To All PKI

To All PKI-PKE colleagues,

The 5th DoD PKE TECHNICAL Forum is coming soon. You can now reserve on-site hotel rooms, but we need your input before we can open the on-line registration at http://iaevents.com. We need your input to help us plan the Wednesday agenda. We want this forum to be technical and in the weeds. We want you to provide us NIPRnet and SIPRnet PKE issues that require resolution. Our plan is to work these on Monday through Wednesday and brief a solution or a recommended course of action to the general assembly on Thursday. We can host 10 all day or 20 half day working group sessions on Wednesday.

We need you to suggest topical areas, and if possible, a technical facilitator to lead the discussion and deliver the session presentation on Thursday. Once we have your input, we will finalize the agenda and open the on-line registration. If we have no new agenda suggestions by 31 July, the PMO will finalize the agenda and open registration.

EVENT SPECIFICS:

Contact the Event Planner if you have any accessibility, special dietary or telecommunications requirements or event questions.
Primary: Shelly Woods (301.362.1287) swood@nei-corp.com
Alternate: Lori Knight (410.854.7436) knight@radium.ncsc.mil

Contact the DoD PKI Program Office POCs if you have Agenda or other questions:
Carl Hamilton (301.785.5882) chamilt@missi.ncsc.mil
Joe Lisi (410.854.4900) JTLisi@missi.ncsc.mil

Event Fee: $180

Dates: Sunday, 16 November - Friday, 21 November 2003 (see agenda for specifics)

Site: The Orlando Marriott World Center Resort & Convention Center
8701 World Center Drive, Orlando, FL, 32821, USA
Phone: 1-407-239-4200 Fax: 1-407-238-8777
Reservations from U.S. & Canada: 1-800-621-0638 Use "PKE Forum" as the code for the event to get the per diem rate.

Hotel general information:
The URL for the hotel is http://www.marriott.com/epp/default.asp?MarshaCode=MCOWC
We have contracted for government per diem rates for sleeping rooms, November 14-22, 2003.
This Marriott charges a daily $5.00 parking fee. Valet parking is additional and not encouraged.

Tax Exemption:
The State of Florida grants tax exempt status for lodging provided to Federal military and civilian employees on official business. Attached is the Florida state tax exemption form.

Internet Access at the Marriott:
Every sleeping room has high speed internet access available for an additional fee.
We are planing a no-fee "attendee room" with high speed Internet access for attendees who bring a portable PC with NIC card.

Attendees:
This event is open to US Government military and civilian employees. Non-government employees who have a contractual relationship with the US Government may register and attend, subject to their Sponsoring Organization's COTR approval. Non-US personnel and vendors who have no direct contractual relationship with the US Government should contact Ms. Betsy Appleby, Chief of our PK Enabling Division at 703.882.1678 or applebyb@ncr.disa.milfor adjudication and authorization to attend..

The Agenda (Sunday, 16 November through Friday, 21 November):

Sunday: Afternoon registration
1. For those hosting or attending a Monday session.

Monday: Breakout Sessions
1. Registration and Administrative Activities
2. Breakout Sessions (Maximum 10 breakout and/or demonstration rooms):
a. USAF PKI/PKE SPO (confirmed)
b. Defense Logistics Agency (confirmed)
c. Department of the Navy (not confirmed)
d. Department of the Army (not confirmed)
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
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Tuesday: Breakout Sessions
1. Registration and Administrative Activities
2. Breakout Sessions (Maximum 10 breakout and/or demonstration rooms):
a. USAF PKI/PKE SPO (confirmed)
b. Defense Logistics Agency (confirmed)
c. Department of the Navy (not confirmed)
d. Department of the Army (not confirmed)
e. E-Commerce/Contracting/Logistics/Getting DoD Contractors PK enabled for signing documents and email (if we can find a
facilitator)
f.
g.
h.
i.
j

Wednesday: Technical Discussion and Resolution Sessions
1. Registration and Administrative Activities
2. Sessions (10 all day or 20 half day working group sessions ):
We will provide rooms for joint service/agency interest groups to work specific issues and develop solution sets or a plan of
follow-on action.

We are soliciting PK enabling issues, topics, or problems from the services and agencies that need work. We need technical
facilitators from the PKE ("Ask Rosie") team at DISA, the agencies and services to lead the discussions and brief the general session
on Thursday.

Here are some topics that have been suggested, but based on your responses and willingness to serve as facilitators, the list will change:

a. Digital signature software for applications like SAP and ORACLE and others that support invoices, payment certification, RFQ,
contracting, logistics, e-commerce, publishing services - A candidate for DoD standardized solution and enterprise licenses?
b. Medical Affairs, including doctors, insurance, benefits, clinics, dependents
c. Publishing services, GPEA, paperless registration and training certifications
d. Local Network certificate replication issues
e. Using PKI for protection of data at rest (encrypted documents)
f. Developing training for local PKE help desks
g. PK enabling tactical, weapons fire control systems
h. Migrating PK enabled data from NIPRnet to SIPRnet and Communities of Interest
i. Dirty word scanning PK encrypted mail and documents
j.

Thursday: General Session
1. Registration and Administrative Activities
2. Agency Demonstrations (During breaks and lunch, maximum 4 rooms)
3. General Session (in the main ball room)

The Thursday plenary will be limited to technical briefings and discussions from the Monday through Wednesday sessions.

The only "executive" briefing on Thursday will be presented by the DoD PKI Program Manager to provide updates on the
Department-wide strategies, funding initiatives or other DoD level actions. We will have no key-note, "success story" or motivational
briefings.

Friday: Breakout Sessions
1. Registration and Administrative Activities
2. Breakout Sessions (Maximum 10 breakout and/or demonstration rooms):
a. USAF PKI/PKE SPO (confirmed)
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j

Friday will be available for either travel or for the Services and Agencies to reconvene and review the week's activities. We (the
PMO) will not have anything planned for this day. The PKI PMO will provide Friday morning break service, based on the number of
on-line registrations for Friday activities. If any Service, Department or Agency is planning Friday activities, we need to know before
we activate on-line registration.

SUMMARY:

This will be an excellent forum. Last time, some attendees requested we revamp and provide for some down-in-the-weeds technical discussion and problem resolutions. We are ready. We need you to identify your needs, issues and wants for this forum. We have a good location with excellent infrastructure. With your input, we can make this the best PK Enabling Forum we've had. It will be good, so plan on coming. Contact Joe, Betsy or myself if you have any agenda questions. Please send us your agenda ideas and facilitator nominations as soon as possible so we can open the on-line registrations.

Looking forward to seeing you in the fall,

the OASD/NII DoD PKI Program Office POCs:

Carl Hamilton, CISSP
5th DoD PKE Technical Forum Co-Chair
301.785.5882
chamilt@missi.ncsc.mil

Joe Lisi
5th DoD PKE Technical Forum Co-Chair
410.854.4900
JTLisi@missi.ncsc.mil

Betsy Appleby
Chief, PK Enabling Division
703.882.1678
applebyb@ncr.disa.mil