AFCEA International
AFCEA is a professional association that connects people, ideas and solutions globally. We do that by developing networking and educational opportunities and providing them worldwide in an ethical manner. This enables military, government, industry and academia to align technology to meet the needs of those who serve in critical areas, which include defense, security, cyber and intelligence. As a member-based, nonprofit 501(c)6 organization, we have a long history of encouraging innovation and advancing technology to ensure preparedness and security. We officially formed in 1946, but our organizational roots trace back to the Civil War. The association includes individual members and corporate members, and AFCEA's international regional chapter network helps members build networks, grow relationships and expand opportunities. AFCEA members and constituents include professionals in military, government, industry and academia.
Upcoming AFCEA International Events
AI-driven decisions at the tactical edge often fail not because of model capability, but because of constrained, untrusted, or delayed data. In contested, bandwidth-limited environments, defense and critical infrastructure operators need a way to ensure AI outputs remain reliable, secure and contained.
Discover how Owl Cyber Defense® enables customers to deploy AI with confidence using hardware-enforced cross domain and diode solutions. We focus on keeping AI systems trusted, resilient, compliant and contained in high-threat environments while maintaining operational speed. Learn how a dual-AI architecture, with edge AI on the low side paired with decision-support AI on the high side, improves data integrity, reduces latency and protects against adversarial manipulation.Using real-world scenarios, we translate this “Doc Ock problem” into actionable design patterns that align with U.S. federal security standards and support secure, multi-level AI deployment.
This session explores how defense leadership, mission systems engineers and program managers can leverage an open source ecosystem to streamline PQC implementation without sacrificing operational readiness. Learn how to deliver native NIST PQC algorithm support, automated Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) discovery and policy-driven remediation across legacy and modern workloads. Partnering provides defense organizations with a proven, trusted foundation to achieve rapid federal compliance, protect sovereign intelligence and safeguard the mission against tomorrow's quantum decryption threats.
Join us as defense and cybersecurity experts trace a mission thread from threat detection through reconnaissance, validation, decision and response, using recent allied exercises to show how high-assurance cross domain data flows connect sensors, C2 systems and intelligence sources without weakening security boundaries.
You'll leave knowing how to:
- Cut decision time by removing manual handoffs
- Improve coalition interoperability
- Build the trusted data foundation that CJADC2, NATO multi-domain operations, AI-enabled capabilities and autonomous systems depend on
Registration Open Soon!
Winning Together: A Data-Driven Force
With assistance from the U.S. Army G-6, this two-day
forum addresses how data has become a critical weapon system on the modern
battlefield, reinforcing that the network is for data and data is for the
warfighter. The Annual Data Forum serves as the premier venue to establish
consensus-driven standards and accelerate the secure, interoperable
technologies that will define tomorrow's warfighting ecosystem.
In modern warfare, the primary bottleneck to decision advantage has shifted from a lack of information to the sheer velocity and volume of unclassified data. While publicly and commercially available information offers unprecedented visibility into adversary movements, analysts and operators lack the time to manually filter the noise during high-tempo operations.
This luncheon convenes senior military and intelligence leaders to discuss how agentic AI can automate the ingestion, enrichment, and synthesis of massive open-source feeds in real time, and how to trust the results when adversaries can seed those sources with deception.
Join us to explore how these automated workflows can compress the OODA loop, allowing front-line operators to isolate the critical signal and executive decisive actions ahead of the adversary.
This webinar presents a layered, practical blueprint for securing all three. It opens how the Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition's Migration Roadmap can be executed with a suite of technologies and managed across the enterprise. It then extends the same discover-prioritize-remediate-monitor discipline up the stack, showing how IBM brings AI agent monitoring and security metrics directly into an agency's AI governance workflow.
Finally, it extends outward to the enterprise itself, showing how IBM uses AI to continuously discover, validate exploitability and prioritize remediation across the sprawling application and infrastructure landscape that both classical and AI systems depend on.
Growth and marketing need to be tightly aligned. But there is a catch: speed without accuracy, governance and human judgment can put credibility at risk. This discussion will bring together GovCon marketing, BD/capture/growth and AI governance perspectives to examine where AI is delivering meaningful business value today—and where organizations need to proceed carefully.
Rather than focusing on AI tools, the conversation will focus on a more important question: How can GovCon organizations use AI to make smarter growth decisions, influence opportunities earlier and build pipeline—without compromising the trust required to succeed in the federal market given updated government policy?
Registration is not yet available. Check back in the Fall of 2026.
Sea Service leaders today confront profound and rapidly changing threats in a landscape of increasingly complex challenges. Join us and engage with leaders from the Navy, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard as well as industry and academia experts in this extraordinary opportunity to explore the depths of the unique issues they confront. Engage in discussions, network with peers and be a part of devising the needed solutions to enhance operational capabilities that overcome evolving threats. Gain knowledge and forge connections while discovering the latest platforms, cutting-edge technologies and advanced capabilities crucial to supporting maritime operations.
| Innovation Showcase | |
| Event Date: | 03/30/2027 |
| Event Time: | 8:00 am -5:00 pm |
| Event Organizer: | Northern Virginia Chapter |
| Description: | Coming Soon |
| Event Category: | Conference |
| Location: | Carahsoft Technology Herndon, VA |
