Transcript Information Assurance Small Business Association’s (IASBA

Information Assurance Small Business Association
(IASBA)
2009 Annual Meeting
November 10, 2009
Why Are We Here?
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Vote in the 2010 Board of Directors
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Keynote Address by Brig. Gen. Mike Hayes USMC (Ret.) - Managing
Director for the Office of Military & Federal Affairs within the
Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development.
Keynote Address by Mr. Tony Sager – Chief, Vulnerability
Assessment and Operations Group, Information Assurance
Directorate, National Security Agency.
Review IA-SBA’s goals and objectives for 2009
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Social and Networking to Celebrate the end of IASBA’s second year
of operations
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Schedule
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3:00 – 3:30:
Registration and Cast ballots for 2010 Board of Directors
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3:30 – 3:35:
Welcome
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3:35 – 4:00:
Keynote Address - Brig. Gen. Mike Hayes USMC (Ret.) Managing Director for the Office of Military & Federal Affairs
within the Maryland Department of Business & Economic
Development
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4:00 – 4:25:
Keynote Address – Mr. Tony Sager – Chief VAO, IAD, NSA.
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4:25 – 4:45:
IA-SBA Presentation - Year in Review and Looking Ahead
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4:45 – 5:00:
Introduce the 2010 Board of Directors &
Recognition of Departing Board Members
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5:00 –6:30:
Social Networking
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Key Note Address
Brig. Gen. Mike Hayes USMC (Ret.)
Managing Director for the Office of Military &
Federal Affairs within the Maryland Department of
Business & Economic Development
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Key Note Address
Mr. Tony Sager
Chief, Vulnerability Assessment and Operations Group
Information Assurance Directorate
National Security Agency
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IA-SBA
The Year in Review
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IA-SBA Mission
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Be an advocate for small businesses supporting the US IA
marketplace
Provide the SBC with an identity and “consensus” voice to
communicate needs and capabilities more effectively
• Collect, aggregate and manage capability, performance and contact
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data for small business members
Analyze membership data and articulate SBC’s identity and capabilities
Identify and communicate SBC’s needs
Convey mission priorities, funding issues, program challenges and
technical challenges to the IA SBC
Educate and advocate the IA SBC to other stakeholders (e.g., large
businesses and other IA associations)
Foster the increased and improved interaction among small
businesses for providing better and more effective solutions
Concentrate on the NSA IA Mission as a prototype
Expand into other US IA market segments using “lessons learned”
from NSA partnership
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BoD Goals for 2009
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Raise awareness of the IA-SBA’s profile by projecting a vibrant organization with
many great things occurring.
Systematically and intentionally approach decision makers and influencers and
convey the value added of the IA-SBA.
Provide a forum, at the lowest classification level possible, for our government
customers to share the technical challenges facing the current and future
agency missions with the IA-SBA community.
Define technical requirements in enough detail to allow the small business
community to respond with plausible, innovative solutions.
Discuss, and perhaps prototype, flexible mechanisms that would allow the
customers to address their technical requirements through direct engagement
with small businesses.
Retain 2008 membership and grow by 20% (60 Members by end of year).
Maintain the IA-SBA web site, database and forum capabilities to meet the
needs of the membership, the customer community, and the other IA-SBA
committees.
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Raise awareness of the IA-SBA’s profile by
projecting a vibrant organization with many great
things occurring.
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Released several press releases
Held 1st annual golf tournament with great success and sponsored local
DHHS Information technology program
Continued lunch series with a dynamic range of speakers
Began Afternoon Technical Sessions
• Cyber Security Initiative
• T31 Enterprise Cross Domain Solutions
Presented at numerous NSA sponsored events including small business
outreach briefings
Established communications with DISA representatives
Presented at numerous community events including Maryland
Marketing and AFCEA
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2009 Lunch Time Events
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Government Roundtable 10-15 minute presentation by government attendees
followed by a Q&A.
Bob Peksa BA3 Cost and Pricing at NSA
Surviving a DCAA Audit Ken Bricker, Goodman Associates Gov't Consulting Group of
Goodman & Co
Security Challenges within the TS organization Martha Mahan, C/TS
Cyber Initiative Government Technical Exchange
Golf Tournament Tournament Benefits Digital Harbor High School
Sharon Jones (DISA, Director DISA SADBU ) Doing Business With DISA
Charlie Stein (IAD PEO) Acquisition Roundtable Follow-up (IAD Spend Plan Review)
Jean Stack (Houlihan Locey) Mergers and Acquisitions
Randy Bogue (Venator Partners) Small Business Advisory Boards
Mark Lantz (NSA - CDMO) Technical Exchange (NSA - CDMO)
Bob Leib (Special Assistant to AA County Executive John Leopold for BRAC and
Education) BRAC Update
Yolanda Gantlin (Dept of State - ITAR) ITAR
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Upcoming Events
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December 2009 TBD - Small Business Acquisition
Conference Recap. This event is a lunchtime talk that will be
held at Victoria’s, Columbia MD.
January 2010 TBD - IA Technical Talk with Mr. Steve
LaFountain, Technical Director I8. Mr. LaFountain will
present on technical challenges facing his organization and
have an open dialogue on these challenges with the
audience. This session is only for current members of the IASBA and is not open to the general public. There is no
admission fee for this event, which is expected to begin at
3:30PM.
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Systematically and intentionally approach decision
makers and influencers and convey the value added
of the IA-SBA and the small business community.
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Met with Program Executive Offices
Met with Deputy Senior Acquisition Executive
Small Business Acquisition Conference
Presented IA-SBA goals and objectives to numerous office, division, and
branch leaders within both IAD and SID
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What Agency Decision Makers Are Saying
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Rapidly changing technology drives unique “real time” challenges
for all aspects of Agency mission, likely to increase with new Cyber
Initiative Role and require innovative and responsive solutions
Current contracting models are too slow and inflexible to connect
the technology innovation available with mission needs
New and creative approaches are needed that will identify the
innovation and provide the responsiveness that the Agency needs
to meet current and future demands
Large ID/IQ contracts are used for convenience
Recognition that small businesses traditionally provide creativity,
technology and responsiveness to the marketplace
Limited interaction with the small business community
Difficulty Meeting Small Business Goals
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Discuss, and perhaps prototype, flexible mechanisms that
would allow the customers to address their technical
requirements through direct engagement with small
businesses.
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Developed a dialogue with the Deputy SAE
Proposed three potential mechanisms for prototyping
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Proposal – Create a Toolkit
Approach
Purpose
Benefit
Process
Real-Time
Technology
Driven
Delivery of a solution for
a well defined problem
requiring innovation or
responsiveness
Simple and rapid mechanism
for Mission staff to present
defined challenges and
“Seeding” valid proposals
Bilateral technical forums
leading to “White Paper”
proposals and Purchase Order
contract mechanisms.
Technology &
Responsiveness
Driven
Prototype, proof-ofconcept, or reference
implementations with test
results
Rapid development and
delivery of innovative
solutions to demonstrate
feasibility of technologybased challenges
Selection of solution from
among a managed list of
“vetted” contractors using prenegotiated contracts
Technology
Search Driven
Rapid identification of
existing COTS or within
reach technology with top
level feasibility study as to
its insertion
Disciplined approach to
connecting innovative
solutions with stated needs
Bilateral technical forums
leading to COTS or “near reach”
technologies proposal using
existing contract mechanisms
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Provide a forum, at the lowest classification level
possible, for our government customers to share the
technical challenges facing the current and future agency
missions with the IA-SBA community.
Define technical requirements in enough detail to allow
the small business community to respond with plausible,
innovative solutions.
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Cyber Initiative Briefing
T31 Cross Domain Office presentation and follow up
DISA
January 2010 TBD - IA Technical Talk with Mr. Steve LaFountain,
Technical Director I8.
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Retain 2008 membership and grow by 20%
(60 Members by end of year).
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45 members as of 10/31/2009
6 Large Businesses (+1)
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2 New Members in 2009
39 Small Businesses (-6)
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9 New Members in 2009
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IA-SBA Members
A&N Associates, Inc.
Agency Consulting Group, Inc.
Assured Decisions, LLC
Bay State Computers, Inc.
BB Technical Solutions, LLC
Convergent Technologies Inc
CSSS.NET
DLS Oshman, LLC
Engage Communications
Engineering Solutions, Inc.
Entegra Systems, Inc.
Enterprise Consulting, Inc.
Exceptional Software Strategies, Inc
Gemini Security Solutions, Inc.
Gerretson, LLC
IECA, Inc.
Information Security Systems, Inc
Intelligenesis, LLC
Interoptek, Inc.
Kimball Consulting, Inc.
MAR, Inc.
Minerva Engineering, LLC.
Owl Computing Technologies
Pangia Technologies, LLC.
pf Pulliam
Praxis Engineering Technologies, Inc.
Proteus Technologies
SAFE Operations, Inc.
Sycamore, Inc.
Tailored Access, LLC
The Kenjya Group, Inc.
The Van Dyke Technology Group, Inc.
Tony Ward Consulting
Tresys Technology, LLC
Trusant Technologies, LLC
Venona Consulting, LLC
White Cliffs Consulting
Yakabod, Inc.
Zavda Consulting, LLC
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Special Thanks To Our Large Business Members
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Maintain the IA-SBA web site, database and forum capabilities
to meet the needs of the membership, the customer
community, and the other IA-SBA committees.
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Database was launched early in 2009
Membership renewals through web site with Pay Pal fully functional
Web site is the central repository of all IA-SBA information
All event registrations through web site
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CURRENT Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Judith McCarty
Treasurer
Jerry Schepers
Communications
Mary Stassie
President
Rachael Toren* - Asst.
John Nicolettos
Membership
L.Thompson/C.Sutherland
Events
Rachael Toren* - Asst.
Yuriy Dzambasow*
Operations
Steve Wolverton
Outreach
* Not Board Members
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Departing Directors
Recognition
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Election Process
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Directors. Shall be members in good standing elected at the
annual meeting of Members by a plurality vote
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Number. Shall be not less than five (5) or more than ten (10)
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Term. Directors shall take office at the adjournment of the annual
meeting and remain in office for one year or until the following
annual meeting of Members
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Quorum. The presence, in person or by proxy, of Members
representing twenty percent (20%) of the total votes in the
Association shall constitute a quorum
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Voting. Corporate Members shall be entitled to one (1) vote per
Member. Affiliate Members are not entitled to a vote
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2010 Board of Directors
Introduction
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