Protecting Our Nation From Faceless Enemies IDGA's flagship cyber event, the 3rd Annual Cyber Security for Defense is back! Last year’s event hosted over 200 attendees, and a variety of extraordinary speakers. This year, we are taking it to a whole new level! An exciting array of new additions will be the key highlight of this year's event taking place in Washington D.C. Bringing in law enforcement and international military perspectives...

Improving Security and Innovation for the Mobile Ecosystem DSI’s Mobile Security for Defense and Government Summit is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military and civilian organizations, industry and academia can come together for actionable discussions and debate. About the Summit & Why You Should Attend Both the DoD and Federal agencies are in...

The Future Military Directed Energy Weapon Systems and the Lethal and Non-lethal DEW market are experiencing an advanced rate of growth due to increasing defense budgets and technological innovation. Defense prime contractors are working in support with military forces to develop effective weapon systems. The changing nature of warfare in the current era and the increasing demand forlaser weapons are some of the major reasons driving the direc...

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...

Don’t miss out on the 10th Annual Military Radar Summit. This conference will have an excellent lineup of speakers, workshops, and exhibitors that span the entire spectrum of the military radar community. Recently there has been further improvement on these modern radars which has led to more enhanced performance. While at the event, you can expect to: Engage and Interact with Key Decision Makers in the Radar Community to Establish Stron...

IDGA is proud to announce the return of our 10th Operational Energy Summit this January 23-25, in Washington, D.C. This summit will provide a forum for policy makers and technology leaders to come together to solve some of DoD's operational energy challenges. We will examine and explore critical focus areas such as energy harvesting and storage, waste management, next generation power sources, reviewing the 2016 Operational Energy Strategy and...

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...

Additive Manufacturing – Revolutionizing Aerospace and Defense Innovation, Production, Logistics, and Readiness Unlike traditional manufacturing, which involves creating a smaller object from a larger source material, additive manufacturing takes raw materials, feeds them through a digital manufacturing system and creates a customized object from that material, eliminating excess material waste. This potential ability to exchange AM desi...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Remotely Piloted Aircraft have seen a golden age in the last decade growing to an annual budget of $7 billion. Most of this growth has been through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but with the drawing down of troops, what’s next? Analysts still predict growth in this industry, estimating a total increase to just over $89 billion in the next decade. Not only is the military expected to sustain its backing...

While serving as the Army G-6 and CIO, Lt. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell once referred to the Joint Information Environment as an “operational imperative.” JIE, while not a formal program, is a driving force behind DOD-wide efforts to modernize networks, strengthen security, and improve the flow of information across the individual services and in the joint environment. JIE reflects a broader interest in providing a cohesive framework to...