7:00 am- 5:00 pm

Registration in Atrium Hall Foyer; General Session in Atrium Ballroom

8:15 am

Welcome

• Ed Hazelwood – Editorial Director, Aviation Week Conferences
• Ken Gazzola, EVP/Publisher McGraw Hill/Aviation Week

8:30 am

Congressional View of the Threat to National & Homeland Security

• Moderator: Ed Hazelwood, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Conferences
• Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), Vice Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee
• Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) Ranking Member, House Homeland Security Committee

Operation ATLAS: Eliminating the Disconnects!
The incident with would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid has revealed a multitude of disconnects between first responders, national defense, health & safety and a host of other stakeholders. These disconnects could result in a passenger plane being unnecessarily shot down or the inability to treat hundreds of injured in a less than catastrophic incident. NORAD, Boston Fire, Massachusetts Homeland Security, TSA the U.S. Marshals Service and others have conducted the first ever flying simulation of a major incident and here report the results.

• Moderator: John Goglia, former Board Member, NTSB
• Carlo A. Boccia, Director Homeland Security, City of Boston
• Amy Lind Corbett, Regional Administrator, New England, Federal Aviation Administration
• Thomas J. Kinton, Jr., Director of Aviation, MassPort
• Dr. Manoj S. Patankar, Professor, St Louis Univ.

10:30 am

Exhibit Hall Opens

10:30 am

CS-1: Transportation & Border Security Track
Atrium Ballroom

Identity Management -- What are the best ways to ascertain someone's identity? Secure Flight launches in 2005 for passenger screening at U.S. airports, replacing CAPPS II, which was scuttled over privacy concerns. How can biometrics (facial recognition, iris recognition, fingerprints) help? And what role will evolving biometric technologies (hand geometry, gait recognition) play? Can systems that promote strong authentication of identity also promote new commerce by enabling new systems or preventing fraud?

• Moderator: Rod Turk, Assistant Administrator, Office of Transportation Vetting & Credentialing, TSA
• Jack Hermansen, CEO, Language Analysis Systems Inc.
• Nuala O'Connor Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
• Thomas Marten, VP Government/Security Comptency Centre, Sita

CS-3: Critical Infrastructure
Protection Track
Meridian Room D&E

Critical Infrastructure and the
Threat Matrix - DHS is working on a
near-term spending roadmap to protect
critical infrastructure. It will be linked to
a database that includes vulnerability
assessments of key U.S. assets
(transportation, telecommunications
power plants, etc.). When completed it
will be the Threat Matrix. What more can
be done or should be done to protect the infrastructure? How can the private
sector owners of critical infrastructure
see security improvements as a netpositive? What regulatory and
commercial incentives need to be put in
place?

• Moderator: Paul Magnusson, Washington Correspondent, Business Week
• Robert Flowers, CEO, HNTB Federal Services Corp
• Joan Grewe, Senior Analyst, National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications, National Security Research, Inc.

11:30 am

2:30 pm

CS-4: Transportation & Border Security Track
Atrium Ballroom

Maritime Security - Customs and Border Protection in fiscal 2006 plans to spend $125 million for radiation portals and other detection technologies at U.S. ports. In addition, the Department will issue millions of dollars in grants to port owners and operators to increase maritime security. What technologies are needed most to keep the ports, and the vessels transiting them, safe?

• Moderator: John Doyle, Congressional Editor, Aviation Week & Space Technology
• Capt. Scott Beaton, HQCG Dep. Dir Maritime Domaine Awareness, Program Integration Office
• Mark Gaspar, Director, Coast Guard Business Operations, Lockheed Martin

CS-5: Systems Integration/C4I Track
Polaris Room

Nuclear Sensing - With the spread of nuclear weapons being the administration's biggest worry, what are the new technologies in nuclear sensing to keep U.S. cities safe from suitcase-sized radiological devices? What are the nearterm enhancements to existing countermeasures and what is the R&D on next-generation systems.

• Moderator: Paul Hoversten, Editor, Homeland Security & Defense
• Dr. Paul Carlton, Director, Office of Homeland Security, Texas A&M
• Dr. Tom Cochran, Director of Natural Resources Defense Council's Nuclear Program
• Col. Randy Larsen, Founder & CEO, Homeland Security Associates
• Vayl Oxford, Acting Director Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, DHS

CS-6: Critical Infrastructure Protection Track
Meridian Room D&E

Terrorism Risk Insurance - Is It Necessary? The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act is set to expire at the end of 2005. It was established as a short-term fix after 9/11 while the private sector developed a response to the potential loss from the terror attacks. Some business and banking coalitions argue for it to be extended. Other groups do not want taxpayer dollars liable for up to $100 billion in potential losses from a single event. At the same time the GAO reports most companies see their risk of a terror attack so low that they are not buying insurance against it. This session will examine the current issues in the Terror Insurance Market.

• Moderator: Tom Ichniowski, Editor, Engineering News Record
• Charles Benda, Practice Leader-Homeland Security Practice, Lexington Insurance Co.
• Jon Hughes, VP & Terrorism Underwriter, Montpelier Re
• Bob Blumber, Managing Director, Property Terrorism Group, Marsh Inc.

3:30 pm

CS-7: Transportation & Border Security Track
Atrium Ballroom

Transporting Hazardous Materials - Keeping hazardous materials safe aboard railroad cars and trucks is a key worry in the transportation industry. CSX began rerouting rail cars carrying hazardous materials away from the National Capitol Region in spring 2004. What is the progress in TSA's checks of HazMat truck drivers? Where are the gaps in safeguarding such materials and what technologies can help protect them from terrorist attack? How can checks and technology be sufficiently and easily embedded into daily activities?

• Joe DeLorenzo, HazMat Specialist, Midwest Service Center, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• Kevin Keenan, Manager, PRTM Government Consulting Group
• Dan Murray, American Transportation Research Institute

CS-8: Systems Integration/C4I Track
Polaris Room

HSARPA - R&D for the Short Term - The Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) will spend nearly $1 billion in FY 2005 on both short and long-term terrorist countermeasures with an emphasis on near-term systems. This session will focus on what HSARPA is planning for the future.

• Moderator: Jim Dunbar, Director of Science and Technology, Aerospace Integration Corporation
• Mark Thaller, Director, Homeland Security, Lucent Technologies
• Vayl Oxford, Acting Director, HSARPA

CS-9: Critical Infrastructure Protection Track
Meridian Room D&E

Large Facility Design for the Future Now that we see everything as a potential target for terrorists, civic centers, high rise buildings and transportation facilities need to be designed with a eye toward rapid evacuation and other special security considerations. How will this be done?

• Moderator: Barbara A. Nadel, FAIA
• Carl Galioto, FAIA, Partner and Manager of Technical Group, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
• Kenneth Griffin, AIA, Principal, DMJM Harris
• Richard L. Tomasetti, P.E., Hon. AIA, Chairman, The Thornton-Tomasetti Group

4:30 pm

Closing Keynote

• Asa Hutchinson, Chairman, Homeland Security Practice, Venable LLC Former Under Secretary for Border & Transportation Security, Dept. of Homeland Security

5:00 pm

Reception in Exhibit Hall

6:00 pm

Exhibit Hall Closes

7:30 am -2:00 pm

Registration

8:25 am

Housekeeping Notes

• Ed Hazelwood, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Conferences

8:30 am

Keynote
The Science and Technology office of DHS is charged with organizing the Nation’s scientific and technological resources to prevent or mitigate the effects of catastrophic terrorism against the United States. This includes both sponsorship and coordination of research and development.

• John Kubricky, Director of Systems Engineering & Development, Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security

9:00 am

CS-10: Transportation & Border Security Track
Atrium Ballroom

Long-Term Transportation Security R&D - Private industry and universities are researching and developing several new and emerging technologies, including terahertz imaging to screen baggage, nuclear resonance fluorescence imaging to screen liquids in containers and checked baggage for explosives. What other technologies are on the horizon?

• Richard E. Norton, Executive Vice President, National Biometric Security Project
• Dick Slusher, Director, Physical Sciences Research Lab, Bell Laboratories

CS-11: Systems Integration/C4I Track
Polaris Room

Data Fusion - There are 13 separate terror watch lists created by 15 U.S. Government agencies. Add to that the human intelligence, information from perimeter sensors, biometric equipment and both guards and decision makers can be overwhelmed. In this session we look at ongoing efforts to provide users what they need to know when they need to know it.

• Moderator: Ed Hazelwood, Editorial Director, Aviation Week Conferences
• Clark Kent Ervin, Former Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security
• Van Hitch, CIO, U.S. Department of Justice
• Tom Richey, Director of Homeland

CS-12: Critical Infrastructure Protection Track
Meridian Room D&E

Retrofitting Courthouses & Federal Buildings A major security concern across the U.S. is the hundreds of federal buildings and thousands of courthouses with inadequate security. How are all of these government entities going to make enhanced security work in existing structures and at the same time ensure barrier-free access and conform to aesthetic needs?

• Moderator: Barbara A. Nadel FAIA
• Ed Feiner, FAIA, Director, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, former chief arch of US GSA
• Alan M. Hantman, FAIA, Chief Architect of the Capitol
• Leslie Shepherd, AIA, Chief Architect, GSA

9:30 am

Exhibit Hall Opens

Parallel Tracks

CS-13: Transportation & Border Security Track
Atrium Ballroom

Mass Transit Security - Do Any Answers Exist? - Look at Madrid, Paris, London & Moscow at it becomes frighteningly clear that subways represent an enormous vulnerability. What is being considered to mitigate the threat? What does this mean for first responders, the public and industry?

• Moderator: Len Biegel, President, The Biegel Group
• Mark Miller, Operations Coordinator, Emergency Planning, WMATA
• Tom Yedinak, Senior Legislative Representative, American Public Transportation Association Transportation & Border Security
• Earl Zuelke, Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Chicago Mark Miller, Operations Coordinator, Emergency Planning, WMATA

CS-15: Critical Infrastructure Protection Track
Meridian Room D&E

Detecting and Stopping Suicide Bombers - There is major concern in the U.S. that the hard to defend against suicide bomb threat will eventually become a reality here. Oklahoma City has already demonstrated the destructive power. What is already being done in other parts of the world to detect the suicide bomber in advance of detonation and defend against him or her?

• Rafi Ron, President, New Age Security Solutions
• Keith Kowadlo, Federal Programs and Antiterrorism/Force Protection, LS3P Associates Ltd.
• Dr. Neil Livingstone, CEO, GlobalOptions Inc.

11:30 am

Lunch in Exhibit Hall

2:00 pm

Public/Private Sector Spending on Homeland Security - What's the reality?
The federal government is spending about $32 billion in fiscal '05 through DHS alone. Some studies predict combined government and private sector spending could reach as much as $180 billion by 2010. How much will really be spent and what will it be spent on. This session is designed to offer both trends and specifics. We will also look at what are some of the "sleeper" technology areas that some U.S. government agencies expect to gain importance.

• Elaine Duke, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer, Department of Homeland Security
• Joseph S. Schneider, President, JSA Partners

3:00 pm

 Adjournment