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12 featured speakers REAR ADMIRAL NORMAN R. HAYES Director of Intelligence, United States European Command Navy Rear Admiral Norman R. Hayes is the Director of Intelligence, United States European Command, Germany. As such, he is responsible for all theater intelligence systems, plans, policy, and contingency intelligence activities of United States Forces in the European Theater. He assumed this position in January 2010. Hayes graduated from Indiana University, and initially worked in the private sector for five years. He was commissioned in August 1982 as a Naval Intelligence Officer. His initial assignment was Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 15 (HS-15) at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. Deploying aboard the USS Independence (CV-62), he participated in Operation Urgent Fury and supported operations off the coast of Lebanon in 1983-1984. In 1986, he was assigned to the Fleet Ocean Surveillance Information Facility, Western Pacific (FOSIF WestPac), Kamiseya, Japan. While at FOSIF WestPac, he held positions as FOSIF watch officer, local area watch officer, indications and warning officer, and Western Pacific collections manager. For the period of 1989 - 1991, he was a member of the Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI) personnel staff at the Pentagon. He served as the deputy executive assistant, and head DNI Secretariat. He returned to sea duty with Commander, Carrier Group 1, San Diego, as the Assistant Intelligence Officer in 1991. Admiral Hayes’ follow on tour was as the junior intelligence officer detailer, assistant intelligence community manager, and intelligence community placement officer. He then attended the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College, receiving a Master of Arts degree. In September 1996, Hayes reported to the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Tampa, Florida, as Chief, Analysis Division, Special Operations Command Joint Intelligence Center with additional duties as the executive assistant to Director of Intelligence SOCOM-J2. Prior to reporting to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the summer of 2000, he spent nine months at Commander, Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, as Chief, Command Support and Fleet Support Divisions, Intelligence Directorate. As CVN-72 ships intelligence officer, he deployed to the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch. From 2002 - 2004, he served as commander, 7th Fleet, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (N2). Following the 7th Fleet tour, he reported as executive assistant to the DNI from September 2004 - August 2005. In September 2005, Admiral Hayes reported to Combined Forces Commander Afghanistan, CJ2, Director of Intelligence, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Kabul, Afghanistan. BRIGADIER GENERAL THOMAS BERGHOFF Commander, Strategic Reconnaissance Command, German Armed Forces Brigadier General Thomas Berghoff is the Commander of the Strategic Reconnaissance Command in Gelsdorf, Germany. In 2009, Berghoff was the Assistant Chief of Staff, G3, of the Joint Support Command. General Berghoff has held many important positions throughout his career. He was the Assistant Chief of Branch, Intelligence Division, in the Armed Forces Staff, Bonn and he was also the Military Attaché at the German Embassy, London. From 1997 - 1999 Berghoff was the Commanding Officer of the 12 Rocket Artillery Battalion in Neinburg, Germany. Brigadier General Berghoff entered into military service in the Bundeswehr with 145 Armoured Artillery Battalion in 1976. He has been awarded several awards during his military career including: Gold Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr, Oder River Flood Medal, and ISAF Services Medals. MR. EDGAR BUCkLEY Senior Vice President, European Business Development, Thales Mr. Edgar Buckley is currently the Thales Senior Vice President, European Business Development, based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He is also a director of Thales Raytheon Systems Ltd. and is the European Regional Coordinator for the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium. He joined Thales in September 2003 following a career in British government and international organization service. From 1999 - 2003, he was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Assistant Secretary General for Defense Planning and Operations, responsible under Lord Robertson for NATO defense policy and operational issues. Before that, from 1996 - 1999, he was Assistant Under Secretary of State (<strong>Home</strong> and Overseas) in the Ministry of Defense in London, responsible for policy advice on United Kingdom military operations and United Kingdom defense relations with countries outside Europe and North America. In previous appointments, Mr. Buckley was the Defense Counselor to the United Kingdom Delegation to NATO and the Western European Union from 1992 - 1996; Head of the MOD Defense Arms Control Unit from 1991 - 1992; Head of Resources and Programs (Navy) from 1985 - 1989; Assistant Director, Nuclear Policy from 1984 - 1985; Assistant Director, Strategic Systems/Trident Finance from 1980 - 1984; Principal, Civilian Management (Specialists) from 1978 - 1980; and Private Secretary to the Vice Chief of the Air Staff from 1976 - 1978. Mr. Buckley attended the Royal College of Defense Studies in 1990 and conducted an Efficiency Study on Defense Equipment Decision-Making and a Reorganization Study on the Defense Policy Staff in 1991. Before joining the Ministry of Defense, Mr. Buckley worked for a short period as a teacher in London, where he was born and educated. He has a Bachelor of Arts with Honor and a Ph.D. from London University. AMBASSADOR kATHERINE H. CANAVAN Civilian Deputy to the Commander and Foreign Policy Advisor, United States European Command Ambassador Katherine H. Canavan is the Civilian Deputy to the Commander and Foreign Policy Advisor, United States European Command. She is a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Career Minister. Prior to assuming her present duties, Ambassador Canavan was United States Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, and simultaneously served as the Secretary of State’s Special
Representative to the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Ambassador Canavan served in Washington, D.C. as the Director of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) from 2001 - 2005. Prior to this, Ambassador Canavan completed a three year appointment as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho. From 1996 - 1998, prior to receiving her first Ambassadorial appointment, Ambassador Canavan was the Managing Director of Overseas Citizen Services (OCS) in the Bureau of Consular Affairs. Her tour in OCS followed three years in Windhoek, Namibia, as the Deputy Chief of Mission. Ambassador Canavan entered the Foreign Service in 1976, after serving nearly three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition to several Washington tours in the State Department, her other overseas assignments have included Kingston, Jamaica, and Tijuana, Mexico. She was selected for senior training at the National War College (Class of 1993). Throughout her career, Ambassador Canavan has received numerous awards, including a Presidential Rank Award in 2003, Senior Performance Pay, Superior Honor Awards, and Meritorious Honor Awards. Ambassador Canavan was born and grew up in Southern California, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz. MR. DAVID FIELD, QPM Forensic Intelligence Subject Matter Expert Mr. David Field is a highly experienced British police detective spending a significant period of his 30 years of service based at New Scotland Yard engaged in counter terrorist policing, investigating both domestic and international terrorist crimes. He has a broad skill base across the strategic, operational, and tactical law enforcement environment in both specialized and general investigative roles. Mr. Field is known nationally and internationally as one of the United Kingdom’s leading subject matter experts in Counter Terrorist Forensic and Biometric Investigation having driven significant developments across the United Kingdom’s policing and the Ministry of Defense. In a list of considerable achievements he has established the concept of Forensic and Biometric Intelligence in counter terrorist investigation, forming and leading the United Kingdom’s first and only Counter Terrorist Forensic Intelligence Team. Mr. Field has been responsible for the development of a multi-agency partnership initiative as the case officer for an internationally recognized project which has shaped the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense’s creation of forensic and biometric applications for expeditionary operations. As a function of this unique role, Mr. Field has developed cutting edge techniques and capability for the Ministry of Defense which has lead to an array of successful outcomes in the theatres of Iraq and Afghanistan. In conjunction with this capability and as part of his many functions, Mr. Field has been responsible for the inception, management, and development of the forensic and biometric response within the United Kingdom Defense Exploitation Facility. One of the most important aspects of Mr. Field’s roles working alongside military assets has been the creation of enduring relationships and agreements with international defense and law enforcement partners, collecting and sharing critical biometric intelligence for protection of the United Kingdom and its global partners. This achievement continues to prove to be a critical benefit identifying those who transcend international boundaries in the pursuit of terrorist activity and supports long term counter terrorist operational capability across government and military alike. featured speakers During his service Mr. Field was awarded 10 Commendations by the United Kingdom’s most senior Police Officer (Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police Service). In recognition of his services to policing, Mr. Field was awarded the Queens Police Medal by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the New Years Honors List 2002. Mr. Field is currently in the transition of retirement following his 30 years of government service and has recently taken up a position with Hazard Management Solutions, Ltd. to support the wider development of Forensic and Biometric Intelligence across the international counter terrorist community. DR. DOUGLAS A. JONES Technical Staff, Information Systems Technology Group, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Douglas A. Jones is a member of the technical staff in the Information Systems Technology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory. His background includes Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Linguistics from Stanford University specializing in computational phonology, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT specializing in Hindi syntax. He completed postdoctoral work on computational theories of verb structure at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). Dr. Jones has held research positions in the United States government with the Department of Defense where he specialized in machine translation for world minority languages, and at National Institute of Standards and Technology where he helped launch a Chinese-English cross language information retrieval study. The main focus of Dr. Jones’ research is leveraging the inherent structure of linguistic patterns for the design of large-scale human language processing systems. Since 2002, his focus has been to adapt military standards of foreign language testing for machine translation evaluation. He is working to develop a common measure both for human language learners and for machine translation technology, the purpose being to influence technology in ways that best enable people to accomplish foreign language tasks. He has published numerous papers in the field of computational linguistics. 13
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