8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

8:30 Keynote: Department Of Defense Policy And Strategic Planning For Irregular Warfare

• Ensuring that the Department of Defense maintains capabilities and capacity so that it is as effective in IW as it is in traditional warfare
• Developing sufficiency standards for IW-related activities for the U.S. Armed Forces

Garry Reid,SES
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism

9:15 Keynote: Irregular Warfare And Joint Distributed Operations

• Collaborative development of joint IW-relevant doctrine
• New concepts and capabilities as part of the joint concept development and experimentation program
• Identification of joint-IW relevant capabilities and recommend priorities for capability development

James O’Connell
Director
Joint Irregular Warfare Center, USJFCOM

10:45 USMC Preparation For Irregular Warfare In Complex Operating Environments

• Why it may be difficult to think differently about this kind of warfare and war
• Implications (organizational, capability)when operating in complex environments
• Marine Corps Leadership/Educational approach

Col Philip Smith, USMC
Director, Center for Irregular Warfare
United States Marine Corps

11:30 Irregular Warfare Joint Operating Concept 2.0

• what GPF and SOF have learned about irregular warfare
• how the joint force and the rest of government can work together more effectively
• key transformational requirements for the force

Linda Robinson
Senior Defense Analyst
Booz Allen Hamilton

1:30 Countering Insurgency In Complex Threat Environments

• Doctrine implementation and best practice tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)
• Integration of COIN

COL Daniel Roper, USA
Director
US Army/USMC COIN Center

2:15 Afternoon Keynote Remarks: US Army Special Operations Command Operational Capabilities And Strategic Planning For Irregular Warfare

• How OSD guidelines will affect US Army special operations in complex environments
• Acquisition requirements to meet the changing roles of the US Army Special Operations

LTG John Mulholland, USA
Commanding General
US Army Special Operations Command

3:45 The Role Of Airpower In Irregular Warfare

• Airpower’s ability to conduct precision strikes across the globe in support of counterinsurgency operations
• Air Force information and cyber operations; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and global mobility

Col Russel Smith, USAF
Director, Doctrine Development, Air University
Air Force Education and Training Command

4:30 Preparing For Civil-Military Operations Support To Irregular Warfare: Coordinating The U.S. Military, Interagency, Allies, Non-Governmental And Host Nation Assets For Mission Success

• Integration of Civil Affairs into the overall IR effort
• Information domination in IR through Civil Affairs activity
• Consistency and success of Civil Affairs in IR