Main Conference Day 1: November 17, 2009

7:15 Registration & Coffee

8:15 Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:30DHS Keynote: DHS Future Plans And Initiatives In Intelligence Analysis

  • The intelligence enterprise future of analysis
  • Collection and analysis needs at DHS
  • New policy initiatives

James Chaparro
Deputy Under Secretary for Mission Integration, Office of Intelligence and Analysis
Department of Homeland Security

9:15 New Intelligence Priorities At The National Reconnaissance Office And For The IC

  • Current achievements at the NRO
  • Intelligence transformation process

Michael Del Vecchio
Deputy Director, Chief Operating Officer
National Reconnaissance Office

10:00 Networking Break

10:45 National Security Strategy: National Security Update On Information Sharing Challenges

  • New objectives and requirements
  • SIGINT intelligence and changes ahead
  • From intelligence to policy

Dr. Barry A. Zulauf
Deputy Chief
Office of National Security Intelligence

11:30 Intelligence And Targeting – Supporting Customs Operations: Focus On The Enemy

  • Intelligence and targeting – key elements supporting border security efforts every day of the year
  • Knowledge of the enemy and its tactics and methods are translated into focused targeting efforts
  • “You don’t find what you’re not looking for”

Carlos Cortez
Chief, Senior Analyst, US Customs and Border Protection
Office of Intelligence and Operations Coordination

12:15 Lunch

1:30 The Hybrid-War Era & Emerging Challenges For Intelligence In The Middle East

  • What the IC is missing
  • Intelligence analysis that shapes policy
  • Continuing to adapt intelligence to the threat

Professor Alon Ben-Meir
Terrorism and Intelligence Expert
New York University

2:15 Enhancing The Public-Private Partnership And Ensuring Greater IC Analysis Transformation

  • Developing new technologies
  • Current state of intelligence analysis

Ed Waltz
Chief Scientist, Intelligence Innovation Division
BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies

3:00 Networking Break

3:45 Intelligence Analysis And Processing Capacity – A How-To For The IC

  • Identifying it
  • Enabling/enhancing it
  • Employing it

Donald "Don" Get
Special Advisor for Operations
US Army Intelligence and Security Command

4:30 Non-State Actor Threats And Their Challenges To The Intelligence Process

  • Tactical field intelligence challenges
  • Nation-to-tactical integration
  • Current and future environments of adversaries

Dr. Wayne Zaideman
MITRE

5:15 End Of Day 1

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