Leading up AFCEA’s TechNet Cyber event, SIGNAL Media is hosting four webinars featuring experts from within DISA. The webinar subjects include new leadership, emerging technology, DISA's Small Business Office and Procurement Service Directorate and virtual recruiting. These webinars will keep the TechNet Cyber conversation going leading into the December event. One registration will provide you with notification of webinar broadcast date...

The evolution of tactical communications has rapidly diversified thanks to the incredible technology advances of the last decade. To make informed decisions and achieve their objective, tactical teams and special operators now require the ability to quickly and securely process and share mission data from multiple sources and locations in real-time from a mobile device. But it isn't just the devices that need to evolve to meet this acceleratio...

Recent Department of Defense updates regarding the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) indicate that the first pilot contract RFPs including CMMC requirements are expected in Q1FY21. The initial RFIs containing Level 1 and Level 3 CMMC requirements are now expected in Q2FY21. These adjusted timelines give defense contractors a little more time to become CMMC compliant. For those who haven’t started CMMC preparations yet, th...

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...

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...

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...

Recent events have taught us that mission critical infrastructure stability is more important than ever as applications and continuity is only as reliable as the underlying infrastructure. It keeps organizations running, citizens connected, and stakeholders engaged. In uncertain times, you simply cannot afford to have your critical systems go down or lose access to data. The costs of system downtime are not only measured financially, but also...