Successes in Enterprise Transformation In any enterprise-wide change initiative, it’s essential to focus on improving the efficiency of your operations while quickly adapting to shifts in mission requirements and technology. Disruptive technologies and policies driving the adoption of cloud, mobile and big data analytics are forcing the Department of Energy and related organizations to rethink the way they operate. Join AFCEA Energy on J...

On March 4, 2014, the U.S. Government’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a Request For Information on Big Data. This RFI came in response to President Obama calling for senior government officials to review how Big Data will affect the way Americans live and work, and the implications of collecting, analyzing and using Big Data for the economy, privacy and public policy. The Federal Big Data Summit: Solving Real Problems...

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...

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Join us for the 2nd Annual Federal Summit, as IT and management executives from government and industry tap the full potential of today’s computing environment to drive innovation, reduce operating costs, and deliver better mission outcomes and customer satisfaction. Featuring Keynote Speaker: Gen. Keith B. Alexander, USA (Ret.)Former Commander, U.S. Cyber CommandFormer Director, National Security Agency/Chief,...

Agenda: 8:00-8:30am - Registration, Breakfast, and Networking 8:30-10:00am - Panel Discussion 10:00-10:30am - Questions The government is transitioning from a legacy mobile environment to one that captures the emergence of smart phone and tablet technologies to support agency missions. This new mobile ecosystem includes the wireless carriers, the devices, security/monitoring tools, and the management of the lifecycle and expenses associated wi...

The Challenge: Our nation's security and economic prosperity depend on ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Federal information and information systems. The requirement to manage information security risk on a continuous basis includes the requirement to monitor the security controls in Federal information systems and the environments in which those systems operate on an ongoing basis using continuous diagnostic monitori...

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...

Oversight and Enforcement: The Role of Analytics in Crime Every day, oceans of information become available to enforcement and audit organizations, providing invaluable insight to enforcement organizations across government. The job of turning data into intelligence is the role of business analytics. Deciphering criminal patterns, surveillance, and tracking data are also playing a role in prevention. These enable enforcement officials to pred...

Big Data is exponential growth of data being collected today. Last year IBM reported that 2.5 exabytes of data was being created on a daily basis. As massive amounts of information become more readily available, the government has the opportunity to transform this data into intelligence, enabling agencies to make better decisions and meet their mission objectives. In today’s budget-constrained environment, a Big Data strategy can help go...

The Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud For the past two years, agencies have been making the jump to the cloud. Many first made the jump to the cloud for back-office systems, such as email or Web hosting. But more recently, agencies are seeing value in putting mission critical IT systems in the cloud. At the same time, federal chief information officers still are coming to terms with how cloud providers secure their pub...