AGILE IN GOVERNMENT Sharing Innovative Approaches & Best Practices Scaling, Contracting, Governance, Measurement Another event in the series presented by ADAPT. The purposes of this event are: to foster better understanding of how agile software development methods are providing the basis for incremental and modular acquisition across Government, to discuss the changing technology of modern information-intensive businesses and the implicat...

The Southwest Cybersecurity Summit Building for the Future Purpose This event brings together top industry experts and government leaders to address the cyber problem in the context of what we can and should be doing to build resilience and protection in our enterprises and Government. Attendees will learn about changing Government policy, cyber research trends, and the latest in protection and resilience. It explores how the nation is dealing...

**RESCHEDULED - NEW DATE** The first of a series of discussions that are bringing the principal leaders of Joint Command and Control (JC2), the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E), the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and the Intelligence Community Information Technology Environment (ICITE) together with industry to discuss the future DoD IT and Mission environment. This half-day session with senior DoD leaders from the DI2E...

The purpose of this event is to foster better understanding of how agile software development methods are providing the basis for incremental and modular acquisition across Government, and to discuss the changing technology of modern information-intensive businesses and the implications these have for evolving Government approaches to streamlining IT. This Summit is a partnership between the AFEI ADAPT and the Carnegie Mellon University Softwa...

The conference focus is on how architecture delivers capability to the warfighter. Tutorials, workshops and breakout sessions will address: how architecture is delivering capability today in joint and coalition mission areas, what policy and governance initiatives are helping drive architecture across the enterprise, and what education, training and certification architects need to develop success-oriented competency and career paths that enab...

Purpose The conference will bring subject matter experts and other skilled practitioners of both Agile and Lean, and to discuss how DoD acquisition is rapidly migrating to new, innovative processes. Attendees will: Learn how agile development is being used in DoD and integrated within traditional acquisition processes like Earned Value Management Interact with experts in both Agile and Lean to understand how these approaches are converging Id...

Purpose: This conference brings industry and government together to examine how technology is creating opportunities for optimizing supply chains, and the challenges of securing the information shared across supply chain participants. Attendees will learn about: Current strategies of Defense agencies to address cyber vulnerabilities and prevent counterfeits Needs and requirements of Defense partners for more secure information and communicati...

UPDATE! Now One-Day Only, Wednesday, January 25 & Fee is waived for US government employees! Shared Services Across Government: accelerating secure information sharing through standards. “We no longer operate largely on the principle of compartmentalization, that is, sharing information based on ‘need to know.’ We now start from the imperative of ‘responsibility to share’…” - James R. Clapper, Dir...

SharePoint4Gov - the nation’s only educational symposium designed exclusively for government professionals that are using or evaluating SharePoint as an enterprise information platform. SharePoint has become a de-facto standard for Government enterprise information platforms. It offers enhanced capabilities for connecting communities, building collaboration and improving agency and department performance, key objectives for budget-constr...

This 3rd Annual SOA & Semantic Technology Symposium will focus on the technology, standards and semantic interoperability required to drive DoD IT inefficiencies, move towards enterprise services which promote reuse, lessen redundancy and waste, and enable the Department to share knowledge and achieve enterprise business analytics. This year the focus is on the necessity of semantic technology to achieve interoperable business operations t...