AFCEA West 2013
STAR-TIDES participated in AFCEA West 2013 from 29-31 January, 2013 in San Diego, CA. Fifteen STAR-TIDES affiliated companies and NGOs from around the country exhibited with TIDES to include power, water, shelter, communications and crowd sourcing technologies, and disaster response. This year’s experience at AFCEA West generated significant interest and created opportunities to carry the TIDES research project forward. In addition to generating the attention of all the military services who visited, our members formed and strengthened invaluable partnerships within the network that will help in future engagements. More than the exhibit, CTNSP members participated in the conference’s speaker series. The AFCEA-sponsored sessions with LtGen Jon Davis, Deputy Commander of the Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and Deputy DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) Rob Carey concerning the Joint Information Environment (JIE), outlined plans for the roll-out of the JIE and CYBERCOM developments. Furthermore, the Sea Service chiefs (ADM Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations; General James Amos, Commandant, U.S Marine Corps; and ADM Robert Papp, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard) emphasized their priorities and concerns about the fiscal environment. One area that was emphasized at both PACOM and in the cyber session was the impact of a year-long continuing resolution if a budget isn’t passed--it’s not just the threat of sequestration.

Publications

Strategic Shift: Appraising Recent Changes to US Defense Plans and Priorities
by Richard L. Kugler and Linton Wells II

This paper evaluates major changes announced in US defense plans and priorities through high-level Department of Defense guidance released during 2012. Collectively, these documents lay out an ambitious and demanding set of changes across three broad areas: political-military, opeational concepts, and force structure. They aim for an important strategic rebalancing in the defense component of US national security strategy, driven by an unpredictable, complex and dangerous environment with accelerating rates of political and technological change, as well as fiscal constraints.
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Anticipatory Governance
Practical Upgrades
by Leon S. Fuerth with Evan M.H. Faber

The US Government cannot rely indefinitely on crisis management, no matter how adroit. We must get ahead of events or risk being overtaken by them. That will only be possible by upgrading our legacy systems of management to meet today’s unique brand of accelerating and complex challenges. Anticipatory Governance Practical Upgrades, by Leon Fuerth and Evan Faber seeks to address this need with upgrades to existing systems in the Executive Branch.

DTP 100: Some Recent Sensor-Related Army Critical Technology Events
by James A. Ratches, Richard Chait, and John W. Lyons

DTP 99: Suggestions for Evaluating the Quality of the Army's Science and Technology Program: The Portfolio and Its Execution
by John W. Lyons, Richard Chait, and James Ratches

DTP 98: Taking the Battle Upstream: Towards a Benchmarking Role for NATO
by Stephan De Spiegeleire

DH 74: Public-Private Cooperation in the Department of Defense: A Framework for Analysis and Recommendations for Action
by Linton Wells II and Samuel Bendett

DH 73: Toward the Printed World: Additive Manufacturing and Implications for National Security
by Connor M. McNulty, Neyla Arnas, and Thomas A. Campbell

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In anticipation of a flu pandemic, CTNSP has started a number of initiatives to address both civilian and military implications. Weathering the Storm: Leading Your Organization Through a Pandemic Flu Event is designed for organizational leaders, and concentrates on non-medical intervention and organizational readiness during a pandemic. This poster is based on the November 2006 Defense & Technology Paper from CTNSP, “Weathering the Storm: Leading Your Organization Through a Pandemic.”