Symposium Agenda (Tentative)  
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Tuesday March 24
7:00 - 8:00 Check In
8:00 - 8:15 Welcome and Insights from 2008
Interdependent analysis, strategy, and technology perspectives will be given on how unrestricted warfare and increased globalization create imperatives for interagency cooperation and action.
8:15 - 9:15 Keynote Address
The Honorable James R. Locher, III, Project for National Security Reform, Author of Victory of the Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon
9:15 - 10:00 Cyber Attacks
The threat of cyber attacks on networks, computers, data, and information systems and the potential impact to national security.
Mr. Dan Wolf, Cyber Pack Ventures, Inc.
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:45 Roundtable 1: Responding to Cyber Attacks
Panelists from the strategy and technology communities will discuss imperatives for interagency action and identify policy and technology innovations to counter or respond to cyber threats.
 Mr. Thomas M. McNamara, Jr., JHU/APL (Moderator)
Mr. Dan Wolf, Cyber Pack Ventures, Inc.
Mr. Robert Gourley, Crucial Point, LLC
Mr. Anthony Bargar, OSD(NII)
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:15 Resource Attacks
Unrestricted warfare threats to national resources are characterized and include agriculture, power, oil and natural gas, water, and the physical infrastructures that support these resource assets.
Prof. Michael Klare, Hampshire College, Author of Resource Wars
1:15 - 2:45 Roundtable 2: Responding to Resource Attacks
Panelists will discuss how attacks on natural resources create imperatives for interagency action and will identify options for enhancing appropriate interagency capabilities.
 Ms. Lesa McComas, JHU/APL (Moderator)
CAPT Jan van Tol, USN (ret), CSBA
Dr. Khatuna Salukvadze, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Georgia
Ms. Celina B. Realuyo, CBR Global Advisors
Prof. Michael Klare, Hampshire College, Author of Resource Wars
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:45 Economic and Financial Attacks
Attacks in this line of operation include targeting or acquiring sensitive financial, trade, or economic policy information, proprietary economic data, or critical technologies, and the potential impact to national security.
Mr. James Rickards, Omnis, Inc.
3:45 - 5:15 Roundtable 3: Responding to Economic and Financial Attacks
Panelists from strategy and technology communities will discuss how economic and financial attacks can create imperatives for interagency action and will identify options for enhancing appropriate interagency capabilities.
 Col Edward (Ted) A. Smyth, USMC (ret), JHU/APL (Moderator)
Mr. James Rickards, Omnis, Inc.
Dr. William Overholt, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Prof. Richard Cooper, Harvard University
Prof. Pieter Bottelier, JHU/SAIS
5:15 - 6:00 Social
6:00 - 6:45 Dinner
6:45 - 7:30 Resiliency in the Face of URW Attacks
Dr. Stephen Flynn, Council on Foreign Relations, Author of The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation

Wednesday March 25
7:30 - 8:30 Check In
8:30 - 9:15 Terrorism - From IEDs to WMDs
An interagency approach to successfully countering the full range of terrorism threats requires not only the military but fundamentally parallel political, social, economic, and ideological activities.
Prof. Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University, Author of Inside Terrorism
9:15 - 10:45 Roundtable 4: Responding to Nuclear Terrorism
Panelists from the analysis and strategy communities will discuss how the threat of nuclear terrorism creates imperatives for interagency action and will identify options for enhancing appropriate interagency capabilities.
 Mr. Todd Masse, JHU/APL (Moderator)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Analysis Support for the Interagency
Analytical approaches that integrate diverse agency interests and provide real-world illustrations of their application and how they may be employed for national security.
Mr. Eric Coulter, OSD PA&E
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 2:15 Roundtable 5: Analysis Support
Panelists from the analysis community will discuss how unrestricted warfare creates imperatives for interagency action and will identify options for enhancing the community’s ability to support interagency efforts.
 Mr. John R. Benedict, JHU/APL (Moderator)
Dr. Matthew Levitt, Washington Institute
Mr. Andrew Caldwell, OSD
Dr. George Akst, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
2:15 - 3:00 Intelligence Support for the Interagency
How unrestricted warfare creates imperatives for integrating and synthesizing intelligence collection and analysis to support interagency efforts.
Ms. Karen Monaghan, National Intelligence Council
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:45 Unrestricted Warfare Imperatives for Interagency Action: Senior Perspectives
Senior Government Personnel will provide their individual perspectives on how unrestricted warfare creates imperatives for interagency action and identify opportunities to integrate strategic, analytical, and technological developments to support such efforts. In the remaining time, the panelists will field questions from the floor.
 Prof. Thomas A. Keaney, JHU/SAIS (Moderator)
Dr. G. Peter Nanos, Jr., DTRA
Ms. Karen Monaghan, National Intelligence Council
Mr. Bernd "Bear" McConnell, NORAD/USNORTHCOM
Dr. Vahid Majidi, Assistant Director, Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, FBI
Mr. Eric Coulter, OSD PA&E