Transcripts For CSPAN2 Intelligence National Security Forum

Reception. We do have a pretty full slate of program today, including three plenary sessions, six Breakout Sessions, the summit concludes this afternoon with what should be a very memorable discussion with most of our top Intelligence Agency leaders. As a reminder, we value your questions. I hope you saw several of your questions asked yesterday, and in particular, start thinking of your questions and get them and so we can get them up on stage. And again, if you see it up there, think will try to have a scrolling thing to remind you of the email address so please get your questions in. Yesterday, you heard a little bit about next weeks classified summit follow one day. Based on your feedback we brought the summit format last year by adding a classified follow one day this year declassified day takes place the week from today on thursday september 12, at nga east campus in springfield. Stacy, thanks again for hosting us out there. We are honored to have odni Deputy Director for Mission Integration beth kicking off this program. Many of you may know beth, but for those who dont, or portfolio is significant. Shes responsible for the coordination of the entire communities mission, priorities analysis and collection while also overseeing the National Intelligence council, the National Intelligence management council, and the president s daily brief. Registration for classified day closes today. Cleared personnel can register online at www. Intel summit. Org, or stop by the kiosk up at the other end of the exhibit hall. And let them know you would like to attend. Later today you receive and events survey after registration email address. Please, i know you all get a lot of surveys like i do but once in a while theres one survey that may be worth taking a look at, and we would really, really value your feedback and it will really make a difference. I can tell after having gone through this seven times now of putting the program together for the next year. Its a yearlong process that we will take every bit of your feedback into account as a kind put together the following Years Program picks a please give us your responses. I would like to thank our sponsors again at encourage all of you to take advantage of the opportunities to interact with our exhibitors today. We couldnt do this program without their support, so a round of applause for our sponsors again. [applause] a few logistical points now at the conclusion of this mornings plenary will have a 30 minute networking break followed by Breakout Sessions focus on active cyber defense, government collaboration, and technology innovators. And recruiting and developing the future workforce. Lunch will be available starting at 11 30 a. M. We will reconvene in the ballroom at 12 30 p. M. For our defending cyberspace plenary. Now, tony, its my pleasure to introduce tony fraser, executive Vice President of global Field Operations to introduce our moderator. Tony, over to you. [applause] good morning, everyone. As jeff mention my name is tony fraser an executive Vice President of Global Operations at maxr which was formed to the formed about two years ago, and we participate in this forum two different legacy brands. We felt it was important to get closer to this community and become a sponsor of this event because we do about a third of our business with the have 1500 team members and given our focus on the company is helping our customers harness commercial innovation this has the intelligence and space infrastructure that theres opportunity to drive mission and transformation in mapping intelligence, communications, space explosion. This is a really Important Community for us to be more closely aligned with. Its my pleasure to introduce our moderator, tish long. Tish is the chair of Intelligence National Security Alliance pictures also the former director of nga. My exposure to tish started when, during my time at digital globe when i heard her share her vision, and that inspired a lot of innovation, Great Partnership between industry and government that led to many transformations, you know, from making imagery available across committee on rapid timelines to our Global Delivery program as well as turning consumers of imagery through programs like noaa. Definitely decided about this excited about this panel entering some of the insights today that lead to innovation tomorrow. With that please join in welcoming tish. [applause] tony, thank you very much, and its great to see you here this morning and we very much appreciate your continued support of insa and all youre doing for this National Security commission. Im chairman of the board of insa and im very honored to be moderating this very distinguished panel here this morning. I think well have some fun, at least thats what i tell them backstage. Okay. On the panel when the founder and cto of hawkeye 360 and hawkeye is a Data Analytics company. Stacy dixon, Deputy Director a and the former director of. Tina, director and and Major General john shaw, United States air force who is the Deputy Commander of air force Space Command. Im good at each of them do a short introduction to frame their mission and their priorities. So after we hear from them, ill start a couple of rounds of questions. As chuck said, please get your questions ready. Ive already had a few pop up on the ipad, so we certainly want to be able to answer your questions from the audience. So chris, over to you. Take you, tish. First off, thank you do insa for hosting this incredible an important event. Tish, thanks for leading the panel. Again, chris dumais, one of the founders and chief Technology Officer for hawkeye 360. My background is in government, spent 14 years both with nsa and in a row. In fact, by lasker but boss is on the panel with me today, and from those experiences i learned quite a bit about government capabilities but more importantly i learned a lot about technology. As i learned about technology i was seeking out opportunity to create something new. The panel today will be a bit about opportunity. Hawkeye 360 story is about opportunity. Its about a convergence of new technologies that enables our capabilities. A convergence of those technologies with customer interest and Financial Support from a great set of investors. So having the cash, the interest of having to attempt to allow this to be built. Its been a wonderful experience. We are four years old. We raised over 100 million. Part. Part of the theme i will weave into the conversation day is about how private equity is allowing as to great something that the government can leverage. This isnt just hawkeye. This is all the private industry that is sticking their neck out there to take risks, allowing the government to take less risks in leveraging some of us spacebased technologies and capabilities. Hawkeye is an rf Analytics Company but we are building out a spacebased constellation of small satellites that are able to detect, locate rf coming off the earth for the purpose of providing geospatial information about the spectrum of the planet. Ill leave it at that for now. Look forward to the questions. Thank you. Very good, chris. Stacy. Stacy dixon, Deputy Director for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency here been in the fall for just over two months but been with nga since 2010, and we exist to basically show the way, help the country understand the world. We do this by providing Geospatial Intelligence to policymakers, war fighter, Intelligence Committee members who need to understand whats happening at different places in the world. And better understand the work itself. Theres lot of information about the world whether its gravity, Magnetic Fields that we need understand to be able to use the technology that exists today. We help provide that. I think we all understand that without a a gps we would all be very lost. Help in providing that is looking more specifically with understanding whats taking place in Different Countries were we may not be able to other sources or we may not be able to have eyes around all the time. The overt constellation helps us do that so we try to make sure the decisionmakers understand that on whats happening to answer the questions they have but also to provide the information they need which may be different than the questions they are asking. We want to help them understand the sensors that are out there, the capabilities that are out there to help them complete their missions. I started my career actually at the the and or elsewhere on the interim exit here on this panel which is a great introduction to the Intelligence Community working with nga as a partner. I ended up here a couple years after that. Ill stop there. Thanks, stacey. Tina. Tina harrington, director of signals acquisition as part of the inner row. Ive been with in a row since 1993 which is hard to believe. Im in a variety of positions, first as corporation and slopping over the government and 2006. Our mission is basically everything from research and development, acquisition, operations, all about feeling and doing the right thing for intel and military research. We basically work very closely with our Mission Partners at nga and nsa, will also work very closely with air force making sure with the right partnershid were doing the right things on both sides. We are one of our lifeblood is innovation. One of things i love about whats happened in commercial space is its letting us focus our technologies, things that are just unique to us, but in leveraging so much that is coming out of the commercial world. And the other piece that i find you some exciting watching from 199310 now, the whole space world, is a transition with the commercial now really stringing more and more to life, its how much more interest, new professionals coming out of school have in the space. And thats really driven by a lot of the commercial work that is being done. Governments thought and it takes a long time. Space kind of fell as part of that but now you see all these folks that say because of the new launch providers that we have, because of the commercial small satellite business, the ability to do things in schools and in universities has actually launched small satellites, thats been really driven by the commercial market. And the ability for us to take advantage of that market thats now coming out to help us feel the generation of professionals we need as we move forward. Terrific, tina. A couple of questions coming out of those remarks already. Thanks, tish and thanks to insa for hosting this form. Im Deputy Commander for Space Command anchor space operator astronomical engineer and full disclosure, two of my favorite sinus in my career were with the National Reconnaissance office, so we have a Common Thread there. In case you havent noticed, space as a war fighting debate has been a major theme interNational Security circles here for several years now. And to invoke ricks french friend from casablanca, we are shocked, shocked to find the space in war fighting coming, right . Actually truth i think we shouldnt be surprised. That might be the biggest thing to take with why is that . Because space is critical for modern warfare and to modern society here and only increasingly so in so many different ways. And yet it is perceived by potential adversaries to be vulnerable. And so its only logical and we should not be surprised that therefore our space could buildings with air force be threatened and that potential adversaries would develop capabilities to threaten those, our space could but those that are so critical. So the big tech that weve been facing really within the National Security arena but more focused at air force Space Command is how to make this shift to space as a war fighting domain . The big tectonic plates that youve all been watching im sure have been the standard of the United States Space Command, a new combatant command, really brings back the old United States Space Command but definitely not the same flavor. Which by the way just was established last week in the rose garden ceremony at the white house, and we wont cinch the whole thing next monday in Coral Springs with the ceremony overseen by the chairman or general agreement will take the fight for the new United States Space Command. That brings its own challenges and its own right and intelligence support acumen will require and a bit has been a major priority for general raymond as he stands up this new combatant command. If they tectonic plate that we will know more about in a few weeks is space force, that wod be the organized train and equip arm, a service that would then supply the capabilities and the war fighters to you Space Command on the other combatant commands as necessary. And weve been looking really hard at what we think that would look like and how to set up a space force for success. But qaeda baby a little bit below the waterline that maybe hasnt got a lot of tension we can spend time on is hey, its not just about the organization. What are the capabilities we need to develop . To protect and defend our Space Capabilities. And perhaps the most important thing is how do we grow the people to do that. And one component of that Human Capital piece is the intelligence type. We are going to have to go intelligence professionals for the space domain that support operational and foundational intelligence for potential war that exist in space here its a major for us. I think i will leave you with in fact, ill challenge you to think about this right now. When you think of space and intelligence together, you might be like me, in my career i think about intelligence collection in space coming down to the earth. Intelligence from space. We need to think really, really hard now about intelligence for space. Where is that intelligence expertise, the processes, the capabilities we have to understand whats actually happening in the space environment to support general raymond in his capacity at united United States Space Command for potential work in space. A new kind of focus area for us moving forward. So look forward to the panel and the questions. General shock, but nicu something there. Its not a question but a comment. Im really, really happy to hear you say that, coming from the operational side of the house. Those of us who have been in intelligence profession are entire career, sometimes perfect intelligence is simply assumed. So its nice to hear you say that you understand that we dont know everything we need to know to support operations of space. So getting that signal, understand the requirements so those capable as can be built is very important. So thanks for that and we will probably come back to that. Im going to start off with something that was kind of woven throughout all of your comments, if this this is a question forf you. This is a jump ball. All you can answer, some of you, but the stock and option for none of you. Okay, so both the government and industry now have a wide range of capabilities, whether its large, whether its building small sets, spacebased medication systems, analytics. Theres a lot out there. And what i liked her from you is, what are the implications of an increasing democratization of spacebased capabilities that allows any company or any adversary to operate in space . So what are the challenges, what are the opportunities for us . Its exciting. Ill start with the good. All of the potential information that would be accessible ondemand anywhere around the world is very exciting. The creativity thats going to be needed to great the tools that will allow us to use this information, to be able to store more efficient with those are the things that are a little more daunting. So a lot of things were going to have to be watching and monitoring, and we know that we cant expand the number of people to be able to look at everything. So its about really moving towards having that machine human teaming which provides a lot of other new challenges in the way we do things a great opportunity in the way that we will be able to allow some the more routines, some of the more repetitive tasks to be done by machine so we can leave humans to do the more creative and critical thinking. That part is really exciting. In addition to the u. S. Commercial and government, fibula to also leverage all the foreign partners, not only for their satellites and sensors but also for their analytics and for the product creation. Theres a lot of opportunity out there to really not have to do everything ourselves anymore to really leverage those alliances. I look at what commercial is doing and lets us leverage my boss used a saying, we should buy what we can and build wha