In March 2012, the White House announced funding for a large new research and development initiative aimed at extracting and exploiting the “knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data to help solve some of the Nation’s most pressing challenges.” This is in addition to numerous ongoing “Big Data” programs that have been initiated across the Federal Government, including Homeland Secur...

Exploiting the Cloud for Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security The federal government has embarked on an ambitious plan to transform IT acquisition and management, with a goal of instituting cloud computing in every federal agency to provide on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable resources that can be quickly established and quickly dismantled. The savings in DoD, IC, and DHS IT spending could total more than twenty percent of...

Over 20 Leading Experts from: DUSD/I&E, ASN/I&E, ASA IE&E, OPNAV N45, ARL, Army/MEP, ARPA-E/DOE, PEO-Ships/USN, SPAWAR,Army ERDC/CERL, HQ USAF Civil Engineer, EPSA/DOE, NETL/DOE, Constellation Energy, Sandia Natl Lab, Idaho Natl Lab, S&C Electric, Energetics & McCoy Consulting Special Presentations by: ■ The Honorable Dennis McGinn, SES, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy Installations & Environment ■ T...

The global video surveillance market, which totaled over $13 billion in 2012, is poised to grow 14% annually between now and 2020. Sparking this growth is a burgeoning increase in new roles and missions for video surveillance as a game-changer in defense, intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement, coupled with dramatic new capabilities in video systems, technologies and analytics. This two-day symposium brings together government pla...

Big Data for Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Today’s Warfighter has access to an ever-increasing number of sensors, imagers, internet artifacts, open source and other sophisticated collection devices and mechanisms, to the point that a major challenge has become how to sift through this massive amount of information to find the most critical and actionable items of intelligence. Increasingly, this must be accomplished in nea...

Within the Military Health System (MHS), Electronic Health Records are now servicing over ten million patients and are being utilized by 137,000 Military Health System staff, in 412 medical clinics, 413 dental clinics and more than 65 military hospitals and with a total budget of fifty billion dollars. However, there continue to be problems in getting the DoD EHR system (ALHTA) to interoperate efficiently with the Department of Veterans Affai...

“In the next 20-30 years these things [RPAs] are going to explode” –General Mark A. Welsh, III, Air Force Chief of Staff Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) 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 grow...

In March 2012, the White House announced funding for a large new research and development initiative aimed at extracting and exploiting the “knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data to help solve some of the Nation’s most pressing challenges.” This is in addition to numerous ongoing “Big Data” programs that have been initiated across the Federal Government, including Homeland Secur...

Government and Military Employees can now attend free! Over 25 Leading Experts From: DoD/CIO, DHS, NCCoE, NSA, DHS/DoD, ARCYBER, AF/A2DD, Army NG G-2 & G-6, AF/2AD, Navy Cyber, JMETC, CIA, USCYBERCOM, USDA, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Intel, IBM, CACI, Babcock & Wilcox, ICF, ISA, and CLA examine: Latest Government & DoD Opportunities, Strategies, and Missions Evolving Solutions to Current & Eme...

DoD and DOE – Leading the Way in Developing Smart Energy Grids and Microgrids The world microgrid market topped $4 billion in 2010, and according to a recent Congressional study the military microgrid market alone is projected to increase by 375% from 2010-2020. Microgrids, localized groupings of power generation, storage and load management units, can operate, if necessary or by design, independently from the larger power grid. Because...