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
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.
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.
AFCEA is the world’s largest association dedicated to intelligence professionals. Through our resources for professional development, thought leadership and networking, we serve government, military and private-sector intelligence professionals worldwide.
Established in 1981 as part of AFCEA International, AFCEA Intelligence provides the structure and interactive forum for networking and sharing ideas. AFCEA Intelligence strengthens the public/private partnership and advocates for foreign and domestic intelligence in support of improved national and global security. We are focused on intelligence challenges and opportunities.
Through AFCEA Intelligence, government agencies have an outside unbiased source that they can come to for an industry perspective, and industry has an influential voice with the intelligence community.
What AFCEA Intelligence Does
- Actively engage the public and private sectors to support and improve intelligence through thought leadership
- Provide unparalleled professional development and networking opportunities for intelligence professionals and the companies that support them
- Honor intelligence professionals through a prestigious awards program
The harnessing of the right cyber power is more important than ever in a domain deluged by persistent attacks and simultaneous sophisticated campaigns that threaten global political, economic and security interests. A flagship event, AFCEA’s TechNet Cyber serves as a center of gravity for a whole-of-government effort to bring together the policy, strategic architecture, operations and C2— along with the joint capabilities—needed to meet the global security challenges and successfully operate in a digital environment. Join us in Baltimore and be a part of the conversation led by U.S. Cyber Command, DISA, the DoW CIO, and numerous industry and academia partners to deliver solutions for this enduring, no-fail mission.
With assistance from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence, Augusta University, and industry, this three-day conference is designed to open the lines of communication between the military and commercial sector and provide a space where government, academia, and industry professionals can discuss issues and share solutions surrounding cyber electromagnetic activities and unified land operations.
With a focus on enhanced warfighting outcomes, TechNet Augusta 2027 will explore how to accelerate the delivery of innovative and interoperable systems, which are crucial for decisive action in joint operational environments. We will deepen the military and private sector partnerships required to deliver advanced C2 and counter-C2 capabilities to our warfighters with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
August 25-27, 2026
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center