The White House's AI Executive Order in October 2023 lays the groundwork for exponential AI growth in the federal sector after a year of particularly rapid development for the emerging technology. As the public sector meaningfully moves forward into an AI-enabled future, government leaders are working to harness the groundbreaking potential and innovation AI has to offer. Join the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual AI Summit, where feder...

Current bureaucratic procedures in the Federal government have imposed an overwhelming paperwork burden on citizens and workers, amounting to over 9 billion hours annually. In December 2021, President Joe Biden issued the Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government. Although past actions have laid the groundwork for service improvements, this new order recognizes the need for...

Protecting and securing the homeland from evolving and mounting global threats is top of mind for the United States government in this particularly complex era of defense and national security. As competition intensifies between the world’s major players, new pacing challenges, vulnerabilities and security concerns are uncovered. Today, respected leaders in border protection, homeland security and national security are working with indus...

Join us for an event with GEOINT community leaders to learn how geospatial data can be leveraged to enhance operational analysis. USGIF Mission Focus events provide informative discussion and insights into a specific topic of interest to the GEOINT community and offer the opportunity to network and connect with other professionals in the field. Stay tuned for speaker announcements!

Breakthrough advancements in artificial intelligence have propelled the field to new heights. AI is being harnessed across government, industry and military branches alike to support and advance missions in a myriad of applications. But as a still relatively nascent technology, AI also comes with inherent risks, threats and vulnerabilities — as evidenced by the rapid development of generative AI tools and technologies in recent years. Th...

As the newest and fastest growing warfighting domain, space is rising to the forefront of our nation’s priorities as we work to maintain technological superiority on the global stage. Among the most critical capabilities being targeted in this domain today is real-time, continuous connectivity, especially as adversarial activity and threats increase. This timely event focuses on the cutting-edge technologies behind rapid progress in spac...

Whether you are evaluating your data, your apps, or your existing systems, pacing threats are not slowing down, and defense missions must innovate new and modern approaches to best leverage assets. Solutions and data sharing must interoperate not just within a service or within domains, they must morph and respond to collations and changing battlefield realities. DOD decision makers are being asked to apply resources faster and more effectively.

Building on the momentum of the 2022 CHIPS Act, the United States semiconductor industry is poised for explosive growth. Microelectronics underpin everything from household electronics to major U.S. military weapons systems, but the country’s current reliance on foreign manufacturers is proving to be risky in the peer competition era. At the ExecutiveBiz Microelectronics Forum, semiconductor experts, government officials and industry lea...

We would like to invite you to attend this year’s Data in Motion conference on March 30 at the Westin Tysons Corner where we will explore how organizations can succeed in the data streaming era. The conference will be centered around the theme of Meeting the Culture of NOW with Data in Motion, where we will examine the creation of Apache Kafka®, the open-source distributed event streaming platform that is capable of handling trillion...

In response to rapid technological advancements around the world, the Pentagon is ramping up its research and development efforts in 14 critical and emerging technology areas which include AI, microelectronics and hypersonics, among others. The Department of Defense has identified these technologies as paramount to U.S. national security, and the list now serves as a guide for government and industry technology investments. In the coming years...