Morning keynote
John M. Custer MG, USA (R), EMC Corporation
The Big Data Challenge
Major General, USA (R) John M. Custer assumed the position of Director, Federal Strategic Missions and Programs at EMC Corporation, a global data storage and information technology company, in June 2011. Before his retirement from the military he served as Commander of the US Army’s Intelligence Center and School and prior to that he spent more than four years as the Director of Intelligence (J2) United States Central Command.
General Custer is responsible for leading all aspects of strategy, business development and program execution for EMC Corporation’s Federal Business Division. His background with Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations as well as Intelligence Training will be crucial as EMC leads the Federal Government and Department of Defense in its “Journey to the Cloud.”
Custer has more than three decades of government experience with intelligence, secure communications architectures, information technology and surveillance operations.
Afternoon keynote
Ann Carbonell, NGA
NGA and open IT architecture
Dr. Ann M. Carbonell is the Director of the NGA System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) Expeditionary Architecture (NEA) for the NGA Acquisition Directorate. Dr. Carbonell is currently responsible for rapid deliveries to Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain, and PACOM as well as working in conjunction with other mission partners.
Dr. Carbonell’s career includes twenty-five years of combined government and defense industry program management and engineering experience. She spent nine years as an Air Force Active Duty Officer, four years as an Active Duty Reservist, three years as an Intelligence Community/Defense Contractor and eleven years as an employee of NGA, five of those years as a senior executive. Her career includes assignments at Air Force Space Command, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Air Staff, National Reconnaissance Office, and Central Imagery Office. She has successfully managed numerous large-scale, complex programs and projects and has been appointed to numerous special focus action teams, including the NIMA Defense Science Board, U.S. Imagery and Geospatial Service, Geospatial Production Management Project Tiger Team, and the Hardcopy-Softcopy Study.
Dr. Carbonell’s leadership was pivotal in numerous agency NSG infrastructure transformations to include the migration to support digital exploitation, commercial-based exploitation, CMM/ISO organization process improvement programs, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) integration, and now new source integration.