The Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA, DC Chapter), will host a symposium on Information Exchange in the context of the Congressionally-mandated Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) initiative. This significant event—Beyond SOA & Cloud: Next Generation Information Exchange in High Consequence Environments—will be held on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the Hilton Washington, Washington, DC.

Keynote addresses will be provided by Aneesh Paul Chopra, Federal Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy; Michael T. Jones, Chief Technology Advocate, Google, Inc.; Bran Ferren, Co-Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.; and Bart Johnson, Acting Under Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis and Chief Intelligence Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Aneesh Chopra, holder of a B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first to hold his position at the White House. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 7, 2009. He previously served as Virginia’s Secretary of Technology and before that as Managing Director for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals and healthy systems, where he led the firm’s Financial Leadership Council and the Working Council for Health Plan Executives. President Obama tasked the native of Trenton, New Jersey, “to promote technology innovation to help the country meet its goals such as job creation, reducing health care costs, and protecting the homeland.”

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