WEBVTT 00:00.483 --> 00:03.150 (feet thudding) 00:04.837 --> 00:07.254 - [Drill Sargent] Halt, halt. 00:09.630 --> 00:10.713 Present arms. 00:14.891 --> 00:19.340 ♪ Oh, say can you see ♪ 00:19.340 --> 00:23.127 ♪ By the dawn's early light ♪ 00:23.127 --> 00:27.312 ♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪ 00:27.312 --> 00:30.852 ♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪ 00:30.852 --> 00:34.675 ♪ Whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ 00:34.675 --> 00:38.579 ♪ Through the perilous fight, ♪ 00:38.579 --> 00:42.606 ♪ O'er the ramparts we watched ♪ 00:42.606 --> 00:46.281 ♪ Were so gallantly streaming ♪ 00:46.281 --> 00:50.154 ♪ And the rocket's red glare, ♪ 00:50.154 --> 00:53.928 ♪ The bombs bursting in air, ♪ 00:53.928 --> 00:57.643 ♪ Gave proof through the night ♪ 00:57.643 --> 01:01.404 ♪ That our flag was still there. ♪ 01:01.404 --> 01:06.404 ♪ Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ 01:10.156 --> 01:15.156 ♪ O'er the land of the free ♪ 01:15.331 --> 01:18.998 ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ 01:22.962 --> 01:25.379 - [Drill Sargent] Order arms. 01:28.963 --> 01:31.657 Company, quarter turn, march. 01:32.547 --> 01:35.214 (feet thudding) 01:53.520 --> 01:55.170 - Good morning, please be seated. 01:59.830 --> 02:03.540 Hi, everyone, welcome to Tampa. 02:03.540 --> 02:05.450 My name is Elissa Wykoff, 02:05.450 --> 02:07.920 I am senior vice-president National Conference Services. 02:07.920 --> 02:10.773 Yes, I am the one sending you all the emails. 02:11.630 --> 02:13.410 It's nice to see that you all read them, 02:13.410 --> 02:16.030 and you were here promptly at 8:45 this morning, 02:16.030 --> 02:18.062 so thank you very much. 02:18.062 --> 02:19.968 (audience claps) 02:19.968 --> 02:22.618 (laughs) Yes, you get a round of applause for that. 02:22.618 --> 02:24.960 I have a few administrative announcements to make, 02:24.960 --> 02:28.120 and then we're gonna get the program rolling this morning. 02:28.120 --> 02:30.660 First off, there is a slight change 02:30.660 --> 02:33.160 to a breakout session for this afternoon, 02:33.160 --> 02:36.620 the Insider Threat session in room 21 02:36.620 --> 02:39.580 that was marked Government Only on the app, 02:39.580 --> 02:41.810 and on the addendum, and on the program guide, 02:41.810 --> 02:43.610 is now open to all attendees. 02:43.610 --> 02:46.590 So if you really wanted to go to that session 02:46.590 --> 02:48.300 and originally were not permitted to, 02:48.300 --> 02:49.850 you may now go to that session. 02:51.650 --> 02:54.053 In addition, just a few reminders, 02:54.970 --> 02:56.900 the mobile app is available to download 02:56.900 --> 02:58.080 if you have an iPhone. 02:58.080 --> 03:00.630 Sorry if you have an Android, 03:00.630 --> 03:02.240 hopefully, the work-around 03:02.240 --> 03:04.240 I sent you all last night has been working. 03:04.240 --> 03:06.670 You're gonna get a web-based version of the app, 03:06.670 --> 03:08.420 you're still gonna get the same information, 03:08.420 --> 03:10.730 you should be able to see the notifications. 03:10.730 --> 03:11.880 We're working with Guidebook 03:11.880 --> 03:15.430 to hopefully get the app back up and running 03:15.430 --> 03:16.560 on the Google Play Store, 03:16.560 --> 03:18.690 so I do apologize for any inconvenience, 03:18.690 --> 03:20.530 but hopefully the work-around is good, 03:20.530 --> 03:23.100 and you can also access the app. 03:23.100 --> 03:26.310 The app is gonna be your most up-to-date version 03:26.310 --> 03:29.280 of the agenda, we are also keeping the NCSI web site, 03:29.280 --> 03:30.700 the DoDIIS web site up-to-date, 03:30.700 --> 03:32.230 so you can check either place. 03:32.230 --> 03:34.610 And you all should have received an addendum 03:34.610 --> 03:36.745 at registration, there's been a lot of changes 03:36.745 --> 03:39.480 thanks to some of the things in the news, 03:39.480 --> 03:42.730 so please double-check the addendum and the app, 03:42.730 --> 03:44.970 before going, choosing what sessions you want to attend 03:44.970 --> 03:47.110 for the rest of the week. 03:47.110 --> 03:49.843 In addition, there is a social this evening 03:49.843 --> 03:52.090 you were all told about at registration. 03:52.090 --> 03:55.250 The All-Hands on Deck Networking Social. 03:55.250 --> 03:57.480 Please be sure to bring your ticket 03:57.480 --> 03:58.980 that you received at registration, 03:58.980 --> 04:01.460 that is your entry into the social. 04:01.460 --> 04:04.120 It's at American Social, right across the bridge, 04:04.120 --> 04:05.230 over by the Weston, 04:05.230 --> 04:07.530 and we hope to see you all there this evening. 04:08.620 --> 04:10.750 Finally, please make sure to take some time 04:10.750 --> 04:11.920 to go to the Exhibit Hall, 04:11.920 --> 04:14.227 we have well over 200 companies up there, 04:14.227 --> 04:17.100 our largest Exhibit Hall since 2012, 04:17.100 --> 04:18.610 so please take some time to go up there 04:18.610 --> 04:19.940 and visit with the vendors, 04:19.940 --> 04:22.090 check out their cool tech, spend some time, 04:22.090 --> 04:23.870 we've allotted a lot of time on the agenda 04:23.870 --> 04:25.570 for you to be able to do that. 04:25.570 --> 04:27.114 If at any time you have any questions, 04:27.114 --> 04:28.950 you guys can always find me. 04:28.950 --> 04:30.300 Go to the registration desk, 04:30.300 --> 04:31.550 we're all here to help. 04:31.550 --> 04:34.100 So thank you very much and have a great conference. 04:39.251 --> 04:42.001 (dramatic music) 05:12.497 --> 05:14.997 (tense music) 05:28.125 --> 05:29.340 (rocket blasting) 05:29.340 --> 05:31.083 - Our nation is at a crossroads. 05:32.300 --> 05:34.610 The threats we face, evolving. 05:34.610 --> 05:37.433 The competitive military advantage we've had, eroding. 05:41.070 --> 05:43.070 The operational environment has shifted. 05:45.139 --> 05:46.050 And the ability to develop 05:46.050 --> 05:48.063 asymmetric capabilities is paramount. 05:49.080 --> 05:50.463 The technology that we provide will be 05:50.463 --> 05:52.813 the lethality we need on the battlefield. 05:54.120 --> 05:55.910 The world is continuously changing, 05:55.910 --> 05:57.400 and the global competition we face 05:57.400 --> 05:59.190 is quickly maturing. 05:59.190 --> 06:01.620 We must meet our asymmetric challenges head on, 06:01.620 --> 06:03.720 with increased speed to mission. 06:03.720 --> 06:07.220 By being resilient in the face of current, evolving threats, 06:07.220 --> 06:09.940 being redundant in our ability to continue the mission 06:09.940 --> 06:11.650 in any operating environment, 06:11.650 --> 06:12.770 and above all, 06:12.770 --> 06:15.233 by securing our assets from malicious intrusions. 06:16.090 --> 06:17.720 We cannot rely on the status quo, 06:17.720 --> 06:19.460 we must respond. 06:19.460 --> 06:21.720 The arena of warfare has changed. 06:21.720 --> 06:24.033 It's shifted from terrestrial to cyber. 06:26.710 --> 06:29.120 It's time for us to create new advantages, 06:29.120 --> 06:30.660 to utilize every innovation, 06:30.660 --> 06:32.930 and drive technological supremacy. 06:32.930 --> 06:35.160 Whether that be through Big Data analytics, 06:35.160 --> 06:37.690 artificial intelligence, or robotics, 06:37.690 --> 06:39.813 to engage in current and future conflicts. 06:40.770 --> 06:42.230 America is a target. 06:42.230 --> 06:43.988 Whether through terrorists 06:43.988 --> 06:45.560 seeking to attack our way of life, 06:45.560 --> 06:48.140 or vicious cyber-activity against our infrastructure, 06:48.140 --> 06:49.983 or political information subversion. 06:50.870 --> 06:52.440 We must initiate a response 06:52.440 --> 06:54.690 and execute against the challenges presented. 06:55.720 --> 06:57.180 We cannot do this alone. 06:57.180 --> 06:59.900 We must stand shoulder to shoulder with our allied partners 06:59.900 --> 07:00.733 and vendor community, 07:00.733 --> 07:03.020 in order to protect our way of life. 07:03.020 --> 07:04.660 The threats we face are universal 07:04.660 --> 07:07.150 and the landscape is constantly shifting. 07:07.150 --> 07:09.870 Yet, together we can do something about it. 07:09.870 --> 07:12.480 We must be resilient, committed, and focused 07:12.480 --> 07:14.030 on every potential opportunity. 07:15.040 --> 07:16.540 This is our advantage. 07:16.540 --> 07:19.160 To meet these challenges, respond to the threats, 07:19.160 --> 07:21.310 shield and protect against our adversaries. 07:22.230 --> 07:23.460 This is why we're here. 07:24.628 --> 07:27.378 (dramatic music) 07:32.142 --> 07:32.975 Ladies and gentlemen, 07:32.975 --> 07:35.323 welcome to the 2019 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference. 07:39.930 --> 07:40.910 - [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, 07:40.910 --> 07:42.350 please welcome to the stage 07:42.350 --> 07:43.890 the Chief Information Officer 07:43.890 --> 07:47.847 of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Mr. Jack Gumtow. 07:49.037 --> 07:52.287 (audience applauding) 07:56.230 --> 07:59.170 - Good morning, just real quick, 07:59.170 --> 08:01.550 yesterday, when I saw this video, 08:01.550 --> 08:04.320 and we were running through the preps on that, 08:04.320 --> 08:05.607 I was pretty impressed with that, 08:05.607 --> 08:08.540 and more so impressed because usually, 08:08.540 --> 08:10.300 NCSI generates that for us, 08:10.300 --> 08:11.760 this year we did it in-house, 08:11.760 --> 08:14.281 they did a phenomenal job, so thank you. 08:14.281 --> 08:17.448 (audience applauding) 08:18.940 --> 08:21.490 So once again, good morning, and welcome to Tampa 08:21.490 --> 08:25.410 for the start of the 2019 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference. 08:25.410 --> 08:28.570 For those who don't yet know me, I'm Jack Gumtow, 08:28.570 --> 08:30.273 I'm the DIA/CIO. 08:31.410 --> 08:35.850 This conference, it marks my second as the CIO, 08:35.850 --> 08:37.660 and it's a tremendous honor 08:37.660 --> 08:39.410 that I get to host this conference, 08:39.410 --> 08:41.570 which is the largest IT conference 08:41.570 --> 08:43.057 in the intel community. 08:44.414 --> 08:46.540 I want to thank the city of Tampa, 08:46.540 --> 08:48.330 the Tampa Convention Center, 08:48.330 --> 08:51.820 and the Tampa Bay Police Department for their support. 08:51.820 --> 08:54.410 I can't overstate how important it is 08:54.410 --> 08:56.140 to have these kind of partners 08:56.140 --> 08:59.533 when we organize an event of this magnitude. 09:00.988 --> 09:03.810 I also want to express my appreciation to my boss, 09:03.810 --> 09:06.293 DIA Director, Lieutenant General Bob Ashley, 09:08.040 --> 09:09.930 for his continued support. 09:09.930 --> 09:12.250 So in that support, 09:12.250 --> 09:14.360 it stems from a deep understanding 09:14.360 --> 09:17.960 of the valued proposition that this conference provides, 09:17.960 --> 09:21.490 both to DIA, and to you as our partners. 09:21.490 --> 09:22.363 Sir, thank you. 09:26.007 --> 09:29.050 I also want to express my sincere appreciation 09:29.050 --> 09:31.550 to Miss Katelyn Ostrowski, 09:31.550 --> 09:33.810 and the Eastlake High School Performing Arts Academy 09:33.810 --> 09:35.560 for this morning's National Anthem. 09:37.026 --> 09:37.870 (audience applauding) I think she's gone, 09:37.870 --> 09:38.870 but yeah, thank you. 09:44.370 --> 09:45.903 As a high school student, 09:47.730 --> 09:50.100 as an individual, she did a phenomenal job, 09:50.100 --> 09:51.960 let alone she's in high school, 09:51.960 --> 09:53.440 standing in front of this crowd, 09:53.440 --> 09:57.840 bringing me to that this is our second largest conference 09:57.840 --> 10:01.470 in 14 or 16 years, and as of this morning 10:01.470 --> 10:04.174 we had about 3,700 people in attendance, 10:04.174 --> 10:06.453 so it's fairly large. 10:07.720 --> 10:09.250 So let me give you a little background 10:09.250 --> 10:10.490 in what we have in store for you 10:10.490 --> 10:11.853 over the next few days. 10:12.960 --> 10:15.790 We have an agenda that offers distinguished line-up 10:15.790 --> 10:17.960 of military and government experts, 10:17.960 --> 10:20.060 and industry leaders to provide insights 10:20.060 --> 10:21.883 on a variety of relevant topics. 10:22.820 --> 10:25.760 Our goal is to generate conversations, 10:25.760 --> 10:28.040 surrounding the collective set of issues 10:28.040 --> 10:30.100 that we are facing as we continue 10:30.100 --> 10:33.390 our digital journey and our digital evolution. 10:33.390 --> 10:35.250 I have no doubt our speakers will bring a wealth 10:35.250 --> 10:37.150 of knowledge and experience 10:37.150 --> 10:39.313 which will create a rewarding three days. 10:41.590 --> 10:43.900 This brings me to this years conference theme, 10:43.900 --> 10:47.230 resiliency, redundancy, and security, 10:47.230 --> 10:50.020 adapting to asymmetric threats. 10:50.020 --> 10:53.333 Everything is digitally connected. 10:54.370 --> 10:57.700 And everything is vulnerable and exploitable. 10:57.700 --> 10:59.260 And at the same time, 10:59.260 --> 11:01.363 it offers us numerous opportunities. 11:03.090 --> 11:07.620 Collectively, we must be prepared to rapidly adapt 11:07.620 --> 11:09.510 to the demands of the changing strategic 11:09.510 --> 11:11.173 and tactical digital environment. 11:12.170 --> 11:14.500 Over the course of the next three days, 11:14.500 --> 11:18.120 we have a unique opportunity to network face-to-face, 11:18.120 --> 11:20.483 and access innovative technologies. 11:21.690 --> 11:23.350 To this end, 11:23.350 --> 11:26.020 we have designed a line-up of breakout sessions 11:26.020 --> 11:28.813 lead by a variety of government and industry experts. 11:29.730 --> 11:32.870 If you've been to the DoDIIS conference previously, 11:32.870 --> 11:35.850 you understand that the intrinsic value of being here 11:35.850 --> 11:38.810 is the ability to capitalize on the direct engagement 11:38.810 --> 11:40.463 with subject matter experts. 11:41.420 --> 11:43.803 Please take advantage of these opportunities. 11:45.960 --> 11:47.980 So where is DIA heading? 11:47.980 --> 11:50.370 And how is the DIA/CIO addressing the goals 11:50.370 --> 11:52.753 of the agency, the IC and DOD? 11:55.100 --> 11:58.750 Within the CIO there's an undeniable need 11:58.750 --> 12:00.800 to enhance our capabilities, 12:00.800 --> 12:03.890 and become an all-encompassing, data-centric, 12:03.890 --> 12:07.890 information and communications technology service provider 12:07.890 --> 12:08.993 for our partners. 12:10.450 --> 12:12.430 To achieve this end-state, 12:12.430 --> 12:15.120 we have embarked on a deliver process. 12:15.120 --> 12:18.290 To crystallize our vision, objectives 12:18.290 --> 12:20.590 and the means to achieve the collective goals 12:20.590 --> 12:22.773 of DIA, the IC, and DOD. 12:24.060 --> 12:25.820 This effort is underway, 12:25.820 --> 12:29.453 and I call it the DIA/CIO Modernization. 12:31.710 --> 12:36.563 To do this, we establish the CIO vision, it's published. 12:38.280 --> 12:41.560 We follow that with the DIA/CIO strategy, 12:41.560 --> 12:43.963 outlining four goals and 19 objectives. 12:44.990 --> 12:48.070 This document is published and is available 12:48.070 --> 12:50.050 at the DI booth in the exhibit hall. 12:50.050 --> 12:51.550 It's an unclassified document. 12:53.920 --> 12:55.080 We are close to publishing 12:55.080 --> 12:57.264 an annual DIA/CIO planning guidance, 12:57.264 --> 13:01.390 which outlines where we are prioritizing our investments, 13:01.390 --> 13:03.020 where we are disinvesting 13:03.020 --> 13:06.570 in order to generate capacity and resources, 13:06.570 --> 13:08.670 and to achieve the goals and objectives laid out 13:08.670 --> 13:09.513 in the strategy. 13:12.870 --> 13:15.010 The approach we're taking allows us to shift 13:15.010 --> 13:17.803 towards being an enabling mission and business partner, 13:19.290 --> 13:21.320 while focusing on what we do well 13:21.320 --> 13:23.120 and allowing our partners the latitude 13:23.120 --> 13:24.470 to rapidly move forward 13:24.470 --> 13:26.533 using our foundational capabilities. 13:27.530 --> 13:31.330 I don't believe my CIO organization function unilaterally, 13:31.330 --> 13:33.753 or can own all aspects of the IT staff, 13:34.800 --> 13:37.503 which heretofore, has been the predominant view. 13:38.900 --> 13:41.760 Rather, we are focusing on our core strengths 13:41.760 --> 13:45.243 in transport, infrastructure, and platform services, 13:46.210 --> 13:49.010 while jointly developing applications with our partners. 13:50.010 --> 13:53.210 It's okay if others build capabilities, 13:53.210 --> 13:54.640 as long as they are building them 13:54.640 --> 13:57.100 on our foundational core we're providing 13:57.100 --> 14:00.440 and use the standards and guidance we are publishing. 14:00.440 --> 14:02.140 And more on that in just a moment. 14:04.150 --> 14:08.150 At the top of my stack, up on the screen, 14:08.150 --> 14:09.983 are analytics and visualization. 14:11.240 --> 14:13.683 I see that as our partners' responsibility. 14:14.690 --> 14:16.750 Why is it theirs? 14:16.750 --> 14:18.083 That's a great question. 14:19.490 --> 14:21.740 It's because I don't live in those spaces. 14:21.740 --> 14:24.290 I don't live in those mission spaces. 14:24.290 --> 14:26.080 And when we have attempted 14:26.080 --> 14:27.910 to deliver at that layer, 14:27.910 --> 14:30.140 we end up delivering pizza, 14:30.140 --> 14:32.040 when what they really wanted was beer. 14:32.941 --> 14:34.590 (audience quietly laughing) 14:34.590 --> 14:36.950 We will be there to help, 14:36.950 --> 14:39.320 but what I am doing today is setting the stage 14:39.320 --> 14:42.363 for our partners to be able to easily do this on their own. 14:43.990 --> 14:46.350 I've empowered my CTO to stand up 14:46.350 --> 14:47.900 a technical leadership council, 14:47.900 --> 14:49.760 to develop technical standards, 14:49.760 --> 14:53.063 guidance, and strategic technical direction. 14:54.200 --> 14:56.020 These are routinely published 14:56.020 --> 14:58.453 and made available to the community at large. 14:59.400 --> 15:01.193 I encourage you to meet with my CTO 15:01.193 --> 15:03.590 to discuss these standards, 15:03.590 --> 15:07.159 as they impact everyone that interacts with DIA, 15:07.159 --> 15:09.940 the defense intelligence enterprise, 15:09.940 --> 15:11.733 from an IT perspective. 15:13.760 --> 15:15.920 So to achieve the goals I've listed, 15:15.920 --> 15:18.140 and to ensure we meet mission requirements, 15:18.140 --> 15:19.083 I need your help. 15:20.220 --> 15:21.920 I need increased collaboration 15:21.920 --> 15:24.440 and transparency with our partners. 15:24.440 --> 15:25.480 Paying special attention 15:25.480 --> 15:28.173 to providing foundational services ahead of demand. 15:29.980 --> 15:32.530 I need proactive collaboration with our partners 15:32.530 --> 15:34.266 so we can align their requirements 15:34.266 --> 15:36.690 with emergent technologies, 15:36.690 --> 15:38.723 determine our key investment areas, 15:39.710 --> 15:43.533 and as importantly, identify areas where I can take risk. 15:46.370 --> 15:49.350 We need to enhance and support our foundational environment 15:49.350 --> 15:52.450 so that our partners can build and deploy capabilities, 15:52.450 --> 15:56.980 at mission-mandated speeds, not at bureaucracy speeds, 15:56.980 --> 15:59.370 and provide connectivity to our partners 15:59.370 --> 16:01.620 that's not limited by the constraints 16:01.620 --> 16:03.993 of geography or a desk. 16:06.760 --> 16:08.313 The IACO is changing. 16:09.460 --> 16:12.793 We're focusing on partner support and partner service. 16:13.850 --> 16:14.823 This is a journey. 16:16.010 --> 16:17.190 We're moving forward 16:17.190 --> 16:19.220 and are actively implementing the tenets 16:19.220 --> 16:20.653 that I've spoken about. 16:21.490 --> 16:24.823 I need you, as my partners and my colleagues, 16:25.880 --> 16:29.230 to help me and therefore help our collective communities, 16:29.230 --> 16:30.690 achieve mission success. 16:32.960 --> 16:36.203 At this time, I'm happy to welcome my boss, 16:37.120 --> 16:41.303 DIA's 21st Director, Lieutenant General Bob Ashley. 16:42.230 --> 16:43.420 I think you're gonna find 16:43.420 --> 16:46.793 that he is engaging, grounded and pragmatic. 16:48.010 --> 16:50.790 And if you have an opportunity to engage him offline, 16:50.790 --> 16:51.820 I think you're gonna discover 16:51.820 --> 16:54.150 that he's a pretty good musician as well. 16:54.150 --> 16:56.416 Sir? - All right, thank you. 16:56.416 --> 16:59.583 (audience applauding) 17:04.250 --> 17:06.889 Jack, I want pizza and beer. 17:06.889 --> 17:08.936 (audience laughing) 17:08.936 --> 17:10.990 It's not enough just to have one. 17:10.990 --> 17:13.150 Hey, I just wanted to point out also that, 17:13.150 --> 17:15.260 as you saw, those senior non-commissioned officers 17:15.260 --> 17:18.010 walking the off stage, Katelyn was in step, 17:18.010 --> 17:19.881 so that was well done. 17:19.881 --> 17:23.048 (audience applauding) 17:24.810 --> 17:27.560 I have this urge to turn around and see how my hair is. 17:28.910 --> 17:31.520 Nope, doesn't work, it just shows the bald spot. 17:31.520 --> 17:33.623 Hey, thanks for coming out today. 17:34.480 --> 17:36.007 This is incredibly important, 17:36.007 --> 17:38.640 and excuse me if I cough a little bit, 17:38.640 --> 17:41.580 Saturday morning I landed back from Afghanistan, 17:41.580 --> 17:44.230 I'm still getting the dust out of my throat. 17:44.230 --> 17:47.010 I would like to point out that we have the 17:47.010 --> 17:49.410 20th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency 17:49.410 --> 17:51.140 sitting in row three, 17:51.140 --> 17:53.710 and you also have a former Sen Comm J2, 17:53.710 --> 17:55.970 and they look incredibly rested 17:55.970 --> 17:57.580 now that they've gone into retirement. 17:57.580 --> 18:00.210 Although I think Vince and Mark are 18:00.210 --> 18:01.820 both staying pretty busy. 18:01.820 --> 18:03.370 Demetri, you look tired, buddy. 18:04.690 --> 18:06.560 Got the Sen Comm J2 in the front row with us, 18:06.560 --> 18:09.270 and so, I know you have an incredibly busy schedule, 18:09.270 --> 18:11.570 and thanks for spending time with us. 18:11.570 --> 18:12.420 So thanks for being here. 18:12.420 --> 18:13.380 Thanks for the CIO, 18:13.380 --> 18:14.710 thanks for the Tampa community. 18:14.710 --> 18:17.375 Everybody that brings this community together, 18:17.375 --> 18:20.930 and we talk about the challenges we have to face, 18:20.930 --> 18:22.440 and it's kinda good timing, 18:22.440 --> 18:23.450 that even though Saturday morning, 18:23.450 --> 18:26.600 I literally just got off a plane from Afghanistan 18:26.600 --> 18:28.973 as we started this session, 18:30.350 --> 18:32.850 it was very illustrative of one of our challenges, 18:34.020 --> 18:35.380 and I'm not a technologist, 18:35.380 --> 18:36.530 but for some reason, 18:36.530 --> 18:40.633 Samsung and Apple don't talk to one another. 18:42.300 --> 18:43.893 That's a huge issue. 18:44.730 --> 18:45.820 And so one of the things I'd ask you 18:45.820 --> 18:48.930 to think about is the idea of interoperability, 18:48.930 --> 18:51.520 as we go through the next couple of days. 18:51.520 --> 18:53.710 Because everybody that's sitting in this audience 18:53.710 --> 18:58.250 that represents a unique industry capability, 18:58.250 --> 19:00.250 you gotta be able to talk to each other. 19:01.110 --> 19:03.260 You have got to be able to talk to each other. 19:03.260 --> 19:06.890 So as Jack has laid out, it's a good time to engage, 19:06.890 --> 19:09.570 meet somebody, don't go with your normal circle of friends, 19:09.570 --> 19:11.890 expand that out a little bit. 19:11.890 --> 19:14.410 And how do we create new solutions? 19:14.410 --> 19:15.520 You know, in my talking points 19:15.520 --> 19:16.530 we highlighted the fact 19:16.530 --> 19:19.060 that things like Post-it, Super Glue, 19:19.060 --> 19:21.573 and duct tape were not built by design, 19:22.410 --> 19:24.380 they were built by mistake, they were accidents, 19:24.380 --> 19:28.453 they were opportunities to leverage a capability, 19:30.200 --> 19:32.840 but that's not where they started. 19:32.840 --> 19:36.420 And so we have to think about how we innovate, 19:36.420 --> 19:38.970 and I am thoroughly convinced that there is nobody 19:38.970 --> 19:41.613 that innovates like America. 19:42.980 --> 19:46.550 And I saw that in the field with our special operators, 19:46.550 --> 19:49.670 with industry, with the guys teaming with the task force, 19:49.670 --> 19:52.163 when I just left Bagram a couple of days ago. 19:55.380 --> 20:00.000 Data interoperability, so with all the unique capabilities, 20:00.000 --> 20:02.320 the designs that you bring 20:02.320 --> 20:04.410 to the Department of Defense, 20:04.410 --> 20:07.293 everything has to talk to everything else, 20:08.800 --> 20:11.920 otherwise, we will be sub-optimized 20:11.920 --> 20:14.280 and we will miss opportunities. 20:14.280 --> 20:16.370 And the opportunities that are presenting to us 20:16.370 --> 20:18.450 in terms of technology, 20:18.450 --> 20:21.193 many of those are duel-use and they come with threats. 20:22.260 --> 20:24.760 In some cases, things we may not have anticipated. 20:27.710 --> 20:29.753 So a little bit of a spoiler this week is, 20:29.753 --> 20:32.120 that Jack said, 20:32.120 --> 20:33.897 It's about redundancy, it's about resiliency, 20:33.897 --> 20:37.637 "it's about security, it's about how we move data." 20:40.820 --> 20:42.163 And it is complicated. 20:43.466 --> 20:46.127 And in many ways we can solve problems, 20:46.127 --> 20:48.673 and we can solve problems at speed, 20:51.040 --> 20:53.463 our challenge is to solve the problem at scale. 20:55.350 --> 20:57.370 I can come up with a unique capability 20:57.370 --> 20:59.350 for a battalion, a brigade, 20:59.350 --> 21:02.860 where they can operate at speed within that brigade, 21:02.860 --> 21:05.360 but can they talk to every other brigade? 21:05.360 --> 21:07.300 Can they talk to other services? 21:07.300 --> 21:09.253 Can they talk to other nations? 21:11.700 --> 21:14.120 I don't know if we have as much a speed problem, 21:14.120 --> 21:15.833 as we have a scale problem. 21:16.970 --> 21:18.700 And buried within that scale problem 21:18.700 --> 21:20.550 is the challenge of interoperability, 21:21.760 --> 21:24.200 and data is one of the fastest-growing industries, 21:24.200 --> 21:27.200 and it has a laser-focus of a couple 21:27.200 --> 21:29.500 of our key competitors, both China and Russia. 21:30.830 --> 21:32.560 And if you've not seen the Defense White Paper 21:32.560 --> 21:34.220 that China just published, 21:34.220 --> 21:36.140 I'd actually take a look at that. 21:36.140 --> 21:37.420 They realize the understanding 21:37.420 --> 21:39.840 of their ability to leverage data is part of what it means 21:39.840 --> 21:40.973 to be a great power. 21:41.960 --> 21:44.660 And Putin has been on record to say that really, 21:44.660 --> 21:45.680 the people that can leverage 21:45.680 --> 21:47.920 and understand that, will dominate. 21:47.920 --> 21:50.360 And information is how China plans to dominate 21:50.360 --> 21:52.870 in the future, that is their strategy. 21:52.870 --> 21:57.083 That is their strategy to get behind decision advantage. 21:58.240 --> 22:00.950 And so just think of all the information that's out there. 22:00.950 --> 22:04.463 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day. 22:07.830 --> 22:11.463 In a market that's gonna go over 100 billion by 2022. 22:13.064 --> 22:16.423 And so I think about that in context and I go back to 1993. 22:17.640 --> 22:20.553 So 1993, Barbara and I are walking into Circuit City, 22:22.093 --> 22:23.870 (audience laughing) 22:23.870 --> 22:26.253 young captain, two kids, not a lot of money. 22:28.500 --> 22:31.290 And so we're looking at the Dell computer, 22:31.290 --> 22:32.780 and the debate we're having is whether 22:32.780 --> 22:34.910 we get the four or the eight meg hard drive, 22:34.910 --> 22:35.950 because I'm not sure 22:35.950 --> 22:38.348 we'll ever fill up the eight meg hard drive. 22:38.348 --> 22:40.691 (audience laughing) 22:40.691 --> 22:42.591 and that thing was still, like $1,200. 22:44.750 --> 22:46.550 We did go with the 8 meg hard drive. 22:47.860 --> 22:50.600 I can create a single PowerPoint slide now that has, 22:50.600 --> 22:52.008 that's eight megs. 22:52.008 --> 22:54.570 (audience laughing) 22:54.570 --> 22:56.093 But just think about the technology, 22:56.093 --> 23:00.070 everything that we see, between smart-houses, 23:00.070 --> 23:03.323 everything that can control your life. 23:04.920 --> 23:08.050 And then look at the context of a smart city. 23:08.050 --> 23:11.533 A safe city, that China's building on a global scale. 23:14.390 --> 23:17.930 For what could be, you know, a safe city, better regulation, 23:17.930 --> 23:19.760 how do you do industrial control systems? 23:19.760 --> 23:21.130 How do you regulate lights? 23:21.130 --> 23:25.000 Infrastructure, industrial systems? 23:25.000 --> 23:27.070 Or smart cities for how you can tag virtually 23:27.070 --> 23:28.933 everybody that's walking on the street. 23:30.690 --> 23:32.810 And where is that data going, 23:32.810 --> 23:34.060 and who's controlling it? 23:35.150 --> 23:37.670 So it's not just about the internet of things for consumers, 23:37.670 --> 23:41.530 it's other risks that lie out there in data, 23:41.530 --> 23:43.760 and our inability to leverage it. 23:43.760 --> 23:47.180 Terrorist networks, misinformation, deep fakes, 23:47.180 --> 23:50.083 confusion, distrust in institutions. 23:51.380 --> 23:53.350 And then what's our job? 23:53.350 --> 23:54.770 As a combat support agency, 23:54.770 --> 23:56.190 we have to supply the warfighters 23:56.190 --> 24:00.530 with information that is accurate, and that is trusted, 24:00.530 --> 24:04.903 in an environment where misinformation exists. 24:05.820 --> 24:07.480 So how do we find that relevant information? 24:07.480 --> 24:09.870 How do we find accurate information? 24:09.870 --> 24:12.840 And as Neil Wiley says, it's that secret sauce, 24:12.840 --> 24:15.130 our ability to take publicly available information 24:15.130 --> 24:18.780 and integrate it with the pristine collection that we have. 24:18.780 --> 24:23.780 But as Jack alluded to, we have to do it at speed. 24:24.580 --> 24:26.680 It has to be fast enough to be actionable. 24:30.240 --> 24:33.450 And the policy that underpins the process, 24:33.450 --> 24:37.200 that allows you to integrate that into our systems, 24:37.200 --> 24:38.710 in so many ways, and I saw this 24:38.710 --> 24:40.300 in Afghanistan over the last week, 24:40.300 --> 24:43.150 are industrial policies that are not informed 24:43.150 --> 24:45.200 by the requirements of a digital age. 24:45.200 --> 24:47.720 But we're working our way through that. 24:47.720 --> 24:51.330 Challenges of acquisition, how do we address risk, 24:51.330 --> 24:54.660 as Jack talked about, and how do we mitigate that risk? 24:54.660 --> 24:56.610 How do we take a commercial application 24:56.610 --> 24:58.490 and integrate it in near realtime, 24:58.490 --> 25:01.490 and update it without having to go through 25:01.490 --> 25:06.490 this laborious process to bring it on our networks. 25:09.420 --> 25:10.930 So if you ask me my vision, 25:10.930 --> 25:13.964 to kind of complement what Jack has already talked about, 25:13.964 --> 25:17.890 it's the workforce, it's highly-professional individuals, 25:17.890 --> 25:19.290 it's leading-edge technology, 25:19.290 --> 25:20.850 and how we discover information, 25:20.850 --> 25:22.900 how we create knowledge, 25:22.900 --> 25:24.480 how we provide warning 25:25.850 --> 25:27.150 and identify opportunities, 25:27.150 --> 25:30.150 so that we can overwhelmingly have an advantage 25:30.150 --> 25:31.807 over our adversaries for our warfighters 25:31.807 --> 25:33.363 and our policy makers. 25:34.600 --> 25:36.900 And there's a lot of things in that to unpack. 25:41.090 --> 25:43.180 So it means an analyst that can work through large data, 25:43.180 --> 25:44.660 can see connections in minutes 25:44.660 --> 25:48.380 that used to take us hours to days. 25:48.380 --> 25:50.630 It means leveraging constantly emerging tools, 25:50.630 --> 25:51.760 and this is part of what we saw 25:51.760 --> 25:53.010 with the task force in theater, 25:53.010 --> 25:56.520 the ability to leverage tools in realtime 25:56.520 --> 25:59.680 that are being built, and bring them into the network. 25:59.680 --> 26:01.420 And to be able to take that data, 26:01.420 --> 26:03.480 with a degree of trust and risk-mitigation, 26:03.480 --> 26:06.740 and move it from unclassified to a collateral, 26:06.740 --> 26:10.500 to a TS, to enrich that analysis, 26:10.500 --> 26:13.700 extract insights and then move it back down, 26:13.700 --> 26:16.000 because your ability to share with a partner, 26:16.000 --> 26:19.620 a coalition partner, may not be on a classified, 26:19.620 --> 26:21.780 but it has to be on a secure network. 26:21.780 --> 26:23.480 Those are challenges that we have. 26:25.310 --> 26:26.640 When you design this technology, 26:26.640 --> 26:30.390 and I saw some of this over the week, the past week, 26:30.390 --> 26:32.550 I would ask you to take the words proprietary 26:32.550 --> 26:34.500 and NOFORN out of your lexicon. 26:34.500 --> 26:35.603 We cannot do that. 26:36.780 --> 26:39.220 We have got to be able to share 26:39.220 --> 26:40.053 with our allies and partners. 26:40.053 --> 26:41.900 If you go back to national defense strategy, 26:41.900 --> 26:43.040 that is a line of effort, too. 26:43.040 --> 26:45.330 It is allies and partners. 26:45.330 --> 26:46.500 The door is open for us 26:46.500 --> 26:49.223 to push hard on our ability to share. 26:50.270 --> 26:53.083 Let me give you a good example that dates back to 1941. 26:56.140 --> 26:59.050 So there's two navy and two army officers 26:59.050 --> 27:01.550 that work cryptology, and they jump on a ship 27:01.550 --> 27:03.000 and they're headed to the UK. 27:04.210 --> 27:06.500 They have solved Purple. 27:06.500 --> 27:09.020 They have solved the Japanese diplomatic communications, 27:09.020 --> 27:09.853 they have broken it. 27:09.853 --> 27:12.190 It is something the Brits have been working on. 27:13.200 --> 27:14.583 So they arrive. 27:17.060 --> 27:18.610 The Brits have broken Enigma. 27:18.610 --> 27:20.740 They've broken the German communications, 27:20.740 --> 27:22.180 but Churchill's given them guidance 27:22.180 --> 27:24.230 that you will not share that information. 27:25.490 --> 27:26.900 But the U.S. comes forward and says, 27:26.900 --> 27:27.910 hey, we've broken Purple, 27:27.910 --> 27:29.260 I know you guys have been working on it, 27:29.260 --> 27:30.360 this is how it worked. 27:32.553 --> 27:33.386 And the guy that's the head 27:33.386 --> 27:36.700 of the Secret Intelligence Service, 27:36.700 --> 27:39.490 Stewart Menzies, which if you're a James Bond fan, 27:39.490 --> 27:41.193 you would recognize him as M, 27:42.300 --> 27:44.360 although his moniker is actually C, 27:44.360 --> 27:45.783 which stands for Chief. 27:46.770 --> 27:48.730 So they have the conversation, 27:48.730 --> 27:51.340 the Americans say we've broken Purple, 27:51.340 --> 27:54.737 Menzies sends a note to Churchill and says, 27:54.737 --> 27:56.900 "Can we share Enigma?" 27:56.900 --> 27:58.100 Churchill says, "Do it." 27:59.790 --> 28:04.790 It should not take an act of war, or the Prime Minister, 28:05.760 --> 28:08.460 to get the authority to share that information. 28:08.460 --> 28:10.220 What was the outcome? 28:10.220 --> 28:11.880 It was estimated that our understanding 28:11.880 --> 28:14.520 of both Purple and Enigma codes 28:14.520 --> 28:17.033 probably shortened the war by two years. 28:19.100 --> 28:20.723 But we have to do that now. 28:21.650 --> 28:23.010 That's the framework and mindset 28:23.010 --> 28:25.730 that we've gotta take for our senior leaders, 28:25.730 --> 28:27.220 our decision makers, 28:27.220 --> 28:30.313 is why are you waiting for the first shot to be fired? 28:32.199 --> 28:34.300 And we can start building those insights. 28:34.300 --> 28:38.460 And those insights, not just about, during a conflict, 28:38.460 --> 28:40.283 it's about deterring a conflict. 28:43.590 --> 28:47.330 So for our focus, there's three key areas to talk about. 28:47.330 --> 28:49.033 Open-source intelligence, 28:50.260 --> 28:53.510 our Machine-Assisted Analytic Rapid-Repository System, 28:53.510 --> 28:56.170 or MARS, which I think that everybody's heard about. 28:56.170 --> 28:57.110 And obviously, 28:57.110 --> 29:00.420 the flagship communications program we have JWICS. 29:00.420 --> 29:01.700 And it's very important that 29:01.700 --> 29:03.550 when we talk about open-source intelligence, 29:03.550 --> 29:06.500 we set that aside from publicly available information. 29:06.500 --> 29:11.210 That is an outcome of PAI, 29:11.210 --> 29:12.380 because if you're a logistician, 29:12.380 --> 29:13.870 you want publicly available information, 29:13.870 --> 29:15.080 and if you are a planner, 29:15.080 --> 29:17.533 if you're in admin, you name it. 29:19.400 --> 29:21.580 And for too long I think we've conflated 29:21.580 --> 29:23.490 the two of those together. 29:23.490 --> 29:24.830 And for us in the OSIN forum, 29:24.830 --> 29:26.240 it means we've got to be able to understand 29:26.240 --> 29:27.903 how to collect and process that. 29:28.898 --> 29:30.590 And so we made the decision this year 29:31.880 --> 29:33.260 that is a additive curve field 29:33.260 --> 29:35.050 that we're gonna build at DIA. 29:35.050 --> 29:37.140 To understand how to collect and process that information, 29:37.140 --> 29:38.950 because we've kinda made it a pick-up game, 29:38.950 --> 29:42.600 more ad hoc, for other specialties over the last few years, 29:42.600 --> 29:44.050 and we can no longer do that. 29:45.440 --> 29:47.560 As far as large complex data sets, 29:47.560 --> 29:50.620 DIA's been doing that for a couple of decades. 29:50.620 --> 29:52.430 But they're not all in the same place. 29:52.430 --> 29:54.263 They do not all talk to one another, 29:55.350 --> 29:56.600 and we've gotta fix that. 29:57.874 --> 30:00.663 We gotta figure out how we aggregate information together. 30:01.660 --> 30:06.660 And it gets back to the core of why this agency exists, 30:06.690 --> 30:09.000 is to provide foundational intelligence 30:09.000 --> 30:12.163 on foreign militaries, and the operational environment. 30:13.410 --> 30:15.720 And since it is football season, 30:15.720 --> 30:20.720 my rough analogy is this is the scouting report 30:20.750 --> 30:22.250 on the team you're gonna play. 30:23.450 --> 30:27.240 And we update the scouting report every single day. 30:27.240 --> 30:28.073 And not only that, 30:28.073 --> 30:29.560 we're gonna tell you the good restaurants to go, 30:29.560 --> 30:30.810 where to avoid traffic, 30:30.810 --> 30:33.260 as we tell you about the operational environment. 30:35.900 --> 30:37.720 Best way to describe it is a vision 30:37.720 --> 30:40.000 as we create the best that we can 30:40.000 --> 30:44.620 to replicate a virtual model of our adversaries 30:46.626 --> 30:47.663 and our competitors. 30:49.680 --> 30:54.540 And MARS is our attempt to start building that baseline. 30:54.540 --> 30:56.430 It is not MIDB, 30:56.430 --> 30:58.480 it is not the Modern Integrated Data Base, 30:58.480 --> 31:01.250 it is an information environment. 31:01.250 --> 31:04.773 It is dynamic and we cannot build it without you. 31:09.930 --> 31:11.480 So think about the Arab Spring. 31:13.654 --> 31:15.167 And this is kinda where Big Data comes in, 31:15.167 --> 31:18.490 and what was taking place in the northern tiers of Africa. 31:18.490 --> 31:19.980 The communication that was taking place, 31:19.980 --> 31:23.170 the revolutionary conversations, the protests, 31:23.170 --> 31:26.023 everything was evolving, the conditions, 31:26.870 --> 31:29.150 and the IC saw those conditions, 31:29.150 --> 31:30.850 but from an indications warning standpoint, 31:30.850 --> 31:33.593 we didn't necessarily see the when. 31:34.790 --> 31:36.513 When this was gonna all kick off. 31:38.020 --> 31:38.890 And when I think about that, 31:38.890 --> 31:41.000 I think about conversations I've had with senior leaders 31:41.000 --> 31:46.000 about August of 1914, "The Guns of August." 31:47.190 --> 31:50.780 If we had MARS, if we had Big Data, if we had AI, NO, 31:50.780 --> 31:52.990 and everything that we had now, 31:52.990 --> 31:55.020 would we have walked into World War I? 31:58.668 --> 32:00.153 It's a question I can't answer. 32:03.370 --> 32:06.623 But imagine, as the Arab Spring kicked off, 32:07.470 --> 32:08.870 if you were the Sen Comm J2. 32:10.490 --> 32:12.193 What was possible to know? 32:13.220 --> 32:15.603 What insights might you have had, 32:16.540 --> 32:21.540 to see what was about to evolve, 32:22.020 --> 32:23.910 that was sparked by Mohamed Bouazizi, 32:23.910 --> 32:25.210 the Tunisian vegetable vendor 32:25.210 --> 32:27.763 that engaged in an act of self-immolation? 32:31.550 --> 32:32.893 And I ask that question, 32:34.300 --> 32:36.350 because when the Arab Spring unfolded, 32:36.350 --> 32:37.973 I was that Sen Comm J2. 32:42.970 --> 32:45.180 But with all the data, all the stuff that comes out, 32:45.180 --> 32:46.580 there is also a big piece of this 32:46.580 --> 32:49.930 that speaks to traditional analysis and good tradecraft, 32:49.930 --> 32:51.217 because you can't just say, 32:51.217 --> 32:53.307 "The box told me the following." 32:54.190 --> 32:57.077 And so we're already working our way though that, 32:57.077 --> 32:59.730 and building analytic data teams, 32:59.730 --> 33:01.920 where we take a tool developer, 33:01.920 --> 33:04.500 a methodologist, an all-source analyst, 33:04.500 --> 33:07.710 and a data scientist, and we kluge them together 33:09.300 --> 33:11.140 to look at how we deal with information, 33:11.140 --> 33:14.690 and then we train those algorithms with good tradecraft, 33:14.690 --> 33:16.550 where I can tell you we have a high probability, 33:16.550 --> 33:18.690 because of the way I've trained that algorithm, 33:18.690 --> 33:22.573 that what I am telling you is accurate. 33:25.440 --> 33:27.960 And then the last piece is JWICS, 33:27.960 --> 33:30.140 our flagship for how we communicate, 33:30.140 --> 33:32.077 and we have to do this, and it has to be resilient, 33:32.077 --> 33:35.360 and it has to be redundant, and it has to be secure. 33:35.360 --> 33:36.480 More importantly, it's gonna have 33:36.480 --> 33:38.270 to increase in capacity, 33:38.270 --> 33:41.510 we're gonna have to make sure that we get the funding, 33:41.510 --> 33:43.753 that it stays cutting-edge, 33:45.160 --> 33:46.950 and that we're able to have high-speed links 33:46.950 --> 33:48.180 to deal with the volume 33:48.180 --> 33:50.330 of information that's coming in the future. 33:52.120 --> 33:53.400 And even as we talk about JWICS 33:53.400 --> 33:54.760 so there's secure communications, 33:54.760 --> 33:59.180 we think about quantum. 33:59.180 --> 34:00.870 Quantum encryption, quantum communications, 34:00.870 --> 34:02.830 and are we going toward a point where, 34:02.830 --> 34:04.020 not only is it JWICS, 34:04.020 --> 34:06.880 but it's we're leveraging commercial networks 34:06.880 --> 34:09.490 in realtime to be able to communicate 34:09.490 --> 34:12.450 with partners globally, where those networks 34:12.450 --> 34:15.363 that the Defense Department builds do not exist. 34:17.450 --> 34:20.867 So that's the kind of innovation we have to think about. 34:20.867 --> 34:21.880 And think about the chairman's intent 34:21.880 --> 34:23.700 for global integration. 34:23.700 --> 34:26.790 And we have combatant commands represented here. 34:26.790 --> 34:29.323 That goes back to my scale issue, 34:31.580 --> 34:33.840 because the tyranny of combatant command boundaries 34:33.840 --> 34:36.570 will not bound our adversaries, 34:36.570 --> 34:39.163 our competitors, in great power competition. 34:40.620 --> 34:41.970 And so we have to think about how 34:41.970 --> 34:44.530 we are interoperable across combatant commands, 34:44.530 --> 34:48.590 across the J2s in our core functions, 34:48.590 --> 34:50.850 and how we do foundational, how we do targeting, 34:50.850 --> 34:52.650 how we do collection management, 34:52.650 --> 34:56.560 how we bring in intel mission data to feed that F-35. 34:56.560 --> 34:59.250 How we do acquisition, and most importantly, 34:59.250 --> 35:01.143 across combatant commands, 35:02.000 --> 35:03.800 how do I do indications and warning? 35:04.680 --> 35:05.940 How to optimize that, 35:05.940 --> 35:09.540 because if I'm not interoperable with data and understanding 35:09.540 --> 35:12.353 and tools that speak to one another, 35:13.330 --> 35:16.593 I will be sub-optimized, and I will miss something. 35:17.770 --> 35:19.970 And that's how we get to decision authority. 35:21.690 --> 35:24.050 And as you saw the quote from Eisenhower, 35:24.050 --> 35:28.750 to share another comment from Neil Wiley, 35:28.750 --> 35:32.900 where he says, "Our job is to support Plan A." 35:32.900 --> 35:34.253 Plan A is diplomacy. 35:37.210 --> 35:38.160 But if Plan A fails, 35:38.160 --> 35:39.850 we gotta be ready to execute Plan B. 35:39.850 --> 35:42.380 And in great power competition, 35:42.380 --> 35:44.580 you gotta bring your A game on day one, 35:44.580 --> 35:47.373 because if you don't, you may not get a day two. 35:48.390 --> 35:49.430 So we gotta be postured 35:49.430 --> 35:52.900 to provide unparalleled support to those decision makers, 35:52.900 --> 35:55.260 and as Jack talked about, it's not just data. 35:55.260 --> 35:58.420 It's visualization, it's artificial intelligence, 35:58.420 --> 36:01.810 it's computer vision, it's machine learning. 36:01.810 --> 36:05.599 And those capabilities will evolve over time, 36:05.599 --> 36:07.680 and our competitors and adversaries are dedicating 36:07.680 --> 36:10.340 a great deal of time and effort to do that. 36:10.340 --> 36:11.670 So rather than have a conversation 36:11.670 --> 36:13.990 about who's ahead or who's behind, 36:13.990 --> 36:16.350 in the next decade everybody's gonna have it. 36:16.350 --> 36:18.500 So how are you gonna operate in that space. 36:19.630 --> 36:21.227 Another quote from President Eisenhower, he said, 36:21.227 --> 36:23.890 "The only way to win World War III is to prevent it." 36:23.890 --> 36:27.600 Which for us is how do we create that knowledge, 36:27.600 --> 36:29.320 how do we create situation understanding, 36:29.320 --> 36:33.090 and how do we create decision advantage for our leaders? 36:33.090 --> 36:36.560 Because while they're working on warfighting concepts, 36:36.560 --> 36:39.193 their expectation is we are solving these problems. 36:41.540 --> 36:44.380 So let me close with one last quote from Churchill, 36:44.380 --> 36:46.690 and I think it's illustrative of a phrase 36:46.690 --> 36:47.690 that everybody already says, 36:47.690 --> 36:50.570 that, you know, if you go back to Clausewitz 36:50.570 --> 36:53.000 and the fog and friction of war, 36:53.000 --> 36:56.450 where no good plan ever survives first contact. 36:56.450 --> 36:58.040 And the reason this is so important, 36:58.040 --> 37:00.917 I think it's illustrative of what Churchill said was, 37:00.917 --> 37:02.547 "Never, never, never believe 37:02.547 --> 37:05.497 "any war will be smooth and easy, 37:05.497 --> 37:09.017 "or that anyone who embarks on this strange voyage 37:09.017 --> 37:13.303 "can measure the tides and hurricanes you will encounter. 37:14.737 --> 37:17.537 "The statesman who yields to war fever must realize 37:17.537 --> 37:19.467 "that once the signal is given, 37:19.467 --> 37:21.667 "he is no longer the master of policy, 37:21.667 --> 37:23.637 "but the slave of a unforeseeable 37:23.637 --> 37:26.280 "and uncontrollable events." 37:26.280 --> 37:28.223 That is the fog and friction of war. 37:30.100 --> 37:34.123 That is miscalculation, that is unknowable red lines. 37:35.850 --> 37:37.800 So our goal is that unforeseeable 37:37.800 --> 37:40.350 and uncontrollable dynamics, 37:40.350 --> 37:43.723 that fog and friction will never be completely eliminated. 37:45.010 --> 37:46.710 But we have a chance to reduce it, 37:48.443 --> 37:49.276 and we have a chance to reduce it 37:49.276 --> 37:50.350 by what we will discuss 37:50.350 --> 37:52.750 over the course of the next few days. 37:52.750 --> 37:54.560 And so I look for your engagement, 37:54.560 --> 37:56.660 I thank you for your support. 37:56.660 --> 37:59.600 We have significant issues we gotta work through, 37:59.600 --> 38:01.753 because even as we speak right now, 38:03.050 --> 38:05.210 there are Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, 38:05.210 --> 38:09.780 Coast Guardsmen, and civilians that are in harms way, 38:09.780 --> 38:12.990 and they are operating in a sub-optimized way 38:12.990 --> 38:15.933 because there are problems that we need to solve. 38:18.294 --> 38:20.470 And with that, I thank you 38:21.422 --> 38:23.961 and I look forward to your questions. 38:23.961 --> 38:27.128 (audience applauding) 38:30.036 --> 38:30.869 Was that all right? 38:30.869 --> 38:33.452 - Yeah, that was great, thanks. 38:35.210 --> 38:38.700 All right, so last year we took a different approach 38:38.700 --> 38:40.300 to this conference opening session, 38:40.300 --> 38:42.047 and rather than me standing up 38:42.047 --> 38:44.120 and speaking for 30 minutes or so, 38:44.120 --> 38:45.150 and the general standing up here 38:45.150 --> 38:47.130 and speaking for 30 minutes or so, 38:47.130 --> 38:49.033 we did what we just did, 38:49.033 --> 38:51.710 and then went into a town hall. 38:51.710 --> 38:55.020 This was, I thought, it was well-received, 38:55.020 --> 38:56.790 based on the feedback we saw, 38:56.790 --> 38:59.140 and so we're gonna continue it again this year. 39:02.780 --> 39:05.736 The point here is to, how do we do from a town hall, 39:05.736 --> 39:08.390 address the pressing questions that you have, 39:08.390 --> 39:10.580 rather than just telling you what we think, 39:10.580 --> 39:12.570 and many cases on the town hall 39:12.570 --> 39:14.340 it's much better to hear from the audience 39:14.340 --> 39:15.820 what is it that's on your mind, 39:15.820 --> 39:17.320 and then let us to address it. 39:18.200 --> 39:20.220 So that's what we're gonna do. 39:20.220 --> 39:22.960 First thing I'm going to do is, 39:22.960 --> 39:26.060 I want to make an introduction of this year's emcee, 39:26.060 --> 39:30.600 and who the individual that'll be facilitating this session, 39:30.600 --> 39:31.433 there it is. 39:32.630 --> 39:34.003 This is Sumo Doug, 39:35.170 --> 39:39.330 but really this is my deputy CIO, Doug Cossa, 39:39.330 --> 39:42.446 and Doug, thank you. 39:42.446 --> 39:45.613 (audience applauding) 39:50.682 --> 39:52.260 - Thank you, sir. - Right, should be on. 39:52.260 --> 39:56.973 - Yes, Jack, thank you for that flattering introduction, 39:58.160 --> 39:59.360 what you guys don't know about Jack, 39:59.360 --> 40:00.910 is that he tends to live in the moment, 40:00.910 --> 40:03.420 and has forgotten that I'm about to start a Q&A session 40:03.420 --> 40:04.720 with him and the director. 40:06.530 --> 40:08.430 And to shed a little light on the director, 40:08.430 --> 40:11.020 he, for those of you who have briefed him, 40:11.020 --> 40:13.780 asked some pretty touch questions. 40:13.780 --> 40:16.560 Questions, to where you really need access to Wikipedia 40:16.560 --> 40:18.630 right in front of you to answer. 40:18.630 --> 40:21.390 So when I was asked to moderate 40:21.390 --> 40:24.260 this question and answer panel with the two of them, 40:24.260 --> 40:27.850 I enthusiastically said, absolutely. 40:27.850 --> 40:31.463 So, we're gonna get started with one simple question, 40:32.440 --> 40:35.550 two trains are leaving the station at 45 miles an hour. 40:35.550 --> 40:37.360 No, just kidding, we're not gonna start there. 40:37.360 --> 40:39.180 Actually, as Jack said, we're gonna take questions 40:39.180 --> 40:40.970 from you guys, the audience. 40:40.970 --> 40:45.830 You can email your questions to askdodiis@gmail.com, 40:45.830 --> 40:47.170 and I'll read them up here, 40:47.170 --> 40:49.250 hopefully that will go smoothly, I know it will, 40:49.250 --> 40:53.610 and the director and Jack will answer accordingly. 40:53.610 --> 40:54.443 But I'd like to start off 40:54.443 --> 40:56.070 with the first question that we have, 40:56.070 --> 40:57.860 this is for General Ashley. 40:57.860 --> 41:00.230 You have been leading DIA for nearly two years now, 41:00.230 --> 41:02.510 can you talk about the role that technology plays 41:02.510 --> 41:04.200 as part of the agencies mission? 41:04.200 --> 41:05.520 - All right, thanks Doug. 41:05.520 --> 41:07.570 You guys hear me, we're on? 41:07.570 --> 41:10.180 So that's really what I gave you in the last 30 minutes 41:10.180 --> 41:12.530 in the role of technology and so the, 41:12.530 --> 41:14.670 and we did interview, I think about a month ago, 41:14.670 --> 41:16.960 and one of the ways I qualified MARS, 41:16.960 --> 41:18.343 is that's our moon shot. 41:19.390 --> 41:21.830 And we've got to be able to leverage information, 41:21.830 --> 41:23.360 it's not just really in the analytic side, 41:23.360 --> 41:24.400 it's everything we do. 41:24.400 --> 41:26.040 It's every commodity area we have, 41:26.040 --> 41:28.094 whether it's administrative back officers 41:28.094 --> 41:31.260 but really that flagship capability is 41:31.260 --> 41:34.660 how we take information at speed and scale 41:34.660 --> 41:38.840 and then allow analysts to think, 41:38.840 --> 41:40.280 to work their way through problems. 41:40.280 --> 41:42.600 So that they're not doing these repetitive things, 41:42.600 --> 41:45.450 they're not engaged in laborious research, 41:45.450 --> 41:46.670 that the information comes to them, 41:46.670 --> 41:47.680 we're able to visualize it 41:47.680 --> 41:49.280 and present it in such a way 41:49.280 --> 41:50.740 that they can see those relationships, 41:50.740 --> 41:55.740 in many cases it would not necessarily be evident to them, 41:56.320 --> 41:59.230 and then they can start working at solving problems 41:59.230 --> 42:01.970 and engaging in dialog with senior leaders, 42:01.970 --> 42:04.480 and having a much more robust conversation 42:04.480 --> 42:05.950 about the problem at hand, 42:05.950 --> 42:08.420 as opposed to figuring out how the mechanics 42:08.420 --> 42:10.333 of just doing basic research. 42:11.740 --> 42:14.340 - [Doug] So Jack, we heard about the director speak 42:14.340 --> 42:17.080 of the importance of technology to support DIA's mission. 42:17.080 --> 42:18.990 Can you discuss some of the emerging trends 42:18.990 --> 42:19.890 that we're seeing? 42:21.360 --> 42:24.830 - Okay, let me address it from this vantage, 42:24.830 --> 42:28.350 and I want to talk from General Ashley's speech 42:28.350 --> 42:29.800 that he talked about. 42:29.800 --> 42:31.110 And the reality is, 42:31.110 --> 42:34.600 we can have technological advancements across the board, 42:34.600 --> 42:37.450 but the underpinning of this is about data. 42:37.450 --> 42:42.450 So without data, you have a set of tools, 42:42.870 --> 42:45.600 that I'm not sure what the real value proposition is. 42:45.600 --> 42:50.340 So data is the common denominator that we must get straight. 42:50.340 --> 42:51.740 We're not there yet. 42:51.740 --> 42:55.020 Data is hard, it comes in at speed, 42:55.020 --> 42:56.883 at the volume, the veracity. 42:58.970 --> 43:00.350 We're working on it. 43:00.350 --> 43:01.610 We're all working on that, 43:01.610 --> 43:04.490 but we don't quite have that fully harnessed yet. 43:04.490 --> 43:05.890 But then when you go up that layer, 43:05.890 --> 43:07.580 there's a number of technical advances, 43:07.580 --> 43:09.530 so AIML, we all hear about it, 43:09.530 --> 43:11.430 I personally think that's on, 43:11.430 --> 43:14.890 still on the hype curve of we haven't quiet gotten 43:14.890 --> 43:17.893 to the valley of disillusionment yet. 43:19.440 --> 43:22.710 But I don't see AI, it's a few years out 43:22.710 --> 43:24.700 to what we actually think AI is, 43:24.700 --> 43:27.880 narrow AI is certainly available. 43:27.880 --> 43:30.540 It's things that are underpinning MARS, 43:30.540 --> 43:33.990 it's other technical tools that we've done, 43:33.990 --> 43:36.480 including Redline and GOSU, 43:36.480 --> 43:40.570 that allow us to look at large volumes of data, 43:40.570 --> 43:43.570 and discern those patterns in there so that the analysts, 43:43.570 --> 43:45.520 instead of looking at the entire haystack, 43:45.520 --> 43:48.280 is looking at the small pitchfork of hay 43:48.280 --> 43:49.790 that's available to them, 43:49.790 --> 43:53.660 and make assessments, automated assessments, 43:53.660 --> 43:55.210 that allows to move this mission forward. 43:55.210 --> 43:57.060 So there's things coming, 43:57.060 --> 44:01.240 but I don't want to dismiss or minimize the point 44:01.240 --> 44:04.070 that the data is really key here. 44:04.070 --> 44:06.380 - Which gets back to Cloud infrastructure, 44:06.380 --> 44:10.640 and so let me put in a plug for Mr. Deasy, 44:10.640 --> 44:12.340 the CIO at the Defense Department. 44:14.148 --> 44:15.200 Thing like JEDI. 44:15.200 --> 44:17.560 You know, that data, that interoperability 44:17.560 --> 44:19.260 to be able to move information, 44:19.260 --> 44:21.240 and to be able to discover information, 44:21.240 --> 44:22.610 we've gotta have a Cloud architecture 44:22.610 --> 44:23.820 that allows us to do that. 44:23.820 --> 44:26.130 And again, not a technologist, 44:26.130 --> 44:27.770 but the way he kinda described it 44:27.770 --> 44:29.410 in a conversation I had with him, 44:29.410 --> 44:32.150 is, you know, 'cause I just assumed he had this big 44:32.150 --> 44:33.517 uber Cloud, or is it multiple Clouds, 44:33.517 --> 44:36.110 and it is actually multiple Clouds. 44:36.110 --> 44:38.220 But the way he described it is that you have Clouds 44:38.220 --> 44:41.960 that are application aware, which is to say, 44:41.960 --> 44:44.490 if I have a question on a topic, 44:44.490 --> 44:47.870 I don't need to send it to six different locations, 44:47.870 --> 44:49.400 I just need to send it once, 44:49.400 --> 44:51.410 because the Clouds are application aware, 44:51.410 --> 44:54.890 and it goes across the Clouds to aggregate that data 44:54.890 --> 44:56.283 and bring my response back, 44:57.180 --> 44:59.293 and that is incredibly powerful. 45:02.180 --> 45:04.260 - [Doug] So we're having a few questions come in right now, 45:04.260 --> 45:06.900 as a reminder, askdodiis@gmail.com. 45:06.900 --> 45:08.900 So one of those first questions that we have, 45:08.900 --> 45:10.240 and this is for General Ashley. 45:10.240 --> 45:12.400 Will DIA place priority and focus 45:12.400 --> 45:13.860 on having other machine learning 45:13.860 --> 45:17.630 and artificial intelligence initiatives in addition to MARS? 45:17.630 --> 45:20.193 - So MARS is an overarching environment. 45:22.190 --> 45:24.310 It will have, and again Jack said, 45:24.310 --> 45:26.500 as not-quite-there fully-machine learning, 45:26.500 --> 45:29.040 there will be multiple machine learning applications 45:29.040 --> 45:31.300 that will be able to ride on the data 45:32.170 --> 45:33.860 that MARS will ingest. 45:33.860 --> 45:37.300 So think of an app store that has a multitude 45:37.300 --> 45:39.590 of different kinds of machine learning applications, 45:39.590 --> 45:41.990 they can be applied against the data we have. 45:41.990 --> 45:43.680 So it's not any one ML, 45:43.680 --> 45:45.240 it's not any one computer vision, 45:45.240 --> 45:47.320 or any one AI tool, 45:47.320 --> 45:50.560 what we want to be able to do is build a framework 45:50.560 --> 45:53.370 that has access to the information, 45:53.370 --> 45:55.830 and then we're looking for industry 45:55.830 --> 45:58.320 to be able to come in and innovate 45:58.320 --> 46:01.250 to how we are able to understand that data. 46:01.250 --> 46:04.010 And it goes back to what we talked about briefly, 46:04.010 --> 46:05.970 with the analytic data teams, 46:05.970 --> 46:06.830 and we have those looking 46:06.830 --> 46:08.140 at a couple different problem sets. 46:08.140 --> 46:09.930 We're having them look at a problem set for China, 46:09.930 --> 46:13.210 We're having them look at a problem set for Iran and Russia. 46:13.210 --> 46:16.300 But it's taking the data 46:16.300 --> 46:19.100 and applying multiple tools against it, 46:19.100 --> 46:21.700 multiple machine learning, multiple computer vision. 46:24.630 --> 46:26.610 You have to look at the problem you're trying to solve 46:26.610 --> 46:28.840 then you have a menu of options 46:28.840 --> 46:30.420 for how you can solve that. 46:30.420 --> 46:32.830 And the ADTs gives us the opportunity 46:32.830 --> 46:33.880 for the analysts to go, 46:33.880 --> 46:36.210 I really need to be able to do this, 46:36.210 --> 46:37.640 and then you have the tool developer, 46:37.640 --> 46:38.473 or the software developer, 46:38.473 --> 46:39.760 and the data scientist goes, 46:39.760 --> 46:41.020 okay, I think I can write a script 46:41.020 --> 46:42.850 to manipulate the information. 46:42.850 --> 46:46.100 So when you go out and you buy a Microsoft Word, 46:46.100 --> 46:49.580 you get what's ever on Microsoft Word until 46:49.580 --> 46:52.110 the good people at Apple decide, or Microsoft decide 46:52.110 --> 46:54.070 they're gonna update that again. 46:54.070 --> 46:56.413 What we want to be able to do is, 46:57.550 --> 47:00.580 what if you could manipulate the functionality in Word 47:00.580 --> 47:03.580 in realtime, to do different things? 47:03.580 --> 47:05.303 And that's what gotta be able to do. 47:06.630 --> 47:07.890 - [Doug] Thank you. 47:07.890 --> 47:08.980 So this one's for you, Jack. 47:08.980 --> 47:11.490 Another question from the audience here. 47:11.490 --> 47:14.430 When someone says DoDIIS desktop of the future, 47:14.430 --> 47:15.480 what do you think of? 47:18.130 --> 47:19.430 - I'm gonna use a term 47:19.430 --> 47:24.083 from my fellow colleague, Ellison Howard, 47:25.040 --> 47:26.860 who's sitting up here in the front shaking his head, 47:26.860 --> 47:31.160 but and what we talked about is that single pane of glass. 47:31.160 --> 47:34.443 And I talked to you this morning about that as well. 47:36.640 --> 47:38.420 And General Parker is coming 47:38.420 --> 47:40.290 from the National Guard Bureau, 47:40.290 --> 47:42.640 and he had come from STRATCOM, 47:42.640 --> 47:44.480 and had been on COE, 47:44.480 --> 47:46.789 our current desktop environment, 47:46.789 --> 47:48.197 I said, "Man, I love COE, 47:48.197 --> 47:50.467 "but being at National Guard Bureau, 47:50.467 --> 47:52.437 "it is very hard to communicate, 47:52.437 --> 47:53.947 "and or operate with others 47:53.947 --> 47:56.500 "because of the way the architecture is." 47:56.500 --> 47:59.300 So you shouldn't have multiple panes to go from, 47:59.300 --> 48:01.470 hey, I gotta do something on this machine, 48:01.470 --> 48:03.940 and then go over to this machine to do something else, 48:03.940 --> 48:05.930 or even have to go in and say, 48:05.930 --> 48:09.030 I gotta go point my application at this data set, 48:09.030 --> 48:11.438 or this repository to get that, 48:11.438 --> 48:13.350 it should that single pane of glass, 48:13.350 --> 48:15.840 that I go in and I have full interoperability 48:15.840 --> 48:17.840 across our partner community. 48:17.840 --> 48:19.140 And when I say partner community, 48:19.140 --> 48:21.940 I don't just mean the defense intelligence enterprise, 48:21.940 --> 48:25.290 I mean everybody that operates within those domains, 48:25.290 --> 48:27.110 whatever those domains happen to be, 48:27.110 --> 48:30.350 inclusive of our foreign partners. 48:30.350 --> 48:32.900 That's what I see as the desktop, 48:32.900 --> 48:35.457 I don't want to call it the DoDIIS desktop of the future, 48:35.457 --> 48:37.860 but it needs to be that interoperability set 48:37.860 --> 48:42.210 that we all can operate, interoperability at speed. 48:42.210 --> 48:43.910 You shouldn't even think about it. 48:45.544 --> 48:46.560 - [Doug] Thank you. 48:46.560 --> 48:47.920 General Ashley, for you. 48:47.920 --> 48:50.170 What confidence do you need machines to, 48:50.170 --> 48:51.800 given their data analytics, 48:51.800 --> 48:54.890 so that humans, analysts, can accept the results? 48:54.890 --> 48:56.497 - So I kind of alluded to that before, 48:56.497 --> 48:58.960 in one of the programs we have is, 48:58.960 --> 49:00.830 you have to have a high degree of confidence, 49:00.830 --> 49:03.720 well, you need to establish a confidence level. 49:03.720 --> 49:06.220 And so in this case, we've been able to do some work 49:06.220 --> 49:08.210 where we have a high level of confidence 49:08.210 --> 49:10.550 that we can characterize a particular theme 49:10.550 --> 49:13.260 that is happening because the algorithm has been trained 49:13.260 --> 49:14.690 in such a way. 49:14.690 --> 49:17.010 And so there's nine attributes of tradecraft, 49:17.010 --> 49:19.070 and whether you're working in the digital world 49:19.070 --> 49:20.423 or the human world, 49:21.970 --> 49:25.170 we cannot walk away from those, 49:25.170 --> 49:28.870 the rigor of tradecraft as we look at how we bring in data. 49:28.870 --> 49:30.463 And so part of training the algorithm 49:30.463 --> 49:33.450 is that you either have a low/medium confidence level 49:33.450 --> 49:37.940 that what you've assessed is, in fact, valid. 49:37.940 --> 49:39.390 And we've got to be able to provide 49:39.390 --> 49:42.120 that kind of assessment still to decision makers. 49:42.120 --> 49:42.953 You can't just say, 49:42.953 --> 49:45.010 the box spit out the following response, 49:45.010 --> 49:46.540 you gotta tell them what's the level of confidence, 49:46.540 --> 49:50.750 because built into that algorithm is training, 49:50.750 --> 49:52.580 and background that underpins 49:52.580 --> 49:54.680 how it came up with that determination, 49:54.680 --> 49:56.870 and so we've got to be able to tell our senior leaders 49:56.870 --> 50:00.270 how we came about with that assessment. 50:00.270 --> 50:02.120 I think it will get better over time, 50:03.440 --> 50:05.610 but it's also gonna get more complicated over time, 50:05.610 --> 50:07.870 as we look at misinformation, 50:07.870 --> 50:09.590 deception and things like that. 50:09.590 --> 50:12.830 I had a conversation with General Kevin 50:12.830 --> 50:13.663 several years ago, 50:13.663 --> 50:14.570 and somebody made the comment, 50:14.570 --> 50:17.640 you know, it's gonna be so easy to deceive people 50:17.640 --> 50:18.960 with deep fakes and everything else. 50:18.960 --> 50:21.307 And he goes, "Yeah but you look at the other aspect of that 50:21.307 --> 50:23.457 "where people post things on social media, 50:23.457 --> 50:27.747 "you have so much truth that is actually gonna come out 50:27.747 --> 50:29.887 "to contravert some of the deep fakes 50:29.887 --> 50:31.520 "and other information like that." 50:31.520 --> 50:36.520 But for us, the real advantage is the fact 50:37.000 --> 50:37.833 that we're gonna layer 50:37.833 --> 50:39.290 not only public available information, 50:39.290 --> 50:41.230 but we're gonna take that pristine collection, 50:41.230 --> 50:43.500 so it really is about, not a single source, 50:43.500 --> 50:45.380 it is about multiple sources, 50:45.380 --> 50:47.450 and tradecraft that we apply in analytics 50:47.450 --> 50:49.620 that is underpinning what we've done for decades, 50:49.620 --> 50:50.900 and that's how we'll go forward. 50:50.900 --> 50:54.800 It's just we will start enabling a digital aspect of that 50:54.800 --> 50:56.213 to work its scale and speed. 50:57.970 --> 50:59.420 - [Doug] So this next question we've received 50:59.420 --> 51:01.740 from the audience deals with workforce 51:01.740 --> 51:02.750 and the challenges we have, 51:02.750 --> 51:05.000 and are both strategic challenges and priorities 51:05.000 --> 51:09.710 that we have in our agency strategic plan, as well as CIOs. 51:09.710 --> 51:10.810 So the question is, 51:10.810 --> 51:13.050 what do you consider are the biggest challenges 51:13.050 --> 51:15.850 and opportunities to acquiring and retaining our talent? 51:17.820 --> 51:20.900 - So we're re-looking training right now. 51:20.900 --> 51:24.560 Janice Glover-Jones, who is Jack's predecessor at RCIO, 51:25.650 --> 51:28.202 spent a year with-- - Dell. 51:28.202 --> 51:31.113 - Dell, and what she did is, 51:31.113 --> 51:33.870 project she was looking at bias in the workspace, 51:33.870 --> 51:35.180 she was looking at all kinds of different projects, 51:35.180 --> 51:36.960 she came back in about a month 51:36.960 --> 51:39.157 before she finished her year sabbatical and said, 51:39.157 --> 51:42.297 "Hey, I want you to read this article about AT&T, 51:42.297 --> 51:44.617 "and it really is about how do you re-skill the workforce 51:44.617 --> 51:47.280 "to be able to operate in today's environment?" 51:47.280 --> 51:52.280 And for us, it is taking those digital attributes, 51:52.990 --> 51:54.950 those capabilities and training, 51:54.950 --> 51:57.240 and injecting that into the workforce they have right now. 51:57.240 --> 52:02.240 So we're in the midst of Janice helping us scale that 52:02.260 --> 52:04.060 and the task where I've given to everybody 52:04.060 --> 52:06.160 that owns their career field, 52:06.160 --> 52:09.880 is to look at skills and attributes in the digital world, 52:09.880 --> 52:11.490 what you need to sustain, 52:11.490 --> 52:13.980 and where there are gaps that we need to build toward. 52:13.980 --> 52:15.330 Because everything that we're talking about, 52:15.330 --> 52:20.030 I can't say tell me about the analysts of 2025 or 2030, 52:20.030 --> 52:23.430 because really that skill-set is needed now. 52:23.430 --> 52:25.770 And so we're going through all the career fields 52:25.770 --> 52:29.590 and looking at what Big Data, data analytics, 52:29.590 --> 52:32.530 all of that means to every one of those career fields, 52:32.530 --> 52:34.710 so Janice is helping work that with, 52:34.710 --> 52:37.590 and we're actually looking at recruiting 52:37.590 --> 52:39.750 across the combat support agencies. 52:39.750 --> 52:42.730 Bob Sharp is the National Geospatial Agency director, 52:42.730 --> 52:44.040 had a great idea a couple months ago, 52:44.040 --> 52:45.117 he goes, "We ought to really get 52:45.117 --> 52:46.997 "all of the organizations together 52:46.997 --> 52:49.627 "and talk about training, recruiting, 52:49.627 --> 52:53.350 "promotions, every aspect of human capital." 52:53.350 --> 52:58.130 And so our Chiefs of Staff, over the course of the last, 52:58.130 --> 53:02.020 probably 60, 70 days, had been meeting 53:02.020 --> 53:03.940 to look at those exact issues. 53:03.940 --> 53:06.650 And, you know, part of it is retention of talent, 53:06.650 --> 53:09.420 you're not gonna get rich working for the government, 53:09.420 --> 53:12.463 but where we can, how do we incentivize, 53:13.700 --> 53:15.360 whether it's financial or other opportunities 53:15.360 --> 53:16.960 for credentialing to be able 53:16.960 --> 53:19.370 to keep some of that talent on board, 53:19.370 --> 53:21.530 the one thing is to present them with the unique challenges 53:21.530 --> 53:24.887 that they will not necessarily find in other places, 53:24.887 --> 53:27.160 to be able to solve some hard problems, 53:27.160 --> 53:29.423 for the government and for national security. 53:31.440 --> 53:33.450 - And even, sir, even if my, 53:33.450 --> 53:36.900 Jack's view as your Career Field Manager for IT, 53:36.900 --> 53:39.740 even if we lose those people after a period of time, 53:39.740 --> 53:40.900 I don't see it as a bad thing, 53:40.900 --> 53:43.510 as because of that rotation into industry, 53:43.510 --> 53:45.150 into another agency, 53:45.150 --> 53:47.190 and they're still supporting the overall mission. 53:47.190 --> 53:50.070 And so a lot of people still had this mindset, 53:50.070 --> 53:52.290 and I have it in the workforce, 53:52.290 --> 53:54.330 that of like oh, I gotta bring somebody in, 53:54.330 --> 53:56.205 and it's gonna be for a 30 year career. 53:56.205 --> 54:00.450 With the new entrees into the workforce, 54:00.450 --> 54:02.830 that is not, their mindset is differently, 54:02.830 --> 54:04.870 and it's okay, I'm okay with that. 54:04.870 --> 54:07.220 Because they're contributing, they're moving on, 54:07.220 --> 54:08.810 and they're still contributing 54:08.810 --> 54:10.210 as they go through their career, 54:10.210 --> 54:11.420 and I think it's, 54:11.420 --> 54:12.670 I think we're doing a pretty good job 54:12.670 --> 54:14.410 of starting to address some of that. 54:14.410 --> 54:15.650 - Yeah, and I agree with Jack, 54:15.650 --> 54:18.430 it's, you know, there's not a massive exodus, 54:18.430 --> 54:19.610 and for those that do leave, 54:19.610 --> 54:22.090 they take an understanding of our needs, 54:22.090 --> 54:23.160 and they take those to industry 54:23.160 --> 54:24.380 to help us solve those problems. 54:24.380 --> 54:26.550 So the other thing is, thinking about the models, 54:26.550 --> 54:28.550 and Cyber's a good example of this, 54:28.550 --> 54:31.240 where Cyber's been able to bring people in 54:31.240 --> 54:33.090 at a higher grade-level, 54:33.090 --> 54:35.050 come in laterally to organizations, 54:35.050 --> 54:37.260 or to take a sabbatical and bring 'em back, 54:37.260 --> 54:38.980 or you work in industry for a couple of years, 54:38.980 --> 54:39.813 and you come back in. 54:39.813 --> 54:42.470 So the traditional model, and I agree, 54:42.470 --> 54:46.120 of the okay, you're locked in for the next 30 years, 54:46.120 --> 54:48.870 is really not what this generation's looking for. 54:48.870 --> 54:50.840 And so we've got to adapt, 54:50.840 --> 54:53.190 those of us that are not digital natives, 54:53.190 --> 54:57.160 to be able to think creatively about career opportunities, 54:57.160 --> 55:01.180 and not be risk-averse to bringing people 55:01.180 --> 55:04.323 in and out of the IC. 55:06.290 --> 55:08.670 - [Doug] So this question was pointed to the director, 55:08.670 --> 55:10.710 but Jack, I think this applies to a number 55:10.710 --> 55:12.440 of our efforts in CIO as well. 55:12.440 --> 55:15.440 So during our conversations with allies abroad, 55:15.440 --> 55:17.030 how much importance would you place 55:17.030 --> 55:19.770 on advancing our technological capabilities? 55:19.770 --> 55:20.710 - Great question. 55:20.710 --> 55:22.260 - Yeah, so let me jump on that one first, 55:22.260 --> 55:25.060 'cause one of the things we're doing right now is with MARS. 55:25.060 --> 55:26.720 And so we have John Howard, 55:26.720 --> 55:29.480 who's our Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration 55:29.480 --> 55:30.430 from New Zealand. 55:30.430 --> 55:32.090 And John is an absolute zealot, 55:32.090 --> 55:34.250 there's nothing better than having someone 55:34.250 --> 55:36.870 with a different uniform go into an office 55:36.870 --> 55:38.620 with a bunch of U.S. people and go, 55:38.620 --> 55:40.530 and shame them for not sharing. 55:40.530 --> 55:42.810 Which goes back to my comments of 55:42.810 --> 55:45.670 why are we waiting for the first shot to be fired? 55:45.670 --> 55:47.190 This is about building muscle-memory, 55:47.190 --> 55:49.420 and having situational understanding 55:49.420 --> 55:51.420 and deterrents before we go to conflict. 55:52.910 --> 55:54.360 So when I was just in Afghanistan, 55:54.360 --> 55:57.060 there was a particular capability 55:57.060 --> 55:58.500 that the task force was working on, 55:58.500 --> 56:01.470 and it's great, but there's some hiccups 56:01.470 --> 56:02.303 that they're working on, 56:02.303 --> 56:03.530 and oh, by the way, it's a NOFORN. 56:04.640 --> 56:08.120 So there is already an impediment to that start. 56:08.120 --> 56:09.480 So as we think about MARS, 56:09.480 --> 56:11.650 what we've done with some of our closest partners, 56:11.650 --> 56:13.600 and John's a big part of this, 56:13.600 --> 56:17.110 is I said, well I can't send you the PowerPoint slides, 56:17.110 --> 56:18.470 or talk to you about it, 56:18.470 --> 56:21.700 I need to bring you in at the engineering level. 56:21.700 --> 56:24.390 And so as we look at the basic tenets 56:24.390 --> 56:25.700 and the foundation of MARS, 56:25.700 --> 56:28.090 to some of our, you know, closest partners, 56:28.090 --> 56:29.150 what we've done is we've said 56:29.150 --> 56:30.630 this is how this is gonna operate, 56:30.630 --> 56:33.570 what do you have in your infrastructure now, 56:33.570 --> 56:35.130 I need to share some basic information 56:35.130 --> 56:35.963 some data with you, 56:35.963 --> 56:37.890 so that you can start working at the engineering level, 56:37.890 --> 56:39.010 and oh, by the way, 56:39.010 --> 56:41.480 all those machine learning apps and other things, 56:41.480 --> 56:43.540 you may have a better mouse-trap 56:43.540 --> 56:45.357 than the one that I'm working on. 56:45.357 --> 56:46.610 And so what we gotta really do 56:46.610 --> 56:47.830 with our partners and allies is 56:47.830 --> 56:51.830 not deliver a system to them, that we can share, 56:51.830 --> 56:54.723 but to bring them in at the engineering level. 56:54.723 --> 56:57.483 - So for those that know me, 56:59.050 --> 57:01.360 I'm pretty passionate about the work that we do 57:01.360 --> 57:03.060 with the Five Eyes community. 57:03.060 --> 57:06.900 I've been doing that for, (sighs) I don't know, 57:06.900 --> 57:09.600 to a large degree for about five years pretty heavily, 57:10.630 --> 57:11.463 to the point where I, 57:11.463 --> 57:14.040 because I see the value proposition, 57:14.040 --> 57:16.030 'cause we don't fight as an individual nation, 57:16.030 --> 57:18.990 we fight as a coalition of warriors 57:18.990 --> 57:20.453 wherever that happens to be. 57:21.360 --> 57:24.220 We work together as that coalition. 57:24.220 --> 57:28.290 I can't even separate that from my being. 57:28.290 --> 57:30.004 So one of the things I had to do 57:30.004 --> 57:33.720 when General Ashley put me in this job last year, 57:33.720 --> 57:36.100 was sign as the original classification authority 57:36.100 --> 57:37.762 for the JWICS classification, 57:37.762 --> 57:40.150 security classification guide. 57:40.150 --> 57:42.320 And I went through that thing, and it was very long, 57:42.320 --> 57:45.560 and it was 1990-ish discussion, 57:45.560 --> 57:47.340 I said I'm not signing that. 57:47.340 --> 57:49.260 I went through the whole thing, I red-lined it, 57:49.260 --> 57:52.300 I mean it was, Chris Ravirez in the audience somewheres 57:52.300 --> 57:53.433 who did that for me, 57:54.620 --> 57:57.460 and he can attest to the amount of changes that I had at, 57:57.460 --> 58:00.640 to the end result of that is a major re-write 58:00.640 --> 58:03.150 of the JWICS Security Classification Guide, 58:03.150 --> 58:08.150 and to wit, I took out NOFORN almost exclusively 58:09.350 --> 58:10.680 in that document. 58:10.680 --> 58:12.300 It is now a releasable document, 58:12.300 --> 58:16.160 it talks about being releasable to our partners, 58:16.160 --> 58:17.637 because that's how it is. 58:17.637 --> 58:20.393 And my litmus test on that was pretty simple, 58:21.960 --> 58:23.000 if our partners, 58:23.000 --> 58:24.630 and I'm gonna use Major General John Howard, 58:24.630 --> 58:26.810 he's sitting here in the front row, as an example, 58:26.810 --> 58:29.060 so if our Kiwi partners get, 58:29.060 --> 58:30.930 find out that we have a problem 58:30.930 --> 58:33.830 on a JWICS node somewheres, 58:33.830 --> 58:36.420 have we compromised national security? 58:36.420 --> 58:37.630 Guess what, we didn't. 58:37.630 --> 58:39.450 They're our partners, 58:39.450 --> 58:41.520 well that instantly makes that route. 58:41.520 --> 58:45.938 It's just a mindset change that we all have to adopt that, 58:45.938 --> 58:48.170 you know, we're not in this little bubble ourselves, 58:48.170 --> 58:51.566 we have to work in this partner coalitions 58:51.566 --> 58:53.823 and it just plain-out makes sense. 58:56.310 --> 58:58.200 - [Doug] So another question we have 58:58.200 --> 59:00.420 deals with Cloud computing becoming the new norm 59:00.420 --> 59:02.170 in the private and commercial sector. 59:02.170 --> 59:03.003 So the question is, 59:03.003 --> 59:05.890 how are we aligning ourselves to better integrate 59:05.890 --> 59:08.670 with them from a government standpoint? 59:08.670 --> 59:09.670 - I'll let you take that one. 59:09.670 --> 59:14.370 - All right, so, I think everybody's pretty aware, 59:14.370 --> 59:17.150 when Stephanie O'Sullivan was the 59:17.150 --> 59:20.280 Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, 59:20.280 --> 59:23.047 a few years back, and General Clapper was 59:23.047 --> 59:25.470 the Director of National Intelligence, 59:25.470 --> 59:27.050 we stood up a thing called ICITE, 59:27.050 --> 59:28.270 and I'm not gonna talk a lot about it, 59:28.270 --> 59:32.010 because John Sherman's going to speak to ICITE 59:32.010 --> 59:34.900 and EPIC 2 and where we're going with that. 59:34.900 --> 59:37.210 But back then, the intent was, 59:37.210 --> 59:39.910 Cloud was generally a new concept 59:39.910 --> 59:42.270 for the government, at least. 59:42.270 --> 59:44.320 Maybe not so much in the private sector, 59:44.320 --> 59:46.290 and it was, hey you have to be all in, 59:46.290 --> 59:48.113 everything must go into the Cloud. 59:49.690 --> 59:53.530 We have grown in our knowledge since then. 59:53.530 --> 59:56.420 We've learned a lot about what that means, 59:56.420 --> 59:57.470 what it doesn't mean, 59:57.470 --> 59:58.640 where the value proposition, 59:58.640 --> 01:00:01.160 and how well it's gonna work in some places than others. 01:00:01.160 --> 01:00:03.083 You can't be all-in right now. 01:00:04.210 --> 01:00:07.703 Simply because physics sometimes get in the way. 01:00:09.070 --> 01:00:13.640 That said, what we've done in the past is we said, 01:00:13.640 --> 01:00:18.340 is it technically feasible to put something in the Cloud? 01:00:18.340 --> 01:00:20.220 Check, yeah, 'cause we can pretty much 01:00:20.220 --> 01:00:21.820 put anything a Cloud, right? 01:00:21.820 --> 01:00:23.650 Where that stands now. 01:00:23.650 --> 01:00:25.040 What I've implemented at CIO, 01:00:25.040 --> 01:00:26.800 is said there's two more criteria 01:00:26.800 --> 01:00:28.450 that you have to check off. 01:00:28.450 --> 01:00:32.900 One is, does it make a functional mission impact? 01:00:32.900 --> 01:00:36.450 Where we do tracking from that, check or minus? 01:00:36.450 --> 01:00:38.460 And the last one is cost. 01:00:38.460 --> 01:00:40.360 Because when you put something in the Cloud, 01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:43.070 I end up with a fixed cost I must pay. 01:00:43.070 --> 01:00:46.510 And so you have to do a business cost analysis to say, 01:00:46.510 --> 01:00:49.450 does it make financial sense to go there, 01:00:49.450 --> 01:00:51.910 or can you do it a different way? 01:00:51.910 --> 01:00:54.210 And so that's kinda where we're at looking at that. 01:00:54.210 --> 01:00:56.400 There's multiple technologies coming at you, 01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:58.320 as everybody is aware. 01:00:58.320 --> 01:00:59.153 Not saying anything new, 01:00:59.153 --> 01:01:02.890 C2S, the commercial Cloud services run by Amazon, 01:01:02.890 --> 01:01:05.333 is on our TS environment. 01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:08.680 Microsoft is standing up Azure 01:01:09.608 --> 01:01:12.340 on the TS environment coming up. 01:01:12.340 --> 01:01:15.770 We're using various Clouds in different levels, 01:01:15.770 --> 01:01:19.310 Dana Deasy as the DOD/CIO is bringing in JEDI, 01:01:19.310 --> 01:01:23.470 bringing in Cloud computing to the DOD at large, 01:01:23.470 --> 01:01:25.290 on all the different domains. 01:01:25.290 --> 01:01:28.670 What we're doing is, to me it's an ecosystem, 01:01:28.670 --> 01:01:30.120 I don't care if it's a Microsoft, 01:01:30.120 --> 01:01:33.150 IBM, Google, what have you, 01:01:33.150 --> 01:01:34.750 and as General Ashley talked about, 01:01:34.750 --> 01:01:36.170 the interoperability amongst them, 01:01:36.170 --> 01:01:37.680 or as we saw this morning, 01:01:37.680 --> 01:01:40.590 with the iPhone and the Samsung, 01:01:40.590 --> 01:01:42.000 that the application or whatever, 01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:43.800 we gotta get past that 01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:46.780 so I can use the entire ecosystem. 01:01:46.780 --> 01:01:49.523 Give you an example and then I'll shut up. 01:01:50.600 --> 01:01:53.280 So in the intel community, 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:55.500 we have essentially two Clouds in the high side. 01:01:55.500 --> 01:01:59.910 We have C2S, which is a commercial Cloud service provider, 01:01:59.910 --> 01:02:03.153 and then we have NSA provides government the GovCloud. 01:02:05.610 --> 01:02:06.527 What I want to do, 01:02:06.527 --> 01:02:08.450 and what I've said for years I want to do, 01:02:08.450 --> 01:02:11.050 even though I got some pushback over time from that, 01:02:12.370 --> 01:02:14.140 there's some people in here that have heard 01:02:14.140 --> 01:02:15.220 some of that pushback, 01:02:15.220 --> 01:02:16.590 was I want to use the ecosystem, 01:02:16.590 --> 01:02:19.410 I want to develop capabilities on on-class. 01:02:19.410 --> 01:02:24.120 I want to get data from the PAI data and move that. 01:02:24.120 --> 01:02:27.850 I want to run analytics in the Cloud that NSA provides, 01:02:27.850 --> 01:02:29.970 'cause it's a data analytics Cloud. 01:02:29.970 --> 01:02:32.800 And wanna do the compute and the visualization 01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:34.210 in the commercial Cloud, 01:02:34.210 --> 01:02:36.510 so then you end up with this ecosystem 01:02:36.510 --> 01:02:38.690 that is using best-of-breed of those things, 01:02:38.690 --> 01:02:40.800 that is fully interoperable, 01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:43.260 so that we provide the best capability, 01:02:43.260 --> 01:02:46.180 the best answer to our policy makers 01:02:46.180 --> 01:02:50.034 and our warfighters, so we're doing things at speed. 01:02:50.034 --> 01:02:50.867 - And I just wanted to point out 01:02:50.867 --> 01:02:51.950 they just changed the screen here, 01:02:51.950 --> 01:02:54.313 'cause initially we had 95 hours left, 01:02:54.313 --> 01:02:56.200 - Five minutes. - And now it's 01:02:56.200 --> 01:02:57.421 only five minutes, thank God. 01:02:57.421 --> 01:03:01.270 (audience laughing) 01:03:01.270 --> 01:03:02.103 Whew, I'm going to need more water. 01:03:02.103 --> 01:03:03.480 - Somebody's got a 5-Hour Energy drink for me? 01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:04.313 - There you go. 01:03:06.180 --> 01:03:07.960 - [Doug] All right, well we're gonna take one more question 01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:09.740 with that five minutes remaining. 01:03:09.740 --> 01:03:11.350 So the last question deals with 01:03:11.350 --> 01:03:12.930 our strategy and prioritization, 01:03:12.930 --> 01:03:14.600 we've been discussing that a lot on this stage 01:03:14.600 --> 01:03:16.240 during our opening remarks. 01:03:16.240 --> 01:03:17.730 How are we partnering with Congress 01:03:17.730 --> 01:03:20.240 to keep them engaged with the IA's developments? 01:03:20.240 --> 01:03:21.430 - So I'll start that one. 01:03:21.430 --> 01:03:24.333 It is, so we're pushing on an open door, 01:03:25.170 --> 01:03:26.420 and they are very helpful, 01:03:26.420 --> 01:03:28.690 but there's an education process behind that, 01:03:28.690 --> 01:03:30.890 so we take every opportunity we can to go 01:03:30.890 --> 01:03:33.843 and talk to them about every initiative that we have. 01:03:35.011 --> 01:03:36.070 And the successes which, 01:03:36.070 --> 01:03:38.010 a lot of them in the classified realm, 01:03:38.010 --> 01:03:40.420 of how we've leveraged machine learning, 01:03:40.420 --> 01:03:43.160 artificial, well, machine learning computer vision. 01:03:43.160 --> 01:03:46.100 But we've gone up there countless times with staffers, 01:03:46.100 --> 01:03:47.570 and members to talk to them 01:03:47.570 --> 01:03:52.310 about MARS and JWICS specifically, 01:03:52.310 --> 01:03:54.449 to make sure we're able to get their support, 01:03:54.449 --> 01:03:56.060 understand where the program's going, 01:03:56.060 --> 01:03:57.970 that they don't have any questions. 01:03:57.970 --> 01:04:00.490 And for JWICS the big thing I've asked Jack 01:04:00.490 --> 01:04:01.360 and the guys to push on, 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:04.390 is to bring the staffers and members to DIA headquarters 01:04:04.390 --> 01:04:07.373 to go down to the basement and take a look at, 01:04:08.610 --> 01:04:10.190 I don't want to say the state of disrepair, 01:04:10.190 --> 01:04:13.430 but we are challenged to be able to upgrade that, 01:04:13.430 --> 01:04:17.130 so we cannot afford to take marks against the program 01:04:17.130 --> 01:04:19.820 given we're kinda keeping it alive right now, 01:04:19.820 --> 01:04:20.653 we want to make sure 01:04:20.653 --> 01:04:22.500 that we get it really, really healthy. 01:04:22.500 --> 01:04:24.000 So there's constant dialog, 01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:27.610 on any given week, we are on the Hill, 01:04:27.610 --> 01:04:32.433 either with threat topics, modernization issues across DIA, 01:04:34.140 --> 01:04:35.710 probably, what, five, six times. 01:04:35.710 --> 01:04:39.150 So everyday, there's at least one or two teams 01:04:39.150 --> 01:04:41.990 that are on the Hill, having a conversation, 01:04:41.990 --> 01:04:43.880 and we have to make that investment 01:04:43.880 --> 01:04:45.800 because they're the ones that are gonna ensure 01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:47.330 that these efforts are funded. 01:04:47.330 --> 01:04:48.710 They ask us lots of hard questions, 01:04:48.710 --> 01:04:49.543 they want to make sure 01:04:49.543 --> 01:04:51.820 we're not headed down proprietary lanes, 01:04:51.820 --> 01:04:52.653 and they want to know 01:04:52.653 --> 01:04:54.570 how this is solving the nation's hardest problems. 01:04:54.570 --> 01:04:58.880 But they are close partners in that way ahead, 01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:00.700 and we're working with them 01:05:00.700 --> 01:05:02.380 to make sure that they're good, strong advocates. 01:05:02.380 --> 01:05:05.110 And those staffers can explain to members, as well, 01:05:05.110 --> 01:05:08.370 why it is they need to spend that money 01:05:08.370 --> 01:05:09.930 to help the Department of Defense 01:05:09.930 --> 01:05:12.423 in the larger construct which is, 01:05:13.270 --> 01:05:15.380 the eroding technological advantage we have 01:05:15.380 --> 01:05:16.440 which is the central problem 01:05:16.440 --> 01:05:18.180 in the National Defense Strategy, 01:05:18.180 --> 01:05:19.670 which the Defense Intelligence Agency 01:05:19.670 --> 01:05:21.363 plays a key role in that. 01:05:22.630 --> 01:05:24.660 - So in the, historically in the past, 01:05:24.660 --> 01:05:26.100 I will tell you that we have not done 01:05:26.100 --> 01:05:27.650 as well a job as we could have. 01:05:29.040 --> 01:05:32.623 At least, in the IT industry talking to the Hill. 01:05:34.220 --> 01:05:37.770 I say it was an example where we would do certain things, 01:05:37.770 --> 01:05:39.720 and we would wait, 01:05:39.720 --> 01:05:42.347 and then lobbyists would go in and get in before us, 01:05:42.347 --> 01:05:46.293 and it ended up not being the greatest situation. 01:05:47.410 --> 01:05:50.650 That has changed, we have much better engagement, 01:05:50.650 --> 01:05:54.430 I have asked staffers to come to this event, 01:05:54.430 --> 01:05:56.120 so that they can get an appreciation, 01:05:56.120 --> 01:05:57.320 an understanding of what, 01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:00.870 of the complexity of this thing called DoDIIS, 01:06:00.870 --> 01:06:03.670 and the DIE and what DIA's doing, 01:06:03.670 --> 01:06:06.260 and how we're partnering with our IC partners, 01:06:06.260 --> 01:06:08.970 and our DOD partners, and our foreign partners, 01:06:08.970 --> 01:06:13.010 and our commercial partners, 'cause it's very complex. 01:06:13.010 --> 01:06:14.900 We have a staffer here today, 01:06:14.900 --> 01:06:18.380 I was very happy that he was able to make it from the HiPC, 01:06:19.250 --> 01:06:22.410 to have an understanding and feed that back in. 01:06:22.410 --> 01:06:24.670 And as General Ashley said, 01:06:24.670 --> 01:06:27.870 I have taken them down to see our tech control 01:06:27.870 --> 01:06:29.960 and our data center, and our comms closets, 01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:33.020 and to show what I call Frankenstein equipment, 01:06:33.020 --> 01:06:38.020 where I did not have the procurement authority 01:06:38.610 --> 01:06:41.260 to actually go buy a piece of equipment, 01:06:41.260 --> 01:06:44.750 mission was impacted, we had to get it fixed, 01:06:44.750 --> 01:06:47.840 we took equipment or parts of the equipment, 01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:51.890 out of equipment that was going to the DRMO, 01:06:51.890 --> 01:06:54.000 it was destined for destruction. 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:55.670 To pull that out, put it back in there, 01:06:55.670 --> 01:06:57.970 to say mission reigns supreme, 01:06:57.970 --> 01:06:59.720 we're going to do what we gotta do. 01:07:00.799 --> 01:07:03.210 And if you get a chance, 01:07:03.210 --> 01:07:05.590 Scott Miller's out here in the audience, 01:07:05.590 --> 01:07:06.750 and you get a chance to talk to him, 01:07:06.750 --> 01:07:08.770 you can ask what his views on that is, 01:07:08.770 --> 01:07:11.140 but I think it's a resonating message with them 01:07:11.140 --> 01:07:12.800 to actually not hear it, 01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:14.660 but just, and to see it as well. 01:07:14.660 --> 01:07:16.460 - And the other piece of that is 01:07:16.460 --> 01:07:17.460 we're not just building this 01:07:17.460 --> 01:07:19.120 for the Defense Intelligence Agency, 01:07:19.120 --> 01:07:22.920 we're building this for the Defense Intelligence enterprise. 01:07:22.920 --> 01:07:24.360 This will be provisioned and available 01:07:24.360 --> 01:07:25.470 to the all the combat commands, 01:07:25.470 --> 01:07:27.340 this is for the warfighter. 01:07:27.340 --> 01:07:28.880 This will be a Warfighter system, 01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:30.070 much like JWICS. 01:07:30.070 --> 01:07:33.970 JWICS is migrating to be more about command and control. 01:07:33.970 --> 01:07:36.960 Network and General Hyten said that last year, 01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:37.950 that was at this conference, 01:07:37.950 --> 01:07:40.520 he goes I see C2 off of JWICS, 01:07:40.520 --> 01:07:42.130 and so we're in discussion now of, 01:07:42.130 --> 01:07:45.350 okay, what does JWICS need to be in the future? 01:07:45.350 --> 01:07:49.270 Because it was born as a video teleconference system, 01:07:49.270 --> 01:07:52.960 and now, you know, we're funded to provision to a point, 01:07:52.960 --> 01:07:57.910 but we can't provision it as a C2 comm system. 01:07:57.910 --> 01:07:58.970 So there's a lot of work we gotta do 01:07:58.970 --> 01:07:59.910 within the Department of Defense 01:07:59.910 --> 01:08:02.070 and talk about what the way ahead is for that. 01:08:02.070 --> 01:08:02.980 But everything we're talking about, 01:08:02.980 --> 01:08:04.100 all these tools, everything else, 01:08:04.100 --> 01:08:05.360 this is for the Warfighter. 01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:08.290 This is for senior leaders, it is for the Hill, 01:08:08.290 --> 01:08:10.320 it is for decision advantage, 01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:14.043 and it has to scale to the entire enterprise. 01:08:15.240 --> 01:08:17.410 - [Doug] So we've received several thousand questions, 01:08:17.410 --> 01:08:19.860 it appears, as I'm watching all of the emails come in. 01:08:19.860 --> 01:08:21.164 I will make sure-- 01:08:21.164 --> 01:08:21.997 - So it was 95 hours that I've-- 01:08:21.997 --> 01:08:22.830 - Yeah, (all laughing) 01:08:22.830 --> 01:08:23.663 - [Doug] Well, you're gonna spend that, 01:08:23.663 --> 01:08:25.000 'cause I'm gonna make sure every single one 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:26.527 of those emails is forwarded to both of you 01:08:26.527 --> 01:08:28.393 before we depart so you can respond. 01:08:28.393 --> 01:08:29.626 (audience laughing) - I have a rule set up. 01:08:29.626 --> 01:08:31.560 - [Doug] (laughing) But I wanted to thank you both 01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:33.338 for the question and answer session. 01:08:33.338 --> 01:08:34.171 - Thanks, Doug. 01:08:34.171 --> 01:08:35.900 - [Doug] Thank you to the audience for participating, 01:08:35.900 --> 01:08:37.686 I appreciate your time. 01:08:37.686 --> 01:08:42.686 (audience applauding) - All right, thanks boss. 01:08:44.653 --> 01:08:45.920 I think that's it, right? 01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:47.752 - That's it, yep. - Thanks. 01:08:47.752 --> 01:08:49.152 - Thank you, thank you, sir. 01:08:52.150 --> 01:08:54.000 - We're gonna go off there somewhere. 01:08:58.670 --> 01:08:59.550 - Well welcome everyone. 01:08:59.550 --> 01:09:01.410 Again, my name is Doug Cossa, 01:09:01.410 --> 01:09:03.330 I'm the Deputy Chief Information Officer 01:09:03.330 --> 01:09:05.333 here at the Defense Intelligence Agency. 01:09:06.270 --> 01:09:09.150 Last year, I had just started in this position. 01:09:09.150 --> 01:09:13.480 I'm actually on joint-detail from ODNI to DIA, 01:09:13.480 --> 01:09:16.520 and I was here only a few weeks before coming to DoDIIS. 01:09:16.520 --> 01:09:17.840 And I remember sitting in the front row, 01:09:17.840 --> 01:09:19.230 thinking to myself, 01:09:19.230 --> 01:09:21.250 man, what if they ask me to speak next year? 01:09:21.250 --> 01:09:23.150 What on earth am I gonna say? 01:09:23.150 --> 01:09:25.000 So, here I am. 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:26.610 Trying to think about what I'm gonna say. 01:09:26.610 --> 01:09:27.750 No, just kidding. 01:09:27.750 --> 01:09:28.960 So as Jack mentioned, 01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:32.020 DoDIIS is the largest technology conference in the IC, 01:09:32.020 --> 01:09:34.290 and this is our 16th year of holding it. 01:09:34.290 --> 01:09:36.140 For me, and last year I experienced this 01:09:36.140 --> 01:09:37.560 it's a source for understanding 01:09:37.560 --> 01:09:40.050 how we might apply some of the most innovative ideas 01:09:40.050 --> 01:09:41.365 and capabilities to solve 01:09:41.365 --> 01:09:43.750 some of our most pressing challenges. 01:09:43.750 --> 01:09:45.540 In the simplest terms, 01:09:45.540 --> 01:09:47.600 in terms of the definition of what innovation is, 01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:50.810 it's really the intersection of new capabilities, 01:09:50.810 --> 01:09:53.430 new disciplines, and new ways of thinking. 01:09:53.430 --> 01:09:56.040 And we heard a lot of that from the director earlier. 01:09:56.040 --> 01:09:56.873 In a few minutes, 01:09:56.873 --> 01:09:59.510 we're gonna break for our networking 01:09:59.510 --> 01:10:01.280 and vendor booth visits, 01:10:01.280 --> 01:10:02.630 and we're gonna experience 01:10:02.630 --> 01:10:04.810 that very definition of innovation. 01:10:04.810 --> 01:10:06.520 Before we do I'd like to leave you 01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:08.870 with a few thoughts to bring along. 01:10:08.870 --> 01:10:11.850 We hear a lot about emphasizing innovation 01:10:11.850 --> 01:10:14.240 across the IC and across the federal government, 01:10:14.240 --> 01:10:15.699 and often times we struggle 01:10:15.699 --> 01:10:17.970 with understanding what that really means. 01:10:17.970 --> 01:10:19.760 And the truth lies 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:23.460 in the last part that I gave you of innovation, 01:10:23.460 --> 01:10:25.270 which is new ways of thinking. 01:10:25.270 --> 01:10:27.300 It's more than just thinking about 01:10:27.300 --> 01:10:30.410 what's the next big capability that we need to build? 01:10:30.410 --> 01:10:31.520 And if you look throughout time, 01:10:31.520 --> 01:10:32.820 look throughout history, 01:10:32.820 --> 01:10:34.900 the most impactful innovations 01:10:34.900 --> 01:10:37.250 have actually started with paradigm shifts. 01:10:37.250 --> 01:10:40.710 So concepts like the world is flat, 01:10:40.710 --> 01:10:43.700 the earth is flat, continental shift, 01:10:43.700 --> 01:10:47.960 washing our hands to prevent the spread of disease, 01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:49.150 those are basic thinking. 01:10:49.150 --> 01:10:51.820 Those are basic concepts today that we all know, 01:10:51.820 --> 01:10:52.653 and take for granted. 01:10:52.653 --> 01:10:53.486 Although the last one, 01:10:53.486 --> 01:10:54.710 I've been in this bathroom a few times, 01:10:54.710 --> 01:10:57.052 I'm not sure that some of you have bought on to that yet. 01:10:57.052 --> 01:10:58.470 (audience laughing) 01:10:58.470 --> 01:11:01.740 But we've experienced over the past several years, 01:11:01.740 --> 01:11:03.890 our own paradigm shifts, right? 01:11:03.890 --> 01:11:05.840 So think back to before the internet. 01:11:05.840 --> 01:11:08.290 We were confident that the reason 01:11:08.290 --> 01:11:10.530 for collective ignorance and idiocy, 01:11:10.530 --> 01:11:12.190 was because of the lack of information, 01:11:12.190 --> 01:11:14.210 lack of access to that information. 01:11:14.210 --> 01:11:15.327 And then with the rise of the internet, 01:11:15.327 --> 01:11:17.850 and the advent of social media, 01:11:17.850 --> 01:11:19.755 we were actually completely wrong on that one. 01:11:19.755 --> 01:11:21.170 (audience laughing) 01:11:21.170 --> 01:11:23.960 But, in the 1990s with the internet, 01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:26.570 we were told basic concepts, right? 01:11:26.570 --> 01:11:29.450 Never talk to strangers over the internet. 01:11:29.450 --> 01:11:31.220 And we always knew from our childhood days, 01:11:31.220 --> 01:11:33.530 of never get into a stranger's car. 01:11:33.530 --> 01:11:35.500 Today, we use the internet 01:11:35.500 --> 01:11:38.670 to literally summon strangers and get in their cars. 01:11:38.670 --> 01:11:40.700 And I bet that many of you did that 01:11:40.700 --> 01:11:43.273 on some portion of your travel leg today. 01:11:43.273 --> 01:11:44.190 (audience laughing) 01:11:44.190 --> 01:11:47.410 But in the IC, if you look at our history, 01:11:47.410 --> 01:11:49.320 we've experienced our own paradigm shifts, 01:11:49.320 --> 01:11:51.720 especially over the past decade. 01:11:51.720 --> 01:11:54.230 So when I started in this community, 01:11:54.230 --> 01:11:57.520 the idea of open-source, as a collection discipline, 01:11:57.520 --> 01:11:59.510 was actually debated. 01:11:59.510 --> 01:12:00.963 If you said the word OCEN, 01:12:01.800 --> 01:12:04.570 people would think that you weren't a collection specialist, 01:12:04.570 --> 01:12:07.330 you didn't understand how intelligence works. 01:12:07.330 --> 01:12:10.070 Today, open-source is woven into the fabric 01:12:10.070 --> 01:12:12.700 of nearly everything we produce. 01:12:12.700 --> 01:12:14.340 Within the past decade, we never thought 01:12:14.340 --> 01:12:17.210 that anyone would be able to assess or produce, 01:12:17.210 --> 01:12:19.430 imagery intelligence from space, 01:12:19.430 --> 01:12:20.955 let alone own the capabilities 01:12:20.955 --> 01:12:23.030 for the government to leverage. 01:12:23.030 --> 01:12:26.400 Today, NGA even hosts a conference, much like this one, 01:12:26.400 --> 01:12:28.290 to celebrate our partnership with industry. 01:12:28.290 --> 01:12:29.330 It's not as good as this one, 01:12:29.330 --> 01:12:31.808 I think we'd all agree, but they try. 01:12:31.808 --> 01:12:32.920 (audience laughing) 01:12:32.920 --> 01:12:35.010 Just kidding, just kidding. (laughs) 01:12:35.010 --> 01:12:37.030 And just a mere seven years ago, 01:12:37.030 --> 01:12:39.020 we thought that each of our intelligence agencies 01:12:39.020 --> 01:12:42.430 and services had to own, operate, 01:12:42.430 --> 01:12:44.630 and maintain its own IT infrastructure. 01:12:44.630 --> 01:12:48.060 And tomorrow, we'll hear from ICCIO John Sherman, 01:12:48.060 --> 01:12:50.240 about how we're entering the third epic of ICITE, 01:12:50.240 --> 01:12:52.430 to where we're not only sharing our infrastructure, 01:12:52.430 --> 01:12:54.708 but we're also sharing our data. 01:12:54.708 --> 01:12:56.120 And so the topic of data brings me 01:12:56.120 --> 01:12:59.570 to another aspect of innovation, booms. 01:12:59.570 --> 01:13:02.030 And what I mean by that, is as technology evolves, 01:13:02.030 --> 01:13:04.870 our use of that technology evolves as well. 01:13:04.870 --> 01:13:06.050 And some of the most prominent 01:13:06.050 --> 01:13:08.410 and enduring companies throughout history 01:13:08.410 --> 01:13:11.120 actually arose during industry booms. 01:13:11.120 --> 01:13:13.300 Take for example the Gold Rush. 01:13:13.300 --> 01:13:15.130 That boom created whole industries 01:13:15.130 --> 01:13:19.110 for clothing, lodging and tools, that didn't exist before. 01:13:19.110 --> 01:13:20.660 Levi's jeans, for example, 01:13:20.660 --> 01:13:22.490 which I'm sure every one of us in this room 01:13:22.490 --> 01:13:24.570 has worn at one point in our lives, 01:13:24.570 --> 01:13:26.580 actually started by creating clothing 01:13:26.580 --> 01:13:28.833 for miners digging for gold. 01:13:30.070 --> 01:13:34.020 In the early 1980s we actually saw another industry boom, 01:13:34.020 --> 01:13:36.440 and that was the rise of the PC. 01:13:36.440 --> 01:13:39.170 And that brought forth transformational change, 01:13:39.170 --> 01:13:41.760 and what we saw was thousands of companies 01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:44.250 entering the market to build computers. 01:13:44.250 --> 01:13:47.120 And with that, we had different models of computers 01:13:47.120 --> 01:13:48.450 which had different ports. 01:13:48.450 --> 01:13:50.300 And printers had different ports. 01:13:50.300 --> 01:13:51.470 And it was actually a nightmare 01:13:51.470 --> 01:13:52.450 to connect those devices, 01:13:52.450 --> 01:13:54.307 for those of you that remember. 01:13:54.307 --> 01:13:58.640 And so a guy named Chet Pitkin actually saw 01:13:58.640 --> 01:13:59.610 that as an opportunity. 01:13:59.610 --> 01:14:02.760 And he didn't focus on making computers, 01:14:02.760 --> 01:14:05.490 he actually focused on the interfaces to connect them. 01:14:05.490 --> 01:14:08.080 He made the cables and other devices 01:14:08.080 --> 01:14:10.470 to actually make what you bought work. 01:14:10.470 --> 01:14:13.630 So keyboards, mice, and so-forth. 01:14:13.630 --> 01:14:16.320 And he formed what today is known as the Belkin Corporation. 01:14:16.320 --> 01:14:18.467 And he took advantage of that industry boom. 01:14:18.467 --> 01:14:20.730 And with the smartphone boom in more recent years, 01:14:20.730 --> 01:14:24.130 in the past decade, Belkin took advantage of that as well. 01:14:24.130 --> 01:14:27.060 They created the cables to connect your phones. 01:14:27.060 --> 01:14:29.020 The chargers, the cases, and so-forth. 01:14:29.020 --> 01:14:31.320 And today, Belkin is arguably 01:14:31.320 --> 01:14:35.030 one of the most successful tech companies of our era. 01:14:35.030 --> 01:14:38.610 Sometimes you're lucky enough to actually walk into a boom, 01:14:38.610 --> 01:14:43.220 and for me it happened 23 years ago, almost to this day, 01:14:43.220 --> 01:14:46.060 when I was starting my freshman year of college. 01:14:46.060 --> 01:14:49.440 And I was lucky enough to save up enough money that summer, 01:14:49.440 --> 01:14:51.650 and I bought my own computer. 01:14:51.650 --> 01:14:56.330 And when I got to school, most of the students at that time, 01:14:56.330 --> 01:14:57.740 used computer labs, right? 01:14:57.740 --> 01:15:00.600 With long lines to wait to get on a computer, 01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:02.210 and you had to share a printer, 01:15:02.210 --> 01:15:04.160 and it took much longer than it needed to. 01:15:04.160 --> 01:15:05.160 I had my own computer, 01:15:05.160 --> 01:15:08.200 and I was excited to hook it up to the school's network, 01:15:08.200 --> 01:15:10.890 because it also meant that you had unlimited access 01:15:10.890 --> 01:15:13.010 to free music, software, movies, 01:15:13.010 --> 01:15:13.960 whatever you could think of. 01:15:13.960 --> 01:15:15.930 I, of course, didn't partake in any of that, 01:15:15.930 --> 01:15:17.219 but I know people that did. 01:15:17.219 --> 01:15:18.890 (audience laughing) 01:15:18.890 --> 01:15:21.800 But when I bought my computer, it was missing one thing, 01:15:21.800 --> 01:15:23.780 and all computers really did at this time, 01:15:23.780 --> 01:15:25.670 and it was the network interface card, 01:15:25.670 --> 01:15:28.660 to actually sync-up to that network. 01:15:28.660 --> 01:15:32.390 And there was one store in town that sold these NIC cards, 01:15:32.390 --> 01:15:34.510 and they charged $100. 01:15:34.510 --> 01:15:38.550 So I went down to buy one, and I paid my $100. 01:15:38.550 --> 01:15:40.650 But you couldn't install it yourself. 01:15:40.650 --> 01:15:42.937 He said, "I'll schedule an appointment 01:15:42.937 --> 01:15:44.560 "to come over and install it for you." 01:15:44.560 --> 01:15:45.410 So I said, "Great." 01:15:45.410 --> 01:15:48.060 And I didn't know a ton about computers at the time. 01:15:48.060 --> 01:15:50.560 So he came to my dorm room a couple days later, 01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:52.680 he opened the box with the internet, 01:15:52.680 --> 01:15:54.570 the network card in it, 01:15:54.570 --> 01:15:57.400 and he popped it in the PC on the slot to the motherboard. 01:15:57.400 --> 01:15:58.930 All in about 10 seconds. 01:15:58.930 --> 01:16:01.380 And he said, "That'll be $250." 01:16:01.380 --> 01:16:02.740 (audience laughing) 01:16:02.740 --> 01:16:06.083 And I thought to myself, this will never happen again. 01:16:07.120 --> 01:16:08.790 So I didn't know about computers at the time, 01:16:08.790 --> 01:16:11.590 so I started to work at the computer help desk at school. 01:16:11.590 --> 01:16:14.750 And I worked at night with another friend of mine named Rob, 01:16:14.750 --> 01:16:18.030 and we took trouble calls over the phone. 01:16:18.030 --> 01:16:19.330 But the thing was at the help desk, 01:16:19.330 --> 01:16:21.210 if you couldn't solve it over the phone, 01:16:21.210 --> 01:16:23.430 you had to defer it to an outside vendor. 01:16:23.430 --> 01:16:25.510 Well, guess who that vendor was? 01:16:25.510 --> 01:16:26.780 That same guy that installed 01:16:26.780 --> 01:16:28.760 that network card in my computer. 01:16:28.760 --> 01:16:30.407 And that wasn't happening. 01:16:30.407 --> 01:16:31.240 (audience laughing) 01:16:31.240 --> 01:16:33.660 So Rob and I started to take our own calls, 01:16:33.660 --> 01:16:36.180 so the next morning we'd schedule calls, 01:16:36.180 --> 01:16:37.910 we'd go out to dorm rooms, 01:16:37.910 --> 01:16:39.080 and we'd go fix computers. 01:16:39.080 --> 01:16:41.230 And I learned a lot during that time, 01:16:41.230 --> 01:16:43.300 I also learned that was illegal, you couldn't do that 01:16:43.300 --> 01:16:46.900 because this guy had a contract with the school 01:16:46.900 --> 01:16:48.781 to be able to fix computers. 01:16:48.781 --> 01:16:49.690 (audience laughing) 01:16:49.690 --> 01:16:53.460 So we'd started our own company, actually. 01:16:53.460 --> 01:16:56.030 We actually worked with a bunch of retired attorneys 01:16:56.030 --> 01:16:58.440 in Florida, they helped us get incorporated. 01:16:58.440 --> 01:17:00.860 And we joined the business environment 01:17:00.860 --> 01:17:02.510 over in the town that we were in. 01:17:03.940 --> 01:17:06.140 And we became a somewhat legitimate company. 01:17:07.000 --> 01:17:10.170 The next summer, as freshmens started to enter 01:17:10.170 --> 01:17:13.230 into their freshmen year and move into their dorms, 01:17:13.230 --> 01:17:14.600 we set up a tent. 01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:16.090 And like any good college student, 01:17:16.090 --> 01:17:18.883 Rob and I took out credit cards with 20% interest rates, 01:17:18.883 --> 01:17:23.580 and we bought hundreds of ethernet cards. 01:17:23.580 --> 01:17:26.210 And actually that day, we sold them all out. 01:17:26.210 --> 01:17:29.530 And we recruited many friends, 20 at the time, 01:17:29.530 --> 01:17:30.363 to go install all of these things 01:17:30.363 --> 01:17:31.920 throughout the course of that week, 01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:34.820 to get all the other students connected to the network. 01:17:34.820 --> 01:17:37.750 And that became a fairly sizeable company. 01:17:37.750 --> 01:17:39.940 And we got into new areas, new industries. 01:17:39.940 --> 01:17:41.460 We started doing network support, 01:17:41.460 --> 01:17:44.190 we spread out to other local companies, 01:17:44.190 --> 01:17:46.840 car dealerships and so-forth, 01:17:46.840 --> 01:17:48.150 to be able to build their networks 01:17:48.150 --> 01:17:51.440 and supply their computers, and fix their computers. 01:17:51.440 --> 01:17:52.930 So it was a great experience of my life, 01:17:52.930 --> 01:17:55.640 and I was lucky enough to actually walk into that boom. 01:17:55.640 --> 01:17:57.940 So the question is what's our boom now? 01:17:57.940 --> 01:18:00.200 And you've already heard from Jack and the director, 01:18:00.200 --> 01:18:02.140 and you'll hear from many on the stage throughout the week 01:18:02.140 --> 01:18:05.670 that our boom is data, and the proliferation of it, 01:18:05.670 --> 01:18:07.880 and our newfound access to it. 01:18:07.880 --> 01:18:09.930 And along with that comes the infrastructure, 01:18:09.930 --> 01:18:12.530 tools, techniques produced by many of you in this room, 01:18:12.530 --> 01:18:14.270 to service that boom. 01:18:14.270 --> 01:18:16.100 Data's what intelligence depends on, 01:18:16.100 --> 01:18:19.120 and it's the interface to the national security decisions 01:18:19.120 --> 01:18:21.100 that senior policy makers, warfighters, 01:18:21.100 --> 01:18:23.000 and intelligence leaders need to make. 01:18:23.890 --> 01:18:25.787 The theme of this years DoDIIS conference, 01:18:25.787 --> 01:18:28.820 as we saw, is resiliency, redundancy, and security; 01:18:28.820 --> 01:18:31.150 adapting to asymmetric threats. 01:18:31.150 --> 01:18:34.700 And that's more than just a random compulsive smattering 01:18:34.700 --> 01:18:37.760 of Jack and I's thoughts, it's actually mostly Jack's. 01:18:37.760 --> 01:18:39.320 But it represents the need to shift 01:18:39.320 --> 01:18:41.260 our thinking as our environment changes. 01:18:41.260 --> 01:18:43.677 It represents the challenges we're faced with, 01:18:43.677 --> 01:18:45.820 and it represents the dependency we have 01:18:45.820 --> 01:18:48.140 on the infrastructure, the capabilities, 01:18:48.140 --> 01:18:51.010 the tools and the advanced techniques to connect us. 01:18:51.010 --> 01:18:52.380 Those are the very topics presented 01:18:52.380 --> 01:18:54.410 at the DoDIIS conference this week, 01:18:54.410 --> 01:18:55.940 and in a few minutes we're gonna depart 01:18:55.940 --> 01:18:58.090 to the vendor floor and we're actually gonna see 01:18:58.090 --> 01:19:00.490 those capabilities first hand. 01:19:00.490 --> 01:19:01.750 Technology is more integrated 01:19:01.750 --> 01:19:03.780 than how we do business today than ever before, 01:19:03.780 --> 01:19:05.400 hence this years theme. 01:19:05.400 --> 01:19:08.070 So as we depart to the vendor floor, 01:19:08.070 --> 01:19:10.833 and break for our network socials, ask yourself; 01:19:13.810 --> 01:19:16.060 how are we shifting our thinking, 01:19:16.060 --> 01:19:18.910 and what are the opportunities to best service this boom? 01:19:19.970 --> 01:19:23.030 When we depart and come back at 10:55 to take our seats, 01:19:23.030 --> 01:19:25.980 we're gonna also hear from Major General John Howard, 01:19:25.980 --> 01:19:28.510 who is our Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration. 01:19:28.510 --> 01:19:30.090 You heard both Jack and the director talk 01:19:30.090 --> 01:19:32.870 about the importance of interfacing 01:19:32.870 --> 01:19:35.370 with our Five Eye international partners, 01:19:35.370 --> 01:19:37.740 that's another boom that's on our horizon, 01:19:37.740 --> 01:19:39.290 of creating those capabilities 01:19:39.290 --> 01:19:41.790 to more closely interact and collaborate. 01:19:41.790 --> 01:19:45.080 So please come back, take your seats at 10:55, 01:19:45.080 --> 01:19:47.080 and we'll introduce Major General John Howard. 01:19:47.080 --> 01:19:50.463 Thank you. (audience applauding)