Overcoming System Challenges to Achieve Greater Capabilities and Efficiencies In today’s austere fiscal climate, unmanned air systems are assuming greater roles and continue to increase in importance for the US military. The DoD FY 2012 budget includes $4.8 billion for UAVs. While they are relied upon more and more heavily for a variety of missions, UAVs still face key challenges in regards to communications infrastructure, data manageme...

CONTACT AFCEA Alamo ChapterPO Box 200363a Austin, TX 78720Phone: 866-445-9114Fax: 512-692-2651Email: info@alamoafcea.org Alamo Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Conference & Expo (Alamo ACE) San Antonio, Texas, December 13-16: The Alamo Chapter of AFCEA is pleased to host the 2nd Annual Alamo ACE, the premier symposium event for IT/Cybersecurity professionals. This year’s conference theme...

MARCOM Connections invites you to our 1st Annual Charity Social Event at Clydes in Chevy Chase, Maryland. As part of our social responsibility, we like to to give back to the community. Our non-profit organization supported this year is Family Services (www.fs-inc.org) in Gaithersburg, Maryland which strengthens families and communities through innovative education, child development and behavioral health services. As part of the event, attend...

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MAST Americas 2011 will be the second US-based (and eighth overall) conference and exhibition in the renowned MAST (Maritime Systems & Technology) series. MAST Americas unites the major global shareholders in maritime security and defense to discuss and debate maritime capabilities and concepts, evaluate future and state-of-the-art enabling technologies, and develop international partnerships. Organized by a respected and influential team...

The Dayton-Wright AFCEA Chapter has been successful throughout the years raising over $1.5M in scholarships and educational grants thanks to our outstanding industry and government supporters. Our annual conference, created over 20 years ago, provides an environment for advancing professional knowledge as well as offering an ethical forum where government, industry and academia can bridge the gap between military requirements and industry capa...

Force drawdowns in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Arab Spring and continuing economic uncertainty present huge challenges for the incoming US Secretary of Defense. The increasing ability through cyberspace of non State actors to threaten the established order will also be addressed. What are the capabilities needed and how can these be afforded? How do we speed research and development to fielding equipment? What can we learn from our friends and a...

The objective of the DMSMS & Standardization 2011 Conference is to focus on significantly improved DMSMS and Standardization policies, procedures, guidance, and automated tools that optimize Warfighter materiel readiness, and includes activities required to attain this goal such as Value Engineering, Product Support and Total Life Cycle Management, Parts Management, and mitigating the Counterfeiting epidemic on parts, material, and materie...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is hosting this event on August 15-18th, 2011, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana being assisted by Halfaker and Associates LLC. The largest nationwide conference of its kind, the National Veteran Small Business Conference provides Veteran-Owned and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (VOSBs and SDVOSBs) an opportunity to learn, network and market their businesses....

MAST is the Global Maritime Security and Defence community’s dedicated conference and exhibition series. Uniting senior-level leaders from over 40 countries, MAST is the ultimate event at which to discuss future capabilities and concepts with the major maritime security and defence ‘shareholders’, and evaluate future and state-of-the-art technologies. MAST is organised by an unmatched international committee of renowned and r...