SPAWAR conference to focus on FORCEnet."Architecting and Implementing FORCEnet" is the theme for the seventh SPAWAR-NDIA Industry Conference in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . The conference, jointly sponsored by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and NDIA's San Diego Chapter, will be held October 23-24 at the Bahia Hotel. The conference will focus on the challenges of integrating technology to support the war fighter, according to Chapter President Kathy Sridhar. The conference will explore the role of FORCEnet in the joint services C4I C4I Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence (US DoD) C4I Command Control Communications Computer and Intelligence architecture. Invited speakers include: * John Stenbit, assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence. * Adm. James O. Ellis Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. (born July 20, 1947 in Spartanburg, South Carolina) is a retired 4-star admiral and former Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. , commander of the U. S. Strategic Command. * Adm. E. P. Giambastiani Jr., commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command. * Lt. Gen. Leslie F. Kenne deputy chief of staff for war-fighting integration at U.S. Air Force headquarters. * Maj. Gen. William H. Russ, commanding general of the U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command. * Brig. Gen. John R. Thomas John Robert Thomas (October 11, 1846 - January 19, 1914) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Mount Vernon, Illinois, Thomas attended the common schools and Hunter Collegiate Institute, Princeton, Indiana. , C4I director for the U.S. Marine Corps. * Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski Vice Admiral (ret.) Arthur K. Cebrowski (August 13, 1942 – November 12, 2005) was a retired United States Navy admiral who served from October 2001 to January 2005 as Director of the Office of Force Transformation in the U.S. Department of Defense. , USN (Ret.), director of the Defense Department's Office of Force Transformation. The conference will conclude with the third annual Fleet Support Awards at the Conference Banquet. Additional activities include tours of shipboard ship·board n. 1. The condition of being aboard a ship: on shipboard. 2. Archaic The side of a ship. adj. and shore facilities that comprise the FORCEnet C4I infrastructure, the annual Navy League commander's conference and the second joint NDIA-San Diego Business Journal Small Business Forum, "Doing Business with the Defense Industry," supported by the San Diego chapter's small business committee. Further information and registration is available at http://www.ndia-sd.org/events. Or contact Pem Smith, publicity director for the San Diego chapter, at (619) 881-8924. |
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