June 4, 2009 – Philadelphia, PA
Keynote
Technology's Role in U.S. National Security in the Coming Decade
The U.S. national security apparatus—which includes the defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security communities—will become exponentially more reliant on technology in the coming decade. This technological progress will be driven by U.S. industry (rather than the government itself), and many of these security-based capabilities will have their roots in commercial and entertainment-based applications. Because of this reliance, foreign intelligence collection and corporate espionage efforts will increasingly be directed at industry targets rather than traditional "espionage" targets. In light of this, if the United States is to protect and maintain its security capabilities, both the government and industry will have to adopt new paradigms for assessing vulnerabilities and protecting technology, trade secrets, proprietary information, and fundamental research and development.
Christopher P. Simkins, Former Counterespionage Prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice
Christopher P. Simkins is cofounder of the Laconia Group, a consulting and technology development firm focused on national security matters. He spent three years with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), first in the Counterespionage Section and then as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorneys General for the Criminal Division and the National Security Division. While with DOJ, Mr. Simkins led a wide range of national security investigations and prosecutions and worked closely with the FBI and the Intelligence Community on counterespionage, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and weapons proliferation matters. He was a principal liaison between DOJ and the Intelligence Community for investigating disclosures of classified information to the media and was involved in interagency insider threat initiatives. He is actively involved in advising government agencies on counterintelligence matters.
Mr. Simkins served as DOJ's representative on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), which conducts national security reviews of foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies. Working with the Intelligence Community and other CFIUS agencies, he reviewed more than 200 transactions and was responsible for negotiating and implementing a wide range of national security mitigation agreements. He was the colead negotiator for CFIUS in Alcatel's acquisition of Lucent Technologies and Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC Division, among other transactions. He has served as a testifying expert witness in federal litigation regarding CFIUS and national security implications of foreign acquisitions.
Before starting the Laconia Group, Mr. Simkins was Of Counsel with the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, where he counseled companies and financial institutions on national-security-related matters, including classified contracts and CFIUS reviews. He received his JD from Brigham Young University Law School (magna cum laude) and his BA from Brigham Young University (magna cum laude). He has received awards and commendations from DOJ as well as the Department of Homeland Security for his work on national security matters.
Agenda
| 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. | Registration, Breakfast (Technology Pavilion) |
| 9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. | Challenges Facing Aerospace and Defense Suppliers Presented by Rob Hoffman, Vice President and General Manager, Aerospace and Defense, Wind River
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| 9:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m. |
Keynote Session, Technology's Role in U.S. National Security in the Coming Decade Presented by
Christopher P. Simkins, Former Counterespionage Prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice
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| 10:15 a.m.–10:45 a.m. | Break (Technology Pavilion) |
| 10:45 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | Essentials of Multicore Software Presented by Cory Bialowas, Director, Product Management, Wind River
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| 11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Intel Keynote, Standards-Based COTS Solutions for Aerospace and Defense Presented by Russ Fromkin, Director, Intel Federal
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| 12:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Technology Pavilion) |
| 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. | Gold Sponsor Breakout Sessions |
| 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. | Cocktail Reception (Technology Pavilion) |
Breakout Sessions
| 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. |
Use of ARINC 653 and Integrated Modular Avionics to Reduce Space, Weight, and Power Consumption in Unmanned Vehicles to Facilitate Asynchronous, Incremental Certification, Wind River
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High-Performance Processing with VxWorks from Wind River and AXIS, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
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The Data Distribution Service (DDS) Standard: A Next-Generation Approach to Building Distributed Real-Time Systems, Real-Time Innovations
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| 2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. |
Increasing Lethality and Survivability with Multilevel Secure Systems, Wind River
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Securing Critical Program Assets with Anti-Tamper Technology, Arxan Defense
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High-Performance Computing Utilizing Multicore Processors Built on Power Architecture Technology, Freescale
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| 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. |
Standards-Based Building Blocks for Network-Centric Embedded and Communication Systems, Intel and Curtiss-Wright
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Effective Model-Driven Development (MDD) for Complex A&D Systems, IBM
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The Benefits of Virtualized Systems Development for Aerospace and Defense Applications, Virtutech
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Challenges Facing Aerospace and Defense Suppliers
Presented by Rob Hoffman, Vice President and General Manager, Aerospace and Defense, Wind River
With the new U.S. administration, global aerospace and defense suppliers will be challenged to maintain and expand existing programs. Addressing these financial challenges, along with building systems that have increasing functional demands will challenge all parties in our industry in the coming years. These advances must be made in the face of technology disrupters, affecting the performance and acceptance of new system designs.
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Essentials of Multicore Software
Presented by Wind River
The increasing core count of today's multicore processors creates the opportunity to introduce multiple operating systems into a device, which can spur innovation and maximize performance. Achieving the optimal solution for a particular device requires a choice of appropriate type of operating system, multicore software configuration (SMP/AMP/virtualization), and top-notch tools to configure, debug, and optimize such systems.
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Platinum Sponsor Keynote
Presented by Intel
Intel's field-proven embedded computing, communications, and networking solutions harness breakthrough innovations in processing performance, programmability, and bandwidth. By providing the building blocks for modular, standards-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions, Intel is ready to help the U.S. Department of Defense and system integrators meet cost and schedule requirements, mitigate program risk, and accelerate the process of force transformation.
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Use of ARINC 653 and Integrated Modular Avionics to Reduce Space, Weight, and Power Consumption in Unmanned Vehicles to Facilitate Asynchronous, Incremental Certification
Presented by Wind River
This session investigates how the ARINC 653 standard can be used to reduce SWaP and enable independence using guidelines from DO-178 and DO-297. It will explore the use of qualified XML-based configuration tools and the emerging ARINC 653 Supplement 3 XML schema and show the importance of configuration and build partitioning.
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Standards-Based Building Blocks for Network-Centric Embedded and Communication Systems
Presented by Intel
As a technology leader and provider of comprehensive products lines for embedded systems and communication networks, Intel is a trusted resource to help power your network-centric vision. You will learn how Intel multicore processors are well-suited for high-performance computing applications such as signal and image processing. Intel processors and chipsets, together with validated third-party hardware ingredients and software solutions, enable information assurance computing systems based on COTS solutions. You will also learn how Intel is delivering high-performance, energy-efficient solutions for mobile computing platforms.
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The Data Distribution Service (DDS) Standard: A Next-Generation Approach to Building Distributed Real-Time Systems
Presented by Real-Time Innovations
DDS has been adopted worldwide by major air force, army, marine, and navy programs as an open architecture standard for integrating real-time tactical systems with each other and with enterprise applications such as command and control systems. This breakout introduces the DDS standard and shows how it significantly reduces software life cycle costs with a net-centric approach to meeting the messaging and integration requirements of mission-critical embedded systems.
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The Benefits of Virtualized Systems Development for Aerospace and Defense Applications
Presented by Virtutech
This presentation will focus on how virtualized systems development (VSD) and Virtutech Simics, along with Wind River tools and platforms, can reduce product iterations by 50% while providing a software development platform up to 12 months before the physical target is available. VSD allows companies to mitigate risks, expedite testing, improve quality, and drive collaboration between not only the prime and its subcontractors but also between hardware, software, and system groups.
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Increasing Lethality and Survivability with Multilevel Secure Systems
Presented by Wind River
This session will show how traditional methods of building computing systems at the heart of defense weapons systems and other devices fall short. It will explain the emerging multiple independent levels of security (MILS) architecture in depth and show risks and provide recommendations. To increase lethality and survivability, defense system weapons builders must increase functionality and connectivity and reduce space, weight, and power, while maintaining high assurance of controlled security and safety, with controlled or even reduced costs. MILS is an emerging system architecture to create these necessary multilevel secure/cross-domain solutions.
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Building Multiprocessor Embedded Applications
Presented by Curtiss-Wright
This presentation introduces the wide range of tools Curtiss-Wright offers for increasing developer productivity, including targeted tools that provide insight into the configuration, real-time performance, and network traffic of the system under development. High-performance digital signal processing (DSP) systems require an ever increasing number of processing elements—whether they be processors, multiple cores within processors, or field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)—to complete the task at hand. Building complex embedded applications that span these multiple processing nodes requires special tools and presents challenges in terms of task/thread synchronization, real-time event handling, I/O bandwidth, interconnect bottleneck management, and overall management across the system.
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High-Performance Computing Utilizing Multicore Processors Built on Power Architecture Technology
Presented by Freescale
Aerospace and defense applications continue to increase demand on performance within a decreasing power envelope. This constraint requires innovative solutions from microprocessor vendors to meet these ever increasing demands. Freescale's QorIQ multicore platforms provide an innovative architecture to address the size, weight, and power requirements of the A&D market. This session will provide details on the QorIQ architecture and roadmap.
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Securing Critical Program Assets with Anti-Tamper Technology
Presented by Arxan Defense
This presentation will provide attendees with how-to knowledge for incorporating anti-tamper (AT) technology into their systems and successfully deal with the U.S. Department of Defense policy that requires the use of AT technology in new programs and technology. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the threats facing embedded systems and how to defend against them using current technology. Additionally, practical ways to overcome the typical challenges of implementing effective protection will be discussed, such as dealing with limited performance margins and binary size restrictions. The goal is to provide attendees with real-life practical knowledge for how they can leverage the various types of AT technology to secure their critical program assets.
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High-Performance Processing with VxWorks from Wind River and AXIS
Presented by GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software components provide the building blocks for multiprocessing systems in deployed sonar, radar, SIGINT, and communications applications to accelerate time-to-market. AXIS (Advanced Multiprocessor Integrated Software) is a performance-optimized software environment designed to accelerate the development of complex signal processing applications requiring multiprocessor (PowerPC and Intel) systems. AXIS provides a foundation with immediate and long-term value, supporting our current and future product developments with seamless integration between the single board computer, signal processing, and sensor I/O.
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Effective Model-Driven Development (MDD) for Complex A&D Systems
Presented by IBM
This presentation, which includes a practical demonstration, will show how you can cut your development effort by 30% by leveraging the Rhapsody MDD and Wind River Workbench development environment in a completely integrated solution chain. Studies show that software is the main bottleneck for many embedded and real-time systems projects. Unified Modeling Language (UML)-based model-driven development (MDD) solutions such as Rhapsody combined with Eclipse-based development environments such as Wind River Workbench solve this problem by accelerating embedded device development, implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation for aerospace and defense applications.
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