In Room 201, it's Countering the Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure:Hardening U.S. critical infrastructure sectors against network attacks and vulnerabilities is a national security priority, but a comprehensive plan of action remains elusive. Key to meeting this challenge is forging a national consensus on roles and missions within government and between government and the private sector, wherein most critical infrastructure resides. This session will assess risk formulas for countering network threats to critical infrastructure, the significance of cyber vulnerabilities to national security, importance of national intelligence in prioritizing threats, roles and missions within government, and the state of government‐private sector cooperation.
In the Engagement Theater in Ballroom B/C, it's Improving Acquisition: Proposals and Actions: Acquisition reform has been a hot topic for years, yet initiatives that can deliver sustained, positive changes to the acquisition process and produce a more efficient workforce remain elusive. The acquisition system is frequently characterized as time‐consuming, resource‐intensive, bureaucratic and non‐responsive to the mission. The purpose of this panel is not to “curse the darkness” but to identify concrete proposals and actions that can be implemented without changes to legislation or regulations, within the authorities that agencies have today. The panel will discuss opportunities to introduce agile and adaptive methods that will reduce acquisition timelines, minimize the time from “identification of need” to “capability delivery,” and address the skillset gap between the acquisition workforce and the missions they support.
And, in Room 202B, it's The Role of Intelligence in the Future Threat Environment: Today’s “legacy” Intelligence Community (IC) is responsible for understanding a world that is rapidly – and in many ways radically – changing. To master its subject the IC itself must change to keep pace. In this session, attendees will become active participants in assessing alternative futures for effective intelligence and a transformed community over the next two decades. Audience members will vote in real time on the plausibility and value of specific hypotheses and propositions about future directions and requirements for intelligence. Just as we already anticipate the IC will no longer hold a monopoly position on providing “intelligence” to decision makers, and that additional non-government entities will become more heavily involved in the traditional intelligence process, this breakout session is an effort to incorporate more voices into an understanding of the future.
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09:40 AM
07 Sep 2017