Dr. Peter Fonash (invited), National Communication Systems
  
• RADM Ron Hewitt, USCG (invited), Chief Information Officer, U.S. Coast Guard
  
• Mr. Robert LeGrande, Acting Chief Technology Officer, District of Columbia

Cyber Fusion: National Cyber Defense

• Ms. Sallie McDonald, Director and Deputy Manager, National Communication Systems
  
• Mr. John Bansemer (invited), Director of Homeland Defense, National Security Council
  
• Mr. Jerry Dixon (invited), National Cyber Security Division, DHS
  
• Lt Gen Al Edmonds, USAF (Ret.) (invited), President and CEO, Edmonds Enterprise Services
  
• RADM Elizabeth Hight, USN (invited), Director, GIG Operations, DISA
  
• Mr. John Nagengast, Director, Information Assurance Programs, AT&T
  
• Ms. Kiersjen Nielson (invited), Director of Homeland Defense, Homeland Security Council
  
• Mr. Robert LeGrande, Acting Chief Technology Officer, District of Columbia

Homeland Security issues and challenges – SOLVED! Don’t miss the Solutions Showcase with the latest Homeland Security technologies!

Sponsored by AFCEA International

A Conference
on How Information Technology is Driving Advances in Healthcare
at the Federal Level…

• One-day program, packed with information to guide your organization’s
  Health IT pursuits over the next 12-18 months;
• Updates from key stakeholders at VA, DHS, & HHS who are
  responsible for achieving Federal health objectives through the
  use of IT;
• Current status on the challenges and needs facing Health IT
  project managers and department leaders, and how industry can
  help;
• Hear from Health leaders/decision makers on where IT programmatics
  and spending will be headed;
• Networking with industry colleagues and partners who are also
  interested in Health opportunities – both prime and sub-contractors,
  companies big and small.

If you are currently doing business in the Health
IT market, or you want to do business with VA, HHS, or DHS….

Then you need to be at Health IT Day on
November 15.

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Featured Speakers Include:

• Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge, Chief Medical Officer,
  DHS
• Dr. Robert M. Kolodner, Chief Health Informatics
  Officer, VHA, VA
• Mr. Craig B. Luigart, CIO, VHA, VA
• Mr. Charles Havekost, CIO, HHS
• Ms. Karen Evans, Administrator of E-Gov &
  IT, OMB
• Ms. Laura Conn, Acting Dep Dir, Natl Center
  for Public Health Informatics, CDC
• Hon. Michael O. Leavitt (invited),
  Secretary of HHS

Information Assurance: Navigating The Future IT Threat
Landscape

November 13, 2006 0800-1200

Pricing:
Government/Military – $FREE / Industry – $75

Event
Location:
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
12900 Federal Systems
Park
Fairfax, VA 22033

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One quote from the article I found interesting:  “[Dale Meyerrose, DNI/CIO] said his office was given the challenge of leading the federal effort to prepare for the Avian Flu. His office helped set up three portals — for top-secret, secret and unclassified data. The secret and top-secret portals were set up in two weeks, but the unclassified portal took six months.”

This definitely great news, but why have 3 portals? (It is easy to imagine that there is probably redundant data on all 3 portals.) Why not just create one portal that has classified and unclassified data? People could gain access to it based on their security clearance. So that a person that doesn’t have clearance can access only the unclassified stuff and the person that has a top secret clearance can access everything.

Do you think this is doable? What would it take?

Just saw this article on GCN and found some things particularly interesting… Dale Meyerrose, the DNI/CIO, stated: “We haven’t updated our security policy since 2001,” he said. “It took three years to write and four years to get approved. We will do this in 11 months.”

Can you imagine that? What if the business world worked that way? I bet commercial companies work create policies in less than a month. How does Google or Bank of America do it? Maybe the IC should be talking to them…

Click here to register for this event.

For the Inaugural Hampton Roads/Tidewater Washington Breakfast Club, we’re pleased to welcome Dr. Russell Richards and Captain Ray Rodriguez, USN of U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM)

U. S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) is one of nine combatant commands in the Department of Defense, and the only combatant command focused on the transformation of U.S. military capabilities.

Among his duties, the commander of USJFCOM oversees the command’s four primary roles in transformation – joint concept development and experimentation, joint training, joint interoperability and integration, and the primary conventional force provider as outlined in the Unified Command Plan approved by the president.

The doors open at 7:30 AM for registration and networking with a hot buffet breakfast being served at 8:00. Each attendee will be given the opportunity to introduce him/herself and his/her company. Following this our speaker will present their program and we will turn it back over to networking following any questions there may be.

The cost of the event is $30.00 for prepaid registration and $45 at the door.

We look forward to seeing you Wednesday morning!

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