Meeting Next Month In Las Vegas
The National Business
Aviation Association (NBAA) says Assistant Secretary of Homeland
Security for the TSA, David M. Stone, and journalist Fred Barnes
will be the featured keynote speakers for the opening session of
the NBAA's 57th Annual Meeting & Convention. The event runs
from October 12 to October 14 in Las Vegas (NV). NBAA President and
CEO Edward M. Bolen also will speak during the Opening General
Session as that event's host.
More than 30,000 people
are expected at the NBAA 57th Annual Meeting & Convention,
which will feature over 1,050 Exhibiting Companies and 89 static
aircraft.
The Opening General Session will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00
a.m. on Tuesday, October 12 in Las Vegas Convention Center Room
N245/N246/N247, located above the Central Lobby. A continental
breakfast will be served from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
David M. Stone, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)
David M. Stone was nominated to be assistant secretary of
homeland security for the TSA by President Bush on April 8, 2004,
and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate on July 22. He is the
lead Bush Administration line official responsible for aviation
security. The TSA includes a budget of approximately $4.4 billion
and more than 40,000 employees.
Rear Admiral Stone had served as acting administrator of the TSA
since December 4, 2003, and had been deputy chief of staff in TSA
Headquarters since August 2003. He was selected for that position
from a field assignment as the TSA's first federal security
director at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), one of the
largest and busiest airports in the world. During that assignment,
he led the local effort to mobilize, train and deploy the largest
federalized screener work force in the United States, a monumental
effort completed two weeks before the required deadline. The
airport also implemented the 100-percent electronic checked-baggage
screening program, screening in excess of 150,000 items per
day.
As a career naval officer, Rear Admiral Stone retired from
active duty in April 2002. He began his naval career in 1974, as a
graduate of the US Naval Academy, where he earned a Bachelor of
Science degree. He also holds a Master of Science in management
from Salve Regina College; a Master of Arts in national security
and strategic studies from the Naval War College in Newport (RI);
and a Master of Arts in national security affairs from the US Naval
Postgraduate School.
Fred Barnes
With more than 20 years
of reporting on Washington politics, Fred Barnes will offer an
insider's look at the presidency and Congress during his
presentation.
Barnes currently is executive editor of The Weekly Standard.
From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House
correspondent for The New Republic. He covered the Supreme Court
and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the
Baltimore Sun in 1979, where he served as the national political
correspondent. He also wrote the Presswatch media column for the
American Spectator.
Additionally, Barnes is host, along with Mort Kondracke, of The
Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel, and he appears regularly on
Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume. From 1988 to 1998 he was a
regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. He also has appeared on
Nightline, Meet the Press, Face the Nation and The NewsHour with
Jim Lehrer.
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