NIP/AFCEA Sponsor Navy Information Dominance Industry Day
On June 22, 2010, AFCEA Intelligence and the Naval Intelligence Professionals hosted the Navy Information Dominance Industry Day in the Heritage Conference Center, Chantilly, VA. It was an open and frank discussion with industry representatives and was appreciated by all who attended.
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, announced November 2, 2009 the Navy N-2 and N-6 functions will merge, along with other Navy capabilities, into an Information Dominance Corps and a consolidated N2/N6 organization. VADM Jack Dorsett, USN, was assigned as the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance and the Director of Naval Intelligence. This fundamental, cross-cutting organizational and operational change is designed to ensure Navy prominence in the fields of Intelligence, Cyber Warfare, Command and Control and Information & Knowledge Management.
This consolidation raises many key questions: How will it work, how it will be different, and what it will need from the private sector?
AFCEA Intelligence and the Naval Intelligence Professionals are honored that VADM Dorsett has asked us to help him put on a one-day classified conference where he and members of his senior staff will address those questions.
Speakers from the Information Dominance Community will discuss the core components of the Navy’s strategy for achieving information dominance and explore how the public and private sectors can work with the Navy to ensure that it has both state of the art capabilities and avoids technological surprise. Program sessions will cover Decision Superiority, Maritime Ballistic Missile Defense Command and Control, Maritime ISR, Undersea Dominance, Navy Cyber, and Information Dominance R&D. The final session will be an Information Dominance panel moderated by VADM Dorsett.
Attendees should leave with not only a greater understanding of the Information Dominance Community, but with a sense of what technologies are most likely to impact intelligence and national security as it fulfills its vision of becoming one of the “main batteries” of the US Navy.
Speakers and agenda can be found here