With over 7,000 individual and corporate members, our chapter boasts the largest membership in the AFCEA International community. Our chapter is blessed with the hometown advantage of having the Pentagon in our back yard, the Nation's Capital right next door, and the backbone of the Internet at our center. This means that our Monthly luncheons, IT Days, Breakfast and special events connect you with Government speakers that provide current poli...

The GovAI Summit is a pivotal two-day conference where the practical applications and the opportunities of AI in the public sector are shared across .mil, .gov, .edu, and .org. Real use cases and exploring the art of the possible and the challenges with getting there. Through keynotes, panel discussions, and breakout sessions, this event offers a unique platform for exploring the opportunities and challenges in public service, fostering innova...

Join NDIA and its Japanese counterparts, SJAC and JADI, for a return to the U.S. - Japan Defense Industry Dialogue (DID) Series. Held at NDIA Headquarters on Thursday, November 16 the Japanese DID will be focused on updates from respective governments on matters impacting bilateral defense industry cooperation. You will not want to miss out on the updates on Industry Base Policy, U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation highlights, CMMC Information Secu...

Join us at the forefront of the C2ISR community as we tackle unprecedented challenges from near-peer competitors and chart a path towards restoring our forces' competitiveness and seizing the information advantage. The future of warfare is marked by an accelerated tempo, increasing complexity, extended operational distances, and decentralized operations across all domains. To overcome these formidable obstacles, it is imperative that we integr...

The 2023 Expeditionary Warfare Seminar offers the year’s premier opportunity to learn and discuss challenging expeditionary warfare and force protection issues in the distant littoral regions of the world that affect the strength and response of our national defense and armed services. As the DoD shifts its strategic focus to the Indo-Pacific region, a fresh look at technical solutions is required to solve operational gaps to counter a n...

The AI DC 2023 - ICIT Fall Briefing is an exclusive gathering of America's leading minds in the realms of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, national security and policy-making. This one-day event based in the DC Metro is focused on driving robust discussions around AI's implications for our nation's security, the potential for innovation with AI, and the strategies we can implement to safeguard our homeland via policy and technology. AI...

The focus of the Summit is to convene both industry and government with the goal of increasing knowledge of and fostering collaboration on key original equipment manufacturers (OEM) contract strategies, Best-in-Class IT contracts, small business, and emerging technology to meet Agency missions. This in-person event is intended to allow collaboration, best practice sharing, and support with and between agency practitioners who influence and exe...

Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 2nd National Summit on Hypersonic Weapons Systems takes a deep dive into the necessity of hastening the procurement of hypersonic platforms as well as the testing and fielding steps that will provide the ability to maintain the balance of geopolitical stability. This year’s conference co-chairs include General Neil Thurgood (USA-ret) (Former Director, Army Hypersonics, Space, Directed Energy a...

FutureCon Events brings high-level Cyber Security Training discovering cutting-edge security approaches, managing risk in the ever-changing threat of the cybersecurity workforce. Join us as we talk with a panel of C-level executives who have effectively mitigated the risk of Cyber Attacks. Educating C-suite executives and CISOs (chief information security officers) on the global cybercrime epidemic, and how to build Cyber Resilient organizatio...

Join AFCEA DC for an in depth dialogue with our panel of experts as they illuminate and demystify Computing at the Edge. Edge computing has a wide range of applications in the internet of things (IOT) from unmanned driving, traffic flow congestion, and real time urban traffic data processing but how can we narrow this concept to ensure we have the upper hand in the battle field. The panel will define and dig into the complexities, issues, and...