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Dr. Hugo B. Poza
Vice President for Homeland Security
The Raytheon Company

 Introduction By: Dr. Dale Klein

Dr. Hugo B. Poza: Thank you, it’s good to be here. I guess it’s up to John and I to tell you all about the technology that’s in some of the programs that we’re working on. It’s pretty exciting. I hope that when we’re both done that you look at it and say there’s an awful lot to be done, but there’s an awful lot that is going on right now.

Just to give you a very quick rundown on how we operate at Raytheon in terms of homeland security, my organization is really an organization that’s focused on providing the customer with the right solution. What’s important about that is solution is the word; we’re not selling products. We are selling a solution. And in that fashion, we integrate everything that the Raytheon Company does in all the different product businesses, plus the technology that exists in other places, because the commitment is the right, most cost effective solution, not the selling of products. And that’s my commitment to all of my customers, whether DHS or anybody else.

Now, the three areas I wanted for you to look at in the technology, and also the areas we’ve divided the business from Raytheon’s standpoint, is the three that are familiar to you, or three of the ones that are familiar to you in the Department of Homeland Security. Information analysis, infrastructure, protection -- which is a fancy way of really saying mainly intelligence. And that’s what we call detect. The border transportation and high value facility security, which is the area we call protect. Then ultimately, emergency response; when everything else fails, we have to be agile, we have to be thoughtful and we've got to get it done right.

Just to give you an idea of some of the things that are going on, at lunchtime Frances Townsend talked about TTIC, the Terrorist Threat Integration Center. Shana told you a little bit about US Visit, and I will expand a little bit more on that. The homeland secure data network that we’re working with Northrop Grumman. There are other programs, like the Ukraine Border Security program that we’re working today, and I’ll show you some of the border security tools that are being used. And in emergency response, show you some interesting things that are going on in terms of communications interoperability and emergency patient tracking systems.

The detect world, it’s really an amazing world, and it really brings in the connection of all of the intelligence agencies, plus the Department of Homeland Security, and all the data that is collected, and in fact the major issue here is the digestion of all of the data that is available. Three months ago when I last spent some time with Governor Ridge, a previous time that we had talked he said his number one issue was communications interoperability. His number issue today, although communications interoperability is very, very important, is the fact that, oh, boy, he’s getting a lot of data; how does he put all that together and make some sense out of it?

So the intelligence side, we are now bringing together the data. There is, of course, the question of how do we absorb that and be able to use it and put it all together make the right decisions. In this area, we have tools, not only at Raytheon, but at all other places, that are incredible. In our case, the front page that you saw, there’s a tool called Genesis. If I give Genesis your name, Genesis will find out more about you than you could ever remember about yourself. That is a key tool to look into people, visitors that are coming in. That is not just data that is available publicly, but other data that may be available also; it puts it all together and it yields a recommendation to a border guard, to an analyst, et cetera, on the basis of the data available.

Red Wolf, interesting name, I have no idea how they came up with that, but that is a very, very special telecommunications surveillance equipment that is being used today, not only by the United States, but also by some of our key allies in the UK, Australia, Canada. It’s not just the surveillance part, but the fact that it yields data that is good enough to be used on trial for conviction.

On the protect side, we look more at the way of coalescing all the available information in one point. We’re talking about, example, border security, where you want to have not only the sensor data, but perhaps some biometrics, certainly some intelligence data that exists on the conditions, weather conditions, terrain, all of the above. That is the key to protect, which is to integrate all of that data so that one or a group of people can make intelligence decisions.

We’re talking about biometrics, we’re talking about infrared and imaging sensors, we’re talking about communications and very sophisticated communications, smart fibers, a lot of modeling and simulation. The fact is, the customers that we have, and again whether it's in-country, DHS, or private industry and their facilities, for example, the oil complexes, or outside countries, the key is to be able to put all the data together and render those decisions that they need to make.

One example of a tool that exists as part of our demonstration center in a Roslyn building at 1100 Wilson Boulevard, on the 18th Floor, which we’ve put together for our customers and our partners to come see and “play with.” It’s the sensor terrain analysis tool. This tool, for example, and again it’s one of many examples, but this particular tool will assess given the terrain, given the environmental conditions and the people conditions. Can you trust the border guard at a particular crossing in Uzbekistan or Ukraine, et cetera. The location of the sensors and what type of sensors to locate. And then runs a modeling and simulation exercise to evaluate the ultimate effectiveness.

Now to the response side. I’ll deal first and foremost here with communications interoperability, and then I’ll show you a little about patient tracking. The issue of communications interoperability has been here since the days of 9/11 and the lack of the different first responders to be able to communicate with each other. The misperception of what communications interoperability is still persists. Yes, you can change all the radios in the United States today, make them all standard, and have everybody be interoperable; wouldn’t that be nice? Does the government have $40, 50, 60 billion to put to that? I don’t think so. Does the government have, do we as a nation have two, three, four years to get that done? I don’t think so. But there really isn’t a need to do that. What we need to have is hardware and software that is capable of having any radio that exists today communicate with any other radio that exists today. And that’s the key.

One of our subsidiaries, JPS, has the ACU-1000, which is able to link incompatible radio systems. Just a little story to stay away from the hard data. About ten months ago, maybe a little bit less, I went to pay a visit to Congressman Hal Rogers, Kentucky, and I wanted to give him a briefing on all the things I was doing, Raytheon was doing in homeland security. I had probably about seven or eight charts, and about the first five charts the Chairman was, shall we put it, not very interested. Then I got to this chart that you're looking at right now, and he perked up. He said to me, “Right after our meeting here, the City of Louisville is coming to see me, and they're going to propose that for $50 million we can make the City of Louisville interoperable. What do you think, is that enough?” I said, “Mr. Chairman, if you give me $5-6 million, I can make the entire City of Louisville interoperable and you can do whatever you want with the additional $44-45 million.” Twenty-four of these vehicles can make the entire County of Los Angeles interoperable today at a cost of $7.5 million.

This is an interesting program, the emergency patient tracking system. It started in the City of St. Louis. The hospitals sort of felt that for them to really work together in a disaster, whether natural or manmade, terrorist attack, that they needed to talk and be able to know what patient went to what hospital and for what reason. And we had a product that came, like all the others, and I’ll tell you more in the summary, that came from the defense side of the house that allowed them to look at that, be able to communicate the data.

It now connects all 36 hospitals in the City of St. Louis. It’s being looked at in Michigan, in the entire state of Missouri, New Jersey, New York. What really makes it incredible is it’s very, very simple. And ultimately it can be used to contain. Ultimately it can be used to figure out a look by all of the hospital data to say, for example, “We generally have, say, 20 lung cases on a per-day cases; today we have 1,000. Something happened, we’ve got to take a look at this seriously.”

Now look at what happened at the People’s Republic of China with SARS. It was sort of put down, non-communicated, and it really spread. The Republic of Vietnam, on the other hand, made it immediately a focus, information-wise and action-wise, and they were very, very good at containing it. Same thing here; you can actually contain by using this type of tool.

Bottom line. Two things that I want you to take away from here. One is, we can tell you about all these nice technology things. They all have to figure out in a solution to the customer’s problem, that’s very, very important. However, the technology exists in the majority of the cases. One exception, and that’s bio countermeasures. The technology exists today and has been paid by you and I from our tax dollars to the defense world. A lot of that technology is now coming forth. Different application, same technology. And the tweaking is a minor tweak, a minor time tweak and cost tweak. That’s encouraging.

The second thing is that homeland security, I think, the Department of Homeland Security is beginning to do business such as the US Visit program and others, ITMS, I think the right way -- by bringing into those programs performance-based contracting. I'm not going to tell you too much about it, but the fact is that it really puts a carrot out there to do well, performance-wise, so that you can do well financially. It really makes a difference, and I think we’re going to see that difference in the years to come.

Thank you very much. [Applause]

Questions and Answers

 PETER LARKINS: Hello, my name is Peter Larkins. My question is for Dr. Poza. The system that you mentioned, STAT, Sensor Terrain Analysis Two, I guess monkey-headed question, is that an M&S or modeling and simulation tool, first of all; and secondly, has this tool ever been used in any combat system, DT and OT simulation, as you are digital simulation testing, along that line, has it been involved there?

DR. POZA: The answer to your question is no. It is being used today in a couple border security, active border security programs.