Whether it's delivering better care for veterans, transforming internal business processes to make federal employees more effective and efficient, or improving the citizen experience on federal websites, digital government aims to enable better government. New tools and technologies are an essential part of these efforts, but the true transformation takes place in the analog world -- rethinking business processes, changing the workplace cultur...

The course will survey the history of decisive military technologies that have caused a Revolution in Military Affairs, resulting not only in new tactics and strategies but changing the course of civilization and world history. For example, ancient Macedonia’s King Phillip II (382-336 BC) introduction of the sarrisa—a spear measuring about 18 feet in length, much longer than those used by any other army of antiquity—became th...

The future of warfare rests on the ability of the armed forces to extract and unlock actionable insights from data to gain an advantage over adversaries on the battlefield wherever it may be--land, air, sea, cyberspace, or Space. To that end, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) is working on tools to help in joint, all-domain operations. JAIC officials have reported the center is involved in the Air Force’s A...

December 8-9, 2020 | Mary M. Gates Learning Center, Alexandria, VA DSI’s 2nd Annual Digital Forensics for National Security Symposium will once again bring together members of the Federal Government Agencies, DoD, US Military Services, & Industry in a ‘town-hall’ style forum to examine how advances in Digital Forensics, sometimes called ‘Computer Forensics’, are transforming the way investigations into digital...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 11/16-11/20/2020 AI Week, presented by Scoop News Group, will be the nation’s largest gathering around artificial intelligence, focused on its potential to transform and disrupt public sector organizations and tangential industries like transportation, health care, banking and much more. During AI Week, leaders from governm...

FedTalks, the largest annual gathering of C-suite leaders from tech, gov and academia is turning 11 this year and will be bigger than ever. This year FedTalks will be a digital experience featuring talks from the biggest names in tech around the country. As the flagship event of National AI Week - a weeklong annual festival hosted by FedScoop from November 16-20, FedTalks will showcase influential leaders for daily lightning talks, keynotes, a...

The Federal Data Strategy's action plan was reworked in response to the COVID-19 crisis, while state and local governments are simultaneously expanding health data initiatives and looking for more cost-effective data solutions. Add in the growing importance of data-intensive cyber threat detection and the broad potential of AI and automation, and it becomes clear: Agencies' data challenges are evolving rapidly, and a solid data strategy is mis...

Hypersonic Weapons are accelerating the pace at DoD for the evaluation of potential weapon system concepts and mission sets. As DoD is preparing for $10 billion to enable fielding of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) within the next five years, this has created a surge of a rapid R&D for Hypersonic Technologies. Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) are launched from a rocket before gliding to a target and alternatively, Hypersonic cruise missiles...

Emerging technologies offer the promise of better, faster, cheaper processing and problem solving, but they also bring the possibility of bias, security breaches and new privacy issues. Most agencies are experimenting on a small scale and testing out standards on privacy and security. Workforce also has been a concern as emerging tech matures—both to ensure displaced workers are reskilled and to make certain the job classifications are a...

An event co-presented by ATARC and NASA with panels focusing on the following conversations: -The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning -Moving Toward Model-Based Everything -Process Transformation (PTx) -The Importance of Culture & Workforce -Data -Collaboration