STABILITY, SECURITY, TRANSITION & RECONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 7:30 am - 8:30 am Registration & Continental Breakfast GUEST SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 8:30 am WELCOME REMARKS u Lt Gen Larry Farrell, USAF (Ret), President & CEO, NDIA GEN TONY ZINNI, USMC (RET) u Mr. Walt Sasser, Vice President, Government Relations, Camber 9:00 am - 9:45 am Corporation Zinni’s military service has 9:00 am KEYNOTE taken him to over 70 coun- “Whole of Government Solutions: The American Challenge of tries including deployments the 21st Century” to the Mediterranean, the u Gen Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret) Caribbean, the Western Pa- cific, Northern Europe and 9:45 am PANEL Korea. He was involved in the planning Interagency Coordination: Progress, Resourcing, Challenges and and execution of Operation Proven Force Priorities and Operation Patriot Defender in sup- Moderator: Lewis Rasmussen, Conflict Mitigation and Stability port of the Gulf War and noncombatant Transformation, ARD, Inc. evacuation operations in Liberia, Zaire, Si- Panelists: erra Leone, and Eritrea. He has also partic- u Mr. Jon Benton, Deputy Coordinator for Conflict Prevention ipated in presidential diplomatic missions and Strategic Communications (invited) to Somalia, Pakistan, and Ethiopia-Eritrea u Mr. Paul Hulley, Principal Director, Office of the Deputy and State Department missions involving Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations (invited) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and conflicts u Ms. Sharon Cromer, Assistant Administrator for Democracy, in Indonesia and the Philippines. Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (Acting), USAID (invited) u Mr. Scott Norwood, Deputy Director, Global Strategic AMBASSADOR DAVID LITT (RET) Partnerships, Strategic Plans and Policy, The Joint Staff 11:30 am - 12:15 pm 11:15 am BREAK Ambassador Litt served for 11:30 am KEYNOTE 34 years as a career U.S. “Academia’s Role in Bridging the Cultural Divide” diplomat, specializing in the u Mr. David Litt, Executive Director, Center for Stabilization and Middle East and Southwest Economic Reconstruction, Institute for Defense and Business, Asia. In 2005-2006 he was Chapel Hill, NC the third-ranking officer at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, with the 12:15 pm LUNCH title of Political-Military Counselor, provid- ing policy advice to the U.S. Ambassador, 1:30 pm PANEL and serving as liaison between the Embassy Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communications and the Multi-National Forces – Iraq. Moderator: Jake Jacobowitz, Former Director of Psychological Operations,Office of the Secretary of Defense Panelists: AMBASSADOR BILL GARVELINK u Mr. James Glassman 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm u Mr. Peter Kovach Ambassador William J. u Dan Serwer, Vice President, U.S. Institute of Peace Garvelink was sworn in as 3:00 pm PANEL the U.S. Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Continent in Crisis: A Lifetime of Lessons Learned Congo on October 22, 2007. Moderator: Mr. Olin Saunders, Camber Corporation Before joining the Agency for Panelists: International Development (AID) in 1979, u Ambassador William Garvelink, U.S. Ambassador to the Ambassador Garvelink was a professional Democratic Republic of Congo; Representative, USAFRICOM staff member of the Subcommittee on In- u Ambassador John Blaney, Former Ambassador to Liberia; ternational Organizations, Committee on Senior Policy Advisor to Deliotte Foreign Affairs, of the U.S. House of Rep- resentatives. 4:30 pm BREAK 4:45 pm KEYNOTE u GEN William “Kip” Ward, USA, Commander, USAFRICOM 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm RECEPTION STABILITY, SECURITY, TRANSITION & RECONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 7:30 am - 8:20 am Registration & Continental Breakfast GUEST SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 8:20 am ADMINISTRATIVE REMARKS u Mr. Sam Campagna, Director, NDIA DR. RICHARD SOLOMON* 8:30 am - 9:15 am (invited) 8:30 am KEYNOTE u Gen Douglas Fraser, USAF, Commander, USSOUTHCOM Richard Solomon has been president of the United 9:15 am PANEL States Institute of Peace since Crisis Prevention and Recovery Efforts 1993. Prior to this assign- Moderator: Mr. John Otte ment, he was assistant sec- Panelists: retary of state for East Asian u TBD and Pacific affairs from 1989 to 1992. He negotiated the Cambodia peace treaty, the 10:45 am BREAK first United Nations “Permanent Five” peacemaking agreement; and had a lead- 11:00 am PANEL ing role in the dialogue on nuclear issues Unified Command’s Role in Whole of Government Solutions between the United States and South and Moderator: Mr. Lincoln Bloomfield Jr.,Former Assistant North Korea. In 1992-93, Solomon served Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs (invited) as U.S. ambassador to the Philippines. Panelists: u VADM Robert Harward, USN, Deputy Commander, JFCOM DR. WILLIAM SCHNEIDER u TBD, USSOUTHCOM u TBD, USAFRICOM 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm Dr. Schneider’s responsibili- 12:30 pm LUNCH ties in the Department of u Dr. William Schneider, Former Chairman, Defense Science State included management Board of U.S. foreign economic 1:45 pm PANEL and military assistance The Power of Public-Private Partnership abroad, export control pol- icy (including serving as Chairman of the Moderator: Mr. Gary DeKay, Camber Corporation Senior Interagency Group on the Transfer Panelists: of Strategic Technology), international u Ms. Lisa Samson, Deputy Director for Public-Private telecommunications and information pol- Partnerships, USSOUTHCOM icy (including serving as Chairman of the u Ms. Susan Reichle, Mission Director, Columbia, USAID Senior Interagency Group on International u TBD, Project Hope Telecommunications and Information 3:30 pm BREAK Policy) and supervision of U.S. science at- taches posted at U.S. embassies abroad. 3:45 pm KEYNOTE “United States Special Operations Command: Blending Elements of National Power” ADM ERIC OLSON, USN u ADM Eric Olson, USN, Commander, USSOCOM 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm 4:30 pm Closing Remarks Olson graduated from the Naval Academy in 1973 and completed SEAL training in 1974. For the next two decades, he served in a vari- ety of military assignments, many of them overseas, until 1994 when he became commander of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, an American counter-terrorism unit. Olson was promot- ed again in 1999 when he assumed com- mand of Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, California. He assumed his current assignment on 9 July 2007.