The Department of Defense (DoD) is focused on building a modern, innovative joint armed force equipped to defend our nation and national security interests around the world. The FY21 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) accelerates innovation so the armed forces can compete effectively and regain comparative advantage over adversaries. Aligning with FY21 NDAA priorities, AFCEA DC's overarching theme for our Virtual Event Series 2020-2021...

Harnessing 5G Capabilities for The Future Joint Force Fifth generation mobile networks, or 5G, promises low latency, higher speeds and ubiquitous connectivity of people and systems across the defense and military enterprise. According to the Defense Department 5G Strategy, “those nations that master advanced communications technologies and ubiquitous connectivity will have a long-term economic and military advantage.” The military...

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 future of warfare rests on the ability of the armed forces to extract and unlock actionable insights from data to gain an advantage over adversaries on the battlefield wherever it may be--land, air, sea, cyberspace, or Space. To that end, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) is working on tools to help in joint, all-domain operations. JAIC officials have reported the center is involved in the Air Force’s A...

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 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 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...

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...

2019 State of the Phish ReportPhishing continues to be the number one attack vector. Why? Because it works — all too well. Industries of every kind fall prey to these scams — from financial organizations to government contractors to healthcare firms. Today’s cybercriminals manage to evade even the most sophisticated security technology through carefully planned, socially engineered email attacks that are only getting more adv...