Big Data and Predictive Analytics

Information Sharing and Analytics – Meeting the Nation’s Intelligence Challenge

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 share conclusions drawn from the seemingly overwhelming inputs from ever-increasing numbers of sources.

The value obtained by attending will allow access to outstanding briefings from the key government and industry experts who are shaping the direction of big data and predictive analytics research and development for defense, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement.

Key themes include:

• Adding Value to Constructed Data for Intelligence 
• Using the Latest Tools and Technologies – Deep/Predictive Analytics, Semantics, Cloud Computation, Metadata, Biometrics, Machine Learning etc.
• Security Considerations in Sharing Big Data – Challenges and Solutions
• BDA Implementation: Collection, Processing, Management and Dissemination Strategies and Techniques
• Applying Predictive Analytics to the Defense Mission

Over 20 Guest Experts from: DoD OUSD (AT&L)/ARA, Office of the CIO/DoD, NGA, USN PEO C4I/PMW-120, ONI(PMW-120), Army G8, ARMY (DAIIS), NRL, HQDA, PA&E, DISA, Microsoft Federal, BAE Systems, Cognition, Peraton, MapR Federal, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM Federal, RAND, InfoLogix, Basis Technology, DC Metropolitan Police/JSTACC, SAS Federal, Kitware and Integrity Applications, Inc.