SOF Symposium

Advancing the Global SOF Network

 

November 5-6, 2013

Alexandria, VA

DSI’s SOF Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military and civilian organizations can come together for actionable discussions and debate. The symposium will focus on intelligence driven planning for emerging threats.

This Symposium will focus on the importance of creating a global SOF network, whereby operators and support staff across geographic regions have access and connectivity with each other and with SOCOM in order to more effectively conduct operations in support of their discreet geographic Combatant Commands as well as between and among partner nations.

 

 

2013 Speakers Included:

  • Lt Gen Bradley Heithold, USAF, Vice Commander, United States Special Operations Command
 
  • LTG Michael Flynn, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
 
  • Garry Reid, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict
 
  • BG Clay Hutmacher, USA, Commanding General, US Army Special Operations Aviation Command
 
  • Brig Gen Stephen Clark, USAF, Deputy Commander, Joint Special Operations Command
 
  • Brigadier General James Stevenson, Deputy Commander, NATO Special Operations Headquarters
 
  • COL Stu Bradin, USA, Chief, Global SOF Network Operational Planning Team, US SOCOM
 
  • Dr. Jacquelyn Davis, Executive Vice President, The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
 
  • Linda Robinson, Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation
 
  • Jim Hake, CEO, Spirit of America
  • At our Symposium you will have the ability to:

  • Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing special operations forces today.
  • Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to discover some of the latest technologies related to ISR, Anti-Terrorism, modeling and simulation, training, as well as fire support and multi-mission weapons systems.
  • Influence: Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are given the opportunity to address our speaker faculty with their questions or comments and will receive a pre-Symposium questionnaire for precise questions and subject matters you would like our speakers to address.
  • DSI’s team specializes in the extensive research and development of our Summits' content and focus areas, and we will assemble the most respected minds in the SOF community from operational leaders, intelligence providers, key policy-makers, as well as solution providers from Industry and Academia. Our non-partisan approach allows us to reach across all involved organizations bring together a truly holistic group of decision makers and solution providers.

DSI would like to thank our lead advisory board member:

 
  • AMB Dell Dailey, Lieutenant General, US Army (Ret)
  Dailey

 
  • Key areas this symposium will address:

 
  • The 2013 Symposium will bring together senior level officials from the DoD, Department of State, and the IC, specifically the policy and operational organizations responsible for preparing and operating special operations forces across a diverse set of missions.
   
  • -Enhancing the Global SOF Network
 
  • -Leveraging Disparate TSOC’s for Enhanced Intelligence and more Effective Operations
 
  • -COCOM Collaborative Efforts for the Most Effective Use and Placement of SOF
 
  • -Improved SOF Integration with the IC
 
  • -Capability Requirements and Acquisition Priorities Necessary to Respond to Current and Future Missions
 
  • -Optimizing TSOC’s for Most Effective Use
 
  • -Interoperability with Partner Nations
 
  • -Enhancing Partner Nation Capacity
 
  • As the role of SOF continues to be re-defined, it is important that forces benefit from the knowledge and experience of those deployed in disparate geographic locations.
 
  • This Symposium will focus on the importance of creating a global SOF network, whereby operators and support staff across geographic regions have access and connectivity with each other and with SOCOM in order to more effectively conduct operations in support of their discreet geographic Combatant Commands as well as between and among partner nations.
 
  • Initiatives include increasing interoperability, improving intelligence sharing between partners, and addressing the benefits of multinational standard tactics, techniques, and procedures for seamless integration with partner nation SOF.
 
  • This symposium will provide a forum for SOF, its partners including Combatant Commands, USAID, Department of State, the IC, Partner Nations, and numerous NGO’s and other critical organizations necessary to achieving National goals.
_______________________________________________________________________________ How You Will Benefit?
  • -Hear from SOCOM and SO/LIC Leadership on Critical Capability Requirements
 
  • -Learn how your organization can support SOF priorities
 
  • -Work with the SOCOM Operational Planning Team to help meet their goals for an effective global SOF network
 
  • -Network and dialogue with your colleagues and leaders from SOF, the Foreign Service, and Partner Nation