Objective & Scope The Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) will sponsor the 36th Annual Joseph P. Cribbins Aviation Product Symposium for interested members of industry and the aviation logistics and acquisition communities on February 10-11, 2010. The theme of this year’s symposium is “Sustaining Operations While Recovering.” The purpose of the Aviation Product Symposium is to stimulate dialogue among industry ex...

The year 2009 saw significant changes in American's national security leadership and a new Quadrennial Defense Review published. Even outside the Department of Defense, the prevailing thoughts on our future security challenges talk of smaller conflicts, irregular warfare, insurgencies, terrorism, and increasing use of special operations forces. There continues to be an evolving National Security Strategy and National Military Strategy that cal...

Introduction The 2010 Munitions Executive Summit will be focused on the ongoing challenge of aligning industrial capabilities with the evolving munitions requirements and resource parameters. This annual summit is attended by industry executives, acquisition leaders, program managers, and academia involved in the US munitions enterprise. The totality of this munitions enterprise continues to work in collaboration to improve the availability a...

Defending America, CYBERSPACE 2010 Symposium, formerly known as Defending America, SpaceComm, is sure to become the premier event in the west to learn about the most current cyberspace issues facing our nation. The symposium theme, The Blueprint for Cyber Integration, is drawing speakers and participants in government and industry leadership positions from Intelligence, Air Force Space, Service C4 leaders, Homeland Defense and Security Operato...

When it comes to stimulus money no one is spending like the Department of Energy. Join us December 15 for our next Federal IT Breakfast & Schmooze as we host DOE CFO Steve Isakowitz who is guiding the department’s momentous spending. And Steve’s not just a pencil pusher - as a former exec at Lockheed and Booz Allen, not to mention a Master’s in aerospace engineering from MIT, he knows the info industry wants to hear.