Hosted by the Marine Corps Association & Foundation, please join us at the widely attended event where you will meet old friends, MCA&F members, industry partners, and others in the military community for an evening of education, networking, and most importantly, camaraderie. Guest Speaker: LtGen David H. Berger, USMC Location: Carlsbad Sheraton 5480 Grand Pacific Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008 Dress: Business Casual/Open Collar

The two-day general session will assemble the Key Organizations and the Senior Leading Experts that are shaping the direction of ISR current requirements and exposing the many future capabilities for the services and public service sectors. The Services’ ever increasing roles for ISR assets are permeating across a very broad range of critical missions, including but not limited to: Persistent Global Surveillance & Global Strike, Cou...

As the global defense and national security missions continue to grow, DoD and government planners face the daunting challenge of designing and providing the end-to-end strategic and tactical network that will be needed for future operations. More capacity and speed, mobility and anytime-anywhere services, consolidation and streamlining of data and communications operations, moving to the cloud, virtualization – these and many other chal...

Every day Federal Government planners and operators face the real-world need to take the massive amounts of current, past and potential future data and make risk-cognitive predictions about the future. This is the essence of the mission of Federal Government, whether involved in communications, finance, energy, defense, healthcare, homeland security, law enforcement or intelligence operations. And while predictive analytics is not new, burgeon...

By 2020, an estimated 30-50 billion devices will be connected to the internet. Each of these devices will collect and communicate massive amounts of data, and as these devices become more sophisticated they are incorporating the ability to analyze the data and plan, manage and make intelligent decisions autonomously about sharing that information via embedded machine-to-machine communications with other internet-capable devices. DoD, to some e...

Within the Military Health System (MHS), Electronic Health Records are now servicing over ten million patients and are being utilized by one hundred thirty seven thousand Military Health System staff, in 412 medical clinics, 413 dental clinics and more than 65 military hospitals and with a total budget of fifty billion dollars. However, there continue to be problems in getting the DoD EHR system (ALHTA) to interoperate efficiently with the Dep...

The two-day general session will assemble the Key Organizations and the Senior Leading Experts that are shaping the direction of ISR current requirements and exposing the many future capabilities for the services and public service sectors. The Services’ ever increasing roles for ISR assets are permeating across a very broad range of critical missions, including but not limited to: Persistent Global Surveillance & Global Strike, Coun...

3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing – Revolutionizing Aerospace and Defense Innovation, Production, Logistics, and Readiness A recent report from McKinsey Global Institute named 3D printing one of 12 disruptive technologies that will “transform life, business and the global economy” within the next decade. Unlike traditional manufacturing, which involves creating a smaller object from a larger source material, 3D printing...

Information sharing and information overload challenges continue to dominate operational and acquisition planning within the Department of Defense, Intelligence, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement communities. Increasingly, government agencies are looking for the latest tools and capabilities in big data and predictive analytics to provide the means to analyze, exploit and share conclusions drawn from the seemingly overwhelming inputs fro...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) and Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) 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...