18th Annual SO/LIC Symposium & Exhibition

"Warfare in the Seams: Defense & Industry Partnering to Win the Long War"

26 - 28 February 2007

Arlington, VA


Agenda

Monday, February 26, 2007

Military Services' Chief Scientists and Technologists Panel Presentations: Transforming General Purposes Forces for Warfare in the Seams
Panelist:

  • Mr. George W. Solhan, Director, Expeditionary Warfare Operations, Office of Naval Research, Warfare in the Seams: Defense and Industry Partnering in the Long War
  • Mr. Jack McCready, US Coast Guard Research and Development Center, USCG - Deployable Operations

National Laboratories Panel Presentations: Technologies from the National Labs to Wage the Long War
Panelist:

  • Dr. Mark A. Buckner, Cognitive Radio Program Director RF and Microwave Systems, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Technologies to Help Wage the Long War
  • Dr. Michael V. Fazio, Deputy Program Director for Defense and Homeland Security, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory Overview
  • Dr. John Garnier, Armor Program Lead/Idaho Survivability Program, Idaho National Laboratory, National and Homeland Security at INL
  • Dr. Russell D. Skocypec, Deputy Director Human Systems and Simulation Technologies, Sandia National Laboratory, Technologies from the National Labs to Wage the Long War
  • Dr. Peter Vanier, Physicist, Detector Development Division, Nonproliferation and National Security Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stand-Off Nuclear Radiation Detection

 

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

USSOCOM Service Component Panel: Capabilities, Challenges, and Technology Needs for Special Operations in the Long War
Panelist:

  • Brigadier General Steven J. Hashem, USA Reserve President, Joint Special Operations University and Center Director, Special Operations Knowledge and Futures, Center for Knowledge and Futures (SOKF) Overview Brief
  • Brigadier General Steven J. Hashem, USA Reserve President, Joint Special Operations University and Center Director, Special Operations Knowledge and Futures, Joint Special Operations University

Reports from the Field Panel: Defense and Industry Vignettes in Waging Warfare in the Seams
Moderator and Panelist: Colonel Lee An Van Arsdale, USA (Ret), Chief Executive Officer, Triple Canopy, Inc. Warfare in the Seams Industry Vignettes

  • Major General Benoit Puga, Commander, French Special Operations Command, Waging the Long War on Terrorism
  • Major General Edward Gruszka, Commander, Polish Special Operations Command, Polish SOF (Report From the Field
  • Brigadier General Remo Butler, USA (Ret), Vice President: Operations; Operations, Maintenance, and Logistics; Kellogg Brown & Root, Contractors on the Battlefield
  • Colonel Kenneth Tovo, USA, Commander, 10th Special Forces Group, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP)
    • Sadr City Operations July 2006 .wmv (Video)
    • Sadr City Operations August 2006.wmv (Video)
    • EW Success in Sadr City .wmv (Video)
  • Colonel Norman J. Brozenick, Jr., USAF, Commander, 1st Special Operations Wing, USAF Special Operations in the Seams

 

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Keynote Addresses:

  • Perspectives on Special Operations and Warfare in the Seams, Honorable Thomas W. O'Connell, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict
  • Counter-Network Operations, Lieutenant General William G. Jerry Boykin, USA, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Warfighting Support The Global War on Terrorism or A Global Insurgency

Miscellaneous

  • Major General Donald Wurster, Vice Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command, Challenges for the Long War

  • Major Joe McGraw, NPS, Defense Analysis Department, Limitations of the National Defense Union: Why the DOD-DI relationship is best left at home
  • Captain David B. Moon, USAF, Joint Information Operations Student Department of Defense Analysis, Cyber-Herding: Exploiting Islamic Extremists Use of the Internet
  • Lieutenant General John F. Sattler, Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, The Joint Staff, The View from the Joint Staff