This webinar is an AFCEA member-exclusive event. AFCEA International's Changing Face of Federal Acquisition webinar series is a comprehensive and practical exchange of information providing important ground truth for knowing where to be from an acquisition perspective. This is about traditional contracting practices, streamlined procurements, rapid acquisitions and more! Brought to you by AFCEA's Small Business Committee. The webinar will run...

Adjusting Mission-Critical Strategies and Tactics with Real-Time Data Planning a military operation is a detail-oriented process that is critical to mission success and ensuring the safety of everyone involved. It requires analyzing historical data, assessing multiple risk factors, simulating numerous scenarios, and more. But no matter how much you prepare and plan, something unforeseeable will happen during execution. Historical data and simu...

The ongoing pandemic lockdown has created an urgent need to enable classified connectivity from homes. In the haste to respond to this urgency the need to provide infrastructure protection at home equivalent to that required at the office has been sidestepped or overlooked. The Cybersecurity Community has emphasized a ZERO TRUST architecture applied to cloud-based data. That’s “trust but verify explicitly” from the inside out...

AFCEA Los Angeles will sponsor the Space and Missile Systems Center "Space Industry Days" in a virtual format 21-22 October. Virtual Conference time TBD. Please continue to check our site for updates.

The AFCEA Intelligence Committee Webinar Series will look at the latest intelligence and security issues facing the nation. These conversations will feature members of AFCEA’s highly regarded Intelligence Committee, a volunteer group of public- and private sector intelligence professionals dedicated to strengthening government, industry, and academic collaboration for a safer future. The series will focus on identifying the most promisin...

The security landscape for the US Government is changing, it's time to shift left. Government agencies are increasingly embracing the concept of DevOps with the DoD paving the way — The walls between IT operations and developers are torn down, wasteful practices ripped out, and collaboration at scale rewarded. Enter open source development practices powering DevOps, and more and more, powering federal software supply chains. These free a...

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...

Secure. Enable. Modernize. Building on Technology Advances to Keep Moving Forward. Throughout 2019-2020, AFCEA Bethesda's breakfast series has brought together thought leaders from across government to educate the federal IT community on best practices and adoption of technology required to achieve mission objectives. The 2020 Tech Summit will take a deeper look at the issues explored in those series, including cybersecurity; leveraging data v...

Interactive discussion on implementing and sustaining a Zero Trust data security architecture, particularly in Remote Work environments, and the additional challenges associated with O365/Teams. Zero Trust is a Data-Centric security strategy, built on the premise that the traditional perimeter-based security model isn't enough, and implementing automated Least Privilege is imperative. This model becomes even more critical in a Remote Work clou...

Cisco fields a carrier-grade Mobile Network Operator (MNO) solution tailored to accommodate enterprise use cases found in private and public-sector environments. Cisco’s 5G capabilities span technology from our Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center, Service Provider, Cybersecurity, and Mobility businesses. The solution can be fully automated, virtualized and cloud native. Ultimate flexibility is provided through software-defined vRAN support, I...