In March 2012, the White House announced funding for a large new research and development initiative aimed at extracting and exploiting the “knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data to help solve some of the Nation’s most pressing challenges.” This is in addition to numerous ongoing “Big Data” programs that have been initiated across the Federal Government, including Homeland Secur...

Approximately 450 attendees representing the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Intelligence Community (IC), the Department of Defense (DoD), the federal sector, industry, academia, and professional trade associations are expected to attend. This is the fourth biannual event. It is unique this year, because DIA has partnered with the Office of the Director of National Defense (ODNI) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to showcase...

How to Get Data Mining Off the Ground and Into OrbitA Free One-Hour Live, Interactive Web EventProduced by The Modeling Agency“Guidance & Results for the Data-Rich, Yet Information-Poor”Presented by TMA Senior Consulting Staffhttp://www.the-modeling-agency.com/data-mining-webinarWHAT'S COVEREDThe vast majority of BI professionals are excited about the prospects of data mining and predictive analytics, but are fully mystified ab...

Join NCSI for an In-Agency Technology Expo Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms November 19, 2013 Each year NCSI produces over 100 tabletop technology expos at U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence and Federal Agency locations around the world including the Pentagon, National Security Agency, Ramstein Air Base and the Defense Intelligence Agency to name just a few. Our technology expos are typically four (4) hours in duration and...

As a proud sponsor of the 2014 GEOINT Symposium, Carahsoft is revealing sneak previews of our GIS solution providers. Join Carahsoft and our GIS Solution Providers for a series of complimentary geospatial webcasts that will explore how public sector organizations are increasingly relying on GIS technologies to enhance operations, solve complex problems, and leverage existing resources. Hear from the following GIS Solution Providers and on the...

Intelligence organizations across the Government must build the capacity to harness information being generated and collected at an alarming rate. Dramatic advances in IMINT and Open Source Intelligence alone are providing an unprecedented volume of data. Large data sets lead to more reliable information and intelligence, but the volume of unstructured data requires sophisticated capabilities in order to provide any actionable use. DSI's Big D...

For government agencies, there is a constant and growing tension between the need to share data and the need to protect it. On one hand, not sharing data is generally not an option: Agencies need to have the ability to put information into the hands of those who need it. On the other hand, they need to ensure that data is accessible only by authorized individuals. Often, agencies have worked around this problem by outfitting employees with mul...

In 2010, the INSA Board of Directors established the INSA Achievement Awards to recognize the accomplishments of young professionals in intelligence and national security as well as the mentors who have inspired them. INSA strongly believes it is worthwhile to formally and publicly acknowledge early achievers; in many cases, the Achievement Awards represent the first formal recognition the recipients have received. Six awards, named after pre...

The future will be data-driven. But who's driving the data? If it's you—or it should be you—join us at Strata Conference to explore the opportunities made possible by the latest state-of-the-art data tools and analytic approaches. Get the skills, tools, and technologies to make your data work successfully today—and the insights to plan for a data-driven future. Make Data Work for You - 5 Top Things to Do at Strata: Tap into t...

As volumes of big data grow rapidly, government agencies are looking to leverage federal big data to support their missions and improve overall program outcomes and performance. Government, however, still face issues in adopting a federal big data strategy: bandwidth, storage capacity, retrieval, security, computational power, and trained personnel. The greatest challenge for government organizations in managing big data lies in the ability to...