AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, breakfast topics span a wide range of timely issues and are discussed in a panel format that offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency perspectives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons...

FCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, breakfast topics span a wide range of timely issues and are discussed in a panel format that offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency perspectives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons...

Legacy Systems Modernization Federal agencies are increasingly being tasked with improving efficiencies, security and business processes across the enterprise. From storage and consolidation requirements to privacy, security and transparency regulations; data and IT resource management continues to focus on integrating legacy platforms and processes with new requirements, and sometimes with new systems. The Legacy Systems Modernization breakfa...

Data-Driven Government Roundtable We are experiencing a data explosion. With the digital revolution and introduction of mobile, wearable, Internet of things, and other sensor technologies, by 2020 data production will be 44 times what it was in 2009, big data and analytics technologies and demands for data transparency and sharing provide opportunities for government to do business more effectively and collaboratively. Join us on December 3 an...

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The growing data pool created by citizens sharing information in their daily lives through sensors, open data initiatives and the proliferation of the Internet of Things positions government agencies to deliver improved services and mission outcomes. The Data Symposium is focused on how government data enhances the life of the citizen. Highlights: With more than 130,000 data sets, learn out how the government currently uses data and the plans...

Join us for a night of celebrationFor 16 years, AFCEA Bethesda has supported charitable giving, including raising more than $6 million for charities benefiting the health, welfare, and education of children. The successful history of our A Night for the Children Gala and the generosity of the government contracting community enabled AFCEA Bethesda to help our receiving charities achieve significantly strong financial foundations. As we look to...

As evolving methodologies of cyber espionage and disruption continue to grow in scope and sophistication, the federal government has sought to bolster its defenses through the implementation of a standardized cybersecurity framework, influenced by drivers such as FedRAMP, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) program, which are designed to enable the detection and elimination of threats in real time....

Effective Data UsageAccording to recent estimates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. By the year 2020 it’s widely estimated there will be 40 zettabytes of data and government agencies will own much of it. This data comes from everywhere including sensors used to gather climate information, public safety and emergency management organizations, healthcare systems and more. The value of making this data open and available...