Demay, the founder and cto of hawkeye 360. And hawkeye is an rf Data Analytics company. Tina harrington. Director of cigant at the nro. And Major General john shaw. United States Air Force who is the Deputy Commander of air force Space Command. Im going to have each of them do a short introduction to frame their mission and their priorities. After we hear from them, ill start a couple of rounds of questions. As chuck said, please get your questions ready. Ive already had a few pop up on the ipad. We certainly want to be able to answer your questions from the audience. So, chris, over to you. All right. Thank you, tish. First off, thank you to insa for hosting this incredible and important event. Tish, thanks for leading the panel. Again, chris demay. Im one of the founders and the chief Technology Officers for hawkeye 360. My background is in government. Spent 14 years both with nsa and nro, in fact, my last government boss is on the panel with me today. And from those experiences, i l
[applause] good afternoon, everybody and thank you for that warm introduction, and thanks to the sponsors for pulling such Amazing Group of professionals together this afternoon. It is took an honor for me to share the stage with general joe votel. He was a fantastic colleague but also a wonderful role model of the sort of servant leader for all of us who were in government. Joe, you served as commander of u. S. Socom, as commander of Central Command during probably the busiest time ever for armed forces in the middle east. You are an avid and regular consumer of intelligence. I wonder given the conference and its theme in this audience if you start by just giving us a war fighters frank assessment of the intelligence support you received. How were we doing . What were the strengths, weaknesses, the gaps . Thanks michelle. Let me add my thanks to the insa leadership and all of you for being here. Michelle, thanks for joining us here today for this panel. Youre right, i do consider myse
Many of you know is the chief National Security correspondent and cnn anchor and the author of the new book shadow war inside russia is operations to defeat america. The book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and most of the wall street journal. And its had a lot of good critical success. You may not know jim was also the chief of staff at the u. S. Embassy in china. Hes a graduate of the university in washington with his wife and former journalist for abc news and they have three children and he is reported hed around the world in asia and europe and the middle east and made some opening observations throughout the book and then we will open up for qanda. Thanks to all of you for taking time out of your busy friday and the folks at home appreciate having you here as well. Thank you to peter. He was one of the first few people to read the manuscript of the book early on and since he didnt throw it back in my face i thought i was probably okay moving forward with this and h
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Reception. We do have a pretty full slate of program today, including three plenary sessions, six Breakout Sessions, the summit concludes this afternoon with what should be a very memorable discussion with most of our top Intelligence Agency leaders. As a reminder, we value your questions. I hope you saw several of your questions asked yesterday, and in particular, start thinking of your questions and get them and so we can get them up on stage. And again, if you see it up there, think will try to have a scrolling thing to remind you of the email address so please get your questions in. Yesterday, you heard a little bit about next weeks classified summit follow one day. Based on your feedback we brought the summit format last year by adding a classified follow one day this year declassified day takes place the week from today on thursday september 12, at nga east campus in springfield. Stacy, thanks again for hosting us out there. We are honored to have odni Deputy Director for Mission