AFCEA Energy Kicks-Off Year Long Campaign to Support Comfort Crew for Military Kids This year the AFCEA Energy leadership committee has partnered with Comfort Crew for Military Kids and all proceeds from the 2014 event series will benefit the mission of the Comfort Crew. The Spring Networking Event is the second event in 2014 to support Comfort Crew for Military Kids. It is a great opportunity for members of the public and private IT sector to...

Cyberspace 2014 Symposium - A training and technology forum for government, industry, and academia On behalf of the military/industry community and the city of Colorado Springs, we invite you to participate in the AFCEA Rocky Mountain Chapter’s 16th annual CYBERSPACE Symposium. Last year we had record breaking attendance and a star-studded program, but this year promises to be even better. Why? Because while last year we lowered rates fo...

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...

On Sunday, September 29th, 2013 the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association of Northern Virginia (AFCEA NOVA) will host the first annual VIVA VETS! 5K Run/Walk for our Veterans. With support from our members and friends we give hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships every year and very much look forward to this fun and exciting addition to our yearly activities. For this event, all proceeds will go to the AFCEA Educat...

Online registration is now closed. You can register on site at The Hamilton Live in Washington, DC starting at 7:30 AM on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The Department of Energy (DOE) is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. To innovatively support the mission elements of 120,000 employees and 85 facilities, the Depart...

The fiscal cliff negotiations have threatened to not only impact the future of agency budgets, but also the release of the FY 2014 proposal itself. The White House has confirmed the Administration’s fiscal 2014 budget will not be ready by the normal release date in early February, injecting more uncertainty into an already complex environment. What does this mean for federal agencies and the companies that support them? Already, the FY 2...

Law enforcement and national security depends on adaptation—adaptation to the economy, adaptation to technology and adaptation to criminal methodologies. As budgetary cutbacks become commonplace in the Federal government, creativity in new technology initiatives must take precedence as agencies are increasingly expected to do more with less. Law enforcement agencies and officers will need to use new tools, including, data analytics, sec...

Big data projects are found all around us, and many of us have one attached to our hand all day. Apple’s personal assistant technology, Siri, began as a big data project in the Pentagon laboratory, priding itself on the ability to collect, store, analyze and disseminate practically any data you throw at it – structured or unstructured. But Siri isn’t the only government big data project that has recently gained traction. Last...

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Government-wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) are becoming increasingly vital to agencies by enabling them to leverage GSA’s buying power, achieve multi-agency objectives, and acquire acquisition and contract management functions at competitive rates. As the number of companies seeking schedule contracts has roughly doubled over the last several years, with over 80 percent being small bus...

This November marked the halfway point of the Digital Government Strategy, a full-year plan aimed at delivering higher quality digital services to the public – and many deliverables have already been met. Several second quarter milestone actions in particular provided huge progress to the program, including GSA’s customer engagement initiatives, the Federal CIO Council’s BYOD Toolkit and NIST’s application of standards...