More than any other operations, homeland security missions call for coordinated and end-to-end collaboration. Success depends on preparing for the unknowable, preventing the unthinkable and planning recovery from the unimaginable. To assist in the process, AFCEA International brings together the people in charge of ensuring success--from subject matter experts to frontline responders--for three days of open discussion about the various aspects...

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency’s new operational role in the cyber domain as network defender creates a formal relationship between DISA, U.S. Cyber Command and the command’s military service components. The goal is to improve security, but a successful strategy depends on a matrix of participating organizations adapting technical solutions and adopting enterprise management to improve efficiency, security and reliabil...

INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY SUMMIT: THE STATE OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE: PRIORITIES, PLANS, AND PARTNERSHIPS The success of US Intelligence’s mission to provide the decision advantage to all who act in defense of the nation requires a trusted partnership between the public and private sectors and the public it serves, as well as with foreign partners. This trusted partnership can best be achieved through regular and open dialogue to c...

More than any other operations, homeland security missions call for coordinated and end-to-end collaboration. Success depends on preparing for the unknowable, preventing the unthinkable and planning recovery from the unimaginable. To assist in the process, AFCEA International brings together the people in charge of ensuring success—from subject matter experts to frontline responders—for two days of open discussion about the variou...

The AFCEA International Honors recognize the three most prestigious AFCEA award winners: the David Sarnoff Award, the Admiral Jon L. Boyes Medal for Distinguished Service to AFCEA, and the General James M. Rockwell AFCEAN of the Year. We invite you to join us for this year's event on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at the grand Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC. The welcome reception will begin at 6:30 pm, with dinner to follow at 7:30...

Intelligence has existed as an activity of the U.S. government since the founding of the Republic. While its structure has evolved, its core mission has endured unchanged: to protect the nation with the information it provides; to produce that information in a way that protects the privacy and liberty of all citizens; and to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars invested in intelligence capabilities. History has shown that even through periods...