IT & Interoperability Focus Day

Dedicate more time to dialogue and networking during this in-depth and interactive series of workshops. This day’s sessions will equip attendees with the technical know-how needed to achieve security and information sharing capabilities.

9:00 am – 11:00 am Data Engineering For Interoperability: Building Advantageous Data Management Practices

Successful, large scale data interoperability can only be achieved through careful implementation of mature data management practices (DMPs). Benchmarking indicates this to be a major weakness in development efforts. This talk will describe what must be done to ensure that your organization has sufficient data governance to implement the five requisite DMPs. Delegates will understand how the five DMPs must interact with each other and with other development activities in order to succeed.

How you will benefit:

• Gain insight into major pitfalls of data engineering
• Find out how to improve the maturity of data management/engineering
• Obtain a better understanding of how interoperability can be more easily designed

What you will learn about:

• Large and complex data engineering tasks
• Overall system implementation
• Best practices that are necessary prerequisites to project success

Session Leaders:
Dr. Peter Aiken
Founding Director
Data Blueprint

Debi Crockett
Director, Data Governance Practice
Data Blueprint

11:15 am – 1:15 pm ScanDeck Cargo Threat Detection For CBP And ONI

Refreshments will be served)

This workshop will talk about a Shipping Cargo Anomaly Detection and Classification (ScanDeck) technology that learns, from ground truth data, combinations of cargo features that are indicative of threat and deviant from normal shipping. Learned models are applied to generate a risk assessment (score, indicators, and supporting evidence) for each new cargo shipment. This presentation will highlight capabilities, performance results and lessons learned from efforts to integrate ScanDeck with CBP’s Advanced Targeting System (ATS) and with ONI’s Global TRADER system.

How you will benefit:

• Obtain the latest information on cargo threat detection capabilities
• Find out the challenges involved with exploiting CBP and ONI cargo data to assess risk

What you will learn about:

• Insights and lessons learned about cargo anomaly detection at CBP and ONI
• Threat detection performance results at CBP
• Motivation for the technical approach implemented in ScanDeck over other anomaly detection and supervised learning methods

Session Leader:
Dr. Chris Boner
Senior Manager
Metron, Inc.

2:15 pm – 4:15 pm Independent Structure And Integrated Knowledge

This session will discuss the enhancement of engineering expertise, analytical abilities, and ethical business and personal conduct. Learn about a streamlined, disciplined systems engineering approach to problem resolution that ensures low risk, low cost, and minimum time to deployment. Session leaders will tell you more about how to define standards, promote commonality, and ensure re-use of applications and IT infrastructures in an effort to minimize cost and ensure supportability across the life cycle.

How you will benefit:

• Gain insight into introducing new technologies and concepts into deployed systems rapidly, cost-effectively, and with minimal risk.
• Find out about powerful, interoperable systems that provide portability and versatility

What you will learn about:

• Systems engineering
• Systems architecture and analysis
• Custom tool development

Session Leader:
Dr. Bob McCaig
Vice President
ASSETT, Inc.