8:00 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:10 US Air Force IT Integration

Maj Gen Paul Capasso, USAF
Director, Infrastructure Delivery, Office of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer
US Air Force

8:50Keynote: NORAD/NORTHCOM: Transforming IT To Improve Information Sharing

• Current NORAD/NORTHCOM initiatives
• Challenges, lessons learned, and future requirements

RDML Diane Webber
USN, Director, Command and Control Systems, J-6
NORAD/NORTHCOM

10:15Keynote: IT 2.0 – Business Value Generation

• The changing role of the CIO and the IT department as they progress from just a technical support group to a true business expert and partner, working hand-in-hand with leading business executives and business units
• How IT is moving from a narrow program and project focus to delivering significant business value and how this shift creates the need for CIOs to have expertise in strategic investing, change management, collaborative planning, and organizational transformation

Nitin Pradhan
Chief Information Officer
U.S. Department of Transportation

10:55 TSA IT Infrastructure Advances

• Challenges, lessons learned, and future needs for managing a geographically dispersed network
• Current initiatives at TSA

Dr. Emma Garrison-Alexander
Assistant Administrator, Chief Information Officer, Office of Information Technology
Transportation Security Administration

11:35 Case Study: How Greening IT Infrastructure Saved The State Of California $44M

• Establishing An Enterprise Wide Baseline Of The IT Infrastructure And Associated Power Metrics Of Over 200,000 PC’s And 10,000 Servers, Spread Across Over 100 Agencies
• Capturing Data Across Dozens Of Locations, With Minimal Labor Requirements, And Using A Single Solution To Gather Comprehensive Inventory Information For Servers, PC’s, Printers, Storage Equipment And Networking Devices
• How To Save $44 Million In Energy Expenses And Avoid Over 200,000 Tons Of Carbon Emissions

Walker White
CTO
BDNA Corporation

1:00 Meeting Federal Security Mandates And IT Modernization At CBP

• IT initiatives underway at CBP and DHS
• Current challenges related to shrinking budgets
• Meeting security challenges

Charles R. Armstrong
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Information Technology
U.S. Customs & Border Protection

1:40 IT Operations At The VA

• Information Protection
• New System Development Program

Paul A. Tibbits
MD, Deputy CIO, Office Of Enterprise Development
Department Of Veterans Affairs

3:05 Next Generation Risk Management: Information Security Transformation For The Federal Government

• Integrating information security into enterprise architectures and system life cycle processes
• Selecting appropriate security safeguards and countermeasures to protect enterprise missions and business processes
• Managing risk in highly dynamic environments of operation
• Building a unified information security framework for the federal government and contractors

Dr. Ron Ross
Project Leader, FISMA Implementation Project
National Institute of Standards and Technology

3:45Panel Discussion: Cleaning Up The IT Supply Chain

DoD, DHS, Department of Commerce Supply Chain and Anti-Counterfeiting Initiative, and private industry will provide an update on the status of supply chain efforts and offer future direction.

Panel Moderator:

Michael Aisenberg
Principal, Defense & Homeland Security
MITRE

For panelists, please see www.ITforDefense.com