For the past five years, October has been designated as National Cyber Security Awareness Month by the U.S. Government. National Cyber Security Awareness Month is designed to engage and educate public and private sector partners through events and initiatives with the goal of raising awareness about cybersecurity and increasing the resiliency of the nation in the event of a cyber incident. In conjunction with this initiative, the National Geos...

The 16th Annual Science & Engineering Conference will turn its focus to the 17 DoD Communities of Interest (CoIs) on March 24 - 26, 2015. In light of the pending implementation of the budget sequestration, a great concern for both the Department of Defense and the Defense Industrial Base, the DoD identified 17 critical areas of interest, effectively known as the aforementioned ‘Community of Interest (CoI).’ The CoIs were formed...

Information-sharing and partnering are essential for keeping our nation ahead of today’s complex security threats. To facilitate government-industry innovation, AFCEA Intelligence and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) are sponsoring a full-day classified (SECRET) event dedicated to identifying areas of possible collaboration and business opportunity to help enable and accelerate NGA’s strategic vision. The event wil...

CONFERENCE THEMEThe 30th Annual National Test & Evaluation Conference will focus on the proper roles of T&E in our defense acquisition system, specifically “The Future of T&E: Maintaining the Defense Technology Edge.” DoD ATL has been pushing 3 actions to achieve simplicity and restraint in Defense Acquisition: adhere to tight timelines, reduce timelines, and good process management; actions that are all highlighted in...

AGILE IN GOVERNMENT Mutual Adaptation Adapting agile to acquisition and acquisition to agile Scaling, Contracting, Governance, Measurement The purposes of this event are: develop better understanding of how agile software development methods can be fit within prescribed processes of government acqusition to discuss the changing technology of modern information-intensive businesses and the implications these have for evolving Government approac...