While serving as the Army G-6 and CIO, Lt. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell once referred to the Joint Information Environment as an “operational imperative.” JIE, while not a formal program, is a driving force behind DOD-wide efforts to modernize networks, strengthen security, and improve the flow of information across the individual services and in the joint environment. JIE reflects a broader interest in providing a cohesive framework to...

Interoperability, Needs & Challenges – Future Opportunities Military Network Modernization efforts rapidly evolve, technology and information transfer becomes more complex. The need to push critical intelligence anywhere in the world in real time, Joint Forces and the Joint Information Environment requirements for a more streamlined, efficient, and higher capacity networks is now more crucial than ever. Starting in 2017 through 2021...

Welcome to IDGA’s second annual event devoted to the challenges and opportunities of Integrated Air and Missile Defense. Technology proliferation continues to increase the lethality our adversaries have in countering US and Coalition partners around the world. We continue to see an increase in our adversaries’ usage of unmanned aerial systems, cyber-attacks, electronic warfare, short, medium, and long range missile advancements, an...

Big Data for Defense and National Security 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 an...

SMi Group are proud to announce the launch of the inaugural MilSatCom USA which will take place in Arlington, Virginia on 28th-29th June 2016. With growing external threats to US Space Assets, greater focus on streamlining the MilSatCom acquisition process and a greater desire for international partnering in the US, there will be a great opportunity for the US SatCom community and allies to meet and discuss how greater progress can be made. Th...

Unlike traditional manufacturing, which involves creating a smaller object from a larger source material, additive manufacturing takes raw materials, feeds them through a digital manufacturing system and creates a customized object from that material, eliminating excess material waste. This potential ability to exchange AM design and manufacturing capabilities via file sharing has enormous potential ramifications for reducing shipping and prod...

With the USA being the single largest CBRNe market and Washington DC being the center of budgeting and decision-making, NCT CBRNe USA promises again the most-up-to-date program and the most relevant stakeholders – a combination that can hardly be found in any other event!NCT is the #1 CBRNe event series in the world, globally established and known as prime regional CBRNe summits in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. With its we...

Our monthly programs draws between 350-400 senior officers and IT professionals from across the Department of Defense, armed services, intelligence and civilian agencies to discuss topics of interest to the DOD IT community ranging from IT networks to mobility to cybersecurity to UAS/sensors. The goal of our monthly event is to foster better joint warfighting communication, share best practices and lessons learned, and identify mission-critica...

Our monthly programs draws between 350-400 senior officers and IT professionals from across the Department of Defense, armed services, intelligence and civilian agencies to discuss topics of interest to the DOD IT community ranging from IT networks to mobility to cybersecurity to UAS/sensors. The goal of our monthly event is to foster better joint warfighting communication, share best practices and lessons learned, and identify mission-critica...

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 draw conclusions sourced from the seemingly overwhelming inputs fro...