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Commanding Officer, Joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technical Support Center (JEODTSC) , Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division NSWC Indian Head

CAPT VINCENT MARTINEZ, USN

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SUPPORTING SOF IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN

J8/RequirementsJoint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA)USD AT&L

MR. JONATHAN YOUNG

Strategist / Senior FellowJoint Special Operations University

DR. MARK MOYER

Chief, Strategy and PlansStrategic Capabilities OfficeOffice of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)

MR. ROBERT GIESLER

Commanding OfficerLogistics Support Unit 2Naval Special Warfare Group 2

CDR STEPHEN WILSON

Commanding OfficerTactical Law Enforcement Team South (TACLET South)USCG

CDR MICHAEL FREDIE, USCG

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of DefenseSpecial Operations & Low Intensity ConflictOffice of the Secretary of Defense

Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator for Regional and Multilateral Affairs Counterterrorism BureauU.S. Department of State

MS. THERESA WHELAN

DR. MARIE RICHARDS

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Dear SOF Stakeholder:

In today’s interconnected world, the traditional threats to balance of power (previously resting in the hands of a few large state actors) has been replaced with a variety of smaller state and non-state actors who wield a geopolitical influence with increasing leverage, often with destabilizing effects. Asymmetric threats to global security (such as ISIL, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, and others) routinely operate in an environment where governments struggle for legitimacy, and partner capacity is inadequate to meet the security situation. With these challenges in mind, Special Operations Summit Little Creek will focus on five key development areas:

• Building Human Capital. The fundamental SOF truth is that “Humans are more important than Hardware.” This requires us to look at solutions to building resiliency, optimizing human performance, managing and developing talent, and monitoring the operational life-cycle of SOF warfighters.

• Leveraging technology to improve SOF Tactical Equipment Requirements to meet a diverse range of mission sets requires a diverse range of equipment solutions. An open dialogue with industry on requirements, gaps and challenges helps leverage the most advanced technology available.

• Requirements to Develop Regional Expertise and Facilitate Full Spectrum Partner Capability Providing increased proficiency in addressing theater-specific sociocultural challenges enables SOF to provide more than just forces, but tailored solutions to theater problem sets - understanding, influencing, or exercising control within the human domain in areas of instability. This requires solutions to maximize effectiveness of NSW persistent engagement efforts and Security Force Assistance (SFA) with partner nations to meet strategic objectives.

• More Agile and Adaptable Maritime Access/Mobility Platforms Maritime SOF requires agile and adaptable surface and subsurface platforms, and associated systems (both manned and unmanned) that integrate seamlessly with sea basing and host platforms to operate in the full range of physical and political environments in the maritime domain.

• Improving Agility, Persistence, and Flexibility in C4ISR capabilities to meet tactical demands.

I look forward to seeing you at Special Operations Summit – Little Creek 2015!

Very Respectfully,

Andrew Hildebrand Conference Director, Special Operations Summit – Little Creek Institute for Defense and Government Advancement

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The Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency JIDA enables the Department of Defense actions to counter improvised threats with tactical responsiveness and anticipatory acquisition in support of Combatant Commanders’ efforts to prepare for, and react to, battlefield surprise in support of counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, and other related mission areas including counter-improvised explosive device (IED).

NSWC Crane Division Special Missions Center supports military forces engaged in Special Operations, Irregular Warfare and Riverine Operations. With more than 1 million square feet of offices and laboratories, the Special Missions Center provides a distinct advantage in sensors and communications, mobility and maneuverability, and special munitions and weapons. NSWC Crane’s Special Missions Center is the go-to source for the elite Warfighter who requires solutions that are expertly delivered to ensure safe and effective missions.

NAVSCIATTS conducts Foreign Internal Defense (FID) in support of Combatant Commanders in accordance with Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command priorities using Mobile Training Teams (MTTs) and in-residence training to prepare partner nation forces to conduct small craft operations in riverine or littoral environments.

Tactical Law Enforcement Team (TACLET) South is a specialized, deployable maritime law enforcement team of the United States Coast Guard. First established in 1982, their primary mission is to deploy aboard U.S. and allied naval vessels to conduct and support maritime law enforcement, interdiction, or security operations. TACLET South was part of the Coast Guard’s Deployable Operations Group (DOG) from 2007 to 2013.

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NSWC CRANE DIVISION

NAVSCIATTS

TACLET

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In addition to his role at the Strategic Capabilities Office, OSD, Mr. Giesler serves as Special Adviser on Irregular Warfare at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. Mr. Giesler has previously served as the director for Information Operations and Strategic Studies in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Chief, Strategy and Plans, Strategic Capabilities Office Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)

MR. ROBERT GIESLER

Information Operations

CAPT Martinez is the CO of NSWC IHEODTD, a field activity of the Naval Sea Systems Command and part of the Navy’s Science and Engineering Enterprise. NSWC Indian Head focuses on energetics and ordnance research, development, testing, evaluation, in-service support and disposal; and provides warfighters solutions to detect, locate, access, identify, render safe, recover, exploit, and dispose of explosive ordnance threats. Commanding Officer

Joint Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technical Support Center (JEODTSC) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division NSWC Indian Head

CAPT VINCENT MARTINEZ, USN

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology

Mr. Cabel serves as the Special Operations Liaison to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Indiana His military career includes 20 years in Naval Special Warfare as a SEAL, including time as an Acquisition Program Manager for Special Programs, and Naval Special Warfare Acquisition Program Manager at Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).

Special Operations Liaison NAVSEA NSWC Crane

MR. DANIEL CABEL

SOF Capability

Mr. Young serves as a Division Manager focused on Requirements for Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA). JIDA provides an agile response mechanism for improvised threats that require a temporal, near term solution – its mission was broadened to include not just the IED, but other improvised threats as specified by the Secretary of Defense.

J-8 (Requirements) Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA)

MR. JONATHAN YOUNG

Counter Improvised Threat

Previously Dr. Richards has been Principal Deputy Director in the Office of European Political and Security Affairs. From 2011-2012 she was Consul General in Peshawar, Pakistan, preceded by a year as Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. Dr. Richards served two years, 2007-2009, as Director for Afghanistan at the National Security Council, preceded by two years as Deputy Political-Military Counselor in Kabul, Afghanistan. She has also held the position of Asia Section Chief in the Office of Regional Security and Arms Transfers Policy, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Other overseas assignments include Guangzhou, New Delhi, and Karachi.

Dr. Richards holds an A.B. in government from Harvard University, a Masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley.

Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator for Regional and Multilateral Affairs Counterterrorism Bureau U.S. Department of State

DR. MARIE RICHARDS (SES)

Counterterrorism

Ms. Whelan currently serves as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict. Ms Whelan brings over twenty-seven years of experience in the defense intelligence, defense policy and national intelligence communities. Prior to assuming her current position, Ms Whelan served as the national intelligence officer for Africa on the Director for National Intelligence’s National Intelligence Council. Between 2003-2011, she held three separate deputy assistant secretary of defense (DASD) positions within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy: DASD, Homeland Defense Domains and Defense Support to Civil Authorities; DASD, Defense Continuity and Crisis Management; and DASD, African Affairs. Her other assignments in the Department include Under Secretary of Defense for Policy’s Balkans Task Force, Senior Program Director for the US/South Africa Joint Defense Committee, Countries Director for Southern Africa and West Africa, and African military capabilities analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency covering West, Central and East African countries.

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/ Low-Intensity Conflict

MS. THERESA WHELAN (SES)

Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict

CDR Fredie is the Commanding Officer of Tactical Law Enforcement Team South. TACLETs are involved in maritime interdiction for both national security tasking as well as law enforcement functions such as counter narcotics operations.

Commanding Officer Tactical Law Enforcement Team South (TACLET South) USCG

CDR MICHAEL FREDIE

Maritime Tactical Law Enforcement

CDR Wilson is the Commanding Officer of Naval Special Warfare Logistics and Support Unit Two (LOGSU-2) whose primary mission is to provide logistical and support services to Naval Special Warfare Group Two and its subordinate units including SEAL Teams 2, 4, 8, and 10. LOGSU-2 directly supports NSW operations and training at home and globally forward deployed.

USN, Commanding Officer NSW LOGSU-2

CDR STEPHEN M. WILSON

Naval Special Warfare Logistics

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, 2015WORKSHOPS/LIVE FIRE DEMO

0800 Registration

0845 Chairperson Welcome and Opening Remarks

0900 WORKSHOP A: Maritime Security and Littoral Operations Leadership Panel

This workshop will highlight security challenges from senior maritime security decision makers from both DoD and DHS.

· Maritime Interdiction / VBSS Requirements

· Maritime Security Response

· AT/FP Training Requirements

CDR Michael Fredie, USCG, Commanding Officer, Tactical Law Enforcement Team - South

CAPT Sean Regan, USCG, Commanding Officer, Maritime Security Response Team

Col James W. Frey USMC, Commanding Officer, Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic

1030 Morning Networking & Refreshment Break

1045 WORKSHOP B: Optimizing the Strategic Utility of SOF:

· Future Strategic Environment

· SOF Roles and Missions

· Building Partner Capacity

Dr. Mark Moyar, Strategist/Senior Fellow, Joint Special Operations University, author of “Strategic Failure”

11:30 Lunch

12:30 Load buses for Live Fire Demo

The second half of the Workshop Day will go hands-on with the latest and greatest hardware. We will load up the buses and make our way to the local firing range to evaluate a variety of equipment, all designed to support the SOF warfighter. The Live Fire Demonstration will highlight improved tactical equipment, including:

Advanced Small Arms Components and Ammunition

Innovative Sighting Solutions

Body Armor Technology

The Live Fire Demo is an ideal forum to exchange ideas, view innovative products, and trial new solutions to enable our forces with solutions to win in a complex world.

LIVE FIRE DEMONSTRATION

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 2015MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONE

0800 Registration & Coffee

0845 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

0900 KEYNOTE: Future SOF Landscape · Future Challenges Facing the Special Operations Community

· Irregular Warfare Challenges

· Requirements to support the COCOMs and TSOCs

Ms. Theresa Whelan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Special Operations & Low Intensity Conflict, Office of the Secretary of Defense

0945 PANEL: Building SOF Human Capital to Maximize Performance and Resiliency · Wearable Biosensor Technology

· Research to strengthen human adaptive reasoning and problem solving.

· Improving SOF Warfigher Performance

Dr. Alexis Jeanotte, Program Manager, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency

Dr. Joshua Hagen, 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Labs

1030 Demo Drive / Morning Networking & Refreshment

1115 Developments in U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Interdiction Operations · MIO in support of national security objectives

· Counter Narcotics operational support

· Tactical Challenges in Maritime Security

CDR Michael Fredie, USCG, Commanding Officer, Tactical Law Enforcement Team - South

CAPT Sean Regan, USCG, Commanding Officer, Maritime Security Response Team

1200 Networking Luncheon

1300 PANEL: Requirements to Build Partner Capacity to Counter Violent Extremism Ms. Theresa Whelan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Special Operations & Low Intensity Conflict, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Dr. Marie Richards, Deputy CT Coordinator,Counterterrorism Bureau, U.S. Department of State

Dr. Jim Schear, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations, Global Fellow, The Wilson Center

1400 Requirements to Counter the Improvised Threat · Emerging Improvised Threats

· Adapting to the Changing Battlefield

· The Growing Role of JITA

Mr. Jonathan Young, Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA)USD AT&L

1445 Afternoon Networking & Refreshment Break

1515 Next Generation Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology · Countering the Next Improvised Explosive Threat

· Sensor Technology Updates

· Autonomous Mobility

1600 Next Generation Technical Requirements for EOD operators · Equipment Requirements

· Adapting to the Changing Battlefield

· Improving EOD operator capability

CAPT Vincent Martinez, USN, Commanding Officer, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division, NSWC Indian Head

1645 Closing Remarks

1700 End of Main Conference Day One

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0800 Registration & Coffee

0845 Chairperson’s Recap of Conference Day One

0900 Innovation in Support of NATO Strategic Objectives · NATO Hybrid Warfare Strategy · Requirements for innovation in support NATO strategic doctrine · Building NATO capabilityto meet IW challenges

Col Imre Porkoláb, PhD, NATO Allied Command Transformation

0945 PANEL: Counter Improvised Explosive Threat Leadership · Strategies to counter the next improvised threat · Next generation CIED techniques · Future landscape of explosive threats

CAPT Vincent R. Martinez USN, Commanding Officer, NSWC Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division Mr. Jon Young, J8 Division Chief (Rapid Capability Delivery), Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency (JIDA)USD AT&L

1030 Morning Networking & Refreshment Break

1115 Handheld Tactical ISR Capabilities to Meet Emerging Requirements · Digital Mapping Reconnaissance Toolkit · Filling the Tactical Handheld ISR Void · Rapidly collecting, process and disseminating geo-intelligence

Bruce A. Donaldson, Red Hen Systems

1200 USSOCOM 2020 and Requirements for Current and Future NSW Deployments · Responding to Emerging Threats · Historical Models · Understanding 2020 Requirements

Professor Michael Bennett, Special Operations Chair, Joint Forces Staff College (USSOCOM-JSOU)

1245 Networking Luncheon

1345 Requirements to Improve Logistics /Supply Chain Distribution Management to Reduce Sustainment Footprint · Challenges to Operating in Austere Environments

· Sustainment Footprint Issues

· Future Requirements

CDR Stephen M. Wilson USN, Commanding Officer, LOGSU-2, Naval Special Warfare Group 2

1430 Social Media and Unconventional Warfare · Information Sharing in a Coalition Environment · State Sponsored Censorship · Leveraging Social Media

➢ Robert Giesler, Chief, Strategy and Plans, Strategic Capabilities Office, OSD

1515 Afternoon Networking & Refreshment Break

1600 Improving DoD Capabilities to Counter Proliferation and Subterranean Threats Through Emerging Technologies and Defense Innovation · Holding At Risk Adversary Mobile Missiles · Countering WMD Facilities · Subterranean Threat Infrastructure

CDR Cameron Chen, USN, J-39 Global Operations (Counter Proliferation/Unified Collection), Joint Staff

1645 Providing Rapid Response and Proven Solutions in Support of Special Missions · Importance of Innovation in support of SOF · Adapting to the Changing Battlefield · Future Requirements to support SOF

Mr. Daniel Cabel, Special Operations Liaison, NAVSEA NSWC Crane

1715 Closing Remarks

1730 End of Main Conference Day Two

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