WEST 2019 Sponsorship and Branding Opportunities
AFCEA and the U.S. Naval Institute have developed an enhanced sponsorship program for WEST 2019 that will offer maximum visibility to those who participate! What better way to make sure you stand out and increase your exposure than at this foremost event in which industry leaders can learn about military requirements and connect with decision makers and operators, where senior military and government officials can gain feedback from sea service warfighters, and where industry thought leaders will discuss and demonstrate sea service solutions? Sponsorship opportunities are offered at a several investment levels, ensuring your ability to participate.
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Monday, February 11, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, February 12, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, February 13, 6:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, February 13, 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM
Admiral John Richardson, USN, will present the opening keynote via teleconference. ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, February 13, 9:15 AM - 10:10 AM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
Sean Moone, PM, PEO C4I, International C4I Integration Program Office
CAPT Ann Casey, Innovation & Capability, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
VADM Matthew Kohler wil provide opening remarks followed by an update from RADM Christian Becker on the Navy's technical authority and acquisition command for C4ISR, business information technology and space systems....
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- Room: Hall B - front of 2200 Aisle
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Wednesday, February 13, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
A high level overview of the JRSS Migration Process will be presented by Joint Migration Team (JMT) experts along with a live demonstration of the critical tools used for Network Operations and Defensive Cyber Operations conducted by Network tool experts. This demonstration will show the rich information environment operators and analysts will find themselves in while working in JRSS with live dashboards and screen manipulations during the brief....
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Wednesday, February 13, 10:15 AM - 11:10 AM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
Rob Diaz, PM, PEO C4I, Information Assurance and Cyber Security Program Office
Conrad Dungca, ISR Department, Lead Systems Engineer, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
With the return of great power competition, major competitors are challenging the U.S. military in multiple capability areas. Major warfare leaders will share what they are doing to restore readiness and build a more lethal force. ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
The talk will discuss the technology and analytical techniques that are available now for deployment to the fleet, squadron, or battlefield. Our speaker will highlight advantages of human-machine teaming for war fighters and make the applications understandable and accessible. The talk will discuss the misconception that the DoD is worlds behind industry as the major advancements have only occurred in the last 5 years; the call to action will be to act now, embrace AI and its technology, or the misconception will become the truth. ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- Room: USMC Theater, Hall C
This session will provide a review of Cyber Workforce Modernization in the Marine Corps including: (1) Review of DoD 8140 Manual, SECNAV Manual 5239 and Enterprise Cybersecurity Manual 024; (2) Deputy Commandant Information’s role in the Cyber Community of Interest (COI) and updates to the Cyber IT/Cybersecurity COI; and (3) Changes in workforce coding, training, certification and permission qualification requirements....
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Wednesday, February 13, 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
A discussion of how the Department of the Navy is accelerating acquisitions through rapid prototyping....
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- Room: Hall B - front of 2200 Aisle
Joint and coalition interoperability is a major line of effort supporting the Army's network modernization strategy. This theater session will address interoperability and how Army Forces can more effectively interact (technically and operationally) with Joint and Coalition partners through the integration of Unified Network efforts and the Common Operating Environment (COE). These capabilities -- aligned with joint and multinational standards, the Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) and COE -- will converge data to enable Army forces to achieve tactical, operational, and strategic objectives with mission partners....
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Wednesday, February 13, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
There are two kinds of actors on every network—people and machines—and both need to be secured. People rely on usernames, passwords, CAC cards, and biometrics; but machines use keys and certificates for machine-to-machine communication and authentication. Billions are spent each year securing identity and access management, but virtually all of it is spent securing human access, almost none on protecting keys and certificates. “Machine” definitions in the traditional sense have exponentially expanded in recent years to now include software that emulates physical devices, algorithms, and microservices such as containerization in addition to the more traditional machine types like servers, clients,...
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Wednesday, February 13, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
DISA’s Enterprise Voice Services provides the Department of Defense with enterprise voice solutions for Combatant Commands, Services and Agencies. The service delivers unclassified and classified IP-based voice capabilities in an "as-a-Service" model to Mission Partners. It provides reliable, cost effective, secure communications, enabling Mission Partners to decommission legacy voice equipment and reduce hardware footprint and costs....
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Wednesday, February 13, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
Andrew Tash, TD, PEO EIS, Technical Director
Ed Quick, DPM, PEO EIS, Navy Enterprise Business Solutions ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Wednesday, February 13, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Wednesday, February 13, 1:15 PM - 2:10 PM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
CAPT Chris DeSena, PEO Space Systems, Navy Communications Satellite Program Office
CAPT Ken Ebert, PM, PEO C4I, Ship Integration Program Office ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Wednesday, February 13, 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
Canada has had a role in supporting the American Defense Industrial Base through the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) for more than 66 years. A brief discussion on how DoD Buying Commands have the unique opportunity of increasing their options by purchasing innovative Canadian defense technologies and services through the Defense Production Sharing Agreement (DPSA). ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
An overview of the two Cloud Storage offerings which are Storage as a Service (STaaS); a cost effective scalable storage capability for bulk data storage requirements and milDrive; a convenient personal storage service that allows users to securely access their data anytime, anywhere and on the go....
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Wednesday, February 13, 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
A PEO C4I/SPAWAR Panel focusing on a number of IW Digital Execution Plan lines of effort that enable Compile to Combat in 24 hours....
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Wednesday, February 13, 2:15 PM - 3:10 PM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
Brent Starr, DPM, PEO C4I, Undersea Communications and Integration Program Office
Andrew Atkinson, DPEO Acquisition, PEO EIS, Acquisition ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
This briefing will provide information regarding the status of endpoint security modernization and secure configuration management....
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Wednesday, February 13, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
- Room: USMC Theater, Hall C
Approved for continuing education for cybersecurity certification maintenance for 1 CertNexus CEC for Cybersecurity First Responder and 1 CompTIA CEU for A+, Security+, Network+, CASP, CYSA+, Cloud+ and PenTest+.
Participants must self-certify. AFCEA and USNI will not be providing formal attendance documentation for any sessions in the WEST Conference Program.
Cyber Security has always been an uphill battle for enterprises, and the addition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the Cyber threat has made it even more challenging. AI is pervasive and becoming part of everything we do in Cyber. This session will be a highly informative one hour workshop covering many aspects of artificial...
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- Room: Hall B - front of 2200 Aisle
Since the 1980s, the Navy’s aviation community has lead the way in educating aviators and flight officers on the latest warfighting doctrine, tactics, and techniques. Other communities have followed suit, training select sailors on the latest strategy and methods for global warfare. In the training of these Warfare Tactics Instructors (WTIs) each community takes a unique approach. This discussion will address best practices from each Warfighting Development Center, opportunities for improvement, and the overall role of the WTI in increasing American lethality against present and future global competitors....
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Wednesday, February 13, 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Dynamic force employment is designed to be strategically predictable, but operationally unpredictable. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard commanders will discuss how this recently introduced concept is being implemented and its impact and challenges....
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Wednesday, February 13, 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
We’ve evolved from a time when the spread of information and propaganda was dictated from the top down, to a time when every bystander in a conflict is a potential phone-wielding soldier. From the propaganda battle waged by ISIS to the winning of international hearts and minds by Gaza’s socially-engaged youth, what happens online and on social media has real world—and real war—consequences. How do defence agencies meet this new, digital challenge? Hootsuite’s Principal Solutions Consultant, Ben Cathers, discusses the implications of war as it is increasingly played out on social media. He addresses the issues that can be faced...
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Wednesday, February 13, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
An update on the IWE governance structure that aligns IW strategies, priorities and resources with the National Defense Strategy, the Navy Strategy and the Design for Maritime Superiority....
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Wednesday, February 13, 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
Have you ever been positive you had found evil only to realize it was normal after hours of triage and work? We have all heard and love “KNOW NORMAL FIND EVIL” but how hard is it to actually know normal? The MITRE ATT&CK Framework gives defenders a better map to “find evil” but how can this Framework be used to “know normal”? Join Carbon Black’s Head of Security Strategy, Rick McElroy, as we discuss how knowing normal in a world of abnormal is harder than one thinks and how addressing the actual root cause of evil can improve the technology...
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Wednesday, February 13, 3:15 PM - 4:10 PM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
CAPT Kurt Rothenhaus, PM, PEO C4I, Tactical Networks Program Office
Travis Methvin, PM, PEO EIS, Navy Commercial Cloud Services ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
Defense facilities throughout the U.S. continue using legacy TDM circuits and equipment. Costs of maintaining this legacy infrastructure are steadily rising. How can defense agencies gain more operational effectiveness…and avoid the tedium of TDM? A Unified Communications strategy, with integrated voice and video architecture provided “as a service” to drive improved collaboration, is one approach. Verizon will discuss what an effective unified communications strategy can look like for defense agencies. ...
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Wednesday, February 13, 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, February 14, 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Thursday, February 14, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Thursday, February 14, 9:15 AM - 10:10 AM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
CAPT Allan Walters, PM, PEO C4I, Command and Control Program Office
Rob Starkweather, Decision Superiority Business Portfolio Manager, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific ...
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Thursday, February 14, 9:15 AM - 4:30 PM
Thursday, February 14, 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Thursday, February 14, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Operation Ghastly Wealth directs DOD Components – all AO Commands and Directorates – to take appropriate security actions on DOD public-facing websites to protect DOD users and the DODIN. Follow along as F5 Networks gives you a hands-on demo of how to meet all of the technical elements of this task order:
Eliminate weakly encrypted protocols, ciphers, and certificates.
Implement Redirection to HTTPS. Redirect all unencrypted HTTP protocol requests to Internet facing web servers, web services, and RWPs to use the encrypted HTTPS protocol.
Remove and upgrade outdated web servers and related software. Remove products and components of Internet facing web servers, web...
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Thursday, February 14, 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
The program executive officers of C4I and Space and Enterprise Information Systems discuss their respective portfolios, priorities and challenges....
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Thursday, February 14, 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
This presentation will provide an overview of DISA's Unified Capabilities (UC) offerings to include progress toward mobile access and near-term program convergence. The cloud-based software-as-a-service, Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS), will be defined as a revolutionary Enterprise Service offering for the DoD and a replacement for several legacy enterprise services....
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Thursday, February 14, 10:15 AM - 11:10 AM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
LtCol Matthew Clinger, DON ESL Team Lead, PEO EIS, Enterprise Software Licensing
Susie Hartzog, Communications and Networks Department Head, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific ...
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Thursday, February 14, 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
To ready the force for high-end warfare, gray-zone conflict, and other challenges related to Russian and Chinese aggression, the joint force must deliver capability at a competitive speed. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard commanders will discuss what they are doing to rapidly and effectively acquire major systems and platforms to deter aggression, enable resolution of crises, and if needed, conduct decisive combat operations to defeat any enemy....
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Thursday, February 14, 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
Organizations have been managing security based on assumptions, hopes and prayers for decades. We assume our technology will detect and block that attack or leak, we hope our incident response techniques will be efficient and effective when under assault, and we pray that our security teams are well trained and practiced when everything goes wrong. But in many cases, we don’t have a way to evaluate our security effectiveness let alone have any empirical evidence to back up our assumptions. In short, assumption-based security sucks.
Assumption-based security results in many negative outcomes.
• Security tool overload and shelf-ware is being...
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Thursday, February 14, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This briefing will provide a description and update of DISA’s on and off premise cloud services....
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- Room: USMC Theater, Hall C
The prevalence of machine learning (ML) applications has surged, as inexpensive compute and massive quantities of data have merged. With the formation of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and service level AI institutes, the DoD is looking to rapidly increase its exploration and use of machine learning to satisfy defense problems. MCTSSA is in the process of establishing a Tactical AI Cell in order to create an AI knowledgeable workforce, develop ML applications for tactical users, satisfy AI related requests for information, provide AI systems support for users in the fleet Marine Corps and provide test and evaluation for ML...
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Thursday, February 14, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- Room: Hall B - front of 2200 Aisle
Littoral Combat Ships are primed to deliver important impact in global security efforts but have not yet been used to their fullest potential. With manned and unmanned aviation, the LCS can deliver new levels of lethality and competitive advantage. This discussion will bring together representatives from industry, the Fleet, and the requirements offices to discuss lessons learned from the past decade of the LCS program and what the greatest opportunities are moving forward. This integrated view will discuss the how the LCS can maximize capabilities of existing aviation assets and how manned and unmanned aviation can optimize the afloat operations...
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Thursday, February 14, 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Meet senior technologists and scientists behind SPAWAR’s West Coast research and development laboratory....
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Thursday, February 14, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
Learn how to enable the operator to complete their mission while also assuring identity of access to sensitive devices (yes, even those legacy non-CaC enabled devices). Today’s cyber-warfare and risk mitigation strategies require not only assuring the identity of who is on our network and what they are doing, but making sure we take the next step in analytics. Combining both behavioral analytics and correlation analysis to truly be able to give incident response teams and audit and information assurance operators the ability to know when suspicious activity is happening and react at a moment’s notice....
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Thursday, February 14, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
- Room: USMC Theater, Hall C
Presentation focuses on GPS receiver capabilities and data products relevant to operations in contested environments. Topics covered include GPS operations in jamming and spoofing environments and associated indicators in commercial and military GPS receivers. ...
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Thursday, February 14, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Assured Identity is the concept of establishing and continuously validating a digital identity; then assigning attributes to that identity and strongly associating it with an individual or trusted device. DISA is addressing this initiative by prototyping hardware attestation on mobile devices and two separate prototypes of continuous multi-factor authentication (CMFA). DISA is pursuing the development of assured identity to advance how federal agencies identify and authenticate people and devices to provide a more secure computing environment in these key areas: Hardware Attestation, Mobile CMFA, Desktop CMFA....
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Thursday, February 14, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
Kevin Allen, PM , PEO EIS, Enterprise Systems and Services
Edward Quick, DPM, PEO EIS, Navy Enterprise Business Solutions ...
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Thursday, February 14, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Thursday, February 14, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Thursday, February 14, 1:15 PM - 2:10 PM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
CAPT Chet Turco, PM , PEO C4I, Shore and Expeditionary Integration Program Office
Julianne Lefevre, DPM, PEO EIS, Sea Warrior Program ...
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Thursday, February 14, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Thursday, February 14, 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
FIPS 140-2 was established by NIST to benchmark and standardize cryptographic operations. As a result, FIPS is a hot buzzword in the public sector, but there is a great deal of ambiguity and misunderstanding around it. Ray Potter, CEO of SafeLogic and an expert on FIPS 140-2, will explain what the standard covers, how it is tested by independent labs and validated by NIST's CMVP (Cryptographic Module Validation Program) team, why it matters for vendors in the federal and DoD community, and what procurement officers, buyers, and the average user need to know. This will build upon last year's session...
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Thursday, February 14, 1:40 PM - 2:40 PM
How the Navy will deliver packets of information to ships using smartphone-like technology....
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- Room: USMC Theater, Hall C
The Marine Corps Communications Electronics School (MCCES) established the 06xx Force Modernization Plan (FMP) Training Continuum Initial Operational Capability (IOC) on 1 Oct 2017. The 06xx FMPs' innovation and "out of the box mindset", is set to produce "Cyber Enabled Marines" who are the critical link ISO the MAGTF C2, Information Operations (IO), Information Warfare (IW), Cyber, and Electronic Warfare (EW) requirements of the future. As of 31 Dec 2018, MCCES has trained/retrained over 10,000 06xx Marines, at the Entry, NCO, SNCO and Officer levels in the new 06xx FMP Skillsets in support of the CMC-Approved Marine Corps Operating Concept...
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- Room: Hall B - front of 2200 Aisle
One of the most rapidly growing areas of innovative technology adoption involves unmanned systems. The U.S. military’s use of these systems—especially armed unmanned systems—is not only changing the face of modern warfare, but is also altering the process of decision-making in combat operations. As military unmanned systems have become more autonomous, concerns have surfaced regarding a potential “dark side” of having armed unmanned systems make life-or-death decisions. This panel will address how the military and industry might harness big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning to design unmanned systems to provide the military not with completely autonomous systems, but with...
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Thursday, February 14, 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Provide overview of DoD Mobility Enterprise Capability Offerings (DMUC, DMCC-S, DMCC-TS) to include costs and how Mission Partners can order the services. Provide information regarding current mobility capability enhancements and future mobility efforts....
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Thursday, February 14, 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
The proliferation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) information is radically changing the landscape of the military and intelligence community. Countries are now following a strategy of information superiority to defend against a broad range of threats, whether they be asymmetrical, nuclear or mass armies. A herculean effort has been directed at collecting data through satellites, unmanned vehicles and the monitoring of social media and other information sources. The processing and analysis of this information mostly happens in a secure command and control operations center, often with joint forces (across branches as well as countries) working together. The number and...
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Thursday, February 14, 2:15 PM - 3:10 PM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
Charmaine Narciso-Jiao, DAPEO Engineering, PEO EIS, Engineering
CAPT Ann Casey, Innovation & Capability, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Thursday, February 14, 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
Leidos has worked with the U.S. DARPA and the U.S. ONR on DARPA’s ACTUV program to design and build Sea Hunter, the technology demonstration vehicle that ONR is further developing through the Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vessel (MDUSV) program. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the program and vessel, maritime autonomy architecture, behaviors, and missions, and recent efforts in autonomous survey and autonomous logistics. The views, opinions and/or findings expressed are those of the author(s) and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government. ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
- Room: USMC Theater, Hall C
Whether from the complexity and variety of networks that Marines encounter aboard ship, or otherwise, Marine Expeditionary Units (MEU) face a challenging task of integrating their C4 systems afloat. This aspect often forces deployed Marines to take on a systems integration role in order to find solutions to support their mission requirements. In an effort to address this continuing concern, MCTSSA has developed a progressive and iterative process to improve USMC shipboard C4 Systems Integration by working collaboratively with MEUs and USN Amphibs throughout their workup cycle. After defining requirements and understanding a MEU’s shipboard integration concerns before deployment on their assigned...
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Thursday, February 14, 2:50 PM - 3:50 PM
A presentation for small businesses to get started seeing opportunities within SPAWAR to be part of the mission to deliver information warfare and cyber capabilities to the fleet....
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- Room: Hall B - front of 2200 Aisle
SMWDC’s establishment in 2015 as one of the Navy’s five Warfighting Development Centers was a line of demarcation for more intentional development of lethality and tactical proficiency in the Navy and the Surface Fleet. Strategic Navy leaders have impressed the importance of building teams of teams that learn quickly and are resilient and tough in the face of increasingly active strategic competitors.
This panel is an opportunity to hear from and participate in a discussion through a short Q&A with the young leaders who are meeting this challenge and influencing Fleet training, operations, and warfighting in an Era of Great Power...
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Thursday, February 14, 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
Data is essential to the future of our nation. While this is true across business and government, nowhere is it more important than in Department of Defense. In order for the DoD to use data to protect the warfighter, drive missions, win wars, and maintain the peace, they first need to be able to manage their data. The fact that data management is hard and data volumes are growing isn’t news. DoD agencies have been focused on this topic for some time, but with limited results to date. What’s holding back these efforts are legacy IT architectures that are ripe...
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Thursday, February 14, 3:15 PM - 4:10 PM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
Rob Adams, Logistics and Fleet Support Department, Lead Systems Engineer, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
Mari Garcia-Reynante, Integrated Cyber Operations Business Portfolio Manager, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific ...
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Thursday, February 14, 3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
- Room: USMC Theater, Hall C
The Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch (AVTB) since its inception in 1943 has been the premier test agency within the Marine Corps for the testing of combat vehicles and their sub-systems that support the nation’s ability to execute expeditionary warfare. While historically focused on the testing of amphibious vehicles, AVTB has evolved into executing testing of other ground combat vehicles, weapon systems, and communication systems. The test agency supports a plethora of performance evaluation criteria and can execute testing under a multitude of environments. Typical tests may encompass automotive performance, shock/vibration, tactical mobility, transportability, sustainability, human factors, and Reliability/Availability/Maintainability (RAM). AVTB...
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Thursday, February 14, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Thursday, February 14, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Join Women in AFCEA for our annual Women’s Appreciation Event focused this year on Women in the Sea Services. Starting with drinks and appetizers and a chance to network with senior leaders in the Sea Services community, the event is then highlighted by a fireside chat with senior women leaders, moderated by the Chair of the AFCEA International Board. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity as these senior leaders share their insights on challenges and successes experienced throughout their distinguished careers. The event will conclude with the presentation of the women’s appreciation awards....
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Friday, February 15, 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Friday, February 15, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Friday, February 15, 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Friday, February 15, 9:30 AM - 10:25 AM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
CAPT Andy Gibbons, PM, PEO C4I, Communications and GPS Navigation Program Office
Jim Reed, Transport and Computing Infrastructure Business Portfolio Manager, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific ...
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Friday, February 15, 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Friday, February 15, 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
How the Navy approaches and mitigates risk to operational missions by evaluating threats and vulnerabilities found within information systems, networks, applications and data. ...
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- Room: USMC Theater, Hall C
Presentation will include discussion of the capabilities and limitations of the MV-22B Osprey aircraft and its current role within the MAGTF. Historical vignettes and deployment and training experience will also be offered. Additional discussion will focus on unique employment discoveries, innovation, technology advances, and future employment considerations across the range of military operations. ...
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Friday, February 15, 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This briefing will provide a description and update of DISA’s on and off premise cloud services....
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Friday, February 15, 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Meeting the challenge of great power competition and achieving lethality goals to handle existing and future threats means we must embrace and rapidly adopt new technology. Panelists will discuss the opportunities to overcome current bureaucratic and time-consuming obstacles in the military research, development, testing, requirements, and acquisition processes. What steps can be taken to embrace the rapid evolution of important technologies critical to competing, deterring, and winning globally? ...
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Friday, February 15, 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
As Enterprise Software moves to the Cloud and as Machines connect to the Internet of Things (IoT), all of our assumptions about how to run an effective sustainment program needs to be reevaluated. In the past, machines were dumb, and people were smart. The opposite may be true by 2025. Everything that you know about supply and maintenance will be challenged as we look at the future of sustainment during this thought provoking session.
In the past, the best maintenance programs were based on disciplined preventive maintenance strategies. Preventive maintenance may be completely replaced by predictive and machine requested maintenance by...
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Friday, February 15, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- Room: Navy Information Warfare Pavilion - Booth 647
Informal meetings with Program Managers and Subject Matter Experts. No appointment necessary.
CAPT Mark Kempf, PM, PEO C4I, Battlespace Awareness and Information Operations
CAPT Rob Cassol, PM, PEO C4I, Carrier and Air Integration Program Office ...
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Friday, February 15, 10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
A demonstration of the Navy's first mobile application that utilizes CAC-less technology to provide Sailors access to official information and a discussion of related industry opportunities....
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The Marine Corps and Navy often are the equivalent of a single fighting force when they team in operations that come from the sea. There are multiple scenarios that range from humane support and disaster support on one end of the spectrum and on the other it may be a Show of Force in an attempt to contribute to a strategic area in turmoil and in some scenarios act as a fighting force at sea or from the sea using the resources combined of the Navy and Marine Corps. This session will provide attendees with an overview of the Navy...
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Friday, February 15, 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
- Room: Exhibit Floor 1300-1500 Aisle
For DoD facilities, future 5G wireless technology can provide a cost-effective platform to help improve network infrastructure and system interoperability. IT systems, networks, wireless/IoT devices, and on-base first responders should seamlessly and securely work together to deliver data to the right person at the right place and at the right time.
Verizon will discuss how interoperability of 5G wireless devices and network can help defense agencies bring network entities together in the future to make faster, more informed decisions with the most current, secure IT modernization tools available and better concentrate on their core missions (virtualization, adaptive learning, automation, and AI).
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Friday, February 15, 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Provide overview of DoD Mobility Enterprise Capability Offerings (DMUC, DMCC-S, DMCC-TS) to include costs and how Mission Partners can order the services. Provide information regarding current mobility capability enhancements and future mobility efforts....
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Friday, February 15, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Friday, February 15, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM