Next-Generation ISR Symposium

The two-day general session will assemble the Key Organizations and the Senior Leading Experts that are shaping the direction of ISR current requirements and exposing the many future capabilities for the services and public service sectors. The Services’ ever increasing roles for ISR assets are permeating across a very broad range of critical missions, including but not limited to: Persistent Global Surveillance & Global Strike, Counter-intelligence & Counter-terrorism, Maritime Domain Awareness, Space Defense, Anti-Access and Contested Global Commons. From Iraq and Afghanistan to the increasingly tumultuous Asia-Pacific region and even home to CONUS, the need for diverse and evolving leap-ahead ISR technology is paramount.

This outstanding conference brings together the key government and industry experts who are shaping the direction of ISR today and in the future.

What are the Latest OSD and Service Strategies, Roadmaps, Needs and New Initiatives?

What are the Crucial Gaps in Providing Actionable Intelligence to Decision Makers and the Warfighter?

What New Cutting-Edge ISR Technologies are Necessary for Developing Network Interoperability?

What are the latest Opportunities for Homeland and Civil ISR?

What Advancements & Challenges are Ahead in ISR collection from Both Manned and Unmanned Platforms?

Speaker and Presenter Information

■ LT GEN RAYMOND PALUMBO USAF Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) for Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support and Director, Department of Defense ISR Task Force ■ BRIG GEN DONALD BACON USAF Director of ISR Strategy, Plans, Doctrine and Force Development, Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR (AF/A2) ■ MR. TERRY MITCHELL (invited) Director, Intelligence Futures, Army G2 ■ COL ERIC KRYSTKOWIAK, USAF Director, ISR Systems Division, Space and Intelligence Office, OUSD (AT&L) ■ CAPT DUANE ASHTON, US NAVY Program Manager, Unmanned Maritime Systems (UMS) Program Office (PMS 406) ■ MR. JEREMY BASH Former Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense and at the CIA (2009-2013) ■ CAPT BILL ROETING, USN (ret) Director, BLOS C2 Enterprise, The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)/HAF A2Q ■ MR. KENNETH RICE Chief, ISR Integration, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) ■ MR. MARTIN KRUGER ISR Thrust Manager, Office of Naval Research (ONR/Code 30) ■ MS. EMILY KEPLAR Manager, National ISR Collection & Operations, DHS ■ MS. ZDENKA WILLIS Director, Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Program, NOAA ■ COL MARK GUNZINGER, USAF (ret) Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments ■ LTG ROBERT NOONAN, US ARMY (ret) Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton ■ THE HON JAY COHEN, RADM USN (ret) Principal, The Chertoff Group ■ LT. GEN. CRAIG KOZIOL, USAF (ret) PVice President, ISR Systems, Mission Integration, L-3 Communications ■ MG GALEN JACKMAN, US ARMY (ret) Vice President, Army and SOF Programs, Raytheon ■ MR. TIM OWINGS Vice President, Integrated Mission Systems, Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) ■ DR. PAUL MONTICCIOLO Chief Technology Officer, Mercury Systems ■ COL WALDO CARMONA, US ARMY (ret) Director & General Manager of Advanced Army Systems, The Boeing Co. ■ COL BRADLEY BUTZ, USAF (ret) Director, ISR Operations, BOSH Global Services ■ MR. ERIC FIRKIN President, Innovative C2 Solutions, LLC ■ MR. LEO KOWATCH Senior Principal Engineer, Advanced Technologies, ACTS, Engility ■ MR. SCOTT NYBERG Senior Marketing Communications Associate, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.