Main Summit Day 1: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

7:15 Registration & Coffee

8:15 Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8:30 Persistence Maritime Awareness Deployment – Predator B

Michael C. Kostelnik
Major General, USAF (Ret), Assistant Commissioner, Customs and Border Protection

9:15 United States Political And Military Policy For Latin America

  • US and Latin American relations
  • Combatant commander's strategy
  • Future of engagement

Brigadier General David S. Fadok
USAF, Director for Policy and Strategy
US Southern Command

10:00 Networking Break

10:45 Lessons Learned From NORTHCOM For Central And South America

Costal Protection and the Human Cost of Piracy
John Burnett
Author and Maritime Expert

11:30 UAVs And Surveillance Planes For Maritime Defense

  • Maritime environment in the SOUTHCOM and C4F area of focus
  • Key areas and scenarios for unmanned air systems in the C4F AOF
  • Current UAS surveillance initiatives in the C4F AOF

Ted J. Venable
COMUSNAVSO/COMFOURTHFLT
CNT Program Manager

12:15 Lunch

1:30 Peruvian Challenges With Maritime Interoperability Surveillance

  • ISR challenges for the Navy of Peru
  • Total Domain Awareness
  • Advancing maritime security

Captain Jorge Vargas Guerra
Capitán de Navío
Perú (Peruvian Navy)

2:15 An Industry Perspective On Regional Maritime And Coastal Surveillance

Hampton Dowling
PMP

3:00 Networking Break

3:45 C-TPAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) Program Evaluation

  • New overview of the 24-hour manifest rule
  • The 10+2 ISF (Importer Security Filing)
  • Advanced cargo data

Albert Saphir
Maritime Trade Expert
ABS Consulting

4:30 Tools And Technologies For Improving Latin American Maritime Security

  • Data fusion and automated tools for command center operations
  • Wide area surveillance
  • Improving identification of threats

Alan Westerman
Director of Port Security
Halcrow

5:15 End Of Day 1