For the past 40 years, the Federal Business Council has produced thousands of symposiums, expositions, training forums, and conferences, both on-site and off, for the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and civilian agencies. 2016 stands to improve upon our schedule, with over 100 events planned. Join us on August 11, 2016 for the annual Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) IT Vendor Expo! Past expos have brought in a d...

Dcode42, an accelerator whose mission is to accelerate innovation in the federal government by providing technology companies with the skills and resources they need to successfully enter the federal space invites you to attend an exclusive program during its inaugural Power Week.When it comes to technology and innovation, agencies often find private sector technologies too risky, difficult to integrate, or not specific enough to government. Y...

For close to a decade the Obama administration has been putting together the components of a system to automate the identification and response to security breaches in government agencies. The move toward security and monitoring as-a-service is based on a consensus that fixed network defense technologies have not lived up to their promise to protect federal networks. Tools are now emerging to identify and block critical threats to agency syste...

Event Postponed For the Defense Department, the future is about convergence—bringing the military services and coalition partners together on the same networking and communications platform, analyzing and layering data from multiple sources and making it accessible via the cloud, and seamlessly integrating cyber and kinetic operations. Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s public/private innovation initiative also promotes collaboration a...

Defense Industry Outlook: Budget Battles, State of the Market, and a New DOD Oversight Policy for M&A Transactions Bloomberg BNA and Squire Patton Boggs invite you to join our industry experts on February 23 in Washington, DC for a briefing, Defense Industry Outlook: Budget Battles, State of the Market, and a New DOD Oversight Policy for M&A Transactions, that will address the policy developments that will impact your decisions, provid...

To build on the success of the July 2015 DOD CIO Mobility Industry Day, AFCEA Washington, DC is continuing the dialogue on how government can capitalize on commercial innovation and will include industry’s response to the DOD CIO, other civilian agency and military services organization plans. The 5th Annual Mobile Technology Summit to be held January 21, 2016 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center presents best of...

52nd Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention December 1-3, 2015 | Marriott Marquis and DC Convention Center, Washington, DC Synchronizing EW and Cyber to Achieve Spectrum Dominance Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) Dominance in the future will require that we "Synchronize EW and Cyber to Achieve Spectrum Dominance". The Department of Defense along with its industry partners face an uncertain global security environment driven by advers...

The sophistication of ISIS' digital propaganda and recruiting machine can seem hopelessly difficult to counteract. But new thinking and research indicates that coordinated efforts to wage a broad-scale digital counterinsurgency may be as vital as military confrontation when it comes to disabling ISIS and preventing future threats. Join us for a discussion of the most cutting-edge thinking on digital counterinsurgency tactics, with top experts...

Since the Office of Management and Budget first announced its "Cloud First" policy in 2010, agencies across government have been testing the cloud, developing new IT processes, and upgrading their existing infrastructure to make their operations cloud-ready. In many respects, the Cloud First policy has achieved its goal, providing agencies with evidence that the cloud makes it possible to deliver information and services to users working anywh...

At the third annual Defense One Summit, top global security officials from the military and beyond will gather to discuss how they are keeping up with threats that stretch from the battlefield to the homeland. Agenda 7:30am - 8:30am Registration & Networking Breakfast 8:30am - 8:35am Opening Remarks 8:35am - 9:00am Opening Keynote: The Age of Everything: Setting National Security Priorities in an Era of Evolving Threats Featuring: Ben Rhod...