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...

Human Language Technology (HLT) cannot be “future proofed” because the target is organic, ever changing, human language. Like a weather forecast, a static model is only accurate at a point in time. What we need is the NLP equivalent of a weather app pulling in streaming live weather data. Adaptation is the future of HLT: continuously learning models that are quickly spun up with an annotation effort to “crawl”; then ada...

February 17-18, 2021 | via Live Broadcast The 9th Annual Automated ISR and Battle Management Symposium encourages members of the DoD, Intelligence Community, military services, and critical organizations to come together to discuss advances in technology and systems to collect and process actionable intelligence in support of decision makers and warfighters. As the US military continues to shift its priorities to preparing for a possible confl...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 7/14-7/30/2020 Women in Tech Summit (WITS) is the tech conference for women working in technical and non-technical roles. WITS includes hands-on tech workshops, discussions about trending topics in tech, and information on thriving through tech career phases and facets. WITS connects women working on the business and tec...

Please join us for this virtual workshop and learn how your peers across government are working to secure and streamline essential operations in this time of telework and social distancing. Discussion topics will include: The latest guidance from OMB and OPM, and practical steps agencies are taking to implement it. Security risks and the steps being taken to mitigate them. Obstacles to deploying COTS services for telework, and how to address t...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Reimagining Intelligence Through Partnerships & Innovation The 39th annual AFCEA Spring Intelligence Symposium returns to the NGA Campus East in Springfield, Virginia on March 24-25, 2020. This classified (TS/SI/TK/NOFORN) two-day flagship intelligence event is a forum for Intelligence Community professionals and an ideal venue for learni...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Society, technology, and institutions are confronting unprecedented change. Rapid acceleration of innovation, disruptive technologies and infrastructures, and new modes of network-enabled conflict requires leaders to not only think outside the box, but to think without the box. The Future Proof conference brings together the hackers, thinkers...

Defense Strategies Institute’s 7th Annual Big Data for Intelligence Symposium will provide members of the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense a forum to have an open discussion about the challenges and opportunities of turning vast amounts of raw data into actionable intelligence. This Symposium will provide the Intelligence Community, US military commands, government agencies, members of academia, and technology industr...

Presented by CyberScoop, DC CyberWeek is a SXSW-style, city-wide festival taking place October 21-25 in our nation’s capital. The festival brings together thousands of leaders, experts and decision-makers from the cybersecurity community and features dozens of community conferences, events and parties, open to all participants. Your complimentary, week-long pass will allow you to sign up for any number of community events taking place du...

DSI’s 4th Annual Insider Threat Symposium will bring together leaders from the Federal government, private industry, and academia to discuss the challenge of mitigating insider threat and developing effective insider threat programs. In today’s threat environment, the unauthorized disclosure of classified information can pose a significant threat to US national security. This Symposium seeks to address this threat by focusing on t...