To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 9/1/2020 - 9/2/2020 The Department of Defense (DoD) will harness artificial intelligence (AI) to transform all functions of DoD positively, according to a summary of the Department’s AI strategy. AI, machine learning (ML) and related technologies have great potential to transform how the DoD and national security agencies op...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 7/14-7/30/2020 Women in Tech Summit (WITS) is the tech conference for women working in technical and non-technical roles. WITS includes hands-on tech workshops, discussions about trending topics in tech, and information on thriving through tech career phases and facets. WITS connects women working on the business and tec...

The YAFCEA Summer IT Luncheon is an opportunity for government and industry to discuss how we can apply digital transformation best practices and emerging technologies to lead sustainable change and innovation across the government. During the virtual event, two federal agency leaders (paired with an industry representative) will be placed in each breakout room to lead a roundtable discussion on one of the following topics: Artificial Intellig...

Based on the ongoing developments of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on gatherings, Fal.Con for Public Sector 2020 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC will be postponed until March 2021. Now more than ever, government agencies are under pressure to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their data and services as they try to adjust to the new reality of a global pandemic. With new threats coming online e...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. The Digital Transformation Journey The June AFCEA Breakfast will serve as a bookend to the three chapters of Security, Automation and Modernization. To conclude the conversations, agency leaders will discuss how innovations in workforce, strategy, and policy in each of these areas must work together to support successful transforma...

Zero Trust is an important part of an overall digital transformation strategy because it recognizes the challenges of today's hybrid networks. Virtually every agency now has data and applications both on premises and in the cloud; The zero trust model secures those assets by authenticating both the users and their devices and by micro-segmenting the systems so that access to one part does not allow access to all. Advanced identity and access m...

Data is a natural byproduct of the business of government. However, federal agencies have been challenged as they try to gather, cleanse, standardize, mine and share that data. Now, however, new legislation (the Evidence Based Policymaking Act of 2019) and policy (OMB memo M-19-23) lay out the path agencies must follow to identify the data they plan to collect, use or acquire, as well as the methods and analytical approaches to facilitate the...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. The 19th Annual C4ISRNET Conference will feature senior-level military, government and industry leaders to discuss future battlefield technologies and the ideas that are shaping the Defense Department’s next conflict. The event focuses on new strategies and capabilities in mobility, command and control, communications, cyber,...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. Just as Dorothy and her companions went in search of the Wizard of Oz for a quick fix to their problems, so too are businesses today looking to Artificial Intelligence to provide innovative solutions to their greatest challenges. But is AI and machine learning really all it’s made out to be? And what impact will regulation have on the d...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers dr...