Creating a Risk-Resilient, Agile Enterprise Young AFCEA Bethesda’s 13th Annual Senior Government Executive Forum brings together senior and emerging government IT leaders with industry to examine innovative technologies, techniques, and acquisition practices used to create a secure, modern, and responsive enterprise. The Senior Executive Roundtables In each breakout room, a Senior Government Executive and Emerging Government Leader will...

Emerging Technologies, whether mobile/5G, artificial intelligence/machine learning, blockchain, Quantum Robotics, and many others are evolving at a faster pace than ever with government and industry. The technologies can be new or existing where the latter new capabilities are being developed and where both will change status quo and provide unrealized social and economic benefits. These technologies provide enhanced connectivity regardless of...

November 4th-5th, 2020 | Mary M. Gates Learning Center, Alexandria, VA DSI’s 7th Annual Identity Management Symposium will provide a town-hall type forum focused on innovative identity technologies and capabilities that are helping to further develop identity and access management used by the DoD, DHS, Law Enforcement, and Federal Government. This Symposium will detail the various efforts underway by these agencies to leverage biometrics...

IT Transformation Chapter: Balancing Near Term Reality with Long Term Objectives As the COVID-19 outbreak began to spread, agencies found innovative ways to quickly transition to emergency response and remote work across many areas, including technology, workforce, cybersecurity, governance, and funding. Funds provided through pandemic relief legislation supported modernization efforts in agencies for the short term. Going forward, agencies wi...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled and is now online due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 10/15/2020; Virtual TIC…Tock. The clock struck midnight for the outdated Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) initiative. The new TIC 3.0 policy will eliminate barriers to the cloud, enable emerging technologies like SD-WAN, release the stranglehold on network access points, all while ensuring even greater F...

IT Transformation Chapter: Investing in Long Term Modernization to Drive Innovation Investments in long-term modernization are key to sustaining the drive for innovation across the federal government. Agencies really accelerated their modernization efforts in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Ongoing dialogue with the Federal CIO Council will help agency leadership come up with new ways to sustain rapid innovation and accelerate digital trans...

The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) GITEC Emerging Technology Awards will recognize government and industry leaders who have made significant contributions to the advancement and implementation of technology innovations. The awards will honor the person or project team deserving of recognition for driving towards government transformation while delivering results. Awards include: Advancing Artificial Intelligence and Data...

The most sought after defense event of the year! Military, government, and industry leaders come together to discuss the future of defense. This year's topics will include: NATO and Allied Defense​ Priorities Across Multiple Domains The Next Phase of Modernization Tactics and Strategies for the DoD A Look at Warfare in the 21st Century Rethinking Conflict at Sea Addressing Advancements in AI, Unmanned and Other Next-gen Technologies Mili...

Governments at all levels are being tasked to think outside the box to meet today's ever-growing list of challenges, especially in the midst of shrinking budgets and the ongoing pandemic. The only way to be successful is to modernize and innovate. But, many agencies are saddled with slow legacy systems, untrained personnel, and outdated processes. Governments need to find creative solutions to these problems, which often means looking at new t...

ATARC's Federal Reskilling Virtual Summit on August 25, 2020, will focus on the re-training of the Federal IT workforce on the newest technology innovations. Hear how the needed skill sets have changed and how team leaders are helping to educate their employees on how to use new technology developments effectively. This event will focus on identifying current major qualification needs in the emerging technology areas of cloud computing, artifi...