It’s time for a new cloud – one designed specifically for the warfighter – to provide the agility, reliability, and security you need to deliver on your mission. Join DISA, GDIT, and MeriTalk for a one-day, hands-on milCloud®2.0 workshop that gives mission partners a “look under the hood” and a chance to get an up-close understanding of milCloud® 2.0’s unique capabilities. We’ll spend the day d...

The disruptive impact of autonomous technology in the federal government isn’t tomorrow’s concern; its capabilities are here today. With the rise in computing power and machine learning, the age of self-learning technology is arriving faster than many believed possible. In federal, defense and intelligence communities, groundbreaking, forward-thinking autonomous applications ranging from drone swarms and self-driving vehicles to im...

On Wednesday, June 26, join NDIA as we host Rep. Anthony Brown(MD-4) for an off-the-record breakfast issues facing the defense industrial base. As the Vice Chair of the House Committee on Armed Services (HASC), Rep. Brown will provide his thoughts on congressional priorities going into this year's legislative cycle, including Workforce Development, Other Transaction Authority (OTA), and Cybersecurity Contracting Compliance. Participants will h...

Join government and industry contract and acquisition experts from various agencies in an interactive panel format. We will explore ways to improve the federal and defense technology acquisition cycle through collaboration, shared agency service consolidation, other transaction authorities, open feedback loops and more. Agenda 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Registration and Sunrise Breakfast Views 8:30 - 8:35 a.m. Opening Remarks 8:35 - 9:05 a.m. Fireside C...

In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the SAS accessibility team is hosting an interactive event that will help you find solutions to challenges at the intersection of data, analytics and accessibility. Join us on Thursday, May 16, at the SAS Training Center in Arlington, VA, to discover how you can fully realize the value of your analytics investment by ensuring people with disabilities have equal access to those insights. Reg...

Roughly five years ago, John Kindervag, security thought leader and former Forrester analyst, proposed a solution that he termed “Zero Trust.” The principle behind it is quite simple, but very powerful: Trust is not an attribute of location. You shouldn’t trust something simply because it is behind your firewall. Instead, you should take a very pessimistic view on security where every machine, user, and server should be untru...

Securing record crowds in airports has grown increasingly complex post-9/11. In the face of evolving threats, the Transportation Security Administration is at the forefront of the effort to effectively secure our nation’s airports. From staying ahead of adversaries through disruptive technologies, to navigating the intersections between public and private sector aviation stakeholders, securing U.S. airports has become a multi-tiered, col...

The forum will feature candid conversations with leaders in government, academia and industry on the emerging technologies transforming health care in areas like precision medicine, combating the opioid epidemic, new interoperability rules and digital services for veteran healthcare. Hear from leaders at Health and Human Services, Johns Hopkins Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Veterans Affairs and more.

In just the last five years, artificial intelligence has evolved from a staple of science fiction to a real-world magnet for large-scale investment. Increases in computing power and the emergence of large data sets to train ever more powerful machine learning algorithms have created real world applications and success stories. And both trends are expected to accelerate into the 2020s. With the standing up of the Joint Artificial Intelligence C...

Last year's AI <> Tradecraft Forum was a huge success, so we are expanding it this year! Thought Leader Presentations (All Day): Dr. Pat Biltgen, Author of Activity Based IntelligenceDavid J. Gauthier, Director, Commercial and Business Operations Group, NGA Source “Reaching all the data for GEOINT” Patricia Guitard, US INSCOM, Senior OSINT Consultant “OSINT challenges, successes and the road ahead.” Andrew E. New...