5 th Annual Conference:
Combating Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Threats
Bridging the Industry-Government Communication Barrier
May 19-21, 2015, Fairfax Marriott at Fair Oaks, (703) 352-2525
11787 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, Fairfax VA 22033
This is a draft Agenda. All speakers are tentative unless otherwise noted
17:30
9:05 - 9:25
(remarks)
Monday, 18 May 2015
Ice-Breaker Social, hosted by VIP Global Net, LLC
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
7:30 – 8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 Welcome and Objectives, Day 1, Setting the Stage -- Situation Overview, Understanding the
Mission, and Identifying Capability Gaps
8:45 – 10:15
(panel)
8:45 - 9:05
(remarks)
Keynote Panel: Strategy, Policy, and Threat facilitated by National Defense University
(planning to attend) Moderator - Mr. Robert Peters, National Defense University
(confirmed) The Poly-Nuclear Middle East - implications for the future of non-proliferation and nuclear posture. Dr. Shmuel Bar, Founder & CEO; Senior Research Fellow Samuel Neaman
Institute for National Policy Studies Technion Israel Institute of Technology
(invited) Dr. Samantha Ravich, Senior Advisor at The Chertoff Group and former Co-Chair of the
National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs in the U.S.
Intelligence Community, former Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney
9:25 - 9:45
(remarks)
(confirmed) Ms. Carol Kessler, Former non-proliferation chair from Brookhaven National
Laboratory.
9:45 - 10:15 Facilitated Q&A - Mr. Robert Peters, National Defense University
10:15 – 10:45 Morning Networking Break
10:45 - 11:15 (confirmed) The Honorable Jay Cohen, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired)
Chief Operating Officer of Decision Sciences International Corporation, Principal at The Chertoff
Group, and former Under Secretary for Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (2006 – 2009).
11:15 - 11:45 (confirmed) Symetrica, Ms. Melissa Schear, neutron detection and safeguards
11:45 - 12:15 (confirmed) ORTEC, Mr. John Smalling
12:15 – 13:40 Lunch and Exhibit Hall Tour
13:40 - 14:10 (confirmed), Ms. Loucinda Carey, Senior Applications Scientist, Bruker Detection Corporation
14:10 - 14:40 (confirmed) Mr. Val Novikov, JPEO-CBD Joint Program Manager-Radiological and Nuclear
Defense
14:40 - 15:00 (confirmed) Leo E. Bradley, COL, U.S. Army (retired), former DoD Explosives Safety Board member,
Commander 71 st Ordnance Group, and Commander CJTF Paladin.
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Networking Break
15:30 – 16:00 (confirmed) LTC Jonathan Ebbert, CST Branch
Chief, National Guard Bureau
16:00 - 16:30 (confirmed) WMD CST Capability brief and mission overview, MAJ Michael Booker, 34 th
WMD CST Commander
15:30 - 16:30 Breakout
(confirmed) Army Functional Area (FA) 52
Community brief, Mr. Rob Beimler, FA-52
Community manager, USANCA
16:30 - 17:00 Keynote Speaker - (confirmed) MG Polakowski, Commander Standing Joint Force Headquarters for Elimination, Deputy Director U.S. STRATCOM Center for Combating Weapons of Mass
Destruction.
17:30 Social: United States Army Functional Area 52 and National Guard Civil Support Team Social
Attendees are encouraged to tour the exhibit hall during lunch and breaks. During registration, coffee and a breakfast buffet will be provided. Lunch buffet will be provided. During the afternoon break, coffee and a snack will be provided.

5 th Annual Conference:
Combating Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Threats
Bridging the Industry-Government Communication Barrier
May 19-21, 2015, Fairfax Marriott at Fair Oaks, (703) 352-2525
11787 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, Fairfax VA 22033
Time
7:30 – 8:30
8:30 – 8:35
8:35 - 8:45
8:45 - 9:30
9:30 - 10:00
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
First Responder Focus Group Breakout A Breakout B
Registration and Breakfast
Welcome and Objectives, Day 2, Meeting the Mission -- Emerging Technologies and Focused User-
Group Industry briefings
Media Partner Briefs
NBC Industry Group, Ms. Rebecca Robertson, NBC Industry Group Chair
Keynote Speaker (confirmed) VADM Carl Mauney (ret.) Vice President of Program Management,
Babcock and Wilcox Co. and former Deputy Commander of U.S. Strategic Command
(confirmed) From Spectroscopy to Imaging: The Germanium Gamma-ray Imager GeGI, Dr. Ethan Hull,
President and CEO of PHDS Co.
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Networking Break
10:30 – 12:00 First Responder and RN Community Explosives Briefs
10:30 - 11:00 (confirmed), Mr. James Tomlinson, (confirmed) MAJ Brett Carey,
Tracerco - ruggedized personnel DTRA J9CXS dosimeter and RN detection equipment
11:00 - 11:30 (confirmed) Dr. Steve Kreek, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
(invited) Indian Head
11:30 - 12:00 (confirmed) “Recent Advances in
UNWD Defense at USMC Installations
– Faster, Better, Cheaper,” John W.
Haas, Applied Research Associates
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch and Exhibit Hall Tour
13:30 – 15:00 First Responder Community
13:30 – 14:00 (invited) Col Alicia Smith, National
Defense University, first responder considerations for improvised nuclear device or dirty bomb
(invited) University of New
Mexico Tech, Energetic
Materials Research and
Testing Center
RN Briefs
(confirmed) Dr. Ralph Kerr -
Joint Staff J8 Joint
Requirements Office
14:00 – 14:30 (confirmed) Dr. Kevin Hour,
Babcock and Wilcox - Field
Training Exercise Concept for first responders, law enforcement, and
(confirmed) Mr. Wayne
Hudson, Principal Director for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear
Matters emergency management personnel
14:30 – 15:00 (confirmed) Mr. Chris Frail, Symetrica, VeriFinder Product Release
Brief
Special Breakouts
(confirmed) Mr. Guang-Quan Li,
Hamamatsu briefing to industry manufacturers.
GSA Schedule special brief for small business
(confirmed) Other Transaction
Agreements, Mr. Jay Mosley,
Chief Operating Officer of
Strategic Solutions Integrated
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon Networking Break
First Responder and Explosives
Community
15:30 - 16:00 (confirmed) “Security and Defense
Applications With a Novel Handheld
Mass Spectrometer"
Peter Sullivan, 908 Devices.
16:00 - 16:30 (confirmed) Ms. Loucinda Carey,
Senior Applications Scientist, Bruker
Detection Corporation
RN Community
(confirmed) Dr. Harvey, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Programs.
16:30 – 17:00 Keynote Speaker - (invited) MG Julie Bentz, Deputy Director Joint IED Defeat Organization
17:00 First Responder and Explosives Community Social
18:00 NBC Industry Group Annual Dinner, Ft. Myer Officer’s Club
( This event is not affiliated with the Conference, but is included here since the NBC Industry Group is a Media
Partner of the event. More information at: http://nbcindustrygroup.com/activities/dinner/)
Attendees are encouraged to tour the exhibit hall during lunch and breaks. During registration, coffee and a breakfast buffet will be provided. Lunch buffet will be provided. During the afternoon break, coffee and a snack will be provided.

5 th Annual Conference:
Combating Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Threats
Bridging the Industry-Government Communication Barrier
May 19-21, 2015, Fairfax Marriott at Fair Oaks, (703) 352-2525
11787 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, Fairfax VA 22033
Time
Thursday, 21 May 2015
National Guard WMD CST Focus Group Breakout A
7:30 – 8:30 Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 8:40 Plenary - Welcome and Objectives, Day 3
8:40 - 9:00 Plenary - RN Paper Submission Winner Briefing
9:00 - 9:20 Plenary - Explosives Paper Submission Winner Briefing
9:20 - 10:00 Day 3 Keynote Speaker -
(confirmed) Dr. Howard Hall, Director for the UT Institute for
Nuclear Security and UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair in Nuclear
Security, Senior Fellow in Global Security Policy at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for
Public Policy at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and Director of the Baker Center’s
Global Security Programs.
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Networking Break
Explosives Community Briefs 10:30 – 12:00 National Guard WMD CST Focus with
RN Community
10:30 - 11:00 CZT-based gamma-ray imaging spectrometers, Dr. Y. Andy Boucher, H3D
(invited) Thermo-Fisher
11:00 - 11:30 Open Discussion on incorporating RN
11:30 - 12:00 sensors with other information (e.g., command and control tools, open source, and non-RN sensor information) to combat radiological and nuclear threats.” Facilitator
- Mr. Ken Schwartz, Northrop Grumman
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch and Exhibit Hall Tour
13:30 – 15:00 National Guard WMD CST Focus
(invited) FLIR
RN Community Briefs
13:30 - 14:00 ORTEC User-Training, Ron Zeszut
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00 Delivering training and relevant information to the CST community, Tony Crego, AST
Associates
Dr. Anshuman Roy, Rhombus Power
TBD
Kansas State University (TBD)
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Networking Break
15:30 - 16:00 (confirmed) VIP Global Net, LLC RN Market Survey - Mr. Dick Gullickson
16:00 - 16:30 (confirmed) VIP GlobalNet, LLC Explosives Market Survey - Mr. Allen Rabayda
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up and Farewell, Mr. Bill Pramenko, VIP GlobalNet, LLC and Mr. Tony Crego, AST-
Associates
Attendees are encouraged to tour the exhibit hall during lunch and breaks. During registration, coffee and a breakfast buffet will be provided. Lunch buffet will be provided. During the afternoon break, coffee and a snack will be provided.