Our 2019 theme is Network Enabling in a Dynamic EnvironmentThis one-day conference will provide Army Senior-Leadership, Program Managers, and Acquisition Officials with an opportunity to brief industry on their vision, expectations for the future, and near term plans. This event will provide a forum for leadership to discuss the impacts of legislative changes for defense acquisition to close critical capability gaps, and implementing approach...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

The White House American Technology Council (ATC) IT Modernization Report released August 30 emphasizes the need for updated IT infrastructure and shared services. Join AFCEA Bethesda for part two of the Chapter’s “New Faces, New Places” 90-Day sprint series with a focus on new faces in federal IT Modernization. Senior executives from across Federal civilian agencies will discuss: Adoption of cloud and collaboration tools Mod...

Our monthly programs draws between 350-400 senior officers and IT professionals from across the Department of Defense, armed services, intelligence and civilian agencies to discuss topics of interest to the DOD IT community ranging from IT networks to mobility to cybersecurity to UAS/sensors. The goal of our monthly event is to foster better joint warfighting communication, share best practices and lessons learned, and identify mission-critica...

AFCEA Bethesda’s Small Business Council is hosting its first Small Business Acquisition Outlook program in Partnership with Deltek on December 11. Attend the program and learn about new business opportunities and updates on current GWAC vehicles. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from a panel of senior-government contracting experts and participate in round table question and answer sessions with our speakers. Companies seekin...

The first annual Defense Acquisition Modernization Symposium will be hosted by AFCEA in Washington, D.C. and will highlight “Better Buying Power” as it is applied to government, industry, and academia. This event will include leaders from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (OUSD(AT&L)), Assistant Secretary of the Navy (ASN) (Research, Development & Acquisition (RDA)), alo...

This 11th annual symposium serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars and practitioners of public sector acquisition. It features papers and presentations on recently completed and on-going projects conducted by researchers from universities and institutions from around the world, as well as remarks by a distinguished slate of guest speakers and panelists. We seek a diverse audience of influential attendees from academe, govern...