2021 Winter Summit:
Enhancing Manufacturing Resilience
March 31 & April 1
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Keynote Speakers
Ms. Adele Ratcliff
Director of the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) Program within the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy
Opening Keynote: A Department of Defense perspective on resilient manufacturing and its impact for national security
Dr. Roderick Eggert
Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation Chair in Mineral Economics & Deputy Director of the Critical Materials Institute, Colorado School of Mines
Technical Keynote: Critical materials and the manufacturing supply chain
Featured Speakers
Mr. John Barnes
The Barnes Global Advisors
Dr. Steve Cambone
Associate Vice Chancellor
Texas A&M University System
Ms. Cyndi Coon
Chief of Staff – Threatcasting Lab
Arizona State University
Dr. Mark Cotteleer
Managing Director – Supply Chain and Operations
Deloitte
Dr. Chris Gopal
Global Supply Chain and Operations Executive
Mr. Rob Gorham
SecureAmerica Institute
Mr. Timothy Green
Strategic Advisor for National Security Initiatives
TEES Center for Infrastructure Renewal
Dr. Eleftherios Iakovou
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Mr. Rich Johanning
Vice President – Mission Engineering
Amentum
Mr. Brian David Johnson
Arizona State University
Dr. Cindy Lawley
Assistant Agency Director – Workforce Development
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Dr. Eric MacDonald
The University of Texas at El Paso
Dr. Jon Mogford
Vice Chancellor for Research
Texas A&M University System
Mr. Ed Morris
Consequence Consulting
Dr. Lewis Ntaimo
Professor – Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University
Dr. Raymond Robertson
The Bush School at Texas A&M University
Dr. Sridhar Seetharaman
Associate Vice President of Research
Colorado School of Mines
Dr. Darrell Wallace
Dr. Chip White
Professor – Industrial Systems and Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Laurie Williams
Co-Director – NSA Science of Security Lablet
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mr. Kiley Wren
Executive Director – Office of Strategic Business Development
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Dr. Chuck Zhang
Harold E. Smalley Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
Meeting Agenda
March 31 & April 1, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm CDT*
*all times are listed in Central Daylight Time
March 31
9:00 – 9:15 am
Welcome and Introduction
Presenter: Rob Gorham
9:15 – 9:45 am
Opening Keynote Presentation
Presenter: Adele Ratcliff
A Department of Defense Perspective on resilient manufacturing and its implications for national security
9:45 – 10:45 am
Panel: Manufacturing Supply Chain Resiliency and Implications to National Security
Panelists: Timothy Green, Adele Ratcliff, Chris Gopal
Moderator: Steve Cambone
10:45 – 11:00 am
Break
11:00 – 11:15 am
SecureAmerica Project Portfolio Introduction – Secure and Trusted Data
Presenter: Laurie Williams
11:15 – 11:45 am
From Device to Cloud: An End-to-End Framework for Trusted Edge Computing for IIoT Security
Presenters: Bhavani Thuraisingham, Chung Hwan Kim
Team: University of Texas – Dallas, IBM, Clemson University
11:45 am – 12:15 pm
A Taxonomy-Driven Approach to Realize Built-In Security of Manufacturing Supply Chains
Presenters: Nikhil Gupta, Ramesh Karri, Satish Bukkapatnam
Team: New York University, Texas A&M University, Siemens
12:15 – 12:45 pm
Achieving Resilience Against Cyber Threats in IT/OT Networks via Defensive Deception
Presenters: Munindar Singh, Abhi Muthiyan
Team: North Carolina State University, Sam Analytic, Air Gap
12:45 – 1:15 pm
Lunch Break
1:15 – 1:30 pm
SAI Project Portfolio Introduction – Next Gen Supply Chain Resiliency and Risk Mitigation
Presenter: Eleftherios Iakovou
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Readiness Assessment of Supplier Digitalization
Presenter: Gregory Ramsey
Team: Morgan State University, Diverse Manufacturing Supply Chain Alliance (DMSCA)
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Deep View: Multi-tier Supply Chain and Industrial Base Assessment
Presenters: Joe Schibi, David Kotok
Team: Deloitte
2:20 – 2:35 pm
Break
2:35 – 3:15 pm
Panel: Manufacturing Workforce Pipeline Across the Education Continuum
Panelists: Cindy Lawley, John Barnes, Lewis Ntaimo, Eric MacDonald
Moderator: Darrell Wallace
3:15 – 4:30 pm
Breakout Sessions
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Working Group Report Out and Wrap
April 1
9:00 – 9:15 am
Welcome and Introduction
Presenter: Rob Gorham
9:15 – 10:15 am
Panel: Holistic View of the Current U.S. Manufacturing Ecosystem
Panelists: Chip White, Eleftherios Iakovou, Mark Cotteleer, Raymond Robertson
Moderator: Rob Gorham
10:15 – 11:00 am
Technical Keynote Presentation
Presenter: Roderick Eggert
Critical materials and the manufacturing supply chain
11:00 am – noon
Panel: The Use of Scenario Based Threatcasting as an Approach to Achieve Manufacturing Supply Chain Resilience
Panelists: Jon Mogford, Cyndi Coon, Brian David Johnson,
Moderator: Rich Johanning
noon – 12:15 pm
Lunch Break
12:15 – 12:30 pm
SecureAmerica Project Portfolio Introduction – Manufacturing Products and Processes
Presenter: Chuck Zhang
12:30 – 1:00 pm
Resilient Additive Manufacturing Platform (RAMP)
Presenters: Abhijit Chakraborty, Ben Wang
Team: Raytheon Technologies, Georgia Institute of Technology
1:00 – 1:30 pm
Sensitivity Analysis of Additive Manufacturing Process Improvements for Hypersonic Propulsion Systems
Presenters: Katrina Hornstein, Jacob Bowles
Team: Ursa Major Technologies
1:30 – 2:00 pm
A Sensor Fusion Modeling and Simulation Framework for Decision Support
Presenters: Paul Cummings, Rich Johanning
Team: Amentum, Unity Technologies
2:00 – 2:30 pm
Methodology for Predicting and Validating the Trustworthiness of Robots
Presenters: Theodore Allen, Prabhakar Pagilla
Team: Ohio State University, Texas A&M University, Yaskawa-Motoman, Rovisys
2:30 – 2:45 pm
Break
2:45 – 3:30 pm
Panel: Roadmapping Strategy Development
3:30 – 3:45 pm
Fellowship Program Announcement
3:45 – 4:45 pm
SecureAmerica Business Meeting
4:45 – 5:00 pm
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