In collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Cyber Protection Team, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), and hosted by the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, GovFuture is excited to announce GovFuture Forum Silicon Valley.

This event Features Special presentations and a panel with:

• US Coast Guard 2003 Cyber Protection Team (CPT)

• Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)

• National Security Innovation Network (NSIN)

• Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation

Hear about USCG CPTs’s role protecting the marine transportation system and an overview of what CGCYBER does and how it interacts with DHS & DoD. Learn about DIU in a “DIU 101” presentation.

This special event will be an intimate gathering that brings together government innovators, technologists, thought leaders, movers-and-shakers, government ecosystem partners, and interested people to provide a forum for public sector innovators and ecosystem partners to interact with the USCG 2003 Cyber Protection Team and learn more about DIU’s mission.

Agenda:

• 6-6:30pm – Networking

• 6:30-7:30pm – Presentations

  • US Coast Guard 2003 Cyber Protection Team (CPT) – LT CDR Kenny Miltenberger and Kaitlyn Devalk

  • Defense Innovation Unit [DIU]- Josh Zike

  • National Security Innovation Network (NSIN)- Pavan Gill

  • Gordian Knot Center – David Hoyt

• 7:30-8:30pm: Panel discussion

  • LT Kaitlyn Devalk – US Coast Guard (USCG)

  • Pavan Gill – National Security Innovation Network (NSIN))

  • Patrick Gould – Defense Innovation Unit [DIU]

  • David Hoyt – Gordian Knot Center

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About the US Coast Guard 2003 Cyber Protection Team (CPT):

The 2003 Cyber Protection Team (CPT) was established August 1, 2023 at Coast Guard Island as the third CPT command held by Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER). 2003 CPT is the first CPT geographically detached unit from CGCYBER and will receive full operational capability certification by United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) in Spring 2024.

Featured Guest at the Nov. 8, 2023 event is Lt. Cmdr Kenneth Miltenberger, 2003 CPT’s commanding officer. He was previously the chief of the CGCYBER Cyber Operational Assessments Branch, during which he formed the Coast Guard’s Cyber Red Team, a highly skilled group conducting cyber threat emulations on Coast Guard networks to identify potential weaknesses and assess the effectiveness of network defenses.

About the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU):

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) organization founded to help the U.S. military make faster use of emerging commercial technologies. Launched in 2015, the organization has been called “the Pentagon’s Innovation Experiment”. DIU is staffed by civilian, active duty and reserve military personnel and is the only DoD organization focused on accelerating the adoption of commercial and dual-use technology to solve operational challenges at speed and scale. The organization is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Austin, Boston, Chicago, and the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C.

About the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN):

NSIN, the National Security Innovation Network, is an unrivaled problem-solving network in the U.S. Department of Defense that adapts to the emerging needs of those who serve in the defense of our national security. We are dedicated to the work of bringing together defense, academic and entrepreneurial innovators to solve national security problems in new ways.

About the The Gordian Knot Center (GKC) for National Security Innovation:

The Gordian Knot Center (GKC) for National Security Innovation trains and connects the next generation of national security innovators with the U.S. Government to solve the world’s most intractable challenges—from great power competition and non-state actor threats to nontraditional transnational security dilemmas. We solve national security problems and deliver projects at the intersection of diplomacy, information, military, and the economy (DIME) and commercial technologies (AI, machine learning, autonomy, biotech, cyber, semiconductors, commercial access to space, et al.).

About GovFuture:

GovFuture is a membership organization that brings together thought leaders, C-levels, decision makers, influencers, and technologists in the public sector who are applying innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, advanced analytics, big data, cyber / zero trust, cloud, and modernization / digitization, robotics, and many other advanced technologies to a wide range of applications in the public sector. GovFuture has over 3,000 members actively working inside and with public sector agencies at the federal, state, and local level as well as industry experts and thought leaders.