USGIF is pleased to present this three-part workshop on Women as Leaders for the Intelligence Community. July 19thSeptember 27thNovember 8th While leadership is key to organizational success, women are not always equally represented. Women tend to rise to middle management and then experience being promoted slowly, with even fewer women representing on boards and as members of the C-suite. Women receive 57% of all higher education degrees. We...

The Defense News Conference brings together military leadership and defense experts to dig into a defense strategy where the end game far differs from that of years past, articulating what that means for procurement, technology development and international cooperation. Panel Topics: Defending the pacific Futures command: one year on Lessons learned from Nato’s hybrid battlefield We’re not there yet: closing the innovation gap Sell...

For the 5th annual event in the National Capital Region (NCR), we’re moving back to Crystal City! This evening reception will bring together the Special Operations-focused community in the U.S. capital, and will feature a Keynote Speaker. Previous speakers have included Senator Joni Ernst (R), LTG Michael Nagata, and Mr. Michael Lumpkin. This year’s Keynote Speaker is Susan M. Gordon, who currently serves as Principal Deputy Direct...

Other Transaction Authority can be the key to expanding Business Opportunities within your Company! OTAs are on the rise for two primary reasons: 1) their flexibility is well-suited to the less predictable, more accelerated process of innovative R&D, and 2) they are not subject to most standard acquisition laws and regulation from the Buy American Act to the Truth in Negotiations Act. The Competition in Contracting Act also does not apply...

The Next Generation ISR Technologies & Capabilities Symposium addresses the urgent demand for more ISR assets, platforms and a continued stride for maintaining advantages over U.S. adversaries. The continual push by the services for diversification & leveraging ISR capabilities by U.S. and our coalition partners, permeates government planning across a broad range of critical missions. Next Gen ISR is a plethora of multi-int & inter...

Information sharing and information overload challenges continue to dominate operational and acquisition planning within the Department of Defense, Intelligence, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement communities. Increasingly, government agencies are looking for the latest tools and capabilities in big data and predictive analytics to provide the means to analyze, exploit and draw conclusions sourced from the seemingly overwhelming inputs fro...

The Next Generation ISR Technologies & Capabilities Symposium addresses the urgent demand for more ISR assets, platforms and a continued stride for maintaining advantages over U.S. adversaries. The continual push by the services for diversification & leveraging ISR capabilities by U.S. and our coalition partners, permeates government planning across a broad range of critical missions. Next Gen ISR is a plethora of multi-int & inter...

Leveraging the Big Data Opportunity When: November 29-30, 2016 Where: AUSA Conference and Event Center: 2425 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22201 DSI’s Big Data for Intelligence Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum that will provide members of the Intelligence Community, US military commands, government agencies, academia, and technology providers the opportunity to explore more effective and eff...

The George Mason University Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAP), Arlington Economic Development (AED) and Jennifer Schaus & Associates have joined forces to bring the US Federal Government Contracting Community a half-day event focused on selling to the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC). Behind Closed Doors.... A robust group of high-level professional industry experts will discuss the major comp...

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...