The AFCEA SOLUTIONS Series promotes a detailed dialogue between government and industry on issues of national importance. We seek a balanced approach wherein the government can share current thinking and direction, and industry can offer their perspective and input on current and projected capability. These events will be compact, with focused tracks, to promote interactive dialogue.

This year's conference will build on the continuously evolving DMC venue by addressing our theme which involves the role of Government and Industry Leadership for Affordable Defense Systems. We plan to emphasize this concept by exploring a number of military service case examples of where leadership collaboration involving the development and application of manufacturing technology enabled successful program outcomes. Example; Navy Virginia Cl...

Public officials in government and education face more pressure than ever to provide excellent services on increasingly limited budgets. To meet this challenge, your peers and nationally-recognized thought leaders are gathering for a special half-day workshop to learn how information technology can help make your organization smarter, leaner, and greener. By interacting directly with top practitioners, you will gain practical insights that wil...

Recognized globally as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, SC09 will feature the most interesting and innovative HPC scientific and technical applications from around the world. No other conference brings together this many scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators, application developers, and program managers. SC09 will feature an e...

President Obama’s insistence that federal agencies lead the way toward sustainability practices has encouraged the huge Department of Defense to step up its environmental stewardship programs. Defense installations across the world have won awards for environmental initiatives; the Air Force and Navy are working to reduce energy consumption; and DoD logisticians are involved in a complex project to mitigate environmental problems as we draw do...

Malware is changing the way federal agencies deal with security threats to their networks every day. Does malware entering your networks keep you up at night? Do you know what blended threats are, and how they are executed? Jim Beaupre, CEO of FedResults will be hosting a discussion around issues facing federal agencies including "open" government, Gov 2.0, FISMA, FDCC, SCAP and the challenges of providing security in citizen centric applicati...

Washington Breakfast Club™ (WBC) is a monthly information exchange which features legislators, agency executives and officials from all branches of federal government presenting on relevant and timely information to interested industry participants.For the November 2009 WBC we are pleased to welcome our friend Mary Parks of the U.S.General Services Administration who was selected as Deputy Associate Administrator of GSA’s Office of...

MAPPS and ASPRS are once again organizing a dynamic conference around a specialty theme “Digital Mapping – From Elevation to Information.” This follows on the successful joint 2001 Conference on “Digital Elevation Technologies and Applications,” the 2003 Conference on “Terrain Data: Application and Visualization – Making the Connection,” and the 2006 Conference on “Measuring the Earth: Latest Developments with Digital Surface Modeling and Auto...

Brownfields 2009, where close to 5,000 decision makers from the private sector; local, state, and federal agencies; nonprofit and community groups; and academia come together for the most important conference of its kind in the world. This makes the National Brownfields Conference the largest, most comprehensive conference focused on cleaning up and redeveloping abandoned, underutilized, and potentially contaminated properties in the nation. T...

E3 2009 will focus on the intersection among innovative technologies, visionary policies, environmental benefits and emerging market opportunities related to renewable energy. How do we provide sustainable fuel, food, fiber and freshwater to a global population of 9 billion people in our lifetime? That’s one of more than 15 urgent questions we’ll explore during E3 2009.