Here is a synopsis of some of our previous events:
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - General Membership Meeting
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:30 am ET - 12:00 pm ET
Vienna, VA
Guest Speaker: Mr. Mel Blizzard, Jr.
Melvin L. Blizzard Jr. served a lengthy and distinguished career with the Baltimore County (Maryland) Police Department, which is nationally accredited. His employment began in 1974 working his way through the ranks to Captain, and being a member of the Executive Corps. During his tenure, he has gained vast experience in the areas of patrol, criminal investigations, media relations, internal affairs investigations, narcotics, intelligence, grants management, personnel management, hostage negotiations, crisis management, emergency preparedness, mental health, and team/section development. He served as the commander of the Hostage Negotiation Team, the Behavioral Assessment Unit and Crisis Management Section. Currently, Mr. Blizzard is Director of the Metropolitan Police Department Fusion Center in Washington, DC.
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Guest Speaker: Mr. Mark Fabro
Mark Fabro is the Chief Security Scientist and VP of Professional Service for Lofty Perch, Inc., where his focus lies in developing strategies that provide clients with effective cyber-security solutions for complex mission critical architectures. As a recognized expert in cyber-attack forecasting and non-traditional threat vectors, Mr. Fabro designs Critical Infrastructure security architectures for transportation, energy, , financial, and military C4ISR networks. As well as being a co-founder of the CISO Working Group, Mr. Fabro’s projects included working with both the U.S. and Canadian Department of Defense and the Pentagon Integrated Protection Working Group. He has assisted and briefed more than 150 government agencies worldwide, including the White House, NSA, and Department of State, and worked on both the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and the cyber annex to the National Response Plan.
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - Community Outreach Event
Thursday, February 8, 2007 5:30 pm ET - 10:00 pm ET
Washington, DC
FBI Community Outreach Night with the Washington Capitals
5:30PM Reception - Clyde's of Gallery Place
7:00PM Game - Verizon Center - CAPS vs. LA Kings
Money raised at this event will help the FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association support the FBI Washington Field Office's community outreach program in five area elementary schools.
The first 100 tickets will be elegible for a drawing to win a signed puck by Capitals Rookie-of-the-Year, Alexander Ovechkin. A percentage of all tickets sold will benefit FBI - CAAA!
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - Members Only Executive Briefing
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:30 am ET - 12:00 pm ET
Falls Church, VA
This CounterTerrorism Executive Briefing by the FBI will cover the current priorities in:
o Domestic Terrorism
o Joint Terrorism Task Force
o Field Intelligence Group
o National Capital Response Squad
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - Public Seminar and Briefing at US Law Conference
Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:30 am ET - 12:00 pm ET
Washington, DC
“Since it inception, InfraGard has been devoted to providing government and law enforcement agencies with subject matter experts, assisting in protecting us all from the dangers that threaten the very fabric of our Nation.” Robert S. Mueller III - Director, FBI
The InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance invites you to join our members from around the beltway and those visiting Washington, DC for the Govsec US Law Ready Conference for an educational and informative public seminar.
At its core, InfraGard’s strength and effectiveness is based upon the subject matter expertise of its trusted membership. As an InfraGard member, you have an inherent concern for national security and comprise a critical link that forms the basis for better understanding our critical interdependencies.
This seminar will include key leaders from the FBI – Washington Field Office, former members of local law enforcement and the domestic preparedness domains. Our guest speakers will reveal more about the current priorities and realities in Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence and Private Sector Interdependencies. The seminar will conclude with a real-world incident command scenario exercise focused on the “Lessons Learned” from the March 2005 “Anthrax Scare” at an Arlington County office complex and the Department of Defense at the Pentagon.
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - Members Only Quantico Event
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:00 am ET - 2:00 pm ET
Quantico, VA
Please join your fellow INCMA members for an exclusive members only meeting.
This Member Only Event and Tour will be held at the FBI Academy
The FBI Academy is located on the United States Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia. The Facility, which opened in the Summer of 1972, is situated on 385 wooded acres of land providing the security, privacy, and safe environment necessary to carry out the diverse training and operations functions for which the FBI is responsible. The DEA also has their training academy at Quantico, Virginia.
The main training complex has three dormitory buildings, a dining hall, library, a classroom building, a Forensic Science Research and Training Center, a 1,000-seat Auditorium, a chapel, administrative offices, a large gymnasium and outside track, along with a fully equipped garage. In addition to the main complex, there is a mock city known as Hogans Alley, which consists of facades replicating a typical small town. The Hogans Alley facades are primarily used for FBI and DEA New Agent Training, while behind the facades are fully functioning classrooms, audiovisual facilities, storage areas, and administrative and maintenance offices. Just beyond Hogans Alley is a 1.1 mile pursuit/defensive driving training track. The extensive firearms training provided to all FBI/DEA and other law enforcement officers is conducted at the indoor firing range, the eight outdoor firing ranges, four skeet ranges, or the 200-yard rifle range.
The FBI Academy is a secured facility and, as such, is not open to the public for tours.
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - Members Only Meeting
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:00 am ET - 12:00 pm ET
Reston, VA
Please join your fellow INCMA members for an exclusive members only meeting.
FBI Washington Field Office
Supervisory Agent Don Good - InfraGard - Member Contribution
Special Agent Peter Vu - Theft of Trade Secrets
Guest Speaker: Mr. Rick Kopel
Principal Deputy Director
Terrorist Screening Center
Rick Kopel is a Terrorist Threat Tracking Officer in the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. He is currently assigned as the Principal Deputy Director of the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Mr. Kopel has had an extensive career in public service as well as experience in the private sector.
In 1998, as the Chief of the Targeting Branch, he was responsible for the design, development, and deployment of all antiterrorism, narcotics smuggling, and trade violation systems. He also served as a senior liaison to other agencies and foreign governments for screening initiatives and technical issues.
Following September 11, 2001 Mr. Kopel was assigned to the USCS Office of Anti-Terrorism as the lead for all intelligence analysis, targeting, and information sharing efforts. He became the Deputy Director of the office in 2002 and served in this capacity until he was designated the Acting Director in March 2003. In July 2003 he departed Customs and assumed his current position at the Terrorist Screening Center.
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Guest Speaker: Ms. Terry Gudaitis, Ph.D.
Cyber Intelligence Director, Cyveillance
Before joining the team at Cyveillance, she was the Director of Open Source Intelligence at SAIC. Terry became the only cyber-crime profiler in the commercial information security industry who provided a business differentiator for her incident response teams as well as for the field of cyber-intelligence. She expanded and altered the classical profiling methods used in homicide, serial crime, and terrorist investigation and adapted them for the applied use in computer crime investigations and internet-based cases.
Terry gained a foundation for her expertise as an operations officer and behavioral profiler at the CIA’s Counter Terrorist Center. At CIA, she was responsible for developing terrorist profiles, assessments of informants, and managing targeting teams. In addition to her corporate related work, Terry has served on the United States Secret Service Advisory Board for Insider Threat, regularly presents at national and international conferences, and has authored publications in numerous security-related journals and books.
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - Open Public Meeting
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:00 am ET - 12:00 pm ET
Arlington, VA
Our focus with this event will be on issues of the law, legal risk, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Compliance, eDiscovery, Information Security, Trusted Information and achieving a Defensible Standard of Care.
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - Members Only Meeting
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:00 am ET - 12:00 pm ET
Arlington, VA
Mr. Chuck Rosenberg
United States Attorney - Eastern District of Virginia
Chuck Rosenberg was appointed by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in March 2006 to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. He was subsequently nominated to that position by President George Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate, unanimously, on June 13, 2006.
As the chief federal law enforcement officer for the District, which includes offices in Alexandria, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond, Mr. Rosenberg supervises the prosecution of all federal crimes, and the litigation of all civil matters in which the federal government has an interest.
Mr. Rosenberg has spent most of his professional career in public service. From June 2005 until March 2006, he served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. Prior to that, he served in several senior posts at the Department of Justice where his work focused on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and national security matters, including as: Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, Counselor to Attorney General John Ashcroft; and, before that, as Counsel to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III.
Before joining the FBI, Mr. Rosenberg was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, in Norfolk and, subsequently, in Alexandria. There he prosecuted financial fraud crimes, violent crimes, and espionage cases. During the last two years of his tenure as a federal prosecutor in Alexandria, Mr. Rosenberg supervised that office's Major Crimes Unit - the unit that prosecuted numerous prominent spy cases. While in private practice with the law firm of Hunton & Williams, Mr. Rosenberg served as an NBC legal analyst, appearing frequently on television.
He is a graduate of Tufts University (B.A.), Harvard University (M.P.P) and the University of Virginia (J.D.).
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Guest Speaker:
Mr. Douglas E. Winter
Of Counsel, Bryan Cave LLP, Washington, D.C.
Doug Winter is a trial and appellate lawyer who specializes in complex civil cases, practicing in federal and state courts throughout the country. He is a founding member of Bryan Cave’s Electronic Discovery Unit.
The Legal 500 recently identified Mr. Winter as a “key expert” in aviation and aerospace products liability and mass tort litigation. He has represented a variety of private clients in cases with sophisticated procedural and technology issues, including the first products liability suit involving an accident in outer space; the U.S. Air Force’s “friendly fire” shoot-down of United Nations helicopters in Iraq; the explosion of a Delta II launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral; and the 2005 crash of a Kyrgyzstani commercial airliner near Kabul, Afghanistan, in which six Americans perished.
Mr. Winter was lead counsel in one of the longest civil jury trials in American history: the 19-month trial of liability for the crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 at Detroit, Michigan, in which his team secured a complete victory for their client. He has also argued and prevailed in significant cases involving the government contractor defense, the sophisticated user defense, and the state secrets defense.
Mr. Winter developed and teaches Bryan Cave’s legal writing and trial training programs. He has also written 11 published books, including the Book of the Month Club’s “Best Suspense Novel of the Year,” Run.
Mr. Winter began his legal career as law clerk to Judge (later FBI Director and CIA Director) William H. Webster. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois (B.S., M.S.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General School.
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Guest Speaker:
Mr. Jeffrey Ritter
CEO, Waters Edge Consulting
Jeffrey Ritter has a different view on how things work. His career is devoted to figuring out how—as this generation of interdependent, always-on global computing arrives—we will develop and maintain trust in the information assets of society. Across a career of academic research, diplomatic leadership, legal services and standards development, Jeffrey has gained a coherent understanding of the calculus of trust, taking account of the complex interactions between systems, rules, economics and subjective human judgment.
He has held substantive roles with the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the American Bar Association in advancing Internet law reform, and is actively engaged in the work of the Information Systems Security Association and the Internet Security Alliance.
Through Waters Edge Consulting, Jeffrey challenges how we think of, and measure the performance of, governance, compliance and process management within any enterprise, and how to re-think using information security controls for broader business functions. As a speaker, workshop leader and facilitator, he is consistently viewed as “outstanding”, “worth the price of the conference” and “provocative”.
InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) - Open Public Meeting
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:00 am ET - 12:00 pm ET
Arlington, VA
Our Critical Infrastructure Resiliency theme for this event is "Emergency Preparedness and Response, Bioterrorism, and Crisis Management in the National Capital Region (NCR)."
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FIRST GUEST SPEAKER:
Mr. Christopher Geldart
Director, Office of National Capital Region Coordination
Christopher Geldart is FEMA’s Director of the Office of National Capital Region Coordination.
Before joining FEMA in April 2007, Mr. Geldart worked for the State of Maryland as Assistant Director of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, beginning in 2004. He designed, developed and led the State’s homeland security Program Executive Office, which included management of over $400 million in funding and required coordination with all of Maryland’s local and municipal governments and the entire state enterprise. He also designed and led grant application, allocation/distribution and outcome tracking process for Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control grant programs for the improvement of the Maryland’s all hazards prevention, protection, response and recovery capabilities.
In addition, he served as primary liaison for the State to the multiple coordinating offices of DHS to include Preparedness, Grants and Training, Infrastructure Protection, Information Analysis and the Office of State and Local Coordination and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
From 2002-2004, Mr. Geldart was a Program Manager at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he provided program management for the Installation Preparedness Program, Unified Defense Exercise 04 and the Technical Assistance Team. He served as a lead in developing scenarios and training materials that test naval installation Weapons of Mass Destruction plans and directives.
From 1989-2001 Mr. Geldart served in the United States Marine Corps, where he had several leadership positions in the Fleet Marine Force and was certified and served as an instructor in a joint military formal school environment at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in American History from the University of Maryland.
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SECOND GUEST SPEAKERS
Ms. Dianne Quebra / Dr. Gloria Addo-Ayensu
Dianne K. Quebral, MS, MBA is the Medical Reserve Corps
Program Coordinator in the Office of Emergency Preparedness for the Fairfax County Health Department. Ms. Quebral received her masters in marketing and her MBA from the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. She has a background in community organizing and legislative advocacy, most recently representing children's hospitals and related medical institutions on various issues affecting children and their health care.
Dr. Gloria Addo-Ayensu, M.D. M.P.H, is the Director of Health for Fairfax County. In this capacity she provides overall direction for public health programs in the county, including emergency preparedness. Dr. Addo-Ayensu received her medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine. Following her residency training in preventive medicine from the Loma Linda University Medical Center, she spent two years with the Loma Linda University Preventive Medicine Faculty Group before joining the Fairfax Health Department in 1999. She is interested in international health and has provided consultation to research and public health programs in Ghana.
The highlights of the presentations will cover public health functions in emergency preparedness and response, disease surveillance, pandemic influenza preparedness, individual and family preparedness and an overview of the Medical Reserve Corps program.