AFCEA Quantico-Potomac

MGen George Allen, Director C4 and Deputy DON CIO for USMC

The Quantico-Potomac Chapter is pleased to welcome back MGen George Allen, Director C4 and Deputy DON CIO for the USMC.  MGen Allen will be speaking in conjunction with Modern Day Marine about the current posture of USMC information systems and the future information environment.

Location: Clubs at Quantico
Check –in: 11:00

Schedule of Events:
11:15-12:00 – Informal lunch
12:00-12:10 – Opening remarks/Pledge/and Speaker Introduction (Mike Warlick)
12:10-12:50 – MajGen Allen presentation and Q & A session
12:50-1:00 – Closing Remarks (Mike Warlick
1:00 – Event complete

Dress:
Active Duty: Uniform of the Day
Industry and Government Employees: Business Casual

Register below and checkout using your Credit Card.  The meal will be buffet style with the main entrée consisting of Beef and Chicken.  Selections for payment will include Govt/Military, Industry (AFCEA Member) , or Industry (Non-Member).  We can accommodate a total of 165 guests, so we recommend that you register early.  Select your meal during checkout and be sure to select the status that supports your registration in the Shopping Cart below.

Select your participant type using pulldown below.  Price will change depending upon participant:

• Industry (AFCEA Member) – $36.35
• Industry (non-AFCEA Member) – $41.50
• Military/Govt – $15.76

AFCEA Luncheon

AFCEA-QP Luncheon - 9/30/2010

AFCEA Quantico-Potomac Luncheon

Luncheon with MGen Allen, Director HQMC C4 and Deputy DON CIO for the USMC.

Sep 30, 2010

Clubs at Quantico

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Major General Allen is the Director for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4), and the Deputy DON Chief Information Officer (DDCIO) for the United States Marine Corps.

Prior to this assignment, Major General Allen was the Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity, Camp Pendleton, California.

Major General Allen’s previous command positions include Commanding Officer, 8th Communication Battalion, MarForLant; Detachment Bravo Company Commander, Marine Wing Communications Squadron-38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing; Communications Platoon Commander, 31st Marine Amphibious Unit, III MEF; Multichannel Platoon Commander, Communication Company, Headquarters Battalion, 3d Marine Division, FMFPac; Radio Platoon Commander, 8th Communication Battalion, FMFLant; Wire Platoon Commander, 8th Communication Battalion, FMFLant.

His previous staff assignments include Assistant Chief of Staff, G-6, First Marine Expeditionary Force during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom; Division Chief, C4 Directorate, Headquarters Marine Corps; Assistant Chief of Staff, G-6, 2d Marine Division, Marine Forces Atlantic; G-6 Operations Officer, 2d Marine Division, Marine Forces Atlantic; S-6 Officer, 9th Marines, 3d Marine Division, FMFPac; Unified Plans Branch Chief, Defense Communications Agency-Pacific; S-3 Officer, MWCS-38, 3rd MAW; MACG-38 Communications Officer, MWCS-38, 3rd MAW; S-4 Officer, MWCS-38, 3rd MAW; Marine Communications Instructor to the U.S. Army Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Assistant Communications-Electronics Officer, 31st Marine Amphibious Unit, III MEF; Communications Watch Officer, Battalion Maintenance Management Officer, 8th Communication Battalion, FMFLant.

Major General Allen earned a M.B.A. from Oklahoma City University and a M.S. in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. He also attended The Basic School, Advanced Communications Officers’ Course, and the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

Ray Letteer, USMC DAA

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Mr. Ray Letteer Director, Information Assurance Division within the Command, Control, Communications, and Computer (C4) Department, Headquarters Marine Corps was the guest speaker at the Quantico-Potomac AFCEA Chapter on June 16th.  Mr. Letteer provided an overview the Marine Corps Information Assurance Program and Certification & Accreditation (C&A) as it relates to Information Assurance requirements for the Marine Corps and for Industry.

Highlights included mission requirements for his position, issues that currently cause concern and require resolution, and the certification and accreditation requirements as related to cyber security quality assurance.  Mr. Letteer also focused on understanding information and terminology as associated with the utilization of documentation and standardization to meet C&A requirements.  He discussed IA Control Inheritance to demonstrate that “ Applications inherit IA Controls from the workstation/server on which they reside; Workstations/Servers inherit IA Controls from the environment in which they reside”.

Mr. Letteer wrapped up the presentation with a focus on a balance of all the IT factors and stressed that utilization of Security Technical Implementation Guides (“STIGS”) as the key in the certification process.  Assessing risk was the last major point of the presentation to insure the right balance to reduce risk, but at the same time to provide operational access to enable the Marine Corps to meet mission requirements.   An active question and answer period followed the presentation.

Ray A. Letteer

Director, Information Assurance Division, C4

Serves as the Senior Information Assurance Official for the Marine Corps as required by the Federal Information Systems Management Act (FISMA). Responsible for the overall creation, promulgation, and execution of the Marine Corps Information Assurance Program (MCIAP).  Serves as the supervisor for the Information Assurance (IA) Division and as the Designated Approval Authority (DAA) for the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN), managing the $10M IA budget in the Command, Control, Communications, & Computer (C4) department. Requirements include working IA programs and related security projects of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO), as well as the investigative and forensic standards of the Department of Justice. It also includes coordinating and approving law enforcement and counter-intelligence cybercrime investigation access to Marine Corps systems.

Mr. Letteer establishes and oversees all Marine Corps base-line security policies, to include firewall settings, wireless security standards, forensic and incident handling methodologies, cyber-investigations, system security architecture, and certification & accreditation processes. He is also co-chair the Department of the Navy (DoN) Information Assurance Workforce Working Group (IAWWG), and the Marine Corps voting representative to the DoD IA Panel (IAP), IA Steering Group (IASG), IA Senior Leaders (IASL), Enterprise Security Solutions Group (ESSG), DoD IA Security Accreditation Working Group (DSAWG), and the Committee for National Security Systems (CNSS).

Augustine Golf Club, Stafford

AFCEA Quantico-Potomac Chapter Scholarship Golf Tournament

Wednesday, May 19th

Proceeds will be used for the AFCEA Scholarship Fund

Location: Augustine Golf Club, 76 Monument Drive, Stafford VA

Four Person Scramble Format

1200 Shotgun Start (Registration begins at 1100)

$65 fee, includes range balls, cart, and greens fees

Food, Drinks, and Prizes included