By 2020, an estimated 30-50 billion devices will be connected to the internet. Each of these devices will collect and communicate massive amounts of data, and as these devices become more sophisticated they are incorporating the ability to analyze the data and plan, manage and make intelligent decisions autonomously about sharing that information via embedded machine-to-machine communications with other internet-capable devices. DoD, to some e...

Over 20 Experts from FAA/Air Worthiness, Air Transportation (COE), UAS (COE), DOT, NASA, Amazon Prime Air, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Harris, NUAIR, MAAP, Small UAV Coalition, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, AIA, INAOE, Dentons U.S. LLP, Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, AeroVironment, Aurora Flight Sciences, Duetto Group, Arcturus UAV, BPD, PrecisionHawk, Persistent Surveillance Systems, Ultravance, Drone Aviation & and Tayzu Roboti...

Information sharing and information overload challenges continue to dominate operational and acquisition planning within the Department of Defense, Intelligence, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement communities. Increasingly, government agencies are looking for the latest tools and capabilities in big data and predictive analytics to provide the means to analyze, exploit and draw conclusions sourced from the seemingly overwhelming inputs fro...

Emerging Opportunities, Needs and Challenges Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) have seen a golden age in the last decade growing to an annual budget of $7 billion. Most of this growth has been through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but with the drawing down of troops, what’s next? Analysts still predict growth in this industry, estimating a total increase to just over $89 billion in the next decade....

The Next Big Thing! – Civil and Commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems The markets for civil and commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are poised to explode. UAS manufacturers who to date have been feeding the huge defense market are being joined by an ever increasing number of non-defense UAS platform and payload developers who are targeting the potentially enormous markets for civil and commercial cap...

The need for more and better ISR assets now permeates government planning across a broad range of critical missions, including but not limited to: Persistent Global Surveillance & Global Strike, Counter-intelligence & Counter-terrorism, Maritime Domain Awareness, Space Defense,Anti-Access and the Contested Global Commons. From the Middle East to the increasingly tumultuous Asia-Pacific region and even home to CONUS, the need for a div...

Over 20 Top Experts from USAF AF/A2D, OUSD/AT&L, INSCOM, HQ USA,NSA, Army G-3/5/7 PO, DoD CIO, FBI, DHS/FEMA, NIST, NGA, DISA, WRTAC, Deloitte, IBM, Raytheon, NetApp, DigitalGlobe, Resilient, Elder Research, L-3 Data Tactics, Femme Comp Inc., and IDA Discussing: • Emerging DOD, IC and Government Intelligence Plans and Needs • Status and Forecast of Key DoD, IC, and Government Intelligence Programs and Initiatives • Tools and...

While tremendous progress has been made over the past decade in improving the nation's abilities to collect, analyze and disseminate intelligence across the government enterprise, there is still much work to be done. The Intelligence Community (IC), with the cooperation of DoD, and the homeland security and law enforcement communities, have embarked on an ambitious plan to modernize our intelligence analytics capabilities to meet emerging futu...

Over 30 Experts from DOT, FAA, NASA, GAO, USAF, USGS, DHS, DOJ, FEMA, Insitu/Boeing, Lockheed Martin, British Petroleum, MAAP, NUAIR, UMd, Small UAV Coalition, Altavian, ADFS, Airware, Global Aerospace, Unmanned Experts, McKenna, Long, Aldrige LLP, Duetto Group, and Eckert Seamans examine… ■ Current and Future Plans for UAS Integration in the National Airspace ■ Roadmaps, Regulatory Issues, Technical Challenges ■ Finan...

The Department of Defense continues to be the largest single acquirer and user of energy and energy systems and technologies in the world. While most continue to be petroleum and petroleum-based products, there is also a steadily growing market for alternative energies. In addition, DoD and the Services are investing heavily in new technologies to improve energy efficiency and management, whether at fixed installations or in the deployed, mobi...