The U.S. Army’s rotorcraft fleet of Black Hawks is wearing out at a much faster rate than predicted due to a decade of high-intensity operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2013 as part of the Future Vertical Lift program, the Army commissioned the demonstrator aircraft to bring in new technologies, materials and designs that will ensure this new rotorcraft can fly higher, farther and faster while carrying more. Tomorrow's helicopters wo...

Join PSC’s Council of International Development Companies as we explore the post-election factors shaping the international capacity building and related shared government and IDC objectives, and the roles and contributions of IDCs supporting U.S. government agencies’ critical missions. Why should you attend? Collaboration: International development companies are a cornerstone of U.S. global leadership, and the 4th Annual CIDC Conf...

Welcome to the 9th Shared Services and Process Improvement for Higher Education and Government The largest, most successful event for shared services professionals working in the public sector grew exponentially in 2015! The event saw its attendance surge to 150+ executives as we moved our event back to the East Coast for the first time in years. Not ones to mess with success, we are thrilled to return to the DC area in 2016 and continue addr...

This event is a one day tabletop exposition, held on-site, where industry vendors will have the opportunity to display their products and services to the Department of State Foreign Services Institute (DOS FSI) personnel that may otherwise be unattainable. This will be the only opportunity of the year to get in front of this audience with FBC.Attendees are not only DOS employees, but any government employee that is planning to travel abroad an...

Leveraging the Big Data Opportunity When: November 29-30, 2016 Where: AUSA Conference and Event Center: 2425 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22201 DSI’s Big Data for Intelligence Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum that will provide members of the Intelligence Community, US military commands, government agencies, academia, and technology providers the opportunity to explore more effective and eff...

The George Mason University Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAP), Arlington Economic Development (AED) and Jennifer Schaus & Associates have joined forces to bring the US Federal Government Contracting Community a half-day event focused on selling to the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC). Behind Closed Doors.... A robust group of high-level professional industry experts will discuss the major comp...

Spend the evening with the DC network of special operations professionals at Global SOF Foundations third annual DC area reception with Senator Joni Ernst as guest speaker. The Global SOF Foundation (GSF) is the only professional association for the special operations community with members from over 50 countries. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, incorporated in the State of Florida, that advocates for all aspects of Spec...

Additive Manufacturing – Revolutionizing Aerospace and Defense Innovation, Production, Logistics, and Readiness Unlike traditional manufacturing, which involves creating a smaller object from a larger source material, additive manufacturing takes raw materials, feeds them through a digital manufacturing system and creates a customized object from that material, eliminating excess material waste. This potential ability to exchange AM desi...

The NDIA Cybersecurity for Advanced Manufacturing (CFAM) Joint Working Group (JWG) was launched in November 2015 as a government and industry collaboration to identify cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences in defense contractors’ manufacturing networks and to define actions to mitigate those risks in compliance with DoD mandates. The CFAM JWG will provide an overview of how the cybersecurity needs of defense manufactur...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Remotely Piloted Aircraft have seen a golden age in the last decade growing to an annual budget of $7 billion. Most of this growth has been through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but with the drawing down of troops, what’s next? Analysts still predict growth in this industry, estimating a total increase to just over $89 billion in the next decade. Not only is the military expected to sustain its backing...