The Challenges of Cyber Security

About the Keynote Speaker

Daniel G. Wolf, President and CEO of Cyber Pack Ventures Inc.

After 39 years of government service, Daniel G. Wolf became the president of Cyber Pack Ventures Inc., specializing in consulting on a variety of information assurance, intelligence, and homeland security topics. He currently serves on a number of corporate boards and technical advisory groups and has a keen interest in cyber-security-related topics. He is director of the Software Assurance Consortium, a nonprofit group supporting end users, and is active in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Software Assurance Working Groups. In his last government leadership role, he was the director of the Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency (NSA), where he was responsible for implementing an information assurance strategy to protect government communications and networks carrying classified national security systems information. This position included support for 22 government agencies in the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, and Homeland Security. His organization provided direct support to the U.S. military worldwide and worked with numerous foreign partners to provide interoperable secure communications and networks. As the director of information assurance at NSA, he was responsible for the world's largest single cadre of information assurance (IA) professionals, which provided America's National Security Systems with trusted and protected IA products and services.

Other major NSA assignments include directorate's deputy, chief of the Technical Support Group, and chief of the Cryptanalysis Group in the Operations Directorate. Mr. Wolf has received numerous awards for his many contributions to the defense and intelligence communities.

Mr. Wolf earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Case Institute of Technology and a master of science degree in electrical engineering (computer systems) from the University of Maryland College Park. He is also a graduate of the Senior Executive Fellow Program at Harvard University (Kennedy School of Government) and the Federal Executive Institute (FEI) in Charlottesville, VA. For the past 15 years he has been a member of the Adjunct faculty of Howard Community College, where he teaches C, Advanced C, and Java programming. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland University College in the Graduate School of Technology, teaching Homeland Security courses.

Overview

Wind River and our key aerospace and defense partners are coming together in nine cities across North America to bring you the latest technology in the aerospace and defense industry. Each event consists of a full day of informative presentations including keynote sessions from industry luminaries and our Platinum sponsors, Freescale and Intel. Each partner will have a tabletop display to showcase their latest product demonstrations.

Why You Should Attend

• Learn the efficiencies of using the latest tools for designing and creating safety-critical software.
• Learn the benefits of using proven commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software platforms in critical programs.
• Learn how to reduce risk by using COTS DO-178B certification evidence in certified development processes.
• Stop by one of our partner sponsors to see a live demo of the integrated technology.
• Hear about the latest in multicore technologies in presentations that include Intel and Freescale.

Who Should Attend

• Executive-level personnel who are interested in removing risk from their safety-certified systems
• Program managers, safety and security architects, and technical team leads designing critical systems
• Project managers needing to accelerate delivery of challenging embedded development operations
• Engineers and designers seeking to optimize the development of critical and certified software

Agenda

8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.	Registration, Breakfast (Technology Pavilion)
9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.	Introduction
9:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m.	Industry Keynote: The Challenges of Cyber Security
10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m.	Break (Technology Pavilion)
10:45 a.m.–11:30 a.m.	A&D Trends and Power Architecture Response, Presented by Freescale View abstractHide abstract The demands of aerospace and defense applications have been driven by size, weight, and power (SWaP). The trends in this industry will be identified, and the ways Power Architecture meets the requirements of control and signal processing in trusted computing architecture will be addressed.
11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.	Accelerate the Transformation to Network-Centric Solutions, Presented by Intel View abstractHide abstract The network-centric operation concept involves the rapid and continuous implementation of new capabilities through spiral evolution. With 30 years of experience in embedded market segments, Intel provides commercial technology leadership to help aerospace and defense industry developers accelerate the transformation to network-centric solutions. Intel's intensive research-and-development effort drives the nonstop advances in commercial technology and development of new generations of processors that balance improvements in power, performance, functionality, and cost.
12:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m.	Lunch (Technology Pavilion)
1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.	Securing Battlefield Computing and Communications, Presented by Wind River View abstractHide abstract The high connectivity of today’s military devices creates a global challenge for protecting communication channels. Mixing these channels on shared compute platforms constrained by space, weight, and power (SWaP) increases complexity and forces a new level of rigor to robustly separate secure channels. This seminar details how Wind River’s VxWorks and Linux platforms enable the creation of powerful single-level secure (SLS) and multilevel secure (MLS) systems with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms qualified against Common Criteria and Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS) standards.
2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.	Wind River Simics, Presented by Wind River
2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Exploiting Battlefield Bandwidth with Fast Software Defined Radios, Presented by Wind River View abstractHide abstract To have the ability to rapidly deploy into new war zones, warfighters need communication devices that can readily adapt to a wide spectrum of radio frequencies and waveforms. Configurable software defined radios (SDRs) can deliver both bandwidth and channels that enable highly responsive battlefield communications. Traditionally, boot time and waveform load time have hampered this capability; but now next-generation SDRs can boot in single-digit seconds and have the memory and battery to support a wide range of deployment environments. Come see this seminar to find out how PrismTech and Wind River have solved SDR speed and functionality issues through tighter and more efficient integration of SDR platform components.
3:30p.m.–4:00 p.m	Closing, Drawing, and Technology Pavilion Open

Location

Hilton Garden Inn Baltimore/Arundel Mills

7491-A New Ridge Road
Hanover, MD 21076

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