Our DoD Information Warfare Symposium will focus on the efforts to fight and win in an increasingly congested information battlespace. This year's event will focus on the convergence of Cyber, EW, and IA and the employment of these capabilities to win in the information environment.
Topics to be covered at the 2018 Symposium:
- The Convergence of Cyber, EW and Information Assurance as a Single warfighting function
- Shifting Policy and Viewing the Information Environment (IE) as a Contested Space
- Leveraging Information Warfare to Ensure Maritime Superiority
- Delivering Combat Ready Information Warfare Forces in Support of Mission Success
- Ensuring Information Warfare Dominance throughout the Fleet
- IW on the Tactical Edge: Preparing Present & Future Marines for Information Operations
- Future Information Environments & Evolution of Army Information Warfare Initiatives
- Providing Information Warfare Dominance to the Modern Airman
- Understanding the Acquisition Challenges for the Future of Army Information Operations
- Understanding the Information Warfare Threat Matrix
- How Partnerships with Industry & Academia Help Deliver Mission-Essential Capabilities
Why you should attend this year's Symposium:
Our DoD Information Warfare Symposium will bring together leaders from the DoD, IC, Federal Agencies, Private Industry, and Academia to discuss DoD efforts to fight and win in an increasingly congested information Environment.The DoD Information Warfare Symposium is designed as an educational and training ''Town Hall'' forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military services, defense agencies, and civilian organizations can come together for actionable discussions and debate. The DoD Information Warfare Symposium will focus on initiatives to equip and train the warfighter to operate in contested information environments and we will seek to generate understanding of the capabilities necessary to ensure that the force will be able to execute information operations for years to come. Join us for this year's DoD Information Warfare Symposium as we discuss the various opportunities and challenges that the DoD, IC, and private industry face as they develop and integrate information warfare capabilities into the force.
At our Symposium you will have the ability To:
- Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing the information warfare community.
- Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to engage in constructive dialogue among all in attendance.
- Influence: Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are encouraged to address our speaker faculty and each other with their questions, comments or ideas.
Venue
Mary M. Gates Learning Center/United Way701 N. Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA
Parking:
There is parking available at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Enter at lobby level and request a day parking ticket.
(There is no parking at the Learning Center for delegates, and street parking is limited to 2 hours)
Hotel Rooms are available at a discounted rate at:
SHERATON SUITES OLD TOWN ALEXANDRIA
801 North St. Asaph Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
Hotel Discount Reservation Link
(two walking blocks from the mary m. gates learning center)
* Please identify that you are with Defense Strategies Institute to receive your discount.
This year's scheduled speakers include:
- VADM Marshall Lytle III, USCG, Director, C4 & Cyber; CIO, Joint Staff, J6
- LtGen Daniel O’Donohue, USMC, Deputy Commandant for Information, HQMC
- RADM Brian Brown, USN, Director, Warfare Integration for Information Warfare, OPNAV N2N6F
- MG John Morrison, USA, Commanding General, US Army Cyber Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon
- Maj Gen Burke “Ed” Wilson, USAF (Ret), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy
- Victor Gavin, SES, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for C4I & Space, ASN (RD&A)
- Matthew Swartz, SES, Deputy Commander, Naval Information Forces
- Brig Gen Edward Sauley III, USAF, Deputy Director, J3E, JEMSO, USSTRATCOM
The agenda is available as PDF under downloads at the right side of the page.