New Directions in Homeland Security
This symposium draws leading emergency management and homeland security decision makers on all government levels.
The National Defense Industrial Association's Top Issues for 2008 focus on six areas that are key to U.S. national security and are of broad concern to the defense industrial base. These issues, which guide NDIA's educational and lobbying activities during 2008 are:
- Sustaining the US National Security Workforce Advantage
- Ensuring the Integrity and Responsiveness of the Acquisition Process
- Maintaining a Viable Defense Industrial Base to Ensure Warfighter Readiness
- Improving Small Business Access to Defense Contracts
- Preparing for Defense Transformation
- Ensure International Competitiveness of US Defense Industrial Base
Marriott Crystal Gateway
Arlington, VA
September 9-10, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
7:00-8:00 AM Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks
Mr. Vince Cannava
Global Security and Engineering Solutions (GS&ES), L-3 Communications
Symposium Chairman
Major General Barry D. Bates, USA (Ret)
Vice President, Operations, NDIA
Mr. Robert W. Kelly
Managing Partner, CenTauri Solutions, LLC
Chairman, NDIA Homeland Security Division
8:15-9:00 AM Keynote Address
Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS)
Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security, US House of Representatives
9:00-10:00 AM Critical Infrastructure Protection
Mr. Robert B. Stephan
Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, DHS
10:00-10:30 AM Exhibit Hall Open/Break in Exhibit Hall
10:30-12:00 PM New Directions in Industrial Base Infrastructure Protection:
Reconciling Protection and Resiliency
Moderator: Mr. Ronald L. Dick
Director-Homeland Security, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
• Mr. Tim Scott
Chief Security Officer and Global Director of Emergency Services, Dow Chemical Company
• Mr. Sam Lawrence
Structural Technical Director, Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group, Inc.
• Mr. Guy Copeland
Vice President, Information Infrastructure Advisory Programs, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
• Mr. Michael J. Wallace
Vice Chairman, Constellation Energy & Chairman UniStar Energy, and Former Chairman, Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security (PCIS)
12:00-1:30 PM Buffet Lunch in Exhibit Hall
1:30-2:45PM New Directions in Preparedness and Disaster Response Operations
Moderator:
Mr. Mark Steiner
Senior Policy Advisor, American Council of Engineering Companies
Government Perspective
• Mr. Corey Gruber
Acting Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Mr. Glenn Cannon
Assistant Administrator, Disaster Operations Directorate (FEMA)
• Mr. William “Eric” Smith
Assistant Administrator for Logistics Management Directorate (FEMA)
Industry Perspective
• Gary Shiffman, Ph.D.
Senior VP & GM, Continuity and Crisis Management; Global Security and Engineering Solutions/L-3 Communications)
2:45-3:15 PM Break in Exhibit Hall
3:15-4:00 PM SAFETY Act Update
Mr. Bruce Davidson
Deputy Director, Office of SAFETY Act Implementation, DHS
4:00-5:00 PM Opportunities for the Private Sector
Thomas A. Cellucci, Ph.D., M.B.A
Chief Commercialization Officer, DHS
5:00-6:30 PM Reception in Exhibit Hall
6:30 PM Awards Dinner
Presentation of America Secure Award to the Honorable Paul McHale
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
7:00-8:00 AM Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00-8:15 AM Introductory Remarks
Mr. Vince Cannava
Global Security and Engineering Solutions(GS&ES), L-3 Communications
Symposium Chairman
Remembrance of 9-11
Mr. Robert W. Kelly
Managing Partner, CenTauri Solutions, LLC
Chair, NDIA Homeland Security Division
8:15-9:00 AM Keynote Address
TBD
9:00-10:30 AM Presidential Candidates’ Visions for “New Directions in Homeland Security”
Ms. Ruchi Bhowmik
Advisor to Senator Barack Obama
TBD
Republican Senior Advisor for Homeland Security
10:30-11:00 AM Break in Exhibit Hall
11:00-12:15 PM New Directions in Immigration Policy and Implementation
Moderator:
Col Randy Larsen, USAF (Ret)
Director, Institute for Homeland Security
• Dr. David McIntyre
Director, Integrative Center for Homeland Security, Texas A&M University
• Chief William J. McSweeney
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, California
• Mr. James W. Ziglar
Former Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service
12:15-1:30 PM Buffet Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
1:30-3:15 PM DHS Procurement
Moderator:
Mr. Thomas W. Essig
Chief Procurement Officer, DHS
• Ms. Soraya Correa
Director of Procurement Operations, DHS Headquarters
• Ms. Ashley Lewis
Head of Contracting Activity, Immigrations & Customs Enforcement
• Ms. Tiffany Hixson
Director, SBI Acquisition Office, Customs and Border Protection
3:30-4:45 PM Small Business Opportunities
Mr. Kevin Boshears,
Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, DHS
4:45-5:00 PM Conference Wrap-Up
Mr. Vince Cannava
Global Security and Engineering Solutions (GS&ES), L-3 Communications
Symposium Chairman
