Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) and Cipher Systems cordially invite you to attend the inaugural 2016 Aerospace and Defense & Strategy and Competitive Intelligence Forum. In today’s dynamic competitive marketplace, leaders must fully understand the competitive landscape – including trends that will impact their marketplace, their current position in the marketplace relative to competitors, and how the...

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...

The global small drone market will reach $10 billion by 2020 according to a forecast by research firm MarketsandMarkets – this reflects a compound annual growth rate of 11.6 percent from 2015. Drone manufacturers who to date have been feeding the huge defense market are being joined by an ever increasing number of non-defense drone developers who are targeting the potentially enormous markets for civil and commercial capabilities. The a...

The Next Generation ISR Technologies & Capabilities Symposium addresses the urgent demand for more ISR assets, platforms and a continued stride for maintaining advantages over U.S. adversaries. The continual push by the services for diversification & leveraging ISR capabilities by U.S. and our coalition partners, permeates government planning across a broad range of critical missions. Next Gen ISR is a plethora of multi-int & inte...

DSI’s DoD Unmanned Systems Summitis designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military and civilian organizationscan come together for actionable discussions and debate. The Summit will offer a full spectrum viewpoint towards air/land/sea systems. *The phrase “unmanned systems” is used to collectively refer to all robotic systems that may be remot...

Emerging Opportunities, Needs and Challenges 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....

Defense Industry Outlook: Budget Battles, State of the Market, and a New DOD Oversight Policy for M&A Transactions Bloomberg BNA and Squire Patton Boggs invite you to join our industry experts on February 23 in Washington, DC for a briefing, Defense Industry Outlook: Budget Battles, State of the Market, and a New DOD Oversight Policy for M&A Transactions, that will address the policy developments that will impact your decisions, provid...

The Symposium provides a national forum for industry and government to work together to help solve the challenges of cybersecurity, community cyber readiness and national defense. Our theme this year is: “Managing Risk in Cyberspace: Defining/Measuring/Mitigating/Operating Through” and we have a great mix of interesting and thought-provoking speakers and panelists planned. We also have a huge Exhibit Hall full of industry, academia...

Space Resiliency Summit “Integrating Innovative Approaches For Space Control” DSI’s 2015 Space Resiliency Symposium is designed as an educational and training “Town Hall” forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military services, defense agencies, and civilian organizations can come together for actionable discussions and debate. This years summit will focus on technology and innovation needed to...

52nd Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention December 1-3, 2015 | Marriott Marquis and DC Convention Center, Washington, DC Synchronizing EW and Cyber to Achieve Spectrum Dominance Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) Dominance in the future will require that we "Synchronize EW and Cyber to Achieve Spectrum Dominance". The Department of Defense along with its industry partners face an uncertain global security environment driven by advers...