Net Centric Operations (NCO) - 1 Year In Review

Program will discuss:

• Progress around the issue of Netcentricity and Netcentric Warfare since August,2006 - 1 year ago?

• What are the key priorities and strategies for Netcentric approaches within DOD/DISA?

• What are the key benefits with Netcentric approaches that we will realize in the future?

• Will IPv6 implementation offer new opportunities?

• Sharing a vision for the future. Where will we be with Netcentricity in 3 years? 5 years? 10 years?

Panelists:

David Wennergren Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management and Technology and Deputy CIO - DOD

Brig General Dave Warner Director for Command and Control Programs - DISA

Cheryl Roby Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks & Information Integration (DASD/NII)

Terry Morgan Director, Net-Centric Strategies, Global Government Solutions Group - Cisco Systems, Inc.

John Meincke VP, Air Force and Navy Operations, Federal Systems - Unisys Corporation

Moderator

Jim Flyzik -Flyzik Group

Jim served over 27 years in the federal government. He served as Senior Advisor to Governor Ridge in the White House Office of Homeland Security (OHS). He provided advice to OHS on the National Strategy and Information Management in support of the OHS mission. From February 1998 until December 2002, Jim also served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Government CIO Council overseeing numerous governmentwide IT initiatives. He was also a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.

Prior to this, from August 1997 until April 2002, Jim was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of the Treasury. He provided oversight, strategic planning and management direction on over $3.0 billion in annual information technology and information infrastructure programs within Treasury and its fourteen Bureaus. Jim also served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Management for the Treasury Department from January 20, 2001 until February 8, 2002. In that role he provided oversight of all Treasury bureaus and served as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on matters involving the internal management of the Department and its bureaus. Jim received the Secretary Certificate of Appreciation on February 12, 2002 for his efforts during this transition period.

Prior to his Treasury positions, Jim worked for 15 years at the U.S. Secret Service where he held key IT management positions, including the Chief of the Communications Division, providing world class telecommunications in support of Secret Service tactical and operational requirements.

Jim has extensive public speaking experience and frequently serves as a featured speaker at industry events. He has developed, and currently teaches part-time, a graduate level course on Information Systems Security and Risk Assessment at the University of Maryland. Jim was given the Stanley J. Drazek Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998 by the University of Maryland.

Jim has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland with an area of concentration in Information Systems Management.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Wennergren served for four years as the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO), where he was responsible for the development and use of information management / information technology (IM/IT) and creation of a unified IM/IT vision for the Navy - Marine Corps team. During that time he was also the Department of the Navy's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Officer. Prior to becoming the DON CIO, he served for four years as the DON Deputy CIO for Enterprise Integration and Security. Prior to that assignment, he was the Head, Plans and Policy Branch within the Shore Installation Management Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), where he was responsible for shore installation strategic planning and policies, as well as the Navy's shore restructuring efforts, regionalization, installation claimant consolidation, privatization, interservice support and interagency partnering efforts. Mr. Wennergren served as the Economic Support Team Leader on the Department of the Navy's Base Structure Analysis Team (BSAT) during the Navy's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process for BRAC-93 and BRAC-95, responsible for developing and defending all DON return on investment, economic impact and community infrastructure impact analyses. Other past assignments included Commercial Activities Program planning and review in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), participating in the Navy's BRAC-91 process, and working as a management analyst at both the Naval Industrial Resources Support Activity and the Naval Air Technical Services Facility in Philadelphia.

Brigadier General Warner entered the Air Force as a distinguished graduate from the Air Force ROTC program at Southwest Texas State University. He has pursued a wide-ranging career including: interoperability test director for the E-3A; Air Force representative to the Joint and Allied Data Link Standards Configuration Control Boards; education and training duty at Squadron Officer School; executive officer to the assistant chief of staff, Operations and Logistics, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe; Chief Information Assurance Division at the Air Staff; Director of Communications and Information, Headquarters United States Air Forces in Europe, Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for U.S. Joint Forces Command, and has commanded at squadron and group levels.

Ms. Roby joined the Defense Intelligence Agency in the imagery Functional Management Office. In the spring of 1990, Ms. Roby joined the General Defense Intelligence Program (GDIP) Staff as the Assistant for Collections. While on the GDIP staff, she also served as the Director for Program Evaluation and Operations, responsible for the preparation of GDIP programming and budgeting documents. She was selected into the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in February 1992.

Ms. Roby earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics (cum laude). She is also a graduate of the Chief of Naval Operations Advanced Managers Program, the Harvard University JFK School of Government, and the DCI Intelligence Fellows Program.

Mr. Morgan is Cisco's member on the Executive Council of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) and the executive sponsor of the Education and Outreach working group.

Prior to joining Cisco in 1998, Mr. Morgan served as an account executive at US Robotics and drove business development in for NATO and US Forces in Europe at 3Com. Previously, he spent 24 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, where his assignments included Command at the artillery battalion and battery level, Assistant Chief of Staff Operations (G-3) Marine Forces Europe, Unarmed U.N. Military Observer in Southern Lebanon, Fire Support Coordinator, U.S. Army Field Artillery School instructor and Staff Officer at Headquarters.

Mr. Morgan is a member of the Armed Force Communication Electronic Association, Marine Corps Association, and the US Naval Academy Alumni Association. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College and the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

John joined Unisys from Booz Allen Hamilton, where he was a member of the defense team and led the cross-firm work in net-centric operations that included support for all Combatant Commands. John was also co-lead of Booz Allen's Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) leadership team.

John retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general in 2000. During his military career, he held a variety of C4ISR assignments including Vice Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, and director of command, control, communications and computer systems (J6) at the U.S. Central Command. At U. S. Central Command he was chief information officer for all communications, computer systems and data networks at the Florida headquarters as well as throughout 25 countries across the Middle East. His career included numerous command level assignments, as well as Pentagon assignments at headquarters U. S. Air Force and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

John holds a degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University, and a masters in management from Webster University.