Due to the Federal Government shutdown, the AFCEA Fall Intelligence Symposium is cancelled. DECISION ADVANTAGE IN A CHANGING WORLD Fall Intelligence Symposium October 2-3, 2013 NGA Campus East, Springfield, Va A classified symposium (Top Secret/SI/TK) The 32nd annual AFCEA Fall Intelligence Symposium will use the NIC paper not to discuss the intelligence environment of 2030, but as a starting point to explore the steps the Intelligence Communi...

On Sunday, September 29th, 2013 the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association of Northern Virginia (AFCEA NOVA) will host the first annual VIVA VETS! 5K Run/Walk for our Veterans. With support from our members and friends we give hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships every year and very much look forward to this fun and exciting addition to our yearly activities. For this event, all proceeds will go to the AFCEA Educat...

Online registration is now closed. You can register on site at The Hamilton Live in Washington, DC starting at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The Department of Energy (DOE) is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. To innovatively support the mission elements of 120,000 employees and 85 facilities, the Depart...

AFCEA SOLUTIONS: Critical Issues in C4I May 21-22, 2013, Fairfax, VA The AFCEA/GMU Critical Issues in C4I Symposium brings academia, industry and government together to address important issues in C4I technology and systems R&D. This year the agenda is focused on the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and supporting technologies and architectures Your registration entitles you to attend all the keynote and panel sessions. Continental bre...

The fiscal cliff negotiations have threatened to not only impact the future of agency budgets, but also the release of the FY 2014 proposal itself. The White House has confirmed the Administration’s fiscal 2014 budget will not be ready by the normal release date in early February, injecting more uncertainty into an already complex environment. What does this mean for federal agencies and the companies that support them? Already, the FY 2...

Law enforcement and national security depends on adaptation—adaptation to the economy, adaptation to technology and adaptation to criminal methodologies. As budgetary cutbacks become commonplace in the Federal government, creativity in new technology initiatives must take precedence as agencies are increasingly expected to do more with less. Law enforcement agencies and officers will need to use new tools, including, data analytics, sec...

Big data projects are found all around us, and many of us have one attached to our hand all day. Apple’s personal assistant technology, Siri, began as a big data project in the Pentagon laboratory, priding itself on the ability to collect, store, analyze and disseminate practically any data you throw at it – structured or unstructured. But Siri isn’t the only government big data project that has recently gained traction. Last...

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) are becoming increasingly vital to agencies by enabling them to leverage GSA’s buying power, achieve multi-agency objectives, and acquire acquisition and contract management functions at competitive rates. As the number of companies seeking schedule contracts has roughly doubled over the last several years, with over 80 percent being small bus...

CYBERSPACE 2013 Symposium Please join us in beautiful Colorado Springs, February 5-7 2013, for CYBERSPACE 2013. This is our fifteenth symposium year and we are privileged once again to host some of America's most brilliant strategic thinkers and policy makers, as well as world class Industry partners and private organizations. Our dedicated volunteer staff is working hard to ensure you will enjoy our entire 2013 program. This year we will feat...

This November marked the halfway point of the Digital Government Strategy, a full-year plan aimed at delivering higher quality digital services to the public – and many deliverables have already been met. Several second quarter milestone actions in particular provided huge progress to the program, including GSA’s customer engagement initiatives, the Federal CIO Council’s BYOD Toolkit and NIST’s application of standards...