7:00 - 8:00 | |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8:00 - 8:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
Rear Admiral (ret.) Robert Nutwell, USN, Principal Booz Allen Hamilton; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for C3ISR and Space
8:15 - 9:00
Opening Keynote Speaker
FORCEnet Priorities
RADM Kenneth William Deutsch, Director, Net Centric Warfare, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
9:00 - 10:00
FORCEnet in a Broader Context
Captain Joseph A. Grace Jr., USN, Chief Information Officer, Navy Medicine, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
10:00 - 10:30 | |
Networking Break |
10:30 - 12:00
PANEL DISCUSSION
Prioritizing the Transformation of the Navy
MODERATOR: Vice Admiral (ret.) Jerry O. Tuttle, President and CEO JOT Enterprises, LLC
Rear Admiral William D. Rodriguez, Chief Engineer, SPAWAR 05
Captain Richard Simon, Director, FORCEnet, NETWARCOM
Commander Gregory Glaros, Transformation Strategist, Office of Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
- FORCEnet policy and budget priorities
- Near-term and long-term expectations
- Planning for FORCEnet compliance objectives
- Methodology and metrics: How will FORCEnet success be measured and compared in a systems of systems approach?
12:00 - 1:30 | |
Luncheon sponsored by |
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1:30 - 2:20
Developing FORCEnet Architecture to Provide Predictive Analysis
Dr. Dennis McLain, PhD, Research and Development, Sun Microsystems, Federal
Dr. Michael Pecht, PhD, Chair Professor and Director Computer Aided Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) Electronic Products and Systems Center University of Maryland
Dr. Keith Whisnant, PhD, Research Scientist, System Dynamics Characterization and Control, Scalable Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Providing connectivity, fusion and correlation of information from a diverse range of sources
- Access to global, regional and local information and data bases, and visibility of all logistics assets
- Gateway to the Global Information Grid as described in Joint Vision 2020
- Development of plug and play capability for joining units
- Ensuring interoperability across the joint and coalition forces by creation of open information architectures and joint operating standards for equipment.
- Ensuring the reliability of the information that creates shared battlespace awareness to inform decisions at all levels
2:20 - 2:50 | |
Networking break sponsored by |
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2:50 - 3:40
NCOIC PANEL
Industry Energizing FORCEnet
Dr. Kevin J. Reardon, Captain, USN (Ret.), Executive Director, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC)
Michael Curtis, IBM, Chair, NCOIC Technical Council
James Burke, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions, Chair, NCOIC Building Blocks Functional Team
- Knowing the requirements, resources, development and implementation needs of FORCEnet
- Understanding planning and requirements of defense contractors involved in network-centric warfare
- Addressing specific programmatic and technical issues in the implementation and evolution of FORCEnet
3:40 - 4:30
Technical Challenges in Network-Centric Operations
Dr. Christopher Codella, PhD, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, IBM Federal
- Understanding the technological challenges in building large-scale network-centric operations (NCO) for the DoD
- Identifying the more challenging problems confronting the military and industry in building the NCO
- Future directions in information technology most relevant to understanding the military-industry NCO dynamic
4:30 - 4:40
Closing Remarks from the Chair
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