Protecting Research and Technology in the Global Marketplace

The United States has never been more reliant on technology to secure national interests and to grow the economy than right now. And that reliance will continue to grow. We will continue to spend more money and resources than any other nation on improving our technological advantage, and at least in the near term we will continue to be a magnet for the best and the brightest minds from around the globe, who want to engage in cutting-edge research and development. These trends help our economy and make us more secure, but they also mean that our technology sectors will continue to be targeted by those who would steal or exploit our advancements and innovations.

The "cyber attacks" that have dominated the news are only one of many vectors being used. The global marketplace, coupled with the reality that cyberspace does not recognize national boundaries (in most cases), demands that we participate economically on a global scale, but doing so exacerbates these risks. The government and industry must work together to protect intellectual property from those who would steal it, to keep the global market place a level playing field and also to protect our national security interests.

About the Keynote Speaker

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.

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: Protecting Research and Technology in the Global Marketplace
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

Sheraton Reston

11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191

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