Both man-made and natural disasters, climate change and population growth continue to take a toll on the global energy ecosystem. To meet these challenges, government, private industry and academia need to foster an environment that secures our energy future, reduces disaster risks, ensures security for our food and water supply and promotes climate solutions. On June 26th, held at The Hamilton Live in Washington, DC, AFCEA Energy & Earth...

There’s a good reason that the Report on Federal IT Modernization identifies the cloud as an essential platform for IT in the years ahead. Cloud has the potential not only to improve the efficiency of existing services, but also to enable the development of a new generation of services. But there are still a lot of questions to be answered. To fully leverage cloud computing, agencies need to rethink their IT architecture, address lingeri...

NATO’s Digital Endeavour: Expanding the Ecosystem Organized in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany, NITEC18 conference will bring together over 600 senior government, military and industry leaders, as well as defence and security experts. These senior officials will be joined by NATO Directors, Service Line Chiefs and industry leaders to discuss NATO’s digital transformation (the largest in decades), business...

Montgomery IT Summit is an annual event hosted by the Montgomery Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). The event begins on Monday May 21nd, 2018 with the annual Montgomery AFCEA Charity Golf Tournament, with proceeds benefiting the Montgomery AFCEA Chapter Educational Foundation. Since its inception, the Educational Foundation has invested over $3 million dollars in scholarships and other benefits for...

Law enforcement and public safety (LEAPS) communities are working together to increase efficiencies and improve processes. There are many risk management considerations for modernizing and applying new technology approaches in order to get to better solutions and timelier outcomes. Leaders need to be aware of current thinking in digital and data trust, cloud-based services, and analytic and machine learning as they prepare for the next generat...

The purpose of the DON IT conference is to: Share information about new and emerging IT policy and initiatives, including those that support statutory requirements, cybersecurity, privacy, and electromagnetic spectrum.Provide IT-related training that will provide credits toward continuous learning per SECNAVINST 1543.2, which requires that Cyberspace/IT workforce members have 40 hours of continuous learning per year.Hear firsthand from DON I...

AFCEA NOVA is proud to host our 11th Annual Joint & Combat Support Agency IT Day on Friday, April 20, 2018, at the Ritz Carlton Pentagon City. This one-day conference will provide DOD leadership with an opportunity to brief industry on their vision, requirements, and acquisition strategies, andl also allow them to explain how they plan to leverage IT and accelerated acquisition approaches to address critical needs. Learn how industry can s...

A data analytics initiative is not just about the data. It’s about putting in place the technology, policies, and processes needed to leverage the full benefits of an analytics program. It’s about removing the barriers to identifying and sharing potentially valuable data streams. And it’s about understanding the organizational and cultural challenges of institutionalizing analytics as a discipline. This event will bring toget...

Cyberthon has become the Gulf Coast’s largest Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) and Cybersecurity event of the year. This weekend event encourages and promotes a community culture of cyber awareness and collaboration between Government, industry and academia, bring together community leaders, cyber experts and a cadre of cybercompetitors from local schools to witness and participate in real‐world cyber operations and de...

The underlying theme for this one-day workshop is how to secure key functionalities of government in a less disruptive, more resilient way against various threats and to sustain trust. On the one hand there are well-known but intensifying threats to the public sector, such as malware, spyware and in particular APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats). In addition, there are new categories of threats imminent through a myriad of new attack vectors st...