Conference Day One: Tuesday, June 24, 2008

8:00 Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:10 The Challenges Of Information Sharing

• What need to be fixed?
• Who needs to fix it?

Dr. Carter Morris
Director, Information Sharing & Knowledge Management
Intelligence and Analysis Department of Homeland Security

8:50 Improving State And Federal Coordination For Homeland Security

• Regional coordination and collaboration: The soup du jour
• Why coordination and collaboration are critical, and the obstacles in the way
• The Federal plan to Improve State and Federal Coordination: Why planning, coordination, and collaboration are not finite commodities

David Hoge
Deputy Secretary
Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety West Virginia

10:15 Border Patrol Operations And SBInet, Update, Accomplishments, And Challenges

• Border Patrol mission, operations, and National Strategy
• How SBInet will enhance our border security capabilities
• Status update on the progress of SBInet

Kevin L. Stevens
Executive Director, Communications Division
Border Patrol

10:55 CrossComm: A Solution For Network Level Interoperability Of Wireless Communication Systems

Jeffrey Harris
Systems Engineer
General Dynamics

11:35 Biographic/Biometric Interoperability: Past, Present And Future

• Legacy services – National Crime Information Center (NCIC), Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)
• Next generation services – Next Generation Identification (NGI), Law Enforcement National Data Exchange (N-DEx), and Biometric Interoperability between the Departments of Justice, State, Defense, and Homeland Security

Thomas E. Bush III
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Information Systems Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation

1:15 Federated Identity Management Pilot Program, Federal Data Accessible To Local Enforcement

• Federated identity management pilot – an approach to sharing information by allowing users to access systems at other organizations, while trusting their “home” organization to assert user's identity
• Participation by Chicago police, NYPD, and some other state and local police organizations, whose users have access to certain federal systems because of this approach

Boris Shur
Chief Data Architect
United States Department of Justice

1:55 Connected At The Edge: New Approaches To Decentralized Information Sharing

• Enterprise 2.0: Getting the most out of an organization’s knowledge
• Knowing what we know: connecting the "disconnected" minds at the edge
• IT Governance: Avoiding "tool chaos" and "fragmented insight"
• A-Space(U): A new acquisition model

Dan Doney
Collaboration & Analyst System Effectiveness (CASE) Program Senior Scientist,
Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (IARPA), Office of the Director of National Intelligence

3:05 NCTC's Role In Supporting Information Sharing With Non-Federal Partners

• Information sharing improvements to date and challenges ahead
• The need to balance competing security/policy/technical/legal issues in sharing information

Russell E. Travers
Principle Deputy Director – Information Sharing and Knowledge Development, National Counter-Terrorism Center
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

3:45 Interoperable Information Sharing To Support Homeland Security Efforts In Chicago

• Presentation of the Police Department's CLEAR system, in use by over 400 police agencies nationwide
• Discussion of the Department's FIMS critical facilities application
• Presentation of the police camera surveillance network and recent integration with other agency cameras

Jonathan H. Lewin
Commander, Information Services Division
Chicago Police Department

4:25 Homeland Security State And Local Intelligence Community Of Interest (HS SLIC) And The HSIN-Intelligence Portal

Overview of the HS SLIC, the mechanism linking together fusion center analysts nationwide with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal partners on intelligence issues

Discussion of the portal used by the HS SLIC and the Department for broad intelligence information sharing at the Controlled Unclassified Information level

Jeffrey Sands Program Manager, HS SLIC MITRE Corporation

Dr. Joe Johnson Program Manager, HSIN-Intelligence Department of Homeland Security (DHS I&A)

6:05 End Of Day One

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