The mission of the Paws for Patriots Program is to create and nurture a partnership between visually impaired or combat weary veterans and a guide dog, facilitating life's journey with mobility, independence and dignity. SGD has matched the visually impaired with guide dogs for over 30 years, and is accredited by the International Guide Dog Federation. SGD Paws for Patriots pairs highly trained guide dogs with visually impaired veterans; excep...

Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E)Plugfest Part of the DI2E Governance Teams Week The DI2E Plugfest is the annual demonstration of advancements in the DI2E. The purpose is to provide a environment of networked, interoperable and reusable components, the Plugfest eXchange, where vendors are able to deploy and show their tools to provide flexible, agile and data-driven capabilities to Warfighters. UPDATE by the Numbers Number of...

The Physics-Based Modeling in Design & Development for U.S. Defense Conference is the first of its kind and is sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association’s Systems Engineering Division, and is being supported by the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research & Engineering, High Performance Computing Modernization Program. BackgroundAcquisition of defense systems now takes far longer than ever before, partly due to inc...

Information Sharing in a Contested Cyber Domain, Post-Wikileaks What will be the ultimate impact of Wikileaks on information sharing initiatives? Many think that the impact will help drive information sharing into a standards-based approach with strong policy foundations. The unfortunate Wikileaks incident points to establishing fundamentally sound and responsible information sharing policies and procedures. Information is most powerful when...