DIRECTORATE OF CONTRACTING, ATTN: ATZS-DKO-E, POST OFFICE BOX 12748, FORT HUACHUCA AZ 85670-2748

A -- RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SOL W61TEA-MHUA-0001 POC Contact, N. Tinnell, 502-533-1213, Contracting Officer, Carmen Simotti, 520-538-0413 (Site Code DABT63) This is for information only and will not result in a Solicitation/ Contract. The Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) Research, Development and Engineering Directorate (RDEC) Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) Fort Huachuca based IEW Technology Assessment Center (IEW TAC) and Team Huachuca are sponsoring the quarterly IEW Technology Conference and C2 Protect Topical Review 4-5 Nov 97 at Ft Huachuca. This conference will be the first of a joint effort between Team Huachuca and the IEW TAC. The structure and content of this conference will be unchanged from previous conferences except that Team Huachuca will bring the combined assets of Ft Huachuca to the conference providing a larger information and capabilities base. This is an information sharing event that is open to all government, academic and defense contractors that have an interest in the U.S. Army's Information and Intelligence processes. The symposium will begin on Tuesday morning followed by an impressive technicalprogram beginning with discussions of the user community's requirements in the area of information security and C2 Protect. The user requirements discussions will be followed by technical briefings, discussions and demonstrations by government, academia and industry members of the research and development community. The theme of this unclassified topical review is the protection of sensitive information. The rapid advancement of technology and the Army's movement to a digital force has made this issue all the more important. Significant advances in technology have been made in the traditional information or communications security fields but enormous challenges remain for everyone in the Information and Intelligence arena. Recent conferences and the Intelligence Center and Signal Center home-on-home at Ft Gordon this summer frequently addressed these issues and high-lighted the need for requirement definition as well as material solutions to these needs. These issues are further emphasized in the Lessons Learned from the recent Task Force XXI brigade exercise. Additional issues, needs and hopefully potential solutions are expected to emerge from the Division XXI SIMEX. This conference will offer a forum for feedback on the user's needs, new missions and operational concepts as well as approaches to meeting these challenges from both a technical and acquistion perspective. If you are interested in participating in the Conference, please contact Don Cairns at (520) 533-2320/2318 or Email at iewtac@www.isec-sig.army.mil. Call for players. The Team Huachuca and the IEW TAC are requesting unclassified papers, topics and displays or demonstrations of C2 Protect concepts and technology in support of the U.S. Army mission include but not limited to: (1) User Requirements: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Force XXI AWE Lessons Learned, Army After Next Concepts, Mission Needs Statements, Information Operations, Information Warfare, Security Strategies, Army Digitization, Army After Next, Army Vision, ROC/ORDs, and FOCs. (2) C2 Protect Technology Initiatives: Secure Electronic Transaction Protocols, Security Enhanced Products, Public-Key Cryptography, Communications Security, Authentication Servers, Information Security, Intrusion Detection, Security Education, Security Scanners, Network Security, Cellular Privacy, Security Tools, Key Recovery, Secure Hosts, Encryption, Firewalls, and COTS. Deadline: 17 October 1997 for One-two Page Abstracts to: Manager, IEW Technology Assessment Center, ATTN: AMSEL-RD-IE-DS-TAC, Ft Huachuca, AZ 85613-6000, Phone (520) (0273)

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