Military UAV’s Create Multiple-Mission Opportunities for Industry Military spending for this technology is expected to grow as an overall percentage of large military budgets such as the United States’ and Chinese defense budget, offering specialized drone manufacturers and software developers a tremendous opportunity. While drones will never completely replace soldiers, this debate is becoming less important in the current strateg...

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Threat Intelligence and Global Strategy & Policy teams will provide a briefing on SolarWinds. They will cover the campaign's scope, timeline, impact, lessons learned, and policy implications in the wake of the most damaging supply chain attack in recent memory. This briefing will strictly focus on their knowledge of the SolarWinds hack and the threat it poses for government organizations at every level. The brief...

The United States transitioned from just a recurring flu season to a full pandemic with the infiltration of the Corona Virus. This pandemic caused the healthcare system to turn upside down and develop new pathways, processes, and techniques for not only tending to and treating the COVID patients, but also treating the general populations with the daily medical and surgical conditions. So many changes occurred in the healthcare system in a very...

This training will describe how a comprehensive threat assessment program can help to prevent mass shootings, school shootings, workplace violence, and other forms of targeted violence that impact communities across the United States. Included is an overview of Secret Service methodologies for preventing assassinations, and a description of how this approach can be adapted to prevent other forms of targeted violence. All content is based on th...

The global small drone market will reach $10 billion by 2020 according to a forecast by research firm MarketsandMarkets – this reflects a compound annual growth rate of 11.6 percent from 2015. Drone manufacturers who to date have been feeding the huge defense market are being joined by an ever increasing number of non-defense drone developers who are targeting the potentially enormous markets for civil and commercial capabilities. The a...

Security Today Conference Overview GovSec West is growing into Security Today! We live in a dangerous world where challenges to our security come from home and abroad. Whether from government, law enforcement, education or private industry you need the strategies, tools, and technology to protect your communities, businesses, and the homeland. Security Today combines training, tools, and technologies for meeting those challenges head-on. Atten...

3rd Annual Criminal & Intelligence Analyst Symposium. Pinehurst Resort Convention Center: Pinehurst, NC on August 12th - 14th, 2014. Training Includes: Day 1: Aug 12, 2014: Human Trafficking Investigation’s (4 Hours) >Jennifer H.B. Fisher : North Carolina Justice Academy - BLET Curriculum Coordinator/Instructor - Auxiliary Detective Brunswick County Sheriff Department since 1998 Day 1: Aug 12, 2014: Afternoon Session @ NCGIA GAC ...

First responders need reliable, accurate information to decide the best course of action during an incident—and they need it quickly. In this age of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, this data can literally be at their fingertips. IDGA's First Responders Communication Interoperability will bring together high profile speakers from FEMA, NTIA, NCTC, JTTF, DHS, DOJ and more to discuss in depth discussions on communication int...

The OpTac International SWAT and Critical Incident Management Program is based on the soon to be released book, SWAT Operations and Critical Incidents: Why People Die written by Stuart A. Meyers, and includes his Harvard University award-winning research on the complexities of critical incident management. Law enforcement administrators, executive officers, incident and tactical commanders, and SWAT team personnel will benefit from an improved...

Many regions in the world will be in persistent conflict for generations and the adaptive IED challenge will remain a potential threat across the full range of Alliance operations. We must contain the spread of IEDs as a global weapon of choice by making them too costly to produce and too risky to employ by Attacking the Network that emplace IEDs, and by training our forces on effective CIED operations. As the war in Afghanistan winds down U.S...