The Department of Defense (DoD) Information Warfare Symposium, which will be held March 28-29 at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center in Alexandria, Va., will create an open space for dialogue regarding current and future efforts to converge the use of cyber, electronic warfare, and information assurance in an increasingly congested global information environment.
The event, presented by the Defense Strategies Institute (DSI), will allow leaders and key policy-makers across military services, defense agencies, and civilian organizations the opportunity to learn more about valuable information on the efforts and strategies to build partnerships within the information environment community as well as discuss key viewpoints on future capabilities and evolutions of information operations.
The agenda will focus on initiatives to equip and train warfighters to operate in contested information environments and will seek to generate understanding of the work being done to ensure that the force will be able to operate effectively in the current and future battlefield. The forum will cover a variety of pressing information warfare topics, including shifting information policy, understanding the information warfare threat matrix, providing information warfare dominance to the modern airman, and leveraging information warfare to ensure maritime superiority.
Speakers will include Vice Admiral Jan Tighe of the U.S. Navy, Deputy Chief of Operations for Information Warfare; Vice Admiral Marshall Lytle III of the U.S. Coast Guard, Director of Command, Control, Communications and Computers / Cyber (C4) and Chief Information Officer Joint Staff, J6; Lt. Gen. Daniel O’Donohue of the U.S. Marine Corps, Deputy Commandant for Information; and Brig. Gen. Edward Sauley III of the U.S. Air Force, Deputy Director of Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, U.S. Strategic Command.
One highlight of the event will be a panel on “Understanding the Information Warfare Threat Matrix,” moderated by John Hurley, a professor in the Cyber Leadership Department within the College of Information & Cyberspace at the National Defense University. Panelists will discuss the need for the United States to invest in information warfare capabilities in order to stay ahead of potential threats posed by nations such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, which all operate their own information warfare programs.
Considered an educational and training forum, the DSI Symposium is complimentary to all DoD, intelligence community, and federal employees. Industry and academia members will be charged a fee for admission.
For more information, to register or to download the agenda for the symposium: http://informationwarfare.dsigroup.org/