Registration is closed for our upcoming AFCEA Educational Foundation Golf Tournament as we have reached the maximum number of players and sponsors. Join us for a fun-filled day of golf and networking to help support a great cause! All proceeds support the AFCEA Education Foundation scholarships and teacher grants. The AFCEA Educational Foundation provides incentives, opportunities and assistance to students and teachers engaged in the science,...

Over the next four years, the Department of Defense (DoD) will be adopting Zero Trust Architectures based on the guidance set forth in the DoD Zero Trust Capability Execution Roadmap. One of the recent challenges to adoption is fully understanding how different vendor technology solutions can achieve the intended outcome of the DoD Zero Trust capabilities and activities. Additionally, having assurance that solutions selected to fill architectu...

In today's rapidly evolving defense landscape, expeditionary teams require secure, fast and efficient access to multiple networks and data sources from varying security levels. This is essential to maintain situational awareness and provide robust decision support. To meet these demands, it is crucial to minimize the size, weight and power (SWaP) of deployed solutions for optimal performance at the tactical edge. Join Rob Link, Principal Sales...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a difficult mission—as the Department CIO has often simplified it: they are here to save lives. Promoting well-being and “fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services” has never been more promising… or more complex. AFCEA Bethesda’s Breakfast with HHS provides an opportunity for IT leadership from...

Achieving zero-trust security is a goal set by the U.S. government. The Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity requires government agencies to achieve specific zero trust security goals by the end of the 2024 fiscal year. Although Kubernetes was initially designed with basic security capabilities, broad and rapid adoption and an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape have made Kubernetes more vulnerable to attacks....

Our IT Days require months of planning and are a great way to connect with industry and government. You will be part of a larger team that will plan and execute form both a strategic and tactical day of support level. On average we do 4 IT days a year to support the chapter. If you are interested in the event please click on the hyperlink below and register for each IT day committee. Some of the duties you will be asked to perform include but...

Join us for this SIGNAL Media Webinar as experts from AFCEA’s Technology Committee explore challenges for the CDO in managing data and its impacts on mission effectiveness. Topic areas to be explored include: Have you mapped all your data types and sources? How big is the haystack and where’s the needle? Where and when is the human in the loop? What’s the most important role of the chief data officer?

What is WIA-WIIG In a Minute? Seven (7) women panelists in individual roundtable groups sharing their insights with attendees (i.e. career journeys, lessons learned, guiding principles, and Q&A- intended for mentorship). Sessions include Government Leadership, Program Management, Business Development/Capture/Proposals, Small Business Leadership, Talent Acquisition, Contract Management, and Finance. Attendees select their two (2) preferred...

Did you know that all the best-in-class government-wide vehicles are being recompeted in 2022 and 2023? BD Squared’s Stephanie Mitchell and Brian Friel help you make sense of the booming GWAC landscape, with $20 billion in spending per year and growing. Join us in person on April 19 to learn how you can balance GWACs as a small business, what you should pursue at the vehicle and task-order level, what you should team on and what you shou...

Welcome to the Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium 2023 (RMCS23)! The Rocky Mountain Chapter of AFCEA is honored to once again invite you to our annual forum for industry, academia, and government to discuss and propose solutions to the challenges of cybersecurity, community cyber readiness and homeland defense facing our nation. As our workforce emerges from the pandemic, modern demands for ubiquitous access to networks from unsecure location...