NDIA's Joint Undersea Warfare Technology Spring Conference will be held March 25-27, 2014 at the Admiral Kidd Conference Center at Naval Base Pt. Loma. The theme is "Supporting and Executing a Game-Changing USW Theater Strategy." and focuses on the execution of Undersea Warfare and it allows discussion of all levels of command - unit, squadron, group, theater, area, and force. There will be a focus on the Navy's key core competency mission of...

This Advance Planning Briefing for Industry (APBI) forecasts the requirements anticipated for funding in Fiscal Year 2015 and advertised using a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). CTTSO Mission Identify and develop capabilities to combat terrorism and irregular adversaries and to deliver these capabilities to DoD components and interagency partners through rapid research and development, advanced studies and technical innovation, and provision o...

**RESCHEDULED - NEW DATE** The first of a series of discussions that are bringing the principal leaders of Joint Command and Control (JC2), the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E), the Joint Information Environment (JIE) and the Intelligence Community Information Technology Environment (ICITE) together with industry to discuss the future DoD IT and Mission environment. This half-day session with senior DoD leaders from the DI2E...

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 (PEC). Please note that the CF Committee will conduct a pre-meeting from 1:30 - 4:30 PM on Monday, January 6, 2014 at the NDIA headquarters at 2111 Wilson Blvd, 4th Floor, Arlington, VA 22201 in addition to the regular meeting...

Dr. Robie Samanta Roy, Professional Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee Dr. Robie Samanta Roy joined the Senate Armed Services Committee as a Professional Staff Member in March 2010. He has the broad area of responsibility for the Department of Defense’s wide spectrum of science and technology-related activities. His primary duties are to advise Members on legislative issues and oversight matters, and assist Members in developi...

The purpose of this event is to foster better understanding of how agile software development methods are providing the basis for incremental and modular acquisition across Government, and to discuss the changing technology of modern information-intensive businesses and the implications these have for evolving Government approaches to streamlining IT. This Summit is a partnership between the AFEI ADAPT and the Carnegie Mellon University Softwa...

Important Note All course materials and handouts will be provided to students on CD ROM. Please bring a laptop computer that is equipped with a CD ROM with you to the class. If you do not have access to a laptop, please contact the respective meeting planner as soon as possible. There will be a limited number of laptops available for use through NDIA, so please call early. Overview The Defense Systems Acquisition Management course meets the ne...

Important Note All course materials and handouts will be provided to students on CD ROM. Please bring a laptop computer that is equipped with a CD ROM with you to the class. If you do not have access to a laptop, please contact the respective meeting planner as soon as possible. There will be a limited number of laptops available for use through NDIA, so please call early. Overview The Defense Systems Acquisition Management course meets the ne...

2013 SOFIC (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference) will be held on May 14-16, 2013 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL. This year’s conference theme, “Strengthening the SOF Bond,” will provide a forum for military, government, academia, and industry stakeholders to network and discuss current and future challenges and how to best support our Special Operations Forces (SOF) in four key areas: Preservation of the...

The ability of robots to save lives has secured a path for ground robotics’ future alongside the Warfighter. Ground robotics, rapidly adopted during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, has enabled the U.S. and its allies to be more effective, efficient, and protected in a range of different missions, such as Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Combat Engineering, and Reconnaissance. With a waning defense budget, uncertainty of future budgets,...