The current Global Power Competition (GPC) climate can pose a change to the acquisition and fielding process of most systems. It is important to understand the 21st Century T&E Tools to improve testing to meet the GPC demand. How will the military budget, DoD, DHS, and Commercial Industry adjust in a time of risk and change? Is your organization ready? This year the Symposium will be coordinated by the Hampton Roads Chapter with Volunteers...

Modern warfare has dramatically shifted over the past two decades. Data and technology have become as important to 21st century defense as bombs and bullets. And as the U.S. expands its focus on Great Power competition with near-peer adversaries like China and Russia, the Department of Defense has placed a greater emphasis on using modern, data-driven technologies to enable better and quicker decision-making in life and death scenarios. Defens...

When DOD rolled out its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in 2020, it was designed to secure the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in systems used by contractors in Defense Industrial Base that support business and warfighting efforts. Initially, an independent accreditation body was to certify a group of third-party assessment organizations. The plan ran into a number of obstacles as industry organizations questioned...

As the DoD embarks on developing its capabilities to support a multi-domain operational environment (also known as the Joint All Domain C2), execution of the identified initiatives will require application of system of systems principles to assure a robust and effective solution. These principles and their application to adapting to multiservice, multinational, multi-platform players, will facilitate the creation of a flexible infrastructure c...

Just as technology has been constantly changing and evolving, so has DOD’s strategy for the best way to modernize the tools it provides to the warfighters and their business support services. In 2018, the agency released a strategy to use cloud technology, which has been revised over the intervening years to reflect the cancellation of the JEDI contract and the adoption of DOD’s Software Modernization Strategy. The new strategy set...

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The nation’s defense systems and capabilities are challenged as never before-- on the ground, in the air, on the seas, in cyberspace and real space. The military must rise to those challenges on all those fronts to ensure the nation is secure. Information technology remains warfighters’ and defenders’ powerful primary tool for their jobs. From cloud computing, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, to machine learning and...

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The U.S. military maintains bases in more than 70 countries and territories around the world, some of them in inhospitable or hard-to-reach areas. When a piece of equipment fails – whether a weapon, a radar dish, or something more prosaic like a mess hall stove – getting replacement parts can be difficult and time-consuming, and the delay can cause anything from mild inconvenience to serious problems meeting the mission. Larger bas...

The 2021 ICIT Fall Briefing Series will be hosted on-line as a series of three weekly virtual events focused on cyber convergence or integrating physical and cyber security strategies. CISA suggests that business leaders develop a “…holistic security strategy that aligns cybersecurity and physical security functions…”. By bringing together top public and private sector leaders, ICIT is advancing the conversation about...