Big Data for Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Today’s Warfighter has access to an ever-increasing number of sensors, imagers, internet artifacts, open source and other sophisticated collection devices and mechanisms, to the point that a major challenge has become how to sift through this massive amount of information to find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence. Increasingly, this must be accomplished in nea...

Federal Sales Boot Camp - For anyone not glued to their phone responding to Federal Quotes this September. The Federal Government consistently misses its Small Business Goals... Yet, it's difficult for Small Businesses to break into Government Agencies. What’s up with that? The truth is that there is less than "full and open competition" as you might initially interpret it to mean. It is vital to understand the government contracting en...

Online registration is now closed. You can register on site at The Hamilton Live in Washington, DC starting at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The Department of Energy (DOE) is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. To innovatively support the mission elements of 120,000 employees and 85 facilities, the Depart...

Biometrics Analytics, Big Data and Biometric-Enabled Intelligence— Next-Generation Capabilities and Opportunities The proliferation of new collection devices, a range of new developments in recognition technologies, innovative approaches to sensor and data fusion, and the emergence of powerful analytic tools give defense, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement officials important new capabilities to carry out their mission...

The Big Data & Analytics in Government Innovation Summit is exclusive to government professionals and agencies. This is a private summit which will address the latest government challenges, strategies and initiatives relating to Big Data Analytics. Hear from those closest to these developments to learn what’s actually happening on the ground. - 20+ industry expert keynote presentations - 100+ Big Data Leaders attending - Over 25 hour...

Government and military users across the spectrum of strategic and tactical roles and missions are clamoring for more and better means to collect, analyze, exploit and share full motion video. And while the deployment of a fleet of unmanned systems has led to a significant increase in the amount of video that can be captured, the means to exploit that video for near-real time analysis and dissemination lags behind. Multiple, competing video fo...

Achieving Real Success with Hadoop Although Hadoop shows great promise for managing Big Data, many organizations are still struggling to decide which parts of the Hadoop ecosystem to adopt in order to obtain/elicit the greatest value. A key concern is how to avoid performance and data security issues so that your agency/organization isn’t spending valuable time and resources on what ultimately turns out to be little more than a developme...

The age of big data has officially arrived in government. Storage systems are near capacity as the amount of information the federal government captures has increased exponentially since 2000, and is projected to double every year going forward. This new information, effectively captured, managed, and analyzed, has the power to enhance profoundly the effectiveness of government. Yet government CIOs and their staffs must rise to the big data ch...

The Federal government plays a critical role in leveraging technology to cut costs and streamline government. Data center consolidation and optimization along with adoption of innovation technologies such as cloud computing will save taxpayers billions of dollars. FedInsider will bring to the table both industry and government stakeholders to discuss government plans for data center migration and innovation in this second term. Join FedInsider...