As a federal employee, searching for the right health insurance can be confusing, but there are tools and strategies available to help. At the start of 2014 open season, join Tom Shoop, Vice President and Editor in Chief of Government Executive, in conversation with government healthcare expert Walt Francis, author of the annual CHECKBOOK's Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, as he explains the details of available insurance plans, an...

In light of the challenges presented by the current government shutdown, the NDIA Air Armament Symposium originally scheduled for October 8-9, 2013 has been postponed to NOVEMBER 5-6, 2013. Updates to the symposium agenda will be made available and posted on the Gulf Coast Chapter site http://www.ndiagulfcoast.com/ The 39th Air Armament Symposium Objectives: Two-day interchange for senior government (Federal, State and Local) industry leadersh...

Maritime Security 2013 Caribbean is hosted by Homeland Security Outlook, who has facilitated six maritime security conferences since 2011. At each of these events, security experts, government officials, law enforcement, and solutions providers converged from around the world to network and learn of best practices and tools to enhance securing their maritime domain. Every day poses new challenges for Caribbean maritime security. Every day, ten...

The Strike, Land Attack & Air Defense Division will hold its next Quarterly Meeting November 5-6, 2013 in San Diego, CA. General Atomics Electromagnetics will be our host for this event. Please note this is a billback event. Attendees will be notified via email of the registration fee after the conclusion of the event. SecurityThis event is classified at the Secret U.S. Only level. All attendees must be U.S. Citizens holding a secret or hi...

Join us for the bi-monthly Procurement Division Committee meetings. Committee meetings include those for the Contract Finance (CF), Contract & Acquisition Management (CAM), Legal, and Procurement Executive Committees. Please note that the CF Committee will conduct a pre-meeting from 1:30 - 4:30 PM on Monday, November 4, 2013 at the NDIA headquarters at 2111 Wilson Boulevard, 4th Floor, Arlington, VA 22201 in addition to the regular meeting...

This conference continues to serve as the premier venue for Defense and Industry Expeditionary Warfare Leaders to assemble each year and discuss the issues and challenges facing the forces of today and tomorrow. The objectives of the 18th Annual Expeditionary Warfare Conference will be to provide: An opportunity for the services to present clear statements of their requirements and intent to industry, service laboratories and other interested...

A major conference focusing on improving acquisition and performance of Defense programs and systems, including net-centric operations and data/information interoperability, system-of-systems engineering and all aspects of system sustainment, will be convened in Arlington, VA, October 28-31, 2013. This conference is sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association, Systems Engineering Division, with technical co-sponsorship by IEEE AES...

Understand how to manage California’s complex carbon market: Have you previously attended various conferences that described the Carbon Cap-and-Trade rules, regulations, and program structure? Are you ready to make meaningful business decisions, implement hedge strategies or participate in auctions? Are you asking yourself the question "Now that Cap-and-Trade is here, what should I do about it? How does it affect my business? How can I h...

Big Data That Works Everyone's talking about big data, but who's actually doing it right—and how? Find out at Strata + Hadoop World, where thousands of the best minds in data gather to learn, connect, share knowledge, and explore. No matter what you do with big data, you'll miss out if you don't attend:Data scientists, CTOs, and analystsExplore emerging topics and cutting-edge architectures for analyzing and exploring data, including mac...

NDIA's International Division presents a luncheon with the Defense Attaché of the Netherlands in Washington, DC. Each year, the International Division organizes a series of luncheons with the Defense Attaché staffs from allied and friendly embassies. The purpose of these luncheons is to provide industry with an opportunity to exchange views with foreign government representatives and for Attaché staffs to provide industry...