STRENGTHENING OPERATIONAL IMPACT For the eighth year, AFCEA Bethesda is gathering the law enforcement IT community, plus expanding the scope this year to include first responders. The Law Enforcement and Public Safety Technology Forum will bring together more than 400 executives, IT professionals and operators from across federal, state and local law enforcement, homeland security and public safety agencies with alignment around three focus ar...

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Fighting Cyber Threats at Machine Speed to Defend our Nation’s Critical Infrastructure AFCEA Bethesda’s Cybersecurity Technology Symposium discloses the threats facing our nation’s critical infrastructure, and how government and industry experts are working together toward mitigating sector-specific threats at machine speed. Breakthroughs and updates on the nation’s critical infrastructure protection policy are happenin...

For 17 years, AFCEA Bethesda has supported charitable giving, including raising more than $6.75 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 broaden our impact on the grea...

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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...

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...

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...