NISP Session @ Academic Security and Counter Exploitation Program Seminar

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Save the dateApril 28, 20218:45 AM - 4:00 PM (CDT)

Organizer

Organizer: ASCE 2021 - Virtual Seminar

Phone: +1 9085006430

Contact Person: Lauren Schroeder

Email: clschroeder@tamus.edu

Event Details

We are pleased to offer a dedicated session on NISP issues as part of the ASCE 2021 Virtual Seminar! Following the Keynote presentation, the agenda will provide information presentations and exchanges with panel members on NISP topics including Insider Threat Program management and a comprehensive NISPOM overview. We look forward to seeing you!

Agenda

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
ASCE 2021 - NISP Session - Welcome and Introduction
ASCE 2021 - NISP Session - Welcome and Introduction
Kickoff opening for the NISP sessions of the ASCE 2021 Virtual Seminar!
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
DCSA Leadership Discussion
DCSA Leadership Discussion
Gus Greene
Asst Director Critical Technology Protection (CTP) of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Joel West
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Gus Greene, the Acting Assistant Director, Critical Technology Protection for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, will kick-off the NISP Event.
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Refill your coffee or tea...see you back in the Virtual Main Stage area in 15 minutes.
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
DSCA Panel Discussion
DSCA Panel Discussion
Jay Cable
Regional Director, Southern - CI Field Operations of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Allison Carpenter
Division Chief-Counterintelligence Operations, HQ DCSA at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Michael Halter
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Regina Johnson
Regional Director, Southern Region (CTP) of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
The DSCA Leadership Panel members will share their perspectives on the current state of NISP and the role of NISP in Defense research and contracts.
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Break + FSO Break-Out Lunch
Lunch Break + FSO Break-Out Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Insider Threat Program
Insider Threat Program
Garrett Speace
Industrial Security Representative at DCSA
Michael Rudzinski
Special Agent at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Focused discussion on the Insider Threat Program.
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Stretch your legs and get ready for the next session...see you back here in 15 minutes.
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
NISPOM Overview
NISPOM Overview
Keith Minard
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Expert panel discussion to discuss the NISPOM and provide an overview of the operating manual.
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Final Afternoon Break
Final Afternoon Break
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
DISS Overview
DISS Overview
Charles Tench
Chief Functional Industry/MilDep Program Manager, Program Executive Office (PEO) at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
Expert panel discussion on the Defense Information Security System (DISS) and its role in NISP.
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
NISP Session Wrap-up Discussion
NISP Session Wrap-up Discussion
Recap of the day's NISP event and plans for future events. Thanks for your attendance at the ASCE 2021 NISP Session!

Speakers

Jay Cable

Regional Director, Southern - CI Field Operations of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Jay Cable

Regional Director, Southern - CI Field Operations of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Robert J. Cable, Jr., is the Regional Director of Counterintelligence – Southern Region, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). He assumed his current position in September 2018.

He is responsible for providing counterintelligence (CI) functional services, management, and oversight throughout a 14-state area of responsibility. He leads a multi-functional workforce of 39 personnel and provides CI services to 3,000 cleared contractor facilities to deter, detect, and disrupt foreign intelligence
entities attempting to collect classified and sensitive technologies and information resident in the defense industrial base. He is the senior DCSA CI representative responsible for liaison and coordination of investigative and operational activities with CI, law enforcement, security, and intelligence agencies in the Southern Region area of responsibility.
Prior to this assignment, Mr. Cable also served as the DCSA’s Southern Region CI Chief from September 2013 to September 2018, and Deputy CI Chief from September 2010 to September 2013, both in Irving, TX. In these roles he provided CI functional services to over 3,000 cleared contractor facilities in support
of DCSA’s overarching mission of securing the integrity of the nation’s technological base and the protection of U.S. and foreign classified information in the hands of cleared industry.

Prior to joining DCSA, Mr. Cable had a distinguished military career in the United States Air Force for almost 24 years. He began his military career in the munitions field before selection into the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) where he served in a variety of progressively responsible leadership positions. He has extensive experience leading and managing CI investigations, counterespionage operations, and felony-level criminal investigations worldwide. He has served as a felony-level criminal investigator; counterespionage case officer; detachment, squadron, and region superintendent; special agent-in-charge; regional counterintelligence manager; and as Chief Enlisted Manager supporting major and combatant commands and Air Force installations worldwide. He has deployed in support of Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom.

He retired from the Air Force in 2010 as a Chief Master Sergeant.
Mr. Cable received a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Bellevue University. He is the recipient of many military decorations, to include the Bronze Star, and leadership and performance awards

throughout his military and federal service careers. He has completed numerous graduate level education and leadership training, including certification at the Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Georgetown University Government Affairs Institute, and the DoD Executive Management Training Center.

Allison Carpenter (Division Chief-Counterintelligence Operations, HQ DCSA at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency)

Allison Carpenter

Division Chief-Counterintelligence Operations, HQ DCSA at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Dr. Kevin Gamache

Chief Research Security Officer at Texas A&M University System

Gus Greene

Asst Director Critical Technology Protection (CTP) of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Gus Greene

Asst Director Critical Technology Protection (CTP) of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Gus Greene was selected as Director, Industrial Security Field Operations (IO), in March 2015. He is a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service, and a retired United States Army officer with over 37 years combined service as an intelligence professional.

Before joining DSS, Greene served as the Chief of Staff for the Director for Defense Intelligence (Intelligence & Security) within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSD(I)). From September 2007 to July 2013, he served in several positions within OUSD(I), to include senior advisor to Warfighter Support Directorate; deputy director, Warfighter Support Directorate; director of Sensitive Activities Directorate; and assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.

His responsibilities included coordination and approval of DoD sensitive clandestine activities; managing quarterly reporting and presenting briefings of DoD clandestine activities to Congress and National Security staff; developing and promulgating policy for the Defense Cover Program, Defense HUMINT and Sensitive Special Operations Programs; overseeing DoD Cover and HUMINT resources; managing and overseeing selected special access programs, the Defense Sensitive Support Program, and National Program Offices; and representing the USD(I) in the development of related National Intelligence Policy.

A retired U.S. Army colonel with 27 years of distinguished uniformed military service, Greene also served in a variety of intelligence, operations, command, and staff positions from the tactical to the strategic levels including commanding a United States Army Intelligence and Security Command Brigade.

Michael Halter

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Michael Halter

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Mr. Michael Halter, a Defense Intelligence Senior Level Executive, is the Deputy Assistant Director, National Operations, Critical
Technology Protection, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).

In this position, Mr. Halter is responsible for management,
administration, and oversight of Critical Technology Protection
offices, to include all DCSA field elements. Mr. Halter’s management responsibilities include clearance and oversight of approximately 12,300 cleared contractor facilities and their personnel under the National Industrial Security Program (NISP), including overseeing the certification and accreditation of
approximately 5,500 contractor computer systems used to process classified information.

Mr. Halter began his career with the Department of Defense by enlisting in the U.S. Army in October 1980, as a Russian Voice Interceptor. In 1984, he was accepted to the Army’s Counterintelligence (CI) School at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. In December 1991, after two tours of duty at strategic CI offices in
Germany, he was appointed a CI Warrant Officer. Over the next 11 years, Mr. Halter led Army CI teams and detachments in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia, South Korea and the United States.

He retired from the U.S. Army in April 2002, and immediately began working as a Counterintelligence Special Agent (CISA) with DCSA in Denver, Colorado. In September 2007, he was selected as Division Chief, Counterintelligence Field Operations, responsible for supervising day-to-day operations of all
CISAs in the Western and Southern Regions of DCSA. In October 2009, he was selected as the Regional Director of the Northern Region and served in this position until February 2014.

Mr. Halter holds two Bachelor of Science degrees in Social Psychology and Human Resources Management from Park University, and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the Federal Executive Institute, the Advanced Professional Executives Program and the Senior Managers in Government program at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Regina Johnson

Regional Director, Southern Region (CTP) of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Regina Johnson

Regional Director, Southern Region (CTP) of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Ms. Regina Johnson is a native of Dallas, TX. Ms. Johnson is employed with the Department of Defense, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency as the Regional Director for the Southern Region and has held this position since May 2012. Ms. Johnson is responsible for the Region’s industrial security oversight of nearly 3,200 National Industrial Security Program (NISP) facilities dispersed across a 14-state
area, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Region includes six DCSA Field Offices located in Irving and San Antonio, Texas, Huntsville, Alabama, Atlanta, Georgia, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Melbourne, Florida.

Ms. Johnson began her federal employment career with the Internal Revenue Service, Dallas, TX in the Internal Security Department. She worked for the IRS for five years and then went to work for the Department of Navy. After a brief stint with the Department of Navy, she joined the Office of Personnel Management. She worked for OPM as a Special Agent conducting Background Investigations. She worked for OPM as an Investigator for two years. In 1986, Ms. Johnson went to work for the Defense Investigative Service, Defense Security Service (DSS), now Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) as Special Agent conducting personnel security investigations. In June of 1989, Regina was selected as an Industrial Security Specialist for DSS in the Houston resident office. She served as an Industrial Security Representative in Houston until December 2008 when she was promoted to the DSS Irving, TX Field Office Chief.

Regina is a board member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth chapter of the Joint Security Awareness Council. Regina has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Texas Southern University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of North Texas. She is a 2013 graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, Leadership for a Democratic Society Program.

Keith Minard (Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency)

Keith Minard

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Michael Rudzinski (Special Agent at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency)

Michael Rudzinski

Special Agent at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Garrett Speace (Industrial Security Representative at DCSA)

Garrett Speace

Industrial Security Representative at DCSA

Charles Tench (Chief Functional Industry/MilDep Program Manager, Program Executive Office (PEO) at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency)

Charles Tench

Chief Functional Industry/MilDep Program Manager, Program Executive Office (PEO) at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Joel West (Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency)

Joel West

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

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ASCE 2021 - NISP Session - Welcome and Introduction

ASCE 2021 - NISP Session - Welcome and Introduction

DCSA Leadership Discussion

DCSA Leadership Discussion

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

DSCA Panel Discussion

DSCA Panel Discussion

Lunch Break + FSO Break-Out Lunch

Lunch Break + FSO Break-Out Lunch

Insider Threat Program

Insider Threat Program

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

NISPOM Overview

NISPOM Overview

Final Afternoon Break

Final Afternoon Break

DISS Overview

DISS Overview

NISP Session Wrap-up Discussion

NISP Session Wrap-up Discussion

Jay Cable

Regional Director, Southern - CI Field Operations of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Allison Carpenter

Division Chief-Counterintelligence Operations, HQ DCSA at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Dr. Kevin Gamache

Chief Research Security Officer at Texas A&M University System

Gus Greene

Asst Director Critical Technology Protection (CTP) of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Michael Halter

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Regina Johnson

Regional Director, Southern Region (CTP) of Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Keith Minard

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Michael Rudzinski

Special Agent at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Garrett Speace

Industrial Security Representative at DCSA

Charles Tench

Chief Functional Industry/MilDep Program Manager, Program Executive Office (PEO) at Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Joel West

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

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