NSA 2018 Enterprise Discovery Conference (formerly NSA SIGDev) Technology Expo

For the past 41 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.  2017 stands to improve upon our schedule, with over 100 events planned.

2018 Enterprise Discovery Conference (EDC)-formerly SIGDEV and Exhibition:

The Enterprise Discovery Conference is hosted by the National Security Agency.  The EDC is the largest event held at NSA with over 1500 attendees from around the world.  EDC provides a collaborative learning experience for professionals in the SIGINT Development field across the U.S. Intelligence Community and the other 5-Eyes partner nations:  Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), Communications Security Establishment, Canada (CSE), Government Communications Headquarters, Great Britain (GCHQ), and Government Communications Security Bureau, New Zealand (GCSB). 

Leaders and practitioners will deliver vital and relevant information, direction, and best practice advice for carrying out the Enterprise Development mission.

Upwards of 1500 SIGDEV professionals are expected to attend with ample opportunities for cross-community collaboration to address the community's most challenging SIGDEV concerns.  Presentations, training, and demonstrations will be shared during this event.

The threads for the conference this year are:

1. Communications System Analysis
2. Technology Analysis
3. Access & Topology Analysis
4. Persona Discovery
5. Geopolitical Discovery Integration 

The Expo: The exposition will be unclassified and will consist of a two day event as an adjunct to the Enterprise Discovery Conference. The conference sessions will be conducted in a classified area in close proximity to the exhibits.

Requested Technologies

All companies specializing in signals intelligence products and services are appropriate for this event; areas of interest include:

SIGDEV mission areas:

• Communications Systems Analysis
• Target Analytics
• Network Analysis
• Cyber Discovery
• Network Encryption & Authentication Technologies

Other technologies of interest include:

• Automated analysis
• Large volume data processing
• Metadata & its related content
• Network metadata
• Open source analytic computer based operations
• Signals analysis
• Signals processing