IDGA's 9th Annual Maritime Homeland Security Summit will focus on the leadership visions and partnerships between DHS, DOJ, DoD, Industry, and Law Enforcement organizations to enhance the National Capacity for Maritime Homeland Security. The Summit will also focus on increasing activity in the Arctic, and the implementation plan for the Small Vessel Security Strategy. At IDGA’s 2011 Maritime Homeland Security Summit you will hear: Coast...

The Information Systems Summit II will be convened by NDIA, with support from Software Quality Engineering, as a forum to learn and, subsequently, adapt from world-class agile commercial practitioners applicable procedures to rapidly acquire DoD information technology embellished solutions to meet warfighter needs. The goal of this Conference is to understand and accelerate the adaption of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development within Do...

SANS will be back in Orlando, Florida, and the Magic Kingdom® for SANS 2011! Join us March 27-April 4, 2011 for audit, legal, management, developer, forensics, and computer security training. Start making your travel plans now! Put some magic in your skills at SANS 2011. Choose from over 35 courses that are packed with the techniques and tools that you need at this point in your career. These are the five-and six-day courses that will rais...

The 27th Annual National Test & Evaluation Conference is sponsored by the NDIA Test & Evaluation Division and supported by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (AT&L) and the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E). Cosponsors of this symposium are the C4ISR Division and Systems Engineering Divisions of NDIA. Test and Evaluation is often looked at by Program Managers, Program Executive Officers and other pro...

Summary: This three-day course is intended for engineers and other technical personnel and managers who have a work-related need to understand basic acoustics concepts and how to measure and analyze sound. This is an introductory course and participants need not have any prior knowledge of sound or vibration. Each topic is illustrated by appropriate applications, in-class demonstrations, and worked-out numerical examples. Each student will rec...

The increasing level of combat system integration and communications requirements, coupled with shrinking defense budgets and shorter product life cycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in the design and acquisition of new combat systems. This three-day course teaches the systems engineering discipline that has built some of the modern military’s greatest combat and communications systems, using state-of-the-art systems enginee...

This introductory course has recently been expanded to three days by popular demand. It has been taught to thousands of industry professionals for more than two decades, to rave reviews. The course is intended primarily for non-technical people who must understand the entire field of commercial satellite communications, and who must understand and communicate with engineers and other technical personnel. The secondary audience is technical pe...

This five-hour course will prepare you to ship dangerous goods by air in accordance with the International Air Transport Association's Dangerous Goods Regulations. Topics include how to determine which materials are regulated, how to package dangerous goods for air transportation, special requirements for consumer commodities, and marking and labeling requirements. You will also learn how to use the international regulations within the guideli...

If you ship batteries by ground or air, you must comply with DOT or IATA regulations for how the batteries are packaged, marked, labeled, and transported. The rules apply not only to batteries, but also to equipment or vehicles that contain batteries. Virtually all types of batteries are regulated, including lithium, lead-acid, nickel cadmium, and metal hydride, alkaline. All personnel involved in the packaging, marking, labeling, or shipment...

This one-day course is designed for engineers, aviation experts and project managers who wish to enhance their understanding of UAS. The course provides the "big picture" for those who work outside of the discipline. Each topic addresses real systems (Predator, Shadow, Warrior and others) and real-world problems and issues concerning the use and expansion of their applications.