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Biography
Ted retired in April 2002 from the Navy as a Lt. Commander, having served 22 years. A Navy "Mustang"¹, Ted has TS/SCI clearance with a counter-intelligence polygraph. The vast majority of Ted's assignments were dealing with the practical application of security, either aboard ships, on classified missions, or helping put new systems together. In many cases, he was the on-theground, real-time troubleshooter.

Ted worked with OUTBOARD and its successor, Combat DF², which he helped design. He handled 15- and 25-man classified missions in Bosnia and the Far East. On extremely short notice, Ted stood-up and ran a 150-man intelligence operation for the Pacific Fleet, after the original one was no longer viable due to a natural disaster. He was also the executive assistant to the Flag Officer for Naval Security and the Assistant Community Manager, leading 400 men. Among his numerous awards, Ted is most proud of receiving that group's Sailor of the Year award (out of 12,000 people).

Ted is a graduate of the University of Phoenix, with a BS in Information Technology. Ted attended two national cryptologic schools (NE-601 & CK-155) and was the #1 graduate in the 3- year Junior Officer Cryptologic Career Program, which he finished in 2 years. For those not familiar with these educational programs, that program the equivalent of a MS degree of a highly technical nature, including computer sciences and many forms of networking. It cannot be accredited as such by any accredited educational institution due to the highly classified subject matter that is part of the curriculum.

He is Ken's practical sounding board on the SecureBasis concepts and implementations, handles all technical details for our infrastructure, and runs all operational & administrative activities.

¹ A Mustang is an individual who began as an enlisted sailor and worked his/her way up to a Navy Officer.
² Combat DF is an electronic support, signal acquisition, and direction-finding system providing warship commanders near-real-time indications and warning, situational awareness, and cueing information for targeting systems. Combat DF greatly improved on the then-existing "Outboard" system technology by providing greater flexibility against a wider range of threat signals and increased reliability at lower cost through use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) workstations. The system incorporated the Automated Digital Acquisition Subsystem (ADAS) enabling exploitation of unconventional and low-probability-of-intercept (LPI) signals.

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Session TE32: Information Sharing and Information Assurance - Can They Work Together?
February 20, 10:00 - 10:45 Abstract:
Within the Intelligence Community, these Sharing and Security are viewed as separate disciplines. But for each to achieve its individual mission, they need to be united into a single "Information Sharing Assurance." However, both technical and cultural issues are in the way, and technology has been unable to address the cultural obstacles. At least, up to now.

This Technology panel's view of the underlying technology problem is best summed up by Bertrand Russell: "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."

The first speaker will talk about a different view of computers that redefines the fundamental technology problem, and in the near future, will yield a permanent solution to this persistent issue of systems security. And to deal with the real problems facing the audience today, the other two speakers will provide practical comments about some technologies available today and some thoughts on the specific uses and limits of cryptography in sharing environments.

The speakers have had relevant cyber security experiences with the NSA, the US Navy, and the FBI, plus private sector experiences in Systems Integration, Cryptography, and Hi-tech products. And the panelists do not represent any of the available technologies that will be discussed.