The Federal Information and Records Managers (FIRM) Council is Sponsoring: GPEA/ACES Symposium October 11, 2000 GSA Auditorium, 18th and F Streets, NW Red Line: Farrugut North Blue/Orange Line: Farragut West Please RSVP to anne.j.baker@noaa.gov by 10/5/00

9:00 Welcome Carol Brock, Chair, FIRM Council 9: 10 Opening Remarks (Not finalized yet) 9:15 Digital Signature PKI Primer Keren Cummins, DST 10:30 Break 10:45 ESIGN Legislation/GPEA Requirements Jonathan Womer and Reporting 11:00 ACES Overview Judy Spencer

11:45 Lunch

Getting Started: 1:00 What you need to do- David Temoshok 1:15 The Technical Side Stan Choffrey 1:30 Contract Considerations Don Carlson 1:40 Private Sector Deployment of Verisign PKI 2:00 Building the Business Case for PKI Tony Trenkle, SSA Risk Assessment

2:30 Break

Meeting User Agency Needs: 2:45 Customer Advisory Board, The "CAB" John Sindelar 3:00 Environmental Protection Agency Plans Kim Nelson 3:15 Open Panel Questions & Issues ACES Team and Closing Remarks Industry partners

-- Anonymous, September 27, 2000